Gadgetory

in order to appreciate where you are it's important to look back from where you came from and where Android phones really started to come into their own where the Nexus line was born was in January 2010 it's a very first Google phone the Nexus One want to take a bit of retrospective about this phone look at it objectively and see how crazy far technology has advanced in still just under seven years so while this phone was officially announced in January 2010 it was rumored for years before in fact a few months before go announced that they gave a few these devices out to employees and very like wink wink asked them to not show them publicly and of course this phone which is leaking all over the web which kind of started history of Nexus devices leaking and that's a trend that has certainly never stopped so when this guy launched was $550 so pricing has stayed relatively consistent for his Nexus line of phones it was a very first device to launch with Android wait for it 2.1 if you weren't alive back then or maybe didn't have a phone or just forgot like me Android 2.1 brought a lot of features to Android there's a first woman to have live wallpapers for example I remember playing for way longer than I should with those little rays of color just tapping the screen Mauri view this was actually most me just just tapping on it it brought a very odd 3d animation setting to kind of like cubes that you scrolled along it brought voice controls it up to number of home screens you could have from three to five this was long before chrome when Android just had a browser and I should mention there was no multi-touch on Android back in the day 2.1 also brought a weather app for example so a lot of new features these that were new at the time that we really take for granted really started their Nexus so to speak with the HTC built Nexus 1 it was fun to go back and watch my review about this when I raved about the specs it had a beastly 1400 milliamp hour battery and the 3.7 inch OLED screen at the 480 by 800 resolution I said quote was gorgeous it just looks absolutely gorgeous and it was at the time makes you kind of wonder what we're gonna think about phones now in six years you're like oh 2k or at 32 K how do we even live with phones of such a little resolution but looking the next one now I gotta say the screen still does look pretty good there are some weird design things that are going on with Android and especially with the HSE one at the time so Android phones had four navigation buttons a Nexus One at four capacitive versions of them and they did not work very well at all I really had it give him a solid tap to make sure they registered was a back button it was the Menu button it was a home button and that search button which is long gone away going back and watching my review of this I mentioned my three favorite phones at the time for the Nexus One the iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre just for a little dose of nostalgia there's a trackball on here as well it was sort of one of the de facto waste cavity phones it was popular in blackberries of the day I never used it did bring with it some new stuff like trackball notifications it marked a lot of firsts for Android who it wasn't really wireless charging was plugless charging there's some pins at the bottom Google eventually sadoc for you just drop it in and the phone would start to charge now if you remember this phone was sold and locked it was edged only for AT&T just to show you how far back things have gone but you could get 3G for t-mobile which was like a big deal back at the time to have half 3G on a phone Google was trying to shake up the way phones were sold and it just did not work out well they sold it at the Google web store and it was google.com slash Bowen in the United States the only place you get purchased Nexus One there are a couple of options first or unlocked one unsubsidized GSM Nexus ones and they promise a virgin's gonna work on Verizon that got killed you're trying to do some new things it just didn't work could try before you buy there was some other kind of niche options and Google killed it relatively soon in fact Google stopped selling the Nexus One in July of 2010 but I got to say picking this phone up again after many many years it's still working and it's so relatively zippy and you could still probably use it although I I wouldn't recommend it but it does still function there's no real lag when I'm scrolling around least just for general tapping around the homescreen it's just fun to see how far the technology has advanced and also to look where things are going to be in another six and a half years I think we'll probably still going to be at the same price point we're at with this guy 500 600 bucks for top of the line phones but man that features we're going to get our be crazy I'm still waiting for the holographic phone where I can ask obi-wan for help so you guys remember the Nexus 1 did you pick one up if you guys want 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