Google’s Nexus One Android smartphone to launch tomorrow?
Tom on January 05, 2010
Google have announced an Android press event for January 5
As reported by the various high-volume tech blogs, Google is hosting a press event at their Mountain View, CA campus on January 5, 2010. Also widely reported – including an exclusive hands-on by Engadget – is that at this event, Google will debut their own Android smartphone, coined the Nexus One.
The invitation
Photo credit: Engadget
World time
Google’s Android press conference is scheduled for 10am, January 5 2010 in Mountain View, CA.
So for those on the west coast of the USA, the news should be delivered to you mid-morning. For New Yorkers, you’ll find out in the afternoon. Londoners will hear in the evening. For those us on the other side of the world – I’m talking Sydney at our HQ – it’ll be a brutal wakeup at 5am, January 6.
The Google Nexus One
What we know so far
Photo credit: Engadget
Engadget, known as the tech industry’s preeminent news source, garnered the privilege of a pre-production Nexus One unit for review, which has recently been posted on that site. More details of the Nexus’ hardware have been revealed (it seems Google does not share Apple’s idea of a “cone of silence” around unannounced products).
It seems like a logical time to debut Google’s own take on their own Android smartphone platform. With fever already building for the imminent Consumer Electronics Show, and Apple’s own press event (speculated to be the launch for the rumoured Apple Tablet), by slipping in before these events, Google may steal some of the coveted thunder sought by this competitive industry.
The Nexus One is built by HTC, features a new 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, has 512 MB of RAM and ROM, is equipped with an AMOLED display (popular in Samsung handsets), a 480×800 capacitive touchscreen, an HSPA radio, WiFi, Assisted-GPS, proximity sensors, and microSD-based storage. A 4 GB card is standard, but expandability to 32 GB is possible.
Of course, the Nexus One features the recently-released version 2 of the Android platform. Android 2.0 features such comforts as built in navigation through Google Maps, better voice search, dock awareness, and a tighter interface. One would imagine that Google, to make an impression with this bespoke, in-house handset have made their own improvements to the stock-standard Android interface, simply to be competitive.
And be competitive it must be, with such competition as the Motorola Droid (Motorola Milestone) which was recently introduced to much fanfare on the Verizon network. At the end of October ’09, Android fans were screaming that the Droid was the iPhone killer, the end of all Android devices; it seems rather short-lived. But perhaps the Nexus One will not live up to this intense hype.
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