Nexus One. My Impressions.
Until a few months back, google had not entered the smartphone market. They did. Google released it’s first smartphone Nexus One, in association with HTC mobiles. Thanks to @aakaashjois for letting me use the phone for 30 minutes 
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When you first pick up the phone, the first thing you would probably notice is the thinness of the phone. It is incredibly thin and is a hair thinner than the iPhone 3G(s). It was rather amazing that, given the thinness of the device, they managed to cram in more features than the iPhone, like a 5MP camera, a 1GHz Snapdragon and even a AMOLED display, all of which don’t fail to leave an impression.
The big question is, “is it *the* iPhone killer!?”. I’d doubt that statement. Call me a Apple Nazi if you please, but that is what it is, not an iPhone killer. Android and iPhone are poles apart. iPhone is easier to set-up OTB(Out of the box) than it’s rival Nexus One.
One of the main advantages the iPhone possesses is the amount of applications one has at their finger tips, something which android is already catching up on.
On Nexus one, the first thing one would notice is that it is not running the stock andorid UI. It is running a customized UI, such that it can take full advantage of the Snapdragon processor. I did run the multi-touch test, only to be disappointed. I also used the live wallpapers, something which probably holds no significance functionally, but looks fun and crazy.
The Nexus one I used was rooted with the Desire ROM. On the Desire ROM(which is quick[alpha 12]), it comes with HTC’s Leap and sense UI funtionality. Although it did lag a bit, it was usable and quite responsive.
The Nexus One is a step in the right direction for google, it is another wonderful feather in the cap. I’d call it a winner. Like everything in the world, it does come with it’s own pros and cons.
