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Google Nexus One for business

I think that if I had reviewed this phone before the HTC Desire then I would have come out with a different conclusion. When the Google Nexus One was released it came with a massive amount of hype and a lot of this revolved around it being a potential i-phone killer. That was a large gamble but has it payed off?

The Google Nexus One was built by HTC but is fully branded as Google’s smartphone. So how does it perform as a business mobile phone?

The Nexus one uses the Android platform, which is now widely accepted as a great platform for business mobiles with previous HTC models but it still doesn’t quite match the i-phone or for that matter most of the Blackberry Smartphones.

The Google Nexus One is a lightweight phone weighing 130 grams and has a nicely sized 3.7 inch screen at 3.7-inches.

Like the iPhone, Google have gone light on the outside of the phone. There are just two volume control buttons, a power button and a scrollwheel. There are no buttons on the right side of the phone or underneath. and on the top, there is a standard 3.5mm headphone jack.

The scrollwheel is average, it works Ok but is not as effective as some of the Blackberry models scrollwheels.I prefered just using the screen to navigate and scroll.

The phone is nice and slim and feels very slick, on the back there’s a 5MP camera and a flash.

On the front of the phone there are four buttons which give a nice little buzz to register each press, don’t misunderstand me, it’s not a big electric shock of a buzz, but a slight buzz that just signals to the user what you are doing.

There’s a back button, menu, home and search. These buttons are well calibrated and respond well to the touch; I didn’t have any issues with them.

The Nexus One is only available via their dedicated phone portal, which suggests that they were planning world domination with this phone and wanted to keep all of the spoils to themselves; oh dear, it hasn’t happened….

How about a video break?A major strength of the Nexus One for business users is the Qualcomm QSD 8250 1GHz processor, which is damn fast for games, apps, media and just about any task.

There were a few times when the phone hung, but that is expected with the new Android OS.

The Nexus One comes in a white box that looks remarkably like the i-phone’s box. It comes with a USB cable, earbuds, charger, a slim manual and the phone itself. The shape and size is definitely similar to the iPhone.

The Nexus One was designed as a touchscreen phone and it does work fairly well, the only gripe is that it sometimes pauses mid app, or apps suddenly do not work.

You can easily navigate through photos in the gallery app, and it has the familiar long press and click to start apps.The screen is 800×480 pixels and is clear and bright.

Google Nexus One

The phone does operate very quickly so great for internet use but a shame that there is not an i-phone style zoom function for easy browsing.

One thing that many users may like about the Google Nexus One is that there is no dedicated call button, this is obviously because calling is just one function of a multi-media smartphone but I do think that a call button is a useful function for business mobile phone users as it is by far the most commonly used function when you are working.

Making a call is a four click process: press the power button, slide to unlock, start the Phone app, and dial the number or select a contact.

Managing calls was really easy. There are obvious buttons for putting a call on speakerphone, muting and even adding another caller. The phone earphone and mic both give a clear sound and also pick up your users voice well.

The Google Nexus One has no restrictions about which apps come pre-installed as it is a Google phone, it comes with the Google Voice app.It shows you which voicemails you have available, and you can use Google Voice to make your phone calls. It is not free to make calls as with Skype but it gives you an extra phone number.

The Nexus one is simple for email use; you are prompted to add an email address when you first turn the phone on and/or you can connect it to a Gmail account.

The Gmail mobile client is nice and easy to use and fortunately refreshes when new messages arrive rather than needing a manual command to refresh. You can also configure the email app for POP mail messages.

You can add Facebook contacts to the Nexus One, and was good for use with Twitter.

Another incredibly strong pillar of this business mobile phone is the browser, it runs incredibly fast. Only drawback is that Flash is not supported; we tested several feature-rich sites, such as Facebook.com and the sites loaded very quickly (as long as Flash was not used, which is not supported on the Nexus One).

There have been some major improvements to the Android platform’s camera functionality and the Nexus One has obviously been made with these improvements taken into consideration with its 5MP camera. For starters, the photos looked very clear and not at all pixelated as with the i-phone but i guess that this is expected as the i-phone camera is just 2MP.

You can set white balance either as automated or by lighting conditions – such as sunlight or indoors which was useful for a day trip when we made good use of the camera.

There is a zoom, and a flash that can be set to automatic. There are a few tacky gimmicks to help you glam up your images but this will be more appealing to teenagers rather than the typical business mobile phone user. You can upload images to services like Facebook or Picasa, or send by email. You can also upload your videos to YouTube very easily.

The Google Android OS is not up to the standard of the i-phone of the HTC Desire when it comes to media use.

It wasn’t obviously clear how to manage your manage music and movies and then sync over to the device, maybe not too much of a problem for most business users.

You can buy songs and other MP3’s from the Amazon MP3 service to buy tracks – the Nexus One handles most of the popular formats including AAC, MP3, WAV, H.264 and MPEG-4.

Like the majority of Android phones, the Nexus One supports YouTube videos and you can film your own video clips in 720×480 resolution, at a minimum of 20fps which is OK for personal use but not professional video standard.

The Google Nexus One has 4GB of storage and you can add a microSD up to 32GB of space if you need it.

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As a business mobile phone the Google Nexus One is fine, but doesn’t come close to the Blackberry Smartphones or indeed the i-phone.But I guess that it was not built as a dedicated business mobile phone like the Blackberry models.

The phone has a great design and is generally easy to use, it has great speed when browsing which is a major plus but the unreliability of some apps was annoying.

Overall good, but has now been outclassed on Android by the HTC Desire, and never lived up to the i-phone.

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Consumers are finding difficult to choose between Nexus One and iPhone. I talked to many colleagues and friends about their interest in switching to Nexus One phone from Blackberry or iPhone. Especially I was interested in knowing from iPhone users about their reaction to Google’s announcement.

