Google Nexus One: Beyond a Phone - By: Felicity Lightbody

The Google Nexus One will be officially on sale in the UK and online. The Nexus One, Google's latest Android powered endeavour, is sleek, powerful, and is much more than just a phone. The technical community is raving it as quite possibly the closest device to being an "iPhone killer" to date. The Nexus One is actually quite similar to the iPhone in size, with a height of 119 mm and a width of 59.8 mm. With the battery, the phone weighs 130 grams. The screen, which is touch activated, is 3.7 inches diagonally, and has a contrast ratio of 100,000 to 1. The Nexus One is equipped with a 5 megapixel camera, digital zoom, flash, and video capture. The Nexus One has 512 megabytes of flash memory, 512 megabytes of RAM, and an expandable Micro SD port of up to 32 gigabytes.

One of the most impressive aspects of the Google Nexus One is the battery life. With up to 10 hours of talk time, 290 hours of standby time, and up to 20 hours of audio playback time, the Google Nexus One is quite possibly the most efficiently powered phone on the market. It crushes its main competitor, the iPhone in both battery life and visual quality.

More importantly, the Google Nexus One is extremely affordable. With a monthly contract through Vodafone, customers can get their hands on the Google Nexus One. The affordable price of the phone, coupled with VodaFone's extensive 3G network makes the Google Nexus One, one of the most competitive devices on the market.

Besides its price, speed, and technical specifications, the ability to access the Android Market as well as the ability to run multiple applications makes the Google Nexus One an extremely hot commodity. The Google Nexus One, operating with an average response time of 1 millisecond, runs applications such as Facebook, Photoshop, YouTube, MySpace, Pandora, Google Maps, and Google Voice without any delay. The ability to run multiple applications is something that is not available on the iPhone, and is extremely useful when downloading files while also using functions such as the GPS feature on Google Maps.

Overall, the Google Nexus One is more than just a standard smartphone. Following the release of the phone on Friday, the Google Nexus One will prove to be a formidable adversary for the iPhone because of its affordable price and seamless integration of Android applications.

About the Author

Felicity is a freelance columnist, writing intermittent overviews in the UK on telecommunications and mobile devices. See how much you could earn for mobile phone recycling your old Blackberry handset as well as comparing the price on all the phone recycling companies like Envirofone at recyclemobilephones.co.uk For more information, on how much you could get look at Blackberry phone recycling .

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