First off let me start with wishing a happy new 2010 year to all of you, from the Blue Feather blog! :)
And now onto the official news… Yes, it’s official. I’ve never wanted a phone this bad before… I want the Nexus One. Reasons? Hm.
I currently own an Apple iPhone 3GS (the 16GiB one), however I used to hate iPhones and anything touchy for a phone. I believed I only need a phone for its phone features, so any phone which has some good features in its OS like the Sony Ericsson ones will do. I don’t need extra buff.
All that changed when I got the iPhone as a gift. I loved it. The apps enhance its use so much more, and battery didn’t seem much like a problem like I’ve thought before. Sure, I can’t use it as long as my previous S500i, but it’s fair enough for daily usage. Also, I love being able to do stuffs like learn Kanjis on-the-go, look at Google Maps and having the compass… I’m a person who easily gets lost.
But something was still amiss with the iPhone. App Store sucked out too much money from me, and I had to jailbreak the phone to really enjoy it. An iPhone not jailbroken would turn me off rather quickly. What’s the use of having an ARM CPU and some cool OS base, and then lock it all up? I need my SSH, my Terminal, my “look-at-the-whole-drive”…
That’s where comes Android, the OS running on Nexus One and plenty other phones. When I heard it got announced as the next big thing from Google, I really liked it. I even argued with my flatmate at that time that Android is going to beat iPhone in the long-run. Sure, one’s a phone and one’s an OS, but I knew Android’s the way forward. The iPhone, I knew, would dominate the market and spawn a zillion of clones afterwards though – it’s simply too good of a design. And the Apple team for UI testing is real good. I kind of harbored a small wish that Google would actually release a phone…
And they did! And look at the price: 550 USD or so. For that price and to get it unlocked, it’s like a dream come true. Also, I believe Ars Technica had a good point when they said what they really announced was the URL, i.e. Google’s Phone Store, selling unlocked phones by default. It’s going to revolutionize the phone market in the US as it stands right now. Google… what can you expect more?
The slender design of the iPhone beats the Google Nexus One by far in my opinion, however I like the geeky feel of the Nexus One. You can already see it flushing out from Android. And with all the specs, I think it’s going to be a good phone in the long run. Will there be a Nexus Two? I hope so! If I can’t get enough money to buy it till they do release “Nexus Two”, then all the better, since I’ll be aiming for that one instead!
Anyway. Go check it out, not that millions other phone geeks have blogged about it enough already these past days…
Here’s a nice comparison chart for the recent “big” players in the Smartphone market: Current Crop of Smartphones.
The Nexus One from Google & HTC
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