The first reaction from iPhone users are rebellion approach full of doubt and pinch of fear about Nexus one taking lead. The more I quizzed them they seem to be happy with iPhone feature but not so happy with carrier service(AT&T). As I talked more to iPhone users I found they are more interested in knowing finer details of Nexus One phone such as how sleek is Nexus one, weight and phone features etc.

Actually if you look at iPhone users profile they are trendier like to go for latest gizmos and love to be first one to adopt technology. Of course smart phone users are people who want more then talking on phone. Even after these questions users are debating should they give up on iPhone?

If at all people want to switch from iPhone to Google’s Nexus One phone it will be due to carrier service, software independence or unlocked feature. Consumers are frustrated with tough terms and conditions with current carrier AT&T and no freedom to choose alternate carrier. Lot of consumers are thinking maybe time has come for healthy competition in smart phone space with economical deals for consumers.

Both of these phones attract consumers for different reasons, for some look and feel is the main thing. For some cool features of Nexus/iPhone phones are important. Most of the heavy duty users will like to evaluate both phones based on their interface to applications, browser and how desktop applications can be ported and used on these phones. Of course Games, music, videos and social web experience plays important part.

Nexus one may score points over iPhone in freedom to choose software for running application. The current iPhone models work well with their set of applications and when it comes to interfacing with other software not backed by manufacturer it requires certain workaround. I believe as more consumer add to smart phone space it will put pressure on Google and Apple to make phone independent of proprietary software dependence.

Google’s Nexus One phone is designed to lure active laptop users to new smart phone space. Google is interested in building new high caliber Nexus One community. I

I guess if you are not active user on smart phone and your interaction with phone is to just do the communication part then it does not matter what phone you choose iPhone or Nexus One. The choice is only for those active users who explore the software and are more tuned to open community and coupled with less economical service plan may be deciding factor to shift from iPhone to Nexus One. This is just the healthy beginning of competition soon we will get more software updates from both phone manufactures.

If you planning to buy smart phone then iPhone and Nexus one is definitely good choice to make. Switching to Nexus One from iPhone may be difficult but being first time buyer for smart phone then Google’s Nexus one will be right choice to make.

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Better than iPhone and Droid, Google Phone Nexus One features a 3.7in AMOLED display, with a resolution 800×480. The camera of the Google Nexus One phone has a 5MP sensor with autofocus, and LED flash, and can capture video at up to 720×480 resolution (DVD quality). You can take the big screen with you to enjoy movies and videos on the ultra sharp wide screen display.

The article includes three parts:
Part 1: Natively supported video formats by Google Nexus One
Part 2: Convert popular audio and video files like AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, Divx, Xvid, MOV, ASF to the video format for Nexus One step by step quickly.
Part 3: Free download video from YouTube, Google, Myspace, iFilm, limewire and put them on Nexus One.

Part1. Graphics, video and audio of Google Nexus One
Image: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP
Video: H.263, MPEG-4 SP, H.264 AVC
Audio encoders: AMR-NB
Audio decoders: AAC LC/LTP, HE-AACv1 (AAC+), HE-AACv2 (enhanced AAC+), AMR-NB, AMR-WB9, MP3, MIDI SMF, Ogg Vorbis, WAVE (8-bit and 16bit PCM)

Playback
Video playback: Up to 7 hours
Audio playback: Up to 20 hours

Part2. How to convert AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, Divx, Xvid, MOV, ASF to Nexus One?

How to enjoy your downloaded video from your camera or other players with this Google Nexus One Phone? I`ll show you how to convert video to Nexus One format with a best video converter, such as AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, Divx, Xvid, MOV and ASF to Nexus One. Just rest assured. The whole process of video converting can’t be much easier for everyone.

Convert video to Nexus One step1: Download and install Aimersoft video converter Free download it here: http://download.aimersoft.com/aimer-video-converter_full68.exe
It is safe for trial and works very well for Google Phone Nexus One. So just run it.

Convert video to Nexus One step2: Load your video to this Nexus One video converter Click “Add…” or “File”button to load your AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, Divx, Xvid, MOV, ASF to this best video converter.

This video converter supports those audio video formats to input:
Audio: WAV, APE, AAC, WMA, AC3, MKA, OGG, M4A, MP3 etc.
Video: AVI, MP4, MPG/MPEG, WMV, 3GP, H.264, VOB, MOV, FLV, MKV, TS, M2TS, TP, TRP, DV etc.

Convert video to Nexus One step3:
Select output format for your Google Nexus One Phone

Select your desired output format from the categorized output formats. Here select “Android – Gphone Video MPEG-4(*.mp4)” as output video for your Google Nexus One Phone.

Convert video to Nexus One step4: Start convert your video to Google Nexus One Phone Hit the Start button. A conversion progress screen will be shown during the process where you can preview the video.

Part 3: Free download video from YouTube, Google, Myspace, iFilm, limewire and put them on Nexus One

Google Nexus One Phone will support Flash Player 10.1 soon, and then you can play YouTube video, BBC iPlayer video, MySpace, mega, Yahoo, Facebook etc with your Google Nexus One. How to free download video from YouTube, Google, Myspace, iFilm and limewire, you can see this article: How to free download youtube, yahoo, google, stream video?

After converting video with part2, connect your Google Nexus One Phone to your PC and drag those converted MP4 video into your Nexus One video folder. Then, you can enjoy your video from camera or other players on your Google Nexus One Phone.

You can update the video from your Google Nexus One Phone to YouTube with this Nexus One video converter also. Just choose the proper input and output formats, and follow the same steps to get it done.