Google Android Nexus One Blog
The Google Nexus One is available now from Vodafone UK.
http://vodafone.co.uk/nexusone
The Nexus One phone is available free on certain pay monthly plans from £35 (Talk 24 month plan, 600 minutes, unlimited texts)
There was a rumour that stocks had sold out but Vodafone have confirmed they have good availability of the Nexus One.
HTC’s Legend is easily one of the most gorgeous-looking Android handsets – that all-metal body certainly looks fab – and the good news for UK consumers is that the device is coming to our shores at the end of this month.
The SIM-free price expected to hover somewhere around the £375 mark, including VAT.
That’s a marked improvement over the £450+ that many Nexus One owners are having to pay in order to import their phones from the US, although it should be noted that the Legend doesn’t boast a super-fast Snapdragon CPU.
There’s no word as yet about which network is going to step in and pick up the Legend in this region, but the smart money is on Vodafone, which is also releasing the aforementioned Nexus One in April.
As mentioned in previous posts software giant Adobe is known to be working on delivering Flash Player 10.1 for a wide range of smartphones (including the Google Nexus One Phone) on the market at the moment, but it seems that the company plans on leaving devices powered by various platforms out in the cold. Apple’s iPhone among them, and now we learn that handsets running under Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system won’t get Adobe Flash v10.1 technology either.
Flash Player 10.1 is one of the most wanted technologies meant to soon arrive on mobile phones in the wild, most of you might know that. Windows Mobile 6.5 was one of the platforms said to almost certainly receive the solution, something that would have made a lot of users rejoice, yet it seems that Adobe changed its mind on the matter, and the older mobile operating system has been removed from the support list.
“You can expect the final release for Android and the Google Nexus One Phone to be available mid-year. All Android devices that meet our minimum s/w and h/w requirements will be supported. Unfortunately, I cannot say a lot more publicly about our port to the Android platform at this time. As for WinMo, we have made the tough decision to defer support for that platform until WinMo7. This is due to the fact that WinMo6.5 does not support some of the critical APIs that we need,” an Adobe representative stated, reports IntoMobile.
In the end, it seems that, even if Windows Phone 7 doesn’t taste Flash Player 10.1 when launched on the market, it will still receive the solution, as Adobe is focused on making the move. However, the owners of a Windows Mobile 6.5-based device won’t receive the news as lightly as one might expect, although they might still have the opportunity to enjoy Adobe’s Flash technology via Flash Light. Windows Mobile 6.5′s performance on the market will be affected even more by the move, that’s for sure, even if Microsoft is still focused on its development.
Easily installable and updateable, the full Flash Player will be available on smartphones and other Internet-connected mobile devices, doubling the number of operating systems your content can reach and enabling uncompromised Web browsing experiences.
The new global error handler enables developers to write a single handler to process all runtime errors that weren’t part of a try/catch statement. Improve application reliability and user experience by catching and handling unexpected runtime errors and present custom error messages.
To deliver on a high level of consistency and move onto mobile platforms with limited memory and processing resources, Flash Player 10.1 leverages hardware acceleration of graphics and video and many other performance improvements, such as rendering, scripting, memory utilization, start-up time, battery and CPU optimizations.
New mobile-ready features that take advantage of native device capabilities include support for multi-touch, gestures, mobile input models, and accelerometer bringing unprecedented creative control and expressiveness to the mobile browsing experience. Watch Flash Player 10.1 video demonstrations that show SWF content running on smartphones.
Flash Player 10.1 is ready to take advantage of upcoming media delivery technologies that will provide rich media experiences and create new business models. With new HTTP streaming and content protection features with Adobe Flash Access, premium audio and video content can be securely delivered within the browser. Streaming performance is enhanced with improved support for live events, buffer controls and peer assisted networking. Network context-aware services, such as smart seek and stream reconnect, will enable smooth, uninterrupted media playback and improved resource utilization on mobile devices.
The iPhone will no longer be the only smartphone with a Google Earth App.
Google Earth app for the Nexus One phone is available for download right now.
It will only work on the Nexus One initially, with other Android 2.1 devices in the future.
To get the Google Earth app for your Nexus One, visit this link from the browser http://m.google.com/earth
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We’ve teamed up with Amazon to offer a huge range of Google Nexus One Accessories, Cases, Screen protectors.
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Google’s Nexus One smartphone will launch in the UK in April with Vodafone.
You heard it first on the Google Nexus One Blog.
We’re told that Vodafone, had been keen for a launch in March but after discussions with Google they have now confirmed that that April is when the company will have a realistic chance of being ready for the launch. It is expected that the UK Google Nexus One will have full multi-touch browsing and full 3g wireless capabilities.
Google has obviously decided to delay launch to ensure that the UK unveling of the Google Nexus One gains maximum publicity.
The phone will go on sale from the Google Nexus One site at www.google.com/phone.
For those folks who decide not to buy a phone on the Vodafone network and decide to get an unlocked UK Google Nexus One then Orange, O2, Vodafone, 3, and T-Mobile all use the 2100-MHz band which works best for the Nexus One.
The cost is expected to be around £45-£75 per month on a pay monthly 24 month contract.
With its high-quality touchscreen, gorgeous design, thin and light weight features the Nexus One is sure to be a hit in the UK ….:-)
The Google Nexus One Blog has a brand new, unlocked Google Nexus One Phone worth over £400 to give away.
To win the phone all you have to do is post a comment explaining in your opinion what is the best feature of the Nexus One phone and why.
Google have opened their telephone support hotline for technical queries and issues with the Nexus One.
Please contact Nexus One support from Google at 888-48-NEXUS (63987). Open daily from 7:00 am EST to 10:00 pm EST.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You will be asked to provide your Google order number to speak to a customer support representative. Your Google order number is a 15 digit number which is sometimes preceded by a “G”. You can locate your order number in the following two locations:
The Google Nexus One Phone will support Flash Player 10.1 which of course is not available on the iphone and to date Apple have no plans to make it available.
This means that Google Nexus One owners will be able to use the fab BBC iplayer on their phones to watch TV and films.
I think it’s great that Google and Adobe have partnered on this since it will steal a march on the legions of iphone users who may never get this functionality.
Of course this also means that the Nexus One can play media from other sites such as YouTube video, BBC iPlayer video, MySpace, mega, Yahoo, Facebook.
Google released an Over-The-Air update to the Nexus One last week . This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:
Google Goggles: this mobile application will now be available directly on your device by launching it from your All Apps menu. Just use your Nexus One camera to start searching the web
Google Maps: the Maps application with be updated to a new version, Google Maps 3.4, which will include:
Pinch-to-zoom functionality: devices will now include a new pinch-to-zoom mechanism in the phone’s Browser, Gallery and Maps applications
3G connectivity: we will provide a general fix to help improve 3G connectivity on some Nexus One phones
In order to access the update, you will receive a message on your phone’s notification bar. Just download the update, wait for it to install, and you should be all set. This update will be rolled out gradually to phones – and most users might not receive the notification until the end of the week. We hope you enjoy these new features and look forward to your feedback.
