The Nexus One is a smartphone from Google that uses the Android open source mobile operating system.

Nexus One is manufactured by Taiwan’s HTC Corporation, and was launched on January 5, 2010 in USA

Nexus One comes with popular Google Mobile apps pre-installed: apps like Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube and Google Talk, with additional goodies like Maps Navigation and Google Voice.

Features of the phone include the ability to transcribe voice to text,,noise canceling dual microphones, and voice directions while driving. This way, you can speak to your phone and it does the text messaging, email writing, or search querying for you

The phone is sold via Google’s website, at a price of $529 unlocked, or a subsidized $179 when purchased with a T-Mobile two year contract.

Technical Specification

Size and weight

Height 119mm
Width 59.8mm
Depth 11.5mm
Weight 130 grams w/battery
100g w/o battery

Display

3.7-inch (diagonal) widescreen WVGA AMOLED touchscreen

800 x 480 pixels

100,000:1 typical contrast ratio

1ms typical response rate

Camera & Flash

5 megapixels

Autofocus from 6cm to infinity

2X digital zoom

LED flash

User can include location of photos from phone’s AGPS receiver

Video captured at 720x480 pixels at 20 frames per second or higher, depending on lighting conditions

Cellular & Wireless

UMTS Band 1/4/8 (2100/AWS/900)

HSDPA 7.2Mbps

HSUPA 2Mbps

GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)

Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

A2DP stereo Bluetooth

Power and battery

Removable 1400 mAH battery

Charges at 480mA from USB, at 980mA from supplied charger

Talk time Up to 10 hours on 2G
Up to 7 hours on 3G
Standby time    Up to 290 hours on 2G
Up to 250 hours on 3G
Internet use      Up to 5 hours on 3G
Up to 6.5 hours on Wi-Fi
Video playback          Up to 7 hours
Audio playback         Up to 20 hours

Processor

Qualcomm QSD 8250 1 GHz

Operating system

Android Mobile Technology Platform 2.1 (Eclair)

Capacity

512MB Flash

512MB RAM

4GB Micro SD Card (Expandable to 32 GB)

Location

Assisted global positioning system (AGPS) receiver

Cell tower and Wi-Fi positioning

Digital compass

Accelerometer

Graphics, video and audio

Image
JPEG (encode and decode), GIF, PNG, BMP
Video
H.263 (encode and decode) MPEG-4 SP (encode and decode) H.264 AVC (decode)
Audio encoders
AMR-NB 4.75 to 12.2 kbps sampled @ 8kHz
Audio decoders
AAC LC/LTP, HE-AACv1 (AAC+), HE-AACv2 (enhanced AAC+) Mono/Stereo standard bit rates up to 160 kbps and sampling rates from 8 to 48kHz, AMR-NB 4.75 to 12.2 kbps sampled @ 8kHz, AMR-WB 9 rates from 6.60 kbit/s to 23.85 kbit/s sampled @ 16kHz., MP3 Mono/Stereo 8-320Kbps constant (CBR) or variable bit-rate (VBR), MIDI SMF (Type 0 and 1), DLS Version 1 and 2, XMF/Mobile XMF, RTTTL/RTX, OTA, iMelody, Ogg Vorbis, WAVE (8-bit and 16-bit PCM)
For Nexus Reviews visit
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/nexus-one-review/
http://gizmodo.com/5443835/nexus-one-review

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