Nexus One aka Google "FAIL"-phone

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Update:
Engadget found the FCC filing: no at&t 3G.
That's a big FAIL on google's part. What's the point of selling the phone unlocked if you can only use it with one carrier?
FAIL!

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/h...and-att-huspa/

Update 2:
Could this be the first at&t android device?

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/m...ons-to-atandt/


Mmmmhhh. Plenty of rumors today that Google will shortly release an unlocked android phone (HTC hardware).
Apparently, employees received the phone at a Friday event.
Might even come with at&t AND US t-mobile 3G (so quad-band 3G?).

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/12/g...google-phones/

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/200...-holidays.html

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/12...ked-confirmed/

Last night, we started seeing some Tweets from Google employees and others about a new Android-powered Google phone that was apparently handed out at an “all hands” meeting. Now Google is confirming that it is indeed “dogfood” testing a new Android device with employees around the world.

But this isn’t just another Android phone. Very trustworthy sources who have seen the phone say that it is the Google Phone we first wrote about last month (despite the uninformed saying we were dreaming). It will be branded Google and sold by Google as an unlocked phone, which could change everything. As we wrote in our original post:

Google is building their own branded phone that they’ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding (Microsoft did the same thing with their first Zunes, which were built by Toshiba).

There won’t be any negotiation or compromise over the phone’s design of features – Google is dictating every last piece of it. No splintering of the Android OS that makes some applications unusable. Like the iPhone for Apple, this phone will be Google’s pure vision of what a phone should be.

The phone itself is being built by HTC, with a lot of input from Google. It seems to be a tailored version of the HTC Passion or the related HD2 (Unlocker scored some leaked picturesback in October which are of the same phone).

Here are the details we know so far about the phone: It will be called the Google Phone and will launch in early January, 2010. It won’t be sold by any one carrier, but instead will be an unlocked GSM phone. In the U.S., that means T-Mobile and possibly AT&T, whose exclusivity deal with the iPhone is about to run out. It will be running Android 2.1

The phone is “really, really fast,” says someone who has seen one in action. It runs on a Snapdragon chip, has a super high-resolution OLED touchscreen, is thinner than the iPhone, has no keyboard, and two mics. The mic on the back of the phone helps eliminate background noise, and it also has a “weirdly” large camera for a phone. And if you don’t like the touchscreen keyboard, a voice-to-text feature is supposed to let you dictate emails and notes by speaking directly into the phone.

That would be very cool Looks like Google will be the exclusive seller with these unlocked!

I should have this phone (aka "Nexus One") in my hands on Monday

Originally Posted by mr_notorious

I should have this phone (aka "Nexus One") in my hands on Monday

And how is that? U work for Google?

Originally Posted by galaxys

And how is that? U work for Google?

connections...connections.

HTC Bravo


Google Phone

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/12...phone-picture/

Originally Posted by Darkaz

HTC Bravo
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Google Phone
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Same phone just different versions. I'm guessing Bravo will remain the htc version/name which will prolly be released in europe in april while nexus might be google's name and maybe passion will be what some carriers might call it. Seems like it'll be for Tmobile's 3g so it will work on At&t's Edge at least (maybe 3g too if they added the frequency); which does make sense since the first android phone was produced by htc and went to tmobile. If these rumors come to fruition, tmobile will finally have a phone to brag about. I'm sure everything will be clear by CES the latest (though I wouldn't be suprised if they'd make an announcement before the end of the year.)

i wonder where all the hype comes from.

we already had a device which was made by htc based on googles requirements. it was called tmobile G1.

So this is nothing more than a successor for me. Also i wonder what stuff like "this time google is responsible for the whole user experience" means.

Android is from Google, and as far as i know they did it on themselves since day 1. Nobody told them what to do. So how much more "own google experience" can the new device be, compared to the other "with Google" devices which also were based on Googles own Android?!

Well maybe HTC will provide some kind of google sense ui to make the user interface prettier.

But as it stands now i would prefer a HTC device like the HTC Bravo with HTC Sense to any google only device. If Google manages to overhaul the UI on some apps like the contact app, this might change of course. But i'm not sure if google can pull that off, HTC has some more years experience in this regard.

Originally Posted by Svegetto

If these rumors come to fruition, tmobile will finally have a phone to brag about.

tmobile has the IPhone aka "bragging rights device" in germany...

Wonder if it will run the Sense UI or will google slap Vanilla Android 2.? on this phone...