We did get the original announcement early last January when the Nexus One was unveiled at Googleplex in Mountain View, California. Vodafone will be the UK operator offering the device.
Of course, with the expected release date still months away, the weight of the news was pretty hard to feel. Especially with the end of January coming with Steve Jobs’ unveiling of the Apple iPad tablet and most of February being focused on the Mobile World Congress. Well, those months have passed and now we see the resurfacing of news regarding the Nexus One heading to the UK.
Well, it is originally supposed to be good news. We would like it to be, but so far, nothing else makes this any good. The problem lies with the fact that even if Vodafone offers the Google device, it still does not mean that the phone can be obtained over the counter. Vodafone subscribers will still have to order the device online through Google’s store.
If that sounded pretty silly, then how about knowing the fact that until now, there are no confirmed stocks of the device that will be housed in Vodafone’s stores. We would at least like to know that Google has stocks of the smart phone sitting in some storehouse somewhere in Europe; because the cost of having the item shipped individually from the US would be a total waste of money.
So anyway, the phone, despite the hoopla, is still an impressive device. The Nexus One comes with a high speed 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 5 mega pixel camera and a 3.7 inch capacitive AMOLED touch screen. It also has the new Google Earth and Google Goggles services as well as an advanced speech recognition system for speed to text and even spoken input queries.
Read more about the Nexus One at Softpedia.
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