mobil phone: Google has created hype around his own phone to rival Apple's iPhone

Google has created hype around his own phone to rival Apple's iPhone - and it has better specs on almost all features with the Nexus One. But is it enough to influence public opinion?

In an attempt to appear as a manufacturer of mobile on its own, Google released the Nexus One, a device manufactured by HTC, but only as a Google phone brand.

Despite some highly publicized problems with the support of customers and malfunctioning keyboard - or what has become a problem during our testing process - the Nexus is a smartphone actually is stellar, easily the match of his peers.



Everyone likes to talk about the next killer "iPhone" - in reality, mobile Android OS are content with second place, ahead of rivals such as Nokia, Palm, Windows Mobile and RIM BlackBerry OS.

With Android, the hardware is advancing, particularly in terms of the touch screen and camera. For those who wonder whether they should simply hop on the train from the iPhone, there are still some annoying qualities in the Nexus One. It will not kill the iPhone, And here's why:

To begin, the Nexus is lacking a bit of magic. For example, there is a split second pause when you turn the camera on its side to landscape orientation and you may even find yourself turning the phone a few times to get the accelerometer to kick in.




The keyboard - while being fully functional when we tested for several days - is a bit vague at times. In fact, a Nexus acts as part of touchscreens poorest supply at times when the display is especially sensitive to the touch, but at least occasionally.

There are also a few minor gripes that add up to a less-than-amazing experience. The first is that the phone can get a little fat after prolonged use and even slip through their fingers. You Smudge the screen quickly.

Google also needs to seriously consider some of the power saving decisions on the interfaces between One. Of course, you can configure when the white screen and when the phone is in a sleep state, but the default options are impractical: to reconnect the phone you must press the power switch.




For those who are accustomed to touching the screen again, or pressing any other button, you can get frustrated quickly. Forcing you to use the power button is a design decision - it means that you will not inadvertently a telephone conversation with the phone in your pocket. It's always a pain, though.

And then there's just the overall experience of using the Nexus One. In many ways, the Nexus is a phone with a geek - there's a plethora of menu options for built-in apps and a exhaustive list of options under settings.

There are so many technical details to explore that new users could be confused by simple operations, such as how to archive email. (You must press "long" and select Archive.)

Bottom line: Even if Apple does not need to worry, the Nexus is still the best Android phone available today.

Of course, it is easy to say that the Motorola Milestone is more robust and comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, and the Hero uses a specialized interface that you can use depending on your preferences. Yet, as a basic summary of the Nexus One is lean, fast, has a great camera, and worked well as a principal activity and telephone use.

The Nexus One (130g) full weighs 39g less than the Motorola Milestone, But is the size of the screen exactly to 3.7 inches - but probably most dramatically by losing the keyboard.

Like the iPhone, the buttons outside of the device are rare. There are two buttons for volume control, a power button and a scroll wheel. There are no buttons on the right side of the phone or below. Topside, there is a standard headphone jack 3.5mm




The scroll wheel is functional enough, though you may find yourself using the touch screen more often. You can push the mouse wheel to select options on the screen. We prefer the mouse wheel a little harder on older BlackBerry devices - many of them have a texture that makes the wheel easier to use.

On the back of the Nexus this where you see the Google logo large enough, there is a camera of 5 MP and a flash. This minimalist design gives the Nexus One new light, slim and attractive and feel.

The phone feels almost normal in the hand, and no wonder: it is very close to the size of the Apple iPhone 3GS. As mentioned, the Nexus is perhaps a little too thin and slippery for prolonged use.



On the surface of the phone, there are four buttons - and they are not only lit so you can see in low light, but use haptic feedback to record each release (they provide a slight hum).

There is a back button, menu, service and research. For the most part, these touch sensitive areas are easy to find and use, but if you press down the button, your media will not save.

Over time, you learn to hit the top button to make sure you do not have to press several times to get it working right. Haptics is sometimes useful, if somewhat annoying on repeated use.




The Nexus is not cheap. In the U.S. the phone costs $ 529 without contract or $ 179 with T-Mobile, and Vodafone to come to the United Kingdom in the coming weeks, presumably with a price tag of around £ 350 - £ 400, but only through Google phone portal.

A major strength of this phone is the QSD Qualcomm 8250 1 GHz processor, which executes lightning-fast for games, applications, media and just about any task.

