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hi this is Josh Lewin s'en I'm reporting from Google's headquarters in Mountain View California where the company just announced the Nexus One this is Google's first phone but it's not really from Google it's from HTC but it is running the latest version of Android version 2.1 this comes with a bunch of new features which we're gonna walk you through in a second the device is available today and could either be bought for one hundred and seventy nine dollars with a two-year contract from t-mobile or you can buy it unlocked to use with any carrier as long as it's G s sounds so let's walk you through a couple of the features like some other Android phones it's a it's very slim this is one of the slimmest phones actually just eleven and a half millimeters which is about the size of a pencil along with that there's a five megapixel camera with autofocus and there's also something very interesting a noise cancellation system which is built in the phone so if you're talking it'll kind of reduce background noise other things a green apple your headphone jack sleep button and a USB port a little mini USB port for charging the battery is removable it's also got a volume rocker on the left side of thumb and is it something interesting here this is actually metal and when you buy the phone you can get it engraved with something personal so if you're getting as a gift there's an option on Google's website to you know get the name of the person you're giving it to read on there the phone comes with a four gigabytes of memory you can also pop in an extra SD card here in the back there's also another interesting feature this little rollerball here lights up and as multiple colors so depending on what application is giving you an alert you can tell just by the color so that's pretty cool that's that's something that iPhone and a lot of other phones don't have this is the first version of Android that supports voice search with navigation so you can actually do a lot of things that you do with the keyboard just with your voice navigate to CNET so this is going to do a Google search for that location and then let me get driving directions from here or wherever to that address and then the new feature is something Google is calling a live wallpapers so if you just hold to choose wallpapers there's a new option for live wallpapers and these are kind of like Microsoft's dream scene back in Windows Vista where you just have something in the background it that moves constantly so if I set this is the wallpaper now every time I touch it'll create one of these little checkers so another new feature is the gallery and this is a android-specific not zone specific but it does take advantage of some some some of the hardware that's in this device including the accelerometer so as you roll and pitch the device these photos go back and forth so this plugs right into Google's Picasa service so you can just grab your your photos right off the web and they also said that they they grab some of this technology from Cooliris so as you pull this wall you can see it kind of tilt one way or the other there we go and that's something they borrowed from Cooliris so this works in portrait and landscape mode and depending on which way you rock the phone your photos will move so that's something cool so the Nexus One is shipping out today from Google you can find out more about it from us and C net you can also check out the sale page at google.com slash phone I'm Josh Levinson this has been a first look at the Nexus One