New Details Emerge After Hands-on with Google Nexus One

Posted 12/18/2009 at 5:16pm | by Ryan Whitwam

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Mobile tech blogger Tnkgrl had a few minutes with the new Google Nexus One phone. Her full report gives some new insight into the much talked about device, and also confirms some things we’ve heard before. She was not allowed to take any new photos, but we’ve all seen the phone by now.

First off, there is no multitouch in the browser or maps applications. We can assume it has the same multitouch APIs as the Motorola Droid has. The Android 2.1 interface has five home screen panes instead of the three seen on previous builds of stock Android. Any Android user will tell you that’s a welcome improvement. We can pretty well tell from this that the rumors about the “Google Phone” running the “real” Android were wrong. This clearly seems to be an evolution of the existing platform. The interface is also quite snappy, being described as “Faster than the Droid”

On the hardware front, the device is rocking a 3.5 or 3.7 inch OLED display of the same resolution as the Droid. Overall, the phone apparently looks very nice and is thinner than you might expect. The GSM radio is for T-Mobile 3G bands. It runs EDGE only on the AT&T network. HTC has finally moved to MicroUSB for the data/charging port. There are also some gold contacts on the bottom of the handset, these may be for a dock of some sort. Based on what you've heard so far, Is this a revolution or just another phone?