Gadgetory

hey guys jon rettinger from technobuffalo here today is January fifth 2010 and google officially unveiled the nexus one the long-awaited google phone that we've been hearing about for months and relates the surprise of no one respects mashed exact would have been leaked and what we'd seen in the past so i go over with you what was discussed today if you see me look down i apologize i've got some notes in front of me the conference just ended so before Google got into talking about the nexus one they mention that they're going to be having a more hands-on approach with their hardware manufacturers like they did with Motorola when they came out with the droid and the click and that's both good and bad I think it's going to be good because you're gonna have tighter integration with the operating system and bad because manufacturers might have to sort of bend over backwards and sort of work around Google's restrictions but we'll see how that plays out let's move on to the nexus one the tagline of the nexus one is where web meets phone they're calling this a new category of phones are calling it super phones um a little bit ambivalent on there I'll think really says much more of just a marketing buzz word but super phones is a new category that we are dealing with so on to some specs it's got a 3.7 inch am Oh LED display like we've seen the resolution of 480 x 800 which is super high-res it's running the one gigahertz Snapdragon processor which is very fast same processor that's running the HTC hd2 and a few other devices like a sir but it's very fast and extremely capable it's got a multicolor notification trackball it just means the trackball is going to light up when different things are happening nothing really revolutionary there but it's kind of fun it's god of course light and proximity sensors it's got an accelerometer in GPS all the stuff you'd expect especially now from a super phone from a size standpoint it's eleven point five millimeters thick and weighs 130 grams so if we were sitting there at home watching this video and you know the scale in front of you essentially it's thinner than a number two pencil and it weighs less than a standard Swiss Army pocketknife so it's very thin and really light and it seems like HTC who made the device I was able to pack a ton into a really slim form factor so you know kudos to them it's got a 5 megapixel camera with an LED flash which is nice of course it'll record video and if you are gonna record video you get one touch uploading to YouTube which is pretty cool it's got active noise cancellation it's got a couple microphones on there to help accommodate that which is nice if you were driving and you've got a whole inch ambient noise you're walking around in the street it's going to help make the call quality a little bit better you can also get some custom engraving on the back there's a little bit of a metal plate you can put your name on if you want so those are really the big specs of the device let's talk about android 2.1 which is what this is going to be running previously the newest version of android that we've seen was 2 point 0 if you're keeping track 2.1 was codenamed flan some of the cool things about 2.1 you now get five home screens instead of three which is quite nice on the bottom left and right corner you get some notification to tell you what screen you're on and if you hold down with notification you get sort of a deck of cards look like you see on the palm pre we can select which home screen you want to go to nice useful i suppose there are new widgets like an improved weather widgets kind of cool i guess also a new thing that called live wallpapers i think are sort of a interactive wallpapers that sort of move around on the screen there's some that looks like you're in a pond if you touch it you know water starts to rip old or something like to go around as you touch it responds to your hand it's mostly just sort of gimmicky and probably a huge battery drain but I guess they probably do look pretty cool there's also going to be a new app that they previewed they showed it talking to be launched with the phone but it's the new google earth for android just like Google Earth on a desktop browser but on your android phone super 3d you can zoom around and do mini gets her the same features you get on your home computer so out some other android 2.1 features you've got a new application launcher gone is a little drawer you now get sort of a 3d looking wheel really everything on this device is very 3d because that can handle it because of the processor so that is quite cool you're also getting a new picture gallery the whole bunch of 3d animations which is quite nice you're also getting improved search by voice be a little more accurate in one of the cool things android 2.1 brings is voice recognition for text century so if you want to send the text message or an email you hit that little microphone you say hey I'll be there in 10 minutes and it types it out for you and you can just hit Send it makes it quite a handy feature if you don't have can't type or you're not that accurate with an on-screen keyboard because the nexus one doesn't have a physical QWERTY keyboard so those are really the highlights of the phone and 2.1 2.1 will of course be coming to other android devices including the droid if you're wondering or waiting or feel a little bit ripped off facta you've got a drawing you didn't wait for the nexus one but to the nexus one will get to that just a minute so how are you gonna buy it Google is now doing this new thing that they're calling a google web store so you can go to google.com / phone and you can check out some of the phones it available and got the droid up there you can buy really a lot of the android phones on there you can be able to purchase new android phones that might be coming out so as of right now if you want to buy the phone unlocked would you certainly can it's in a cost five hundred thirty bucks and you can use it on AT&T or t-mobile although with tmobile you'll get 3g on ATT you're only going to get edge hens be 180 bucks if you want to buy it on tmobile those of you that are verizon users in the US your prayers may have been answered because it will be coming to verizon the spring and also to vodafone in the UK they're launching the web store first in the US but they're going to be shipping to or the unlocked version to the UK singapore and hong kong so if any of those countries you can go ahead and buy the phone and get sent out to you google claims is going to be shipping today it's like a really great phone i'm quite excited to use it however being an AT&T user i'm a little disappointed that i will not be able to use 3g and hoping 18t gets our act together and joins the open handset alliance and gets us some Android devices quite soon of course for all of your nexus one coverage stick around to to the channel and technobuffalo we're going to be going over this thing ad nauseam I'll should have a device in house later on in the week so we can sort of run through all the specs with you hey guys hope you enjoy it jon rettinger and i will see you in the next video bye-bye