There are times when the phone hangs or pauses, but this is somewhat expected with the new Android OS. Another advantage: the animated wallpapers - We particularly liked the one with the lines intersect Tron.

In the box

The Nexus One ship in a white box with a box plot design curiously familiar "jewels" by arming more than a foot from nose to another big phone calls on the market.

There is a USB cable, earphones, charger, a manual device SLIM and 119-mm height. The shape and size is undoubtedly similar to the iPhone, Without the sensation of thick and rugged Milestone or feel more diminutive Magic or the HTC phones HTC Tattoo.

Android was designed from the outset to function as an operating system touchscreen. Like Magic Android HTC and many more to drive the Nexus One Touch is a powerful device.

It is easy to slip through the photos of PPP Gallery, long press on the emails and click to start Apps. The 800x480 pixel screen is bright and clear with a contrast ratio of 100,000:1 and operates mainly fast - faster than the HTC Magic and Milestone.

The main problem here is that it is not always perfectly consistent. The touch screen is usually smooth, but there were times when the phone did not register an entry or there was a slight pause.

In addition, the touchscreen does not respond to gestures - it is not multi-touch (the United States, although we hope it could be in the United Kingdom), and you can not zoom gracefully on the screen (although you can click to zoom).






Make calls on interfaces between Work is the same as HTC and Motorola Magic Milestone with some nuances.

Since there is no call button on the interface between One to dial a number you have to start the application and use the phone keyboard, click a phone number and call or open a contact and make a call this way.

We're not big fans of a dedicated button to call because the phone conversations have become just one of the functions that we do on smartphones - in addition to browsing the Web, runs applications, listening music and take pictures.




This means that it is a four step process to make a phone call on the interfaces between One: press the power button, slide to unlock, start the phone application and dial the number or select a contact.

It's a bit heavy, but advanced users will find a way to get around - such as using an adapter BlueAnt Bluetooth voice call. In tests, the Nexus has been working well with both BlueAnt and Plantronics headsets.

Calls were not clear enough as they were on the Motorola and HTC Milestone Hero, however.

Like all other Android phones, call management is extremely easy. There are obvious buttons to put a call in handsfree, muting and even add another caller.




The only minor complaint here is that the iPhone does a better job of making it easy to select the audio source (eg, speaker or a Bluetooth headset). This is where the geeky nature of Android phones comes into play - typically found on the advanced features in a sub-menu.

Because it is a branded Google phone, the Nexus is no restrictions on which applications are pre-installed, so the company had no problems, including Google App Voice, which is still conspicuously missing from the iPhone.

In truth, this software is not absolutely essential. It displays voice messages you have, you can use Google to make your voice calls. (It still uses your minutes carrier, it just means you have access to Google Voice commands and use your Google Voice phone number.)

We prefer an app that worked much like Skype features and services of a call between users of Google Voice and had at least a rudimentary keyboard appeal.




Once again, Google has tied the Nexus One in Gmail rather effective - you are invited to add your right e-mail when you turn the phone (or add a Gmail account).

The Gmail client is very easy to use and updates quickly with new messages when they arrive. You can also configure the application to the more generic e-mail from POP and enjoy the same ease of user-friendly features.

As Motorola Milestone, you can also add contacts to Facebook Nexus One, you see either mass in the contact list or only when they are tied to a Gmail contact (based on a selection you made during the process Import contacts).

The Nexus is not as powerful as the Palm range webOS when it comes to messaging contacts, however - the Pixi, for example, supports Yahoo contacts. For text messages, the Nexus is also quite powerful, but does not deviate from the basic formula Android.




It is a simple screen that displays text messages, and you can venture into the settings configured with advanced features - such as the number of messages that are displayed. The iPhone uses a more colorful interface for text messaging, though.

A smart way to use messaging: Google has added a microphone into the keyboard that you can use to dictate text. It works for search, web URLs and so on as well, but only about as specific as transcription of speech Google, which means: not very precise.




It might have something to do with how Google is more familiar with the material A Nexus, or just the fact that the phone is stripped of unnecessary software (like HTC interface Sense), but the browser on this model is exceptionally fast.

We tested several feature-rich sites such as Facebook.com and sites loaded very quickly (so that Flash has not been used, which is not supported on the Nexus One). In a side by side comparison between Milestone Motorola, iPhone 3G and the Nexus One, the Google.com homepage came up just a fraction faster on the interfaces between One. Admittedly, this is a rare site, but also a good test to identify areas and charge a minimum of graphics as quickly as possible.





