Google Nexus One Hardware Review

This mobile phone is seen as a iPhone Killer many many industry experts and mobile phone bloggers. Google have released this mobile phone, because they want to try and challenge the dominace the Apple iPhone has enjopyed for nthe past 2 years. With so much interest in the Nexus One, this articles intention is to see if the new Google mobile phone has what it takes to seriously challenge the iPhone in 2010 and beyound.

The Google Nexus One is a handsome phone which has a curved design boasting style. This is a slim phone which will easily fit into your pocket without feeling bulky.

Slim and trim is the name of the game with the Nexus One. To be extact in terms of measurements the handset is 11.5 mm x 59.8mm and 119mm. The Nexus One also feels great in your had, this can also be put down to the design, which has curved edges that are also tapered. There are four hardware buttons on this device which are, touch sensitive, they are home, back, menu and search functions.

The Google phones have use of the 1GHz Snapdragon processor, that bring speed to the table. This has been used before on HTC handset - namely the HD2. Furthermore, this mobile phone comes with 512MB of both RAM and ROM. the Google Nexus One's display is touchscreen and is pretty big, coming in at 480 x 800. The Google phone will also come loaded with a proximity sensor, a light sensor and one accelerometer on it. Furthermore, the Nexus One has a HSPA-capable GSM radio, WiFi, one micro SD slot and AGPS chip.

The Nexus One is built for speed and this comes down to the Snapdragon processor available only in a select number of mobile phones. the Google Nexus One is fast, there is no doubt about that and your applications will run smoothly, but there are few hardware features missing, which Android followers may wish this phone had. This phone does not have multitouch support, dual-mode capability for GSM and CDMA networks, and also the native tethering.


A key feature that has got industry experts excited about the Nexus One is the display screen which we will now talk about a little more. The Google Nexus One comes with a 3.7-inch display screen that is one of the best around on a Android phone. The resolution is quite high also, (480 x 800). But on the downside it does not have the 54 pixels that we were expecting. Picture taking might bee a little poor, if you use this phone outside on a sunny day. The light settings will not help and your pictures will not be the best you have ever seen from a camera phone. On the other hand the Google Nexus One is not a camera phone and if you want a phone which is big on picture you might be better off with the Pixon 12 by Samsung.


With the impressive display, super fast lightning processor makes up for what is missing. In addition, the enhanced voice capabilities are working flawlessly, giving the phone solid overall performance. Overall, we might be missing a few features with this device, the Nexus One is a nice addition to the Android family and it brings good quality, thanks to the speed and the name behind the phone - Google.