Detailed review of Google’s Nexus One

I guess many of us have been waiting for more details of Nexus One to be leaked before Google’s event on 5th of January.  And here we have someone who has got his hands on Nexus One to give us a pretty detailed review.

The review covers quite a lot of the details of the phone.  And the author was impressed by the quality of its screen -  “The display screen on this phone is simply incredible. There has yet to be any device out on the market to date that looks as crisp and clear as the Nexus One.”

One thing worth mentioning is the live wallpaper of the device.  There are quite a number of “live” wall papers included by Google.  Some of them are animated and some of them respond to finger gestures. One of the wall paper, Grass, as mentioned by the author :

“Depending on what time of day it is, the sky will change colors. If it’s in the afternoon, you’ll see a bright clue sky. If it’s when the sun is setting, you’ll see an orange sky. Right before you go to bed, the sky will be dark. Not only does the sky change on the time of the day, but you’ll see the grass blowing in the wind. Each time you navigate through screens it’s as if you’re brushing your apps through the grass.”

The specs of the Nexus One is after the break.  If you’d like to read the full review and enjoy more pictures of the phones, follow the link here.

Nexus One FULL Spec:

Physical Dimensions:

• Height: 119mm
• Width: 59.8mm
• Depth: 11.5mm
• Weight: 130g with battery; 100g without battery

Storage:

• Flash: 512MB
• RAM: 512MB
• SD card: 4GB Micro SD card included (expandable to 32 GB)

Camera, photos, videos:

• 5 MP camera
• Mechanical autofocus
• 2x digital zoom
• LED flash
• Geotagging capable

Cellular & wireless:

• 3G T-Mobile and EDGE on AT&T
• Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n)
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• A2DP stereo Bluetooth

Location:

• AGPS receiver
• Cell tower and Wi-Fi positioning
• Digital compass
• Accelerometer

Display:

• 3.7 inch (diagonal) widescreen, WVGA AMOLED screen

External buttons & controls:

• Physical power key
• Physical volume up/down key
• Tricolor, clickable trackball
• 4illuminated softkeys (Back, Menu, Home, Search)
• Haptic feedback
• Teflon-coated back cover

Connectors and sensors:

• Dock pins for the Docking Stations
• 3.5mm, 40connector, stereo headset jack
• Earpiece
• Speaker
• Microphone
• Second microphone for active noise cancellation
• SIM card slot
• Micro SD slot
• Micro USB port
• Proximity sensor
• Light sensor
• Tricolor charging and notification indicator LED

Processor:

• QUALCOMM QSD 8250, 1Ghz

Audio decoders:

• AAC LC/LTP, HE-ACCv1 (AAC+), HE-AACv2 (enhanced ACC+)
• Mono/Stereo standard bit rates up to 160kbps and sampling rates from 8kHz to 48kHz
• AMR-NB 4.75-12.2kpbs sampled @ 8kHz
• AMR-WB 9 rates from 6.60kbit/s to 23.85kbits/s sampled @ 16kHz
• MP3 mono/stereo 8-320kbps constant bit rate (CBR) or variable bit-rate (VBR)
• MIDI SMF (Type 0 and 1), DLS Version 1 and 2, XMF/Mobile
• XMF, RTTTL/RTX, OTA, iMelody
• Ogg Vorbis
• WAVE

Audio encoders:

• AMR-NB 4.75-2.2kbps sampled @ 8kHz

Platform:

• Android mobile technology platform 2.1 (Flan)

Image formats:

• JPEG (encode and decode)
• GIF
• PNG
• BMP

Video decoders:

• H.263
• MPEG-4 SP
• H.264 AVC

Video encoders:

• H.263
• MPEG-4 SP

Power and battery:

• Removable 1400mAh battery