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hey guys it's Brandon Minnemann from pocketnow.com and this is the hardware tour of the Google Nexus One made by HTC this is a Google Android device that's running 2.1 which is Eclair in this video we're going to talk about the specifications of the Nexus One and also compare the hardware to the iPhone and the HTC hd2 so to start the device has a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor running at one gigahertz just like the HTC hd2 it's got 512 megabytes of ROM for storage in addition it comes with a class 2 4 gigabyte microSD card which is a lot of memory and it's really great that they throw that in of course that's expandable it also is 512 megabytes of RAM which is probably the most amount of RAM that we've seen yet on a mobile device the HTC hd2 had a tremendous 448 megabytes of RAM but it looks like the Nexus One has even more it's got a 3.7 inch AMOLED display with 800 by 480 resolution that's the same resolution as the HD 2 it's got bluetooth 2.0 Wi-Fi a 2 to 11 B and G it has 3.5 millimeter headphone jack for audio so you don't have to use any sort of converter it also has a 5 megapixel camera on the back with autofocus and it also has a LED flash the battery is 1400 milliamp hours which is pretty big for a device of this type and also does a proximity sensor a light sensor a G sensor and a digital compass so let's take a look at the hardware of the Nexus One it comes in this pouch which isn't leather it's kind of a vinyl material has a little Android logo on the front it adds considerably to the depth of the device the device is quite thin at eleven point five millimeters so let's take out the device something that's great about the Nexus One is that it is not a fingerprint magnet the back is covered with this sort of rubbery coating and the front has what appears to be an anti oil coating like you'll find on the iPhone and on the hd2 so you really don't get many fingerprints on the display which is really fantastic so as mentioned the displays 3.7 inches diagonal compared to the iPhone that is larger but compared to the HD 2 that is obvious the smaller the hd2 as a 4.3 inch screen the resolution as mentioned is 800 down and 480 across up here you can't really see it behind the black but there's a proximity sensor and a light sensor and up here is the speaker grille going down a little further we have a few buttons typical of an Android device we have a back button a menu button home and search something I find a little bit annoying is that when you're typing on the keyboard oftentimes you may accidentally press one of these buttons because it uses capacity' a capacitive screen sensor down here so you're tapping lightly here and you may accidentally press one of those just something to watch out for down here we have a little ball that work for kind of like a multi-function d-pad that you can press into select it also will glowed various colors depending on which system notifications are currently active you can new email to one color if you have a new SMS it's another color so it's very helpful so you don't have to turn on your device to sort of see what kind of messages await you on this side of the device we have a volume rocker which has a little plus and a minus button while we're on the side let's take a look at the thickness of this device compared to the iPhone it's thinner than the iPhone but it's a little bit thicker than the HD - only by 0.5 millimeters although most people won't notice that difference of thickness going over to the bottom we have Micro USB so it'll work with all your standard plugs then we have these kind of it looks like a connector for some sort of dot perhaps the dock that will work for for the Nexus One that's coming out soon here we have a microphone it's one of two microphones the other microphone helps to cut down on noise I haven't tested that yet nothing on the other side of the device and on the top we have that 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and a standby button in the same location that you find on a lot of the other HTC devices like the the touch pro2 here which is a really good location so tapping that brings you to the unlock screen nice little screen animation turning over to the back as mentioned we have a five megapixel camera with LED flash here's the speaker for the speakerphone which I found to be not too good it distorts quite easily unfortunately even if you put the volume down we've got some branding back here that says Google and HTC in this little strip when you order the the Nexus 1 off of the Google website you can get a little engraving here which I chose not to do here's the extra microphone for the noise cancellation and if we take off the back battery cover we have the microSD slot and you can't get the microSD card out without removing the battery which is totally annoying and over here is the slot for the SIM card over all in hand the device feels high-quality it feels like it's not going to slip out of your hand and as I mentioned earlier best of all it doesn't feel like a fingerprint magnet like you would find on some other devices that have black shiny coatings and lots of shiny surfaces galore this is a very nice device a very nice form factor and it feels very light in the pocket it slips right in it feels a lot smaller than the iPhone even though it's really not and it's only 3 grams less heavy than the iPhone but for some reason perhaps because the edges are so rounded or because the materials aren't shiny or something like that it just feels really lightweight and small in the hand which is quite nice so we've got a lot more coming up on the Nexus One we're gonna talk about all the software features and the applications and the Android experience that Google has brought on this really interesting and nice-looking device from Google that's it for now