Gadgetory

per annum innum in from pocket now calm if you're on AT&T and you want an android 3g phone you don't have many options you have the motorola backflip which is the only android device that eighteen t cells right now but in our tests it's not a good device it's slow its buggy the hardware is kind of weird kind of analogy with that weird backflipping keyboard you also could choose the sony ericsson xperia x10 which is not for sale yet it's going to be for sale very soon but people have complained that the interface is slow and it's also going to be very expensive you can also get the acer liquid which has the eighteen t 3g bands and runs android but it's running an older version of android and also it's made by acer so the hardware is low quality and finally you have the google nexus one which just recently came out in the AT&T 3g flavor i know this phone has been out for a long time i know it's been talked about i know we talked about it back when the t-mobile 3g version came out in january but I figure hey it's a chance for another unboxing so let's do it here's the unboxing for the 18 t3g nexus one let's do it alright i'm probably going to experience some vision here but hey again it's a chance for another unboxing now this device is particularly important to me because i'm going to be using it as my daily driver probably until the next wave of phones come out later in the summer and one of the greatest things about the google nexus one is that it's got a extremely robust development community around that you can go to XDA developers you can swap roms you can put the HTC desire rom on this and get the sense interface which i just i think is great so here it is nexus one again we've seen this before but let's uh let's unbox it again so it opens up i think like so no specs on the back strange i don't think the original nexus one left the the back totally blank perhaps they're using the same box for all models so that they don't have to print many different models for the t-mobile version the AT&T version and coming up verizon version so here's the good old nexus one super thin device one of the thinnest if not the thinnest Android device they make let's take a look at the included accessories Google gives you a case of course got the android logo it's not made out of leather just basic materials some instructions warranty statements headphones and then we've got the battery which is the same battery as found in the HTC Desire which we recently reviewed on pocketnow.com so it's a 1400 milliamp hour battery the battery life on the Nexus One and the desire in most cases and then our test is quite good and of course we've got some headphones so let's let's see the desire mmm so the nexus one is going to look exactly the same as the nexus one on t-mobile they're all the same they just have slightly different internals to have the UMTS 850 and 1900 megahertz band which will let you get 3g on AT&T which is really what we're after here so there aren't going to be many follow-up post to this particular unboxing but be sure to check out pocketnow.com or we're always talking about the latest and Android and Windows Mobile and other smartphone hardware and software hope you like the unboxing that's it for now and for the moment of truth to make sure double check that we're going to indeed get 3g over 80 here going to slide this in an tada we have 3g but do a little speed test here ok so pretty good not amazing i'm going to test it again 850 kilobits per second i'm looking for something above one looks like we've got an error of here so i'll test us further not report back on exactly how fast the the 3g comes through here on the nexus one made for AT&T