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Review: HTC Google Nexus One
HTC Google Nexus One Review
TechJunkeez Gear | January 2010
The Nexus One was anything but unexpected when it was announced
earlier in this month. The phone was supposed to fit in a new class that some
Google employees called the “Superphone” family. After using it for a few days,
I’m confident in telling you that it is not good enough to push out new classes
for cell phones. The Nexus One isn’t bad by any means. It was just suffering
from excess hype prelaunch. Cool phone? Yes. iPhone killer? I don’t think so.
Before we get into details, here's a quick video preview from
Google to walk you around the Nexus One.
Physical
This phone is Google only by name; it’s really an HTC phone at
heart. The phone looks great and feels great as well. The body is made out of a
metal frame that wraps around the plastic back-cover. It’s soft but offers
adequate grip so that you don’t drop your 530$ (180$ with T-mobile contract)
toy. The Nexus One actually fits quiet properly in your hand even if it is a
little big but what’s more interesting is its thickness that hits 11.5mm, which
is incredibly good when you consider all the powerful hardware that is packed
inside.
On top you’ve got your 3.5mm headphone jack, and the power button.
On the bottom side you have a USB port and on the right you have a volume
rocker. On the front panel the 3.7” AMOLED screen sits comfortably, you have 4
haptic feedback buttons under the screen – back, menu, home and search. You also
have a trackball but I don’t know why they put that really, you’re not going to
use it anywhere but it acts as a notification light for missed calls and new
messages…etc.
Left,
right, top, bottom
The screen is AMOLED, as previously mentioned, and is quiet large.
But just like all AMOLED screens, it has disgraceful sunlight discernability.
Although this thing is a superstar indoors, it represents a fat hooker outdoors.
The back side of the phone looks great. You have a huge Google
logo just to make sure you know you’ve bought their phone. The curvy design of
the metal bezel with the plastic back-cover looks great. You have two important
features on the back, the camera and the loudspeaker. Both are pretty good and
do their job. The snapper has a 5 megapixel resolution and an LED flash next to
it for low light situations. The pictures produced are actually quite good, I
have no complaints, since I expected much less from this HTC snapper.
Front and
back
The Nexus One has a modest specs sheet if you overlook the
Snapdragon processor, which is one of the strongest cell phone processors out
there. Other than the processor the phone doesn’t blow you away with anything
else. It has 512mb of RAM which is on par with other competitive smartphones.
You get a 4 GB microSD card, which is less than I expected. Still, it’s
expandable up to 32 GB, so there you go.
The battery is a Li-Ion 1400 mAh and offers on par performance at
best. You’ll find yourself recharging this thing almost every day if you use it
frequently.
One last thing about its hardware I have to mention is its
microphone, or microphones in this case. The device has two microphones, one for
noise cancellation and the other for your own voice. This offers very clear
sound for the other caller, so you don’t need to shout when you’re at a train
station for example. It’s a nice addition that I quiet liked.
