Google Nexus One – Not At All What Some Of Us Were Hoping It Would Be
For the past few years I along with a lot of others in the blogging community, wrote about the future Google phone. What many of us had envisioned was a inexpensive phone that would be supported by advertising and provide a cheap cell phone experience. Many of us were fed up having to pay out our hard earned bucks to some corporate conglomerate just to enjoy having a cell phone on our person.
So much for dreaming. What we have with the Google Nexus One is another fancy phone that is more computer than an actual cell phone. It is a competitor to the Apple iPhone, no more, no less. The toys that come with the Nexus One are plentiful and you can test drive most of the features on the Google Nexus One web site.
Some of the benefits that are being touted by some are that the Google Nexus One is being sold by Google, and can be purchased unlocked for $529. A 2 year contract with T-Mobile drops the price down to $179. Such a deal! LOL
Please do not get me wrong. The Google Nexus One is a fantastic cell phone and I wish Google well in their new endeavor. It is just not what I and others had expected.
Comments welcome.
5 Comments
SJB
January 5th, 2010
at 7:24pm
You can have the Google phone. I’ll stick to my LG290C from WalMart and my $45. a month, NO CONTRACT, unlimited voice,web browser and text.
Ron Schenone
January 6th, 2010
at 5:33am
SJB – how is the service with Straight Talk?
hotrao
January 6th, 2010
at 1:22pm
I cannot be so enthusiast of Google new launch, because, as far as Mobile phones are going to become more and more Personal computer substitutes, interoperability between platforms is the key to not be fooled.
An IMHO all players are pursuing a “mine is better” strategy.
Google phone is awesome, but is one more player in a too crowded space.
Hope, that we will reach a standardization similar to the one we have in PC market, because otherwise will be a step back.
Rick
January 16th, 2010
at 10:42pm
You think $179.00 is expensive for something that competes as more of a computer with the iphone, is unlocked, and is running an open architecture… I think you might want to hang up the tech commentary.
Also- you should be using Jitterbug
Ron Schenone
January 17th, 2010
at 6:57am
Rick,
I have a perfect right to express my opinion. Please respect that.