The rumors were true. Sprint has just contacted us to let us know that the much-ballyhooed, but rarely purchased Google Nexus One has just been confirmed for the Big Yellow network! With T-Mobile and Verizon partnered up for Nexus One-love since the get-go, AT&T recently confirmed to be grabbing the Android 2.1-powered smartphone, this news…
Nexus One available with AT&T and Rogers 3G in Google online store
Rumors of an AT&T compatible Nexus One have been around for some time now. Today, those rumors have been brought back behind the barn and shot faster than Ol’ Yeller. The AT&T compatible 3G Nexus One is now available for from the Google online store. Now, with that said, there is some less than stellar…
Sprint lets users ‘test drive’ phones online
Sprint launched a new online tool that enables users to take a deep look at the features of a phone before they buy it. The “DemoAnywhere” tool gives you a features list, videos, multiple images, tutorials, and more information on your prospective device. There are step-by-step instructions on how to transfer tunes to your device,…
Google’s ‘Nexus’ trademark acquisition gets denied
It looks like Google’s attempt to trademark the Nexus One name has been denied. The acquisition was filed on December 10th of last year, and Nothing has come from it yet. Oh, wait, a refusal did. Right. Nexus has already been trademarked. It was granted in late 2008 to Integra Telecom (who in the hell…
Vodafone UK allows registrations for the Google Nexus One
Vodafone UK have updated the coming soon section of their website quite spectacularly in the last few days – I already reported on the HTC Legend and HTC Desire making it on to the ‘pre-registration’ list (see here), but now we have the Google Nexus One appearing too (never mind the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10!)…
Dumbed-down Nexus One on its way to India?
The Nexus One is Google’s ‘vision’ of what a phone should be, although more so on the software side. Not to say it’s without its problems, but the Nexus One is currently the hottest device you can by at the moment. HTC is the hardware manufacture, and surely the internals of the Nexus One were…
Nexus One has less available memory than Droid?
An interesting story over at AndroidForums has surfaced. It looks like out of all that 512MBs on the spec sheet of the Nexus One, only 196MBs are available to the user. Fixes have been promised, but nothing more. Over at the XDA forums, someone got hold of Romaine Guy in an IRC channel, an Android…
HTC Incredible caught on camera again
First there were the photos, and then a video of the HTC Incredible. Now, ladies and gentlemen, we have a few more pictures. The device seems to be right around the corner, but are you already saving up for a Nexus One? Wrapped in black and red, this device is bound for Verizon at some…
Google: smartphones will make desktops irrelevant in three years
Google’s European boss made it clear how important the mobile space is to the search giant, as he said smartphones will make make desktops second-class citizens in three years. “In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant,” said John Herlihy, Google’s VP of global ad operations, during a Digital Landscapes conference. “In Japan, most research…
Nexus One not so good at multi-touching
Multi-touch, specifically pinch to zoom, has been one of the few/many (depending on how you look at it) things that was left out of almost all Android devices. Shortly after the launch of the Nexus One, Google turned on the switch to this technology, but it looks like it has a few bugs, and now…