My Impression of Google Nexus One. It has the same shell casing as the HTC Hero, feels slippery but it has high quality built since it’s from HTC.
User Interface
It’s easy to use, you can scroll left or right from home to get to other shortcuts placed on the main screen. When you are in the application menu, you can tap and hold the application to move them to your home. You can even move around icons in your home around by tap and hold.
Theme
There seem to be a lot of Theme for Android in the Android Market. The most interesting ones are the Animated theme. The animated theme animates the background. You can also select a regular theme, one without animation, rendering your phone boring. But at least there’s an option to do either one. HTC did a good job on the UI Sense.
Screen
My biggest gripe about this one is that it easily capture smudges off your fingers. And you can instantly see it. Making the really good looking phone to look cheap from all your finger smudges. On top of that, the screen feels sticky. So if you serve the web and you want to scroll, you have to apply less pressure on the screen, but if you barely touch it, it won’t scroll. Really disappointed in that area.
Speed
The speed is fast, when navigating through apps and browsing the internet, however, the scrolling sometime feels slow. Since your finger get stuck at times on the screen, the scroll follows it. So if your finger stop, so does the scroll, which instantly makes me think it’s slow. But it’s not the case, it’s the sticky screen’s fault.
Physical Buttons
What physical buttons? There’s only the scroll ball, and you almost have no reason to use that since it’s a touch screen. I don’t use it. I touch it once in a while on accident.
Built-in Software
The built-in software worth mentioning is the Google Maps. There’s a Calendar and Address Book as well, and it’s actually placed in the phone rather than cloud.
That’s my initial review for now, I’ll be playing with it some more, but overall, it’s an ok phone, not phenomenal to a point where I’m gonna go run and buy one for myself.
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Eberhard
Eberhard, twitter @powercx, likes to write as a hobby, and he loves the media. Likes to play with gadget toys, plays with any cool Software for smartphone, PC or Mac and writes his own review. His review is unbiased and not sponsored. Even though Powercx.com has been around since '96, he didn't start blogging till '98. His Tech experience is with Cisco Systems and Wells Fargo as an avid backend web developer with JSP, PHP, ASP, CSS, and Javascript as well as a part time Web Designer on the side does not end there.
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