HTC Nexus One Review

Google, no 1 Internet Search Provider in the World, has unveiled its new and latest mobile called “Nexus One”. Nexus One is the first phone to function on Android platform. It’s a fast and user convenient phone. The best feature of this phone is its display. It has AMOLED touchscreen and the phone includes AMOLED on Android platform. Nexus One does not support DivX and Xvid formats, doesn’t has flash support for browser, voice dialling, smart dialling, FM radio, and there is no specific camera key.

Design:

Google Nexus One is sleek and attractive. By seeing its trackball and display, it looks like HTC Hero and HTC Droid Eris. It comes with 119x59.8x11.5mm in size and it weighs up to 130g. This phone has 3.7 inch AMOLED display which is a start attractive of the phone. It has an 800x400 pixel resolution and Android 2.1 operating system along with Trackball navigation, touch-sensitive controls, and proximity sensor.

Nexus One has five home screens for full personalization. Compared to other and previous Android phones, Nexus One gives some unique touches to the home screen. It has a shortcut bar which allows you to activate and deactivate the features like GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and syncing. It’s all easy to access using shortcut bar without digging into the Menu. Main menu is very much similar to the previous Android phones. The interior menus, mute icons and display lock are comparable with Motorola Droid. Nexus One allows you to adjust the backlighting time, brightness and also allows to limit the display animations.

Google Nexus One offers four touch controls just below the display - Back, Control for Notifications Menu, Home, and Search buttons. If you long press the Home button, it will bring up your recent and latest features and if you long press the Search button, it will activate the Voice search. It also has a virtual keyboard which is again unchanged from other Android phones. You can use the virtual keyboard in landscape mode and also in portrait mode.

The power control is situated at the top of the phone. It has a 3.5mm jack at the top of the phone to use your headphones. Volume control is situated in the left side of the phone. In the back side of the phone, you can access the 5 megapixel Camera with 2560x1920 pixels, autofocus, and LED flash. This phone supports microSD and which you can access it by removing the battery. It has microUSB port in the bottom of the phone.

Features:

As an Android phone, Nexus One has everything you would like to have it. Contacts are limited by the memory available. Contacts are synced automatically from your Gmail account. You can also sync the contacts from Facebook and Microsoft Exchange. Nexus One comes with 512 MB of internal memory and 4 GB of microSD card which can be extended up to 32 GB. It has 5 megapixel Camera with 2560x1920 pixels with an autofocus and LED flash. Camera has smile detection and geo-tagging features. It has 2x digital zoom along with White Balance, Color effect Controls. You can record a video up to 30 minutes of 720x480 pixels resolution at the 20 frames per second. Coming to the photo quality, it is satisfying and video quality is about average.

Along with Gmail, Nexus also supports IMAP4 and POP3 accounts but there is a problem with Yahoo mail account. Sometimes you may get connected and sometimes not. Nexus One has a great feature called voice features. Using this feature, you can do many functions like composing text messages, updating Facebook page, searching over Android Market. But still, you have to press the microphone icon on the display to activate the feature and other icons to move between the text fields.

Along with these features, it includes calculator, compass, duplex speakerphone, A2DP stereo Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Text Messaging, Multimedia Messaging (MMS), and text-to-speech feature. Also includes Google applications like Picasa, Google Voice, G-Talk, Goggles, and Youtube.

Performance:

Nexus One has a quand band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) which can be used with any GSM provider. It also has 3G band (2100/AWS/900) which is only compatible with T-Mobile network in U.S. The call quality is also good. You will hear clear voice and volume is loud. Bluetooth calls are also very good and worth.

This phone has the HTML web browser which lacks Flash Lite, but it includes multitouch software update. The GPS applications do better when compared to other Android phones. You can stream the videos satisfyingly over the Youtube, but it depends upon your 3G connection. It supports MP3, WAV, MP4, H.264, H.263, eAAC+ and other audio formats.

Its battery performance is also excellent. It gives up to 290 hours of Standby for 2G and up to 250 hours for 3G. In case of Talk time, it gives up to 10 hours for 2G and up to 7 hours for 3G. Nexus One gives 20 hours of Talk time for audio playback and average 5 hours for video playback.

Google Nexus One has already hit the market. It is available at the price of $529 in all over the World. It is also available at the cost of $129 with 2 year contract with T-Mobile.