Flash Player 10.1 goes final for Nexus One handsets, available to download now
Google just confirmed it at an Android / Flash event in San Francisco, and sure enough, our trusty Nexus One just found, downloaded and installed the final (read: non-beta) version of Adobe's Flash Player 10.1 .
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: 5mb, adobeflash, download-now, entry, final, flash 10.1, flash-player, flash10.1, google-android, google-nexus-one, googleandroid, googlenexusone, nexus, trusty
Flash 10.1 on Froyo goes tete-a-tete with Flash Lite 4 on Eclair: butter vs. stutter (video)
Believe it or not, your newly-upgraded Nexus One isn't the first Android smartphone to have Adobe Flash video capability, nor even the first to play said content on a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU -- Europe's been rocking the HTC Desire since April, which sports a little something called Flash Lite even on the older Android 2.1 OS. Will frozen yogurt outperform puff pastry on its home turf? Find out in a blind taste test video showdown after the break
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: Adobe Flash, adobe flash 10.1, entry, even-the-first, google-nexus-one, nexus, nexus one, nexusone
Google changes Nexus One plans, will stop selling handsets online
Although Google launched the Nexus One with grand plans to radically change the way consumers purchased phones and service, it looks like the experiment has fizzled to an end -- the company just announced that will eventually stop selling handsets online and instead partner with carriers to sell the N1 in-store while using its website to promote "a variety of Android phones available globally." Google says customers simply want a hands-on experience before buying a phone, but we'd say the lack of subsidies from any carrier except T-Mobile and some serious customer service issues probably played in killing Google's original sales strategy -- and of course, both Verizon and Sprint essentially refused the N1 in favor of the bespoke Incredible and EVO 4G . We'd also say that Android as a whole will remain unaffected, since the Nexus One was never a huge seller , but it's still rare that a company simply gives up a business model like this, and we don't know if Google will ever follow up with a successor to the Nexus One.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: announcement, consumers, cutting, entry, experiment, google-nexus-one, googlenexusone, htc, issues, mobile, model, nexus, result, sales
Cellbots get Nexus One upgrade, ad-hoc motion control (video)
Sprint and Verizon may have shunned the Nexus One , but that doesn't mean the handsets can't be put to good use: these Android-controlled, Arduino-powered Cellbots now feature the one true Googlephone as the CPU. At Intel's 2010 International Engineering and Science Fair in San Jose, we got our hot little hands on the DIY truckbots for the first time, and found to our surprise they'd been imbued with accelerometer-based motion control
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: after-the-break, arduino-rigged, google-nexus-one, intel, mod, motion controls, nexusone, told-the-first
Google updates Nexus One page, tells Verizon customers to get a Droid Incredible instead
Now this, this is all kinds of silly. Google has been busy updating its phone sales site, and the latest word for Verizon Wireless subscribers encourages them to look at the "similarly feature-packed" cousin of the Nexus One , the Incredible . Importantly, what's missing from the new wording is the "coming soon" tag, suggesting that for all intents and purposes the Nexus has been obviated by the arrival of the Incredible.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: Arrival, availability, coming-wearing, droid incredible, entry, from-the-new, google-nexus-one, htc, incredible, nexus, nexus one, nexusone, verizon
Nexus One 3G problems persist after update — is it a design problem?
Looks like someone at Google should fast forward those Nexus One design videos to the radio integration portion and figure out what went wrong, because it seems like the 3G coverage problem still hasn't been fixed , even after that last big OTA update . What's more, many in Google's support forums are noting that the phone will drop a weaker 3G signal merely when held by the bottom, as the video below clearly shows. Oops.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: after-update, design, entry, forums, google-nexus-one, googlenexusone, htc, nexus one, nexusone, phone, problem, radio, result, support, support-forums
Watch Nexus One get built, then beaten mercilessly
This might be the best entry yet in Google's Nexus One video series . Today's double feature is marked by the testing and manufacturing of the device, and while the all-white facilities and assembly lines can be interesting in their own right, we love nothing more than seeing just how Google and HTC stress test its labor of love.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: built, double-feature, google-nexus-one, googlenexusone, htc, lines, manufacturing, nexus, nexusone, stress, sun, testing
Walmart greeters will soon welcome you to a Nexus One with Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T 3G?
Today's Nexus One may be the hottest keyboard-free Android smartphone on the market today, but it doesn't exactly have the hottest network support. That looks like it'll be changing soon thanks to Walmart of all places, which has put up a "Coming Soon!" page for the Nexus One, listing an impressive suite of wireless bands including 1xEvDO for 3G on Sprint and Verizon and UMTS/HSDPA 850/1900 for 3G on AT&T. Could this finally be the network-agnostic smartphone (or smartphones , as the case may be) that Google has wanted, or is it just a case of some optimistic web admin letting his fingers do the walking when writing up this teaser?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: coming-soon, evdo, google-nexus-one, htcnexusone, network, nexus one, result, some-optimistic, sprint, walmart
Google’s Nexus One censors your voice-to-text input, we #### you not
It'd be kinda funny if someone was live-bleeping your profanity, right?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: censorship, google-nexus-one, kudos, profanity, profanity filter, said-something, speech recognition, speech-to-text, speechrecognition, swearing, zoom
Nexus One hitting France at €450 contract-free?
Maybe you, like us, are a little disappointed at how the Nexus One fared in our review .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: contractfree, entry, europe, european, france, google-nexus-one, know-the-full, nexusone, result, review, several-weeks, similar-ratio, still-waiting, wireless