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  • Honeycomb ported to Nexus One, sadly can't make calls

    Posted February 22, 2011 - 2:07 pm

    Until now, Google's upcoming Android OS software Honeycomb has been reserved for just tablet devices. Also, other than a Nook Color, there have been quite minimal hacks to attempt to get the OS running on other platforms. One XDA Developer accepted the challenge of trying to get Honeycomb working on a smartphone and he has succeeded to some extent — behold the Nexus One running Android 3.0! Though don't rejoice just yet.

  • iFixit tears apart a Windows phone and finds Nexus One hardware

    Posted January 11, 2011 - 6:15 pm

    In the iFixit Teardown, the HTC Surround (a device based on Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system) was found to contain hardware similar to the Android-based Nexus One.

  • Google Nexus One: Lessons Learned from the Failed Experiment

    Posted July 21, 2010 - 4:20 pm

    The Nexus One is dead. Gone. As of today, Google's experiment in self-branding an Android smartphone is over--with a meteoric rise and fall that holds some valuable lessons for competing platforms and future Android smartphones.

  • Here lies the Google Nexus One: 2010-2010

    Posted July 19, 2010 - 8:28 pm

    Six months after its debut, Google's Nexus One handset is kaput -- so much for Google revolutionizing the wireless market.

  • As big as Google is, Nexus One online store's failure shows wireless carriers still rule

    Posted May 18, 2010 - 1:39 pm

    Google Inc.s decision to stop selling its Nexus One Android smartphone through its online store might disappoint some customers hoping to limit the role of wireless carriers in the smartphone buying process.

  • Google's Nexus One: How the Revolution Died

    Posted May 17, 2010 - 10:58 am

    With the pending closure of Google's Nexus One online store, a smartphone revolution is in tatters. Google still has a killer product in Android, but the Nexus One's online-only business model, meant to disrupt the way phones are typically sold, is a failure.

  • How a Google tablet could avoid same fate as the Nexus One

    Posted May 12, 2010 - 1:38 pm

    Now that it looks like Google and Verizon are teaming up to create their own tablet, the question becomes, "How does Google avoid another Nexus One-style debacle?"

  • Why Sprint And Verizon Nixed the Nexus One

    Posted May 11, 2010 - 1:34 pm

    Sprint is following in the footsteps of Verizon, by backing out on its promise to carry the Google Nexus One on its network, and replacing the smartphone with a newer, flashier sibling. Still, it's not all bad news for Google or Android.

  • Google Nexus One: A Successful Flop

    Posted April 29, 2010 - 9:18 pm

    Has any smartphone had a more unusual marketing campaign than the Nexus One? Google's touchscreen Android handset debuted in January to mostly favorable reviews--PC World gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars--but sales since then have been less than stellar. In March, mobile research firm Flurry reported that Google had sold only 135,000 Nexus Ones in the first 74 days after the phone's launch. By comparison, about a million Motorola Droids and Apple iPhones were sold in the same period following their respective rollouts.

  • Google's Nexus One to operate on Sprint network

    Posted March 18, 2010 - 2:06 pm

    Sprint Nextel announced that it plans to offer Google's Nexus One smartphone on its network for an as-yet undisclosed price.

  • Google Quietly Releases Nexus One for AT&T

    Posted March 17, 2010 - 10:32 am

    Confirming early speculations, Google added an AT&T and Rogers Wireless (Canada) 3G version of the Nexus One to its the now ubiquitous google.com/phone Web site. For a hefty $530, you can ditch your old AT&T phone and pop your SIM card into a shiny new Nexus One. That's right, this version comes unsubsidized so you don't have to renew or sign up for a contract.

  • iPhone lessons from Google's Nexus One

    Posted March 5, 2010 - 12:19 pm

    In 2010, as in 2007, the entire technology industry gathered at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, only to have the hot tech news of the week usurped by a smartphone announcement back in the Bay Area. In 2007, it was the announcement of the iPhone at Macworld Expo. This year, Google tried to replicate the experience by calling a media-only event of its own to announce the Nexus One, the first device running the search-engine giant's Android operating system to be sold directly by Google.

