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Vodafone to sell Nexus One in UK from April 30
Vodafone will be Europe’s first carrier to sell Google’s Nexus One phone, starting in Britain on April 30. Vodafone said on Monday it would give away Google’s first own-branded phone for free to customers who take out a two-year, 35 pounds ($54)-per-month contract. Price plans will start at 25 pounds per month.
Google is also selling the Nexus One, made by Taiwan’s HTC, directly to consumers, shaking up an environment where carriers normally control customer relationships.
The Nexus One offers popular and new Google services including satellite navigation and voice-activated search, as well as access to more than 40,000 software applications that users can download to customise their phones.
The Nexus One is one of many phones built by third parties on Google’s Android software, which is rapidly gaining in popularity since being launched just over a year ago.
HTC Desire coming to India in May
The HTC Desire might be launching in India in the last week of May according to a reply from HTC Customer Care, according to Fonearena. HTC Desire is almost identical to Google Nexus One in specs, so it might be a nice consolation for Indian Android lovers, who are still waiting for N1’s release in India.
Check below for full text reply from HTC Customer care:
Thank you for contacting our Customer Support Center. We are dedicated to providing you with the best quality service and answering all of your questions and concerns.
To clarify your issue, you stated that: You want to know when HTC DesireHTC Desire will be launched in India.
Regarding HTC Desire launch date we would like to intimate you HTC will launch the HTC Desire phone in the last week of May. You will find that handset on the website if it will launch. Please visit to the HTC website www.htc.com/in.
Regarding the price information you need to visit to the nearest retailer shop after the launch of this phone.
Note:- You will be able to get serve your phone only in the country from where you bought the phone. India does not cover Global warranty.
If the above steps do not resolve your issue, we invite you to visit the support area on our Web site. Please go to: http://www.htc.com/www/support.aspx
You can also call our Call Center at: 1800 11 33 77
if you have further questions.Thank you once again for your continued patronage.
Best regards,
HTC
The only difference between N1 and HTC Desire is HTC Sense, this company’s alternate user interface which isn’t included with Nexus One.
Rest everything else is same: 3.7-inch, WVGA, AM-OLED display. The Desire will be powered by a 1 GHz processor, and sport 512 MB RAM and a microSD memory card slot.
It will also include 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, compass, and an array of other features.
Verizon HTC Incredible specs leaked via product manual
After so many leaks, we finally have some concrete specs info about Verizon HTC Incredible. Phandroids just posted the leaked product manual, which gives us an idea of what this phone has in store for us.
Highlights of the specs include:
- Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon at 1 GHz.
- OS: Android 2.1 with Sense UI
- Memory: 576MB RAM/512MB ROM
- Screen: 3.7-inch AMOLED at 480×800.
- Radios: 1xRTT, EVDO Rev. A.
- Dimensions: 4.63×2.30×0.47 inches.
- Weight: 4.6 ounces with battery.
- Camera: 8MP with autofocus and flash.
- Battery: 1300 mAh (talk time rated at 313 minutes, 146 hours’ standby)
- aGPS
- Digital compass
- Proximity Sensor
- Light sensor
- Bluetooth 2.1
- WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
- 3.5mm headphone jack
The major difference between the Verizon Nexus One & HTC Incredible is majorly software (There is also cam diff). The Incredible features Android 2.1 with HTC’s Sense UI and the Nexus One has stock Android 2.1. So, for which are you going?
Full Specs Below:
Livespeakr launches portable speaker system for Nexus One and Droid
Digital Group Audio has announced Livespeakr as the first portable speaker system to prove compatible with the Google Nexus One and Motorola DROID smartphones.
Livespeakr is the only portable speaker featuring a cradle that rotates Google Nexus One, Motorola DROID devices into both portrait and landscape modes. The rotating display options make the Livespeakr ideal for listening to music, utilizing internet radio applications like Pandora, Slacker Radio and NPR, watching YouTube videos, checking email, surfing the web, and playing games at home or on the go. With an environmentally responsible, rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery, Livespeakr offers more than 16 hours of non-stop entertainment.
“We’re extremely proud to be the first and only audio company to release speakers designed to enrich the user experience of the Google Nexus One and Motorola DROID smartphones,” said Erik Groset, president of DGA. “These devices are changing the ways that consumers use hand-held devices and mobile services. We are thrilled that Livespeakr sustains advancing technology.”
