After several delays, the Google has finally come to Android devices.  It is now available in the market.  However, it is for Nexus One only but will be available for most of the Android 2.1 devices later. It is a huge application.  The download takes about 5Mb and it will be blown up to about 22Mb after install.  There are a number of layers available for Google Earth, including Places, Businesses, Panoramio, Wikipedia, Roads, Borders [...]

Interested to run the Alpha ROM of HTC Desire on your Nexus One?  Paul from Modaco has ported the ROM to Nexus One and it is quite stable (although it is still an alpha ROM).  Most of the thing work and it is fast.  View the video below before you decide whether you want to load that into you device or wait.

During a press conference of Sony Ericsson during MWC, Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg made a remark that they actually turned down Google when Google approached them to make the Google phone (a.k.a. Nexus One). I am not sure who Bert Nordberg is trying to impress during a press conference like this.  However, this does send multiple messages to the market.  Did Google think that SE can make a better Nexus One than anybody else [...]

I expected this but not so soon.  The hackers don’t sleep, do they?  Just shortly after HTC demoed the HTC Desire with Android 2.1 and Sense, it is quickly ported to Google Nexus One and shown off to the world. The fast port could due to the fact that the hardwares of Nexus One and Desire are very similar.  The moder from Modaco is able to load the ROM extracted from HTC Desire to Nexus [...]

Waiting for HTC Bravo’s announcement?  Wait no more, HTC has just announced the Desire, the Bravo we knew previously.  It will be available in Europe in April and Asia will follow.  So most likely we will get the Desire (Bravo) in Singapore in May. It is like a Google Nexus One packed with Sense from HTC.  It has almost everything from Google Nexus One. The Desire looks and feels very similar to Google’s Nexus with [...]

Google has admitted its problem of giving support over the phone to Nexus One users and promised to fix it.  And here is the solution from them. Apparently Google has setup a phone support centre for Nexus One at 888-48-NEXUS (63987). Open daily from 7:00 am EST to 10:00 pm EST.  You can call the number to check on your existing order and status.  For the Nexus One owners, call the number for technical support.  An unnamed Google [...]

Linus Torvald, the father of Linux kernel, one of the most repected man in open source community, has bought a Nexus One and he loves it.  If you are still wondering why this is significant, let me tell you: without him, there will be no Linux and Android and thus Nexus One, because he is the original creator of Linux kernel, which Android is created upon. According to his own blog, he tries to use [...]

Wondering how Google’s Nexus One is performing during its first month in the market?  Well, according to Flurry, Google sold 80,000 units of Nexus One in first month.  That’s a miserably low figure compared to many other smartphones like Apple’s iPhone and Motorola’s DROID.  But if we look at the brighter side, the first month sales figure of Nexus One is 4 times of the first week figure where there rest were just double Was [...]

The concept and design video of Google Nexus One in Youtube channel has shown the upcoming docks for the Nexus One. There are three shown in the video.  One of them is what has been released in the market, the standard dock.  The other two – one is the dock with an extra battery charging space, and the other is the car dock. No price and information from Google at the moment.  However, since they [...]

Google has started to add a series of video showing the born of their first Android phone to the market – the Nexus One. The first video published is about the concept and design and is narrated by Erick Tseng (Android Project Manager), Tomasz Hasinski (HTC Project Manager) and Lloyd Watts (Audience). If you are interested to know about the design concept of the phone, do check out the Google Nexus One channel in Youtube [...]