Google Unveils Nexus One Phone
Posted on: January 5, 2010 by admin No Comments
Google today unveiled its long awaited Nexus One mobile phone at an exclusive invitation only press conference at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California.
The device is being hailed by Google as the perfect integrated tool “where web meets phone” and which is being built with the aid of longtime collaborators HTC and is powered by Google’s android software.
“You will see it pushes the limits of what is possible on a mobile phone today,” said Peter Chou, HTC chief executive.
The “superphone” will set consumers back around $530/£330 or around $180 for a 24 month contract with T-Mobile USA. Soon after its US launch the phone will be available to UK customers initially on the Vodafone network.
The phone will be available for purchase through Google’s own phone portal. Here, customers will be able to choose which operator they wich to enter into a contract with.
Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Gartner technology research believes this could be a major selling point for the Nexus One because it would allow potential customers to “buy the phone and then choose what sim card you want to put in”.
Andy Rubin, Google’s vice-president of engineering, said: “The Nexus One belongs in the emerging class of devices which we call ’superphones’, with the 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset making it as powerful as your laptop computer of three to four years ago. It’s our way to raise the bar on what’s possible when it comes to creating the best mobile phone experience for consumers.”
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