Google has made some significant improvements to the camera features in Android, and the Nexus is taking full advantage of them with its 5MP camera. For starters, shots just looked clean and clear results corresponding to an entry-level digital cam.

The Motorola device MilestoneEst heavier and more robust, may work better for photography that you can keep the camera steady during a photo. The Nexus One is lighter and thinner, so it is somewhat difficult to get a firm grip on the phone for a photo. However, the images were not blurred or distorted.

The Nexus One offers some nice features camera. Like the Nokia N95 and Nokia N97, you can adjust the white balance is automatic or lighting conditions - such as sunlight or indoors.

There is a zoom and flash can be set to automatic. Curiously, the camera stopped working after using the phone for a few hours. We have restarted the phone and the camera app started working again fine.

The soft camera also lets you select a color effect (part of the Android 2.0 upgrade), as solarized or sepia, to add a touch of fantasy to the image, but it is more a feature of gadgets that you might use once or twice. Once you take pictures, you can upload to services like Facebook or Picasa, or send e-mail. You can also download videos on YouTube.












One of the problems of operating system Android is that it is still massively below the iPhone and other devices when it comes to media.

There is no clear program on the desktop you can use to manage music and movies and then synchronize the device, or buy movies from the phone itself.

You can use the Amazon MP3 service to buy the tracks, and the selection is very good - well beyond the hit songs. Once you load media onto the device - connecting the USB cable and drop files into folders - the One Nexus supports most popular formats, including AAC, MP3, WAV, H.264 and MPEG-4 .





Like most digital Android, the Nexus One supports YouTube videos and you can draw your own video clips in 720x480 resolution, at a minimum of 20 fps - smooth enough for most shooting staff.

We've tested Google Nexus A with 4 GB of storage (or enough for a movie and a great music collection), but you can add a microSD up to 32GB of space, although we bet that most people are satisfied with the in-box storage offered by Google and HTC.




The Nexus was a battery that will last long enough and worked for a full day of occasional use - similar to what you expect with a HTC Magic 3GS or Apple iPhone.

Of course, much depends on how you use the device if you have activated Bluetooth and wireless, and if you set the brightness at full power, the battery will obviously have eaten a lot faster.

Essentially, the relationship lasts about the same time that most phones Android, which is not much that Google still has up his game in this department. Of course, the battery is removable so you can carry one or two parts and have the latest phone for a few days - but we doubt many people will never succeed in being that organized.




Being an Android phone, there are some great link-ins to the cloud - for scheduling using Google Calendar (which is automatically configured for you when you enter in your Gmail account), and for managing contacts that you import Facebook or Google.

The Nexus One provides options for wireless and Bluetooth and they work the same as other Android phones without any new features or radical departures. We had no difficulty in testing various headsets or Bluetooth connection to a variety of routers and wireless hotspots.
















The uphill battle for any Android device is not whether it can outperform Windows Mobile, or to work more intuitively than a Nokia phone running Symbian, or even compete with the upcoming Palm (which has its own set of challenges to find an audience).

And it is not even a battle for the corporate market, which is virtually owned by BlackBerry devices.

Instead, the comparison comes down to Apple's iPhone - is one of the best Nexus smartphone market, and if not, from what date the number one device that does grave?

We loved

Slim, stylish and feature-rich, the Nexus One feels almost exactly like an iPhone in your hand. The 5-megapixel camera is a major advance over the early days of faded photos and videos agitated and things like the touch screen responsive and imports contact Facebook is a godsend.

We did

The Nexus we get slippery after a day of use, it lacks the special coating that makes the iPhone less covered with dirt.

There was also some time we have tilted the phone and did not switch to landscape mode, and we relied on an icon or a button and the touch screen did not register our click.

Some reports - we have not seen in our review device - to suggest problems with the keyboard and get the customer support for phone, which is inevitable when you have a new carrier model with the Google phone shop .

Verdict

We believe that Apple should not be too worried. The Nexus One is an excellent phone, easily one of the best models we have used Android. There are thousands of applications available, the touch screen is smooth and fluid - but the reality is that the overall experience has some weaknesses.

There are times when a nexus is found to be less than perfect, especially when an app has worked fine (like for the camera) suddenly will not start over.

There were also a number of times the tilt function is not working properly, or when a finger press failed to register. These are minor issues, really - but the questions of the iPhone did not, and as such it will not be iSlayer we began almost to be expected.