Livespeakr is available online at Amazon
Sprint Nexus One coming soon
After AT&T and Verizon, its now the turn of Sprint to get Nexus One. The first wireless phone sold through Google ‘s web store, is planned for Sprint’s
3G Mobile Broadband Network. Sprint will announce pricing and an exact availability date soon.
“Nexus One is a powerful device that belongs on a powerful network. This is another step in our continued partnership of innovation with Google,” said Fared Adib, Sprint vice president of product development. “Sprint customers already have the option of two amazing Android devices with Samsung Moment and HTC Hero . It is a natural fit for us to add Nexus One to the list of choices available for Sprint customers who want the best value in wireless with the best in Android.”
Google’s online consumer channel was created to provide an efficient way to connect online users with selected Android phones. Nexus One will not be available in any Sprint retail channels. It will be available directly from Google at google.com/phone.
“While a pricing plan has not yet been determined for Nexus One, we are confident that it will be consistent with Sprint’s commitment to deliver more value than our competitors and keep pricing simple,” Adib said. “Right now, our Sprint Everything Data 450 plan with Any Mobile, Anytime(SM) gives customers unlimited calling with any mobile phone in America, unlimited text and unlimited Web for just $69.99 per month – the same price AT&T and Verizon charge for just unlimited talk. Our Everything Data plans include unlimited GPS Navigation at no extra charge and annual phone upgrades with Sprint Premier.”
via Press Release
Now, Motorola is Working on a Google Phone
Well the rumour has been confimred now. Motorola today said that it is working with Google to make a mobile phone to be sold directly to consumers along with “Nexus One“.
The move would be similar to Google’s Nexus One phone made by HTC, which boosts Google’s effort to bypass telcos and to reach consumers.
Sanjay Jha outlined the company’s plans to introduce 20 smartphones this year including “one direct to consumer device with Google.”
via The Street
First live picture of the HTC Bravo leaked
HTC Bravo has broken cover early thanks to a sneaky, albeit slightly blurry, spy shot. Expected to match the spec of the recently released Google Nexus One handset, HTC’s Bravo has one glaringly obvious trump card on Google’s offering, an optical trackpad instead of a trackball.
It is expected that the forthcoming HTC handset will utilise multi-touch functionality for Apple iPhone-esque pinch zooming.
Google Phone Nexus One – On Sale in India (Unofficially)
Even though Google is officially not launching Nexus One phone in India anytime soon, you can order them from 20North.
Nexus One will cost around Rs. 33,241/ in India which comes around 675 U.S. dollars.
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Nexus One Enterprise edition might have physical keyboard
Google Inc executive Andy Rubin said on Friday that the next version of the Nexus One phone will be for enterprise users and might have a physical keyboard.
Such a device could potentially pose a competitive threat to BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, which has a strong position in the enterprise cellphone market.
Rubin, the brains behind Google’s Android operating system, made the comment during an interview with Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg at an event hosted by the newspaper.
Anyhow, release date, specs, pricing, and any other concrete existence is yet indefinite.
Google sued over 'Nexus One' name
The family of the late Philip K. Dick, the author of the book on which the film Blade Runner was based, say they are to sue Google for infringement of intellectual property rights.
The search giant’s new mobile phone, the Nexus One, has a similar name to a group of rogue androids from the film called “replicants” that are identified through the model designation Nexus-6. The phone’s operating system is called Android.
Isa Dick Hackett, Dick’s daughter, claims the names are lifted straight from her father’s science fiction novel “Do Android’s Dream of Electric Sheep?” Philip K. Dick’s daughter was said to be “shocked and dismayed” at Google’s naming of the phone without consultation.
“In my mind, there is a very obvious connection to my father’s novel,” said Isa Dick Hackett, president of the Dick estate outfit that handles licensing of his work, a few months back. “We were never consulted, no requests were made, and we didn’t grant any sort of permissions.”
No case was immediately filed however and Google successfully acquired a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in mid-December.
But on Wednesday this week, soon after the launch of the phone, Google was sent a letter demanding the company cease using the name. “Google takes first and then deals with the fallout later,” Hacket said. “In my mind, there is a very obvious connection to my father’s novel. People don’t get it. It’s the principle of it. It would be nice to have a dialogue. We are open to it. That’s a way to start.”
The family says the use of the name Nexus One is a trademark violation but Google claim the name has nothing to do with Dick’s work, and that it was simply using the word in its original sense – as a place where things converge.
