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Photo: The Nexus One, aka HTC Passion, aka Google Phone, has leaked

Categories: Android, HTC
By: , IntoMobile
Sunday, December 13th, 2009 at 5:08 AM

Google employees tweeting they have a Google Phone, combined with Google posting an official statement on their mobile blog saying that employees have been given a device to test over the holiday season, meant that a photo of it showing up Twitpic would be an inevitable event. That’s exactly what happened when Cory O’Brien, based out of San Francisco, tweeted this: “Playing with the new Google phone: http://twitpic.com/tbdig”, later adding “Google Phone = iPhone + a little extra screen and a scroll wheel. Great touch screen, and Android.” Guess what, it looks exactly like the HTC Passion.

I still have a hard time believing that Google is actually going to sell this as “The Google Phone”. It would royally piss off people like Motorola, Samsung, and others who are making Android devices. The rumour that it will be sold unlocked and unsubsidized also smells extremely foul since the American market is not used to that and it too would piss off operators since Google would be attempting to create a viable second channel to get devices out on to the market.

We’ll all just have to wait and see how Google plans to present this thing when it eventually does in January. The photos of the HTC passion that hit the net almost 2 months ago (October 19th) are right after the jump.

[Via: Tech Crunch]


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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Mark Tesch

    funny that he’s using an iPhone to take a picture of it:p

  • alex geara

    funny that he’s using an iPhone to take a picture of it:p

    how can you tell by the crappy grainy quality?

  • mark

    Looks nice….. however notice the reflection in the first picture… quite the lulz

  • Steve

    iPhone cameras do suck in low light, but you can actually SEE the iPhone in the reflection, genius.

  • Raon

    “funny that he’s using an iPhone to take a picture of it:p

    how can you tell by the crappy grainy quality?”

    Look the first picture, the reflect :P