Google Earth on Nexus One
Having spent almost 4 days including today moving up and down London’s High street shops looking for the best mobile phone around, and having finally settled on Nokia N97 and the iPhone 3GS as the most likely candidates to meet that requirement. Google needed to pull one out of the hat to convince me that better was out there. THEY DID !!!
Just have a look at the new Nexus One Google smart phone which is in all likelyhood a piece of googles long term strategy of setting up a cloud computing network based fundamentally on its operating system and google ethos of giving everything for free.
In my view the main motivation for google going forward was to mitigate against the damage mobile computing was doing to its internet search(advertising) business. Mobile Apps particularly on iPhone App Store and Nokia Ovi store had the potential of significantly reducing the usefulness of search engines on mobile computing devices hence the reason google joined the game albeit in spectacular fashion.
Indeed the first thing google has done is to place a search bar in the home interface of the Application OS to ensure that search remains a key feature of the phone.
Peter Chou, the CEO of HTC, the company that created the hardware of the Nexus One, explained the genesis of the phone together with members of the Nexus One Google team.
Technical Specifications:
The specs match previous leaks. It’s a 3.7 AMOLED display with a trackball.
- It comes with features such as a light sensor, GPS, and accelerometer. These are all features pioneered by Apple’s iPhone.
- It’s 130 grams in weight and 11.5 mm in width, about the width of a standard #2 pencil.The camera is 5MP with LED flash.
- The audio has received an upgrade. It has two microphones, one of which is used for noise cancellation.
- Customization is a key to the Nexus One. There are five home screens to cusotmize your interface.
- Google showed off some of its dynamic touchscreen features of the software. For example, one of the wallpapers is a lake with leaves. When you touch it, it has a nice rippling effect.
- They worked with the team at CoolIris to visualize photons on the Nexus One in a 3D environment. If you tap on an album, you’ll be able to quickly scan and load photos. You can also tip and dip photos based on your hand motions and the accelerometer.
- Text fields are voice enabled. Every time you speak, it will process your speech into text. It gets better and better the more and more you use it.
You can find the Google One Nexus at www.google.com/phone
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