My Nexus One has Arrived
My Nexus One arrived yesterday here in Brisbane (thank-you DHL).
So far I am beyond impressed with the phone, and I am pretty confident this could be the phone that will actually be able to challenge other devices.
I am already a big Android OS supporter. What I have not been to keen on so far are the devices that are running it. My experience so far has only been with the ADP1 (or HTC Dream) and the ADP2 (or HTC Magic / Google I/O). They are nice phones, but far too underpowered for the needs of Android.
Finally however, the Nexus One comes with the power needed to use the phone as intended. Run apps, even in the background. Take great photos, and talk on the phone.
There are a few niggling things that are annoying – but I am hoping future updates will deal with it.
So often the Google developers seem to forget that Google accounts don’t always end in “@gmail.com”. As is the case with the automatic Picasa syncronisation built in to the phone. Although my PicasaWeb account is under my email address, the sync application has decided that I can’t possibly sync with it – which is a touch annoying.
Of slightly more concern are the four “soft” buttons at the base of the screen. They are the back, menu, home and search buttons common to most Android handsets, however, on the Nexus One – they are not actually physical buttons – just touch sensitive areas.
So far – it seems that you have to be touching another part of the phone at the same time as pressing these soft buttons to have any chance of activating them. This can get quite frustrating if you want to put the phone down on a desk and use it.
Rear image of the Nexus One
All in all I am really impressed with the phone. My business partner Adam, who has been searching for a phone for quite some time has spent the better part of a day playing with it as well, and even he has decided that it may be the device he has been searching for as well.
I hope that an Australian carrier (all the evidence points to Vodafone being the first) brings this device to market quickly here. I feel just a touch greedy keeping the Nexus One to myself.
