Google's Android Phone Is A 21st Century Treat

By Author: Jerry Smith
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The new year of 2010 ushered in new and different varieties of innovations and developments in many fields of science and technology, but one nifty gadget that techies would undoubtedly love is the Nexus One smartphone. This cellular marvel was designed and offered commercially by Google, which came to local store shelves in early January of this year, and is being continued to be distributed to different countries during the course of the year.

The Sexy Features

One of the aspects that make this gadget particularly appealing is its slim and sleek exterior, measuring only approximately 1cm in thickness, while being 12cm long and 6cm wide. It is also 130 grams light, which makes the phone extremely portable. The Nexus One also boasts of an Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (or AMOLED) screen, which is top of the line display technology. These kinds of LED screens do not need backlights to be visible, and are also more energy saving than earlier display techs. Additionally, the Google Nexus One smart phone's ...
... display comes in a high-resolution 480 x 800 screen.

What's Inside?

Google's proud product is composed of the Snapdragon processor, allowing users to watch high definition videos in 720p resolutions, and can also support MPEG-4 formats, as well as H.263 and H.264. The smartphone also enables audio playback in MIDI, WAV, MP3, AAC+, and Ogg Vorbis formats, as well as an inclusive 3.5mm stereo headset jack, making basic music functions easily available to the user. Plus, a built-in voice processor on the back of the phone will serve to reduce ambient noise from conversations made with the Nexus One. Aside from these perks, the cellular phone also supports several image files, namely JPEG, BMP, GIF, and PNG formats. The Nexus One also has a built-in 5.0 megapixel camera with accompanying zoom and flash features, as well as a comprehensive GPS guide for motorists, which is very helpful due to its turn-by-turn instruction system. There is also support present for expandable memory capabilities, since the microSD card port can handle up to 6 Gigabytes of storage, while the phone's usable internal memory amounts to 190MB.

Ease of Use

Navigating around the various software features and applications of this Google Android phone is particularly easy as well as sophisticated, because it sports a Synaptics ClearPad 2000, which supports some dual or multi touch functions and gestures. Another navigator aid is the trackball that has the ability to change its color, depending on the kind of information it is receiving.

Open source fanatics will also be delighted to know that the Nexus One operates using an Android mobile operating system, which is an OS developed by Google based on the Linux kernel and another derivative graphical user interface. This particular type of operating system has been steadily gaining popularity since its release, to the point that it has been placed as the second best selling mobile handset in the United States for the first three months of this year. This OS also supports Adobe Flash 10.1, and wireless internet access. One of the new features offered by the Google phone in terms of aesthetic software is their Live Wallpapers, which are interactive backgrounds that are animated and can be manipulated by users. Lastly, one of the more promising benefits inherent in the Nexus One is that it is capable of processing voice commands in order to write text messages or initiate phone calls.
Jerry Smith, the editor of http://www.mobilephoneonly.co.uk. An expert on mobile phone and an observer of UK telecommunication market. He writes reviews on latest mobile phones, and also suggests promotional deals and special offers from mobile phone retailers in UK.