Google Introduces Nexus One Phone

I don't see anything earth-shattering either. Not bad, but I don't see buying one. I'm leaning more to a Windows Mobile device right now (I do Win Mobile programming).

"Apple is a media darling and even in markets where the company is routinely trounced--like the PC market, where the Mac represents just 4 percent of worldwide sales--it receives an undo amount of attention." Nice. "It's hard to fight the Apple buzz, especially when the collective media horde is more interested in a single Apple product that may or may not exist (and isn't being announced this week regardless) than it is in any of the products that will debut at CES this week. What else could go wrong? Oh, right. Google is going to announce its Nexus One smart phone today. Great. See you in Las Vegas! --Paul Thurrott January 5-9, 2010" We'll be reading.

Delmont, Paul is a iPhone guy. On his main page he says that the device is one that he "cannot bear to part with, and it's hard to overstate how useful it is, and how much better it keeps getting over time. I have a black 8 GB model and I never leave the house without it." and that "Mail (email), Phone (phone and contacts) and Safari (Web browsing). I synchronize my Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar to the iPhone over-the-air using Google Mobile Sync." are his main applications.

"it is really just a rebadged HTC phone." Nope.

It is made by HTC

And right on queue, two days before his column regularly runs, David Pogue shows up to whack the Nexus one: "the truth is, the Google news this week is not quite as earth-shaking as Google seems to think it is." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/technology/personaltech/06pogue.html?hp

@roteague... you do WinMo programming? Does Microsoft know any of you are left?

@Ocean it maybe made specifically for Google, but dont be naive its just another HTC phone. The Sprint Hero and Droid Eris are both made by HTC and this phone looks 80% just like them. Same track ball for sure and same basic shape. It will be interesting to see if flooding the market with so many Android based phones will pay off. You already have 3 (or 4) versions of the OS floating around , 1.5, 1.6 and 2.0 (2.1). Some apps wont work on all versions. Right now most corporations using Exchange wont touch Android as it does not fully support Exchange like WinMO and the iPhone. You cant force Active Sync password policies and you can REMOTE WIPE these phones is a employee loses one. The remote wipe feature alone wont allow any of our users access to our Exchange environment. We had more than a few users go buy Droids only to return them.

Enjoy that great combination of hardware and software...not to mention the phenomenal Verizon service. http://gizmodo.com/5430028/verizon-literally-puts-a-band+aid-on-droids-p... What. A. Joke. (Oh, and for fun, count the number of branding labels in this shot. With that kind of advertising, the damn thing should be free.)

"David Pogue shows up to whack the Nexus one:" You're such a tool, Ocean. You call THIS "whacking the Nexus one"? "It’s pretty sweet, it advances the state of the art, and it’s a welcome addition to the catalog of great app phones like the iPhone, Palm Pre and Motorola Droid." "it’s so thin and rounded, it feels terrific in your hand." "It’s hard to choose which is more gratifying: the speed — instant, smooth response when you’re opening programs and scrolling — or the huge, 3.7-inch touch screen, which has much finer resolution than the iPhone" "Radically enough, you can also dictate anywhere you can type. The transcriptions aren’t what you’d call miraculous — accuracy is maybe 90 percent — but if you have simple messages, speak clearly and remember to pronounce your punctuation, this “experimental” feature is often much faster than typing." "There’s better integration all around" "You get an impressive, free, turn-by-turn GPS navigation program, and soon you’ll be able to buy a bedside dock that automatically turns the Nexus into a terrific alarm clock/weather/music station." Just because he doesn't think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, and points out that it has some problems doesn't mean he's "whacking" it. It's a great, thorough review...you know, the kind a REAL tech journalist would write. Only a blind partisan could see it otherwise, so I guess we know which camp you fall into.

I guess we have different definitions of whack. You say: "he doesn't think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread" He says: "the Google news this week is not quite as earth-shaking as Google seems to think it is." I say he took it down a notch from the hype. You know, whacked it.