  • Apple vs. HTC: No matter who wins, we lose

    Posted March 3, 2010 - 9:52 pm

    Apple has lawyered up and is out for blood -- or at least, blood money. Its patent suit against Taiwanese handset maker HTC is further proof that the cold war between Cupertino and Mountain View is quickly escalating into a shooting match with live ammo.

  • Apple Versus HTC: Show Me the Patents!

    Posted March 3, 2010 - 9:44 pm

    In a statement released yesterday, Apple announced it was suing Taiwanese maker of smartphones HTC for infringing on 20 patents owned by Apple. While PCWorld has covered the topic from all sorts of angles, what specific patents are in question? According to the statement, twenty of them, ranging in age from 15 years to one month.

  • Why Apple's Really Suing HTC

    Posted March 3, 2010 - 5:38 pm

    Apple's lawsuit against Nexus One maker HTC and its ongoing legal battles with Nokia and Kodak suggest a universal truth: that lawyers start where innovation stops. Maybe smartphone innovation has slowed so much that Apple now finds it easier to play defense than to invent cool new iPhone technology.

  • Apple goes after Google's Nexus One in patent actions

    Posted March 3, 2010 - 9:30 am

    Apple took aim at Google's smartphone as it accused Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC, which makes Google's flagship Nexus One, of violating 20 of Apple's patents, some of which were issued in the mid-1990s.

  • Review

    Nexus One's Screen is Gorgeous, But With Issues

    Posted February 24, 2010 - 12:04 pm

    While Google's Nexus One may have its issues (its many, many issues), one thing that nobody is complaining about is its gorgeous, 800-by-480 pixel AMOLED screen. When compared to the iPhone 3GS's paltry 480-by-320 pixel LCD screen, well, it hardly seems a contest.

  • Google Earth For Android: First Look

    Posted February 22, 2010 - 9:08 pm

    Google's just rolling out the Android apps left and right lately. Today, the G-gang announced the arrival of Google Earth for Android, a program revealed during the Nexus One's launch but not seen until now.

  • Tools to keep your Android phone speedy and powered up

    Posted February 17, 2010 - 9:04 am

    Android phones, like Verizon's Droid, Sprint's Hero, and Google's own Nexus One, can pull off all kinds of unique tricks. Running multiple applications at once or in the background, translating your words to text, and navigating like a full GPS unit--they're all pretty amazing, but they take their toll on battery life and phone memory. These tools let you pull more life and speed from your gung-ho Android.

  • Google Nexus One fee cut follows broad FCC inquiry

    Posted February 9, 2010 - 10:31 pm

    Google has seemingly acknowledged that $350 is a bit too much to charge consumers for ditching its Nexus One smartphone.

  • Google reduces its Nexus One termination fee

    Posted February 8, 2010 - 10:06 pm

    Google has quietly chopped US$200 off its early termination fee on the Nexus One, meaning it will now cost users less to cancel service on the smartphone.

  • Father of Linux calls Nexus One smartphone "a winner"

    Posted February 8, 2010 - 5:23 pm

    Google's Nexus One got a big time endorsement over the weekend from Linux kernel developer Linus Torvalds, who blogged about the Android-based smartphone being "a winner."

  • Nexus One Sales: Slow Month is No Surprise

    Posted February 5, 2010 - 10:43 pm

    Sales of Google's Nexus One didn't improve over the smartphone's first month according to Flurry, the same firm that reported limp debut week sales.

  • Nexus One Gets Multi-touch, but Not Droid

    Posted February 3, 2010 - 2:24 pm

    Google is finally letting the Nexus One use multi-touch for maps, photo galleries and the Web, but that's of little consolation to owners of Motorola's Droid and T-Mobile's G1.

  • Nexus One Gets Multitouch, Other Improvements

    Posted February 3, 2010 - 12:57 pm

    Multitouch support is officially on the way to Google's Nexus One Android phone. Google announced an over-the-air update Tuesday afternoon that'll deliver native multitouch functionality along with a handful of other software improvements and fixes.
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