Nexus One

Data out Tuesday suggests Google's much-hyped smart phone, the Nexus One, is so far something of a flop.

I've had an itching to get an Android phone for a while, and then the opportunity to get a Nexus One popped up last week, I jumped at it.

When Google launched the Nexus One in January, the company hit on an odd bit of marketing to distinguish the new phone from its rivals.

A lot of phones these days put the radio near the bottom of the handset, and the Nexus One is no exception.

Holding the Nexus One with an Apple approved fingertip grip, not touching the body of the phone, we saw no appreciable drop in signal.

HTC was the first manufacturer to use Android in its phones and is also the maker of Google's own brand Nexus One handset.

One of the most anticipated Android devices of 2010 was the Google Nexus One on Verizon.

No more. In 2009, Google introduced its first device, the Nexus One phone, a new collaborative tool called Wave and a new music service.

The significance of Nexus One is not the phone, but its open source software and Google's direct sales model.

He's got a Palm Pre, two iPhones (one for overseas), a Nexus One and a Droid.

The Nexus One, which Google sold directly to customers without cellular service, did not fare very well.

In a note to investors last week, Goldman Sachs analyst James Mitchell estimated that the Nexus One's component costs were $300.

The bipedal fighting robot can shoot BBs, and is controlled by the Google Nexus One cellphone you can see in the photo.

Google eventually abandoned selling Nexus One handsets only online, switching to marketing the smartphones in real-world stores.

The Nexus One is packed with its own tricks.

Google entered the smart-phone market with Nexus One, which runs on the web giant's Android operating system and is made by HTC of Taiwan.

In mobile hardware and software, Apple has the iPhone, and Google has the Nexus One and its Android software.

Any idea how well or badly the new Google Nexus One syncs with Macs for things like Calendars, Notes, Address Books etc.

Best known for its Internet search engine, Google unveiled its first mobile phone last month, the Nexus One.

I've been testing the Nexus One for a couple of weeks and I like it a lot.

If you want an Android phone right now, get a Nexus One.

HTC's biggest growth globally has come from smartphones running Android. It is the maker of Google's Nexus One device.

If the Bootloader on the Nexus One has already been unlocked, you may skip this section.

The default is a standard, Nexus One-type display, while the others are different sizes including even a BlackBerry-style device.

Two of the newest mobile phones, Google's Nexus One and Motorola's Droid, both use MEMS microphones in this way.

WARNING: UNLOCKING THE NEXUS ONE'S BOOTLOADER WILL VOID THE WARRANTY.

Congratulations, Nexus One users!

We actually find the way the Nexus One handles the recording of audio rather good.

The Nexus One has a dual mic system for noise cancellation.

And after that, we try our hardest to find a death grip that kills the signal on the Nexus One. The results? Surprising.

In addition, the Nexus One, and other Android devices, still pale beside the iPhone for playing music, video and games.

So yeah, you can kill the 3G signal on the Nexus One, but it takes two hands.

As a result, the Nexus One asks new users to climb a steeper learning curve.

It's important to note that the Nexus One has a faster 1GH processor that is potentially responsible for its performance advantage.

Last year, it closed down the online store for its first Google-branded phone, the Nexus One, citing the store's underwhelming performance.

Last year, Google tried selling its own smartphone, the Nexus One, manufactured by HTC of Taiwan, through an online store.

Executives at major carriers say the Nexus One didn't sell very well.

In my tests, overall, the Nexus One worked very well.

The biggest pluses of the Nexus One are all around the simplicity and completeness of the cloud integration

Google's Nexus One phone which is powered by Android. Photo: Reuters