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First Google Phone Nexus One photos

22 points by anderzole 17y ago

rgrieselhuber 17y ago
This is the beautiful Android phone that's going to kill the iPhone? Believe me, I want that phone to exist but I'm afraid this isn't going to be the one.
- pbz 17y ago
  It's close though. Make the body out of metal and have a few more colors as options; that gold just do it for me. Drop the "trackball" at the bottom and make it a little bit shorter and you'd be there... HTC Legend, save for the chin, got even closer aesthetically (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/ http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-...)
- thaumaturgy 17y ago
  Google's achilles heal is in the nexus (heh) between user interfaces and aesthetics. For a company that powerful to have such a large and reparable weakness indicates that it may be a culture problem, or a "from the top" problem. Either way, it's likely to continue to be a problem, and a device like a modern mobile phone-PDA can't have that kind of problem. I sincerely doubt this is going to impact iPhone sales.
bluebird 17y ago
What an ugly phone!
martythemaniak 17y ago
Yeah, I am not very impressed, especially since there already seems to be a better one: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/25/htc-hd2-review/ http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/25/htc-hd2-review/ So what they really should have done is an Android version of the HD2. Nothing but a huge, gorgeous screen and just a few small buttons on the bottom.
- jonknee 17y ago
  > Nothing but a huge, gorgeous screen and just a few small buttons on the bottom. I may be missing something, but isn't that exactly what the Nexus is?
  - elblanco 17y ago
    You must have missed the full-sized 104-key keyboard hanging off frame.
bugs 17y ago
I see most of the comments are about aesthetics, I must say I for one am happy that they didn't try to make a fashion accessory and probably worked on creating a useful phone. I don't need a cool hip phone, I need one that works really well and does everything I need, hopeful this is what google has done. (It looks rather sleek to me as well but to each their own)
- jacoblyles 17y ago
  I want phones that lots of people use so that they become appealing alternative development platforms to the iPhone. So, I DO want my phone to be a fashion accessory, so that some of the 17 million iPhone users will switch.

22 points by anderzole 17y ago

This is the beautiful Android phone that's going to kill the iPhone? Believe me, I want that phone to exist but I'm afraid this isn't going to be the one.

pbz 17y ago
It's close though. Make the body out of metal and have a few more colors as options; that gold just do it for me. Drop the "trackball" at the bottom and make it a little bit shorter and you'd be there... HTC Legend, save for the chin, got even closer aesthetically (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/ http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-...)
thaumaturgy 17y ago
Google's achilles heal is in the nexus (heh) between user interfaces and aesthetics. For a company that powerful to have such a large and reparable weakness indicates that it may be a culture problem, or a "from the top" problem. Either way, it's likely to continue to be a problem, and a device like a modern mobile phone-PDA can't have that kind of problem. I sincerely doubt this is going to impact iPhone sales.

bluebird 17y ago

What an ugly phone!

martythemaniak 17y ago

Yeah, I am not very impressed, especially since there already seems to be a better one: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/25/htc-hd2-review/ http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/25/htc-hd2-review/ So what they really should have done is an Android version of the HD2. Nothing but a huge, gorgeous screen and just a few small buttons on the bottom.

jonknee 17y ago
> Nothing but a huge, gorgeous screen and just a few small buttons on the bottom. I may be missing something, but isn't that exactly what the Nexus is?
- elblanco 17y ago
  You must have missed the full-sized 104-key keyboard hanging off frame.

bugs 17y ago

I see most of the comments are about aesthetics, I must say I for one am happy that they didn't try to make a fashion accessory and probably worked on creating a useful phone. I don't need a cool hip phone, I need one that works really well and does everything I need, hopeful this is what google has done. (It looks rather sleek to me as well but to each their own)

jacoblyles 17y ago
I want phones that lots of people use so that they become appealing alternative development platforms to the iPhone. So, I DO want my phone to be a fashion accessory, so that some of the 17 million iPhone users will switch.