Google today introduced its first smartphone, the Nexus One. Cnet’s Crave live-blogged the event from the Googleplex, and here’s what you need to know:
- * it has a Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor
- * 3.7-inch screen
- * includes Android version 2.1 (same as Motorola’s Droid)
- * the phone’s trackball does double-duty as a navigation and notification mechanism, pulsing when you receive an e-mail or voice-mail
- * phone has light and proximity sensors with compass and GPS
- * 5-megapixel camera with flash
- * Bluetooth with noise cancellation feature
- * weighs 130 grams, 11.5 millimeters thick
- * personalized home screen with widgets, with up to five home screen panels
- * Live Wallpapers, moving images users can set to run behind home screens and apps (I’d find this distracting but that’s just me)
- * organize and view photos in 3D; tipping phone “dips” photos so they appear to be in 3D; photo gallery app organizes photos around the day they were taken
- * ability to use speech to enter text into every text field on the device (this is a step beyond using voice for just search)
- * available with or without a service contract at google.com/phone
- * available today with option for T-Mobile service; Verizon and Vodafone are also on board for Spring 2010 (hooray! finally we have options!)
- * $529 without service contract; $179 with two-year T-Mobile contract
- * Google account required to buy phone from Google site
Less than one hour after Google event, Crave’s live-blog feed had been re-tweeted 212 times, and shared on Facebook 58 times.
Lisa
