Google Nexus One photos confirm Android 2.1 & T-Mobile support
12/15/2009 12:23:00 AM
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The tubes through which the internet flow were bursting with Google Nexus One speculation this weekend, with the prospect of an “official” Google Phone driving many Android geeks to madness. A leaked photo over the weekend confirmed that the Nexus One appeared to be based on the same HTC device we knew as the HTC Dream, and now Engadget have come up with a few new images themselves. The Nexus One in their shots is devoid of HTC logos and runs Android 2.1.
According to their source, the Google Nexus One has more homescreen panes on offer and new 3D elements to the app tray, while an overnight firmware update now adds the handset name to the device’s status page. Google have also added a webOS-style card preview of open applications, rather than the current dumb app switcher, and both Google Maps Navigation and Google Goggles are preinstalled.
The supplied documentation, meanwhile, points to a questions page at google.com/phone/support, not currently active, while the photos show both T-Mobile as the carrier currently in use and WiFi as being active. Apparently the tape on the back of the handset is covering a QR code. Speculation is currently leaning toward this being a developers’ device, in the same manner as the Google Dev Phone 1 and the Google Ion, offering Android coders higher-specification hardware to keep up with the latest range of devices using the platform.
More - HTC-made Google Nexus One certified by FCC
The “Google phone,” HTC’s Nexus One, was approved this morning by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission as model number PB99100.
The trio of filings (first, second, third) confirm a few technical details, such as microSD expansion, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR.
The report also raises new questions about the device’s potential carrier landing spot, with support for quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE with UMTS/HSUPA on 850/1700/1900 frequencies.
Translation: Hello T-Mobile, and perhaps AT&T, too.
According to their source, the Google Nexus One has more homescreen panes on offer and new 3D elements to the app tray, while an overnight firmware update now adds the handset name to the device’s status page. Google have also added a webOS-style card preview of open applications, rather than the current dumb app switcher, and both Google Maps Navigation and Google Goggles are preinstalled.
The supplied documentation, meanwhile, points to a questions page at google.com/phone/support, not currently active, while the photos show both T-Mobile as the carrier currently in use and WiFi as being active. Apparently the tape on the back of the handset is covering a QR code. Speculation is currently leaning toward this being a developers’ device, in the same manner as the Google Dev Phone 1 and the Google Ion, offering Android coders higher-specification hardware to keep up with the latest range of devices using the platform.
More - HTC-made Google Nexus One certified by FCC
The “Google phone,” HTC’s Nexus One, was approved this morning by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission as model number PB99100.
The trio of filings (first, second, third) confirm a few technical details, such as microSD expansion, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR.
The report also raises new questions about the device’s potential carrier landing spot, with support for quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE with UMTS/HSUPA on 850/1700/1900 frequencies.
Translation: Hello T-Mobile, and perhaps AT&T, too.
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