Is the Nexus One Just Another Smartphone or a Game Changer?

The Nexus One was officially announced by Google, which was of no surprise to the many internet users who have been reading and spreading every possible rumor for the past month. The Nexus One is the first Android powered smart phone that was made through Google's eyes exactly how they would envision a smart phone running their cell phone operating system Android. Although the Nexus One is produced by HTC they followed strict specifications from Google, who wanted there own vision of running an Android phone.

The Nexus One, when compared to the Motorola Droid which was the image of Android for only a short month or so before it fell into the shadow of all the hype, is thinner slicker, and about twice as fast. The Nexus One when placed next to the Droid is a great deal smaller and has nice smooth rounded curves as opposed to the Droid's more boxy look. The Nexus One looks slick like the iPhone, but is just slightly thinner and sports a bigger screen then the iPhone.

Currently the Nexus is shipping with Android 2.1 leaving Droid users eagerly awaiting a software update to bring their phones up to date software wise with the Nexus One which is expected to happen in the next month. Where the Droid and the Nexus One differ is under the hood, with the Nexus One have 1 gigahertz processor. In as few words as possible the Nexus one is built for speed and multitasking. Google also seems to have 3d capabilities in mind with all this power from its snapdragon processor, and to put all this power to use Google will be releasing Google Earth for android very soon. Droid users should not be mad though because Google Earth will also be coming to the Droid also.

The other main difference in the Droid and the Nexus One is the lack of physical keyboard, meaning the Nexus One is not for everyone. If you still want an Android powered phone but would rather have a keyboard then the Droid would be for you. This is one of the great benefits of Android, being able to run on many different phones.

One small new feature the Nexus one has which a lot of other smart phones lack is a second microphone on the back used for noise canceling by listening to surrounding noises while you are using the phone to make a call. This allows for super clear crisp calling quality.

When compared to the iPhone the Nexus one is cheaper both initially and from the total cost of ownership as calculated here by bill shrink. Although the Nexus One does ship with smaller storage the storage is removable and easily upgradeable to 32 gigabytes which is equal to the more expensive iPhone. The Nexus One trumps the Iphone sporting a 5 mega-pixel camera as opposed to the iPhone's 3 mega-pixel camera and also has a much more crisp and clear screen.

Also being and Android powered phone the Nexus One will have complete integration with Google Voice for any Google Voice users. As Google Voice evolves this could turn into a very huge feature for the phone, having all your contacts and message synched and stored online.

The Nexus One most likely will not sell anything near to the number of iPhones sold on there first year. But what we have to remember here is that the iPhone was its first phone of its kind. The Nexus One is not creating a new market of phone like the iPhone did but instead is jumping into the market as an extremely big competitor.

Where the Nexus one is revolutionary is how Google plans to offer the phone to the public. This is going to be the first big phone not licked to a specific carrier allowing customers to choose a phone and also a carrier and not be locked into any particular carrier. The Nexus one is being sold directly through Google online and currently will run on At&t and t-mobile with an already announced Verizon version due for the Spring of 2010. The Nexus One may not be so revolutionary that it changes how we look at phones but the business model in which Google plans to market it and sell it is revolutionary and will change how cell pones are sold in the United States.