OK so I got my Nexus One last Tuesday and I have to say it really is an amazing phone. I have a few friends who have the iPhone 3G and they’ve played with the Nexus One and say it’s better then their phone…
I’ve been an Android user from the first day the G1 came out, and although my old G1 wasn’t very powerful or cool, it was quite stable and capable. The new Nexus One just blows the G1 out of the water; it’s fast (very fast) at everything, the screen is huge and has a resolution of 800 x 480 which looks simply beautiful, the 5MP camera with it’s LED flash takes great pics and you can use it at night too and Google’s new android version 2.1 AKA Eclair is really cool, I especially like the Live wallpaper feature and the talk to text feature(instead of having to write everything you can just press a button, talk and the Nexus writes for you).
On the down side of the Nexus is as i see it one thing–the built-in memory size. The reason it is a problem is because Android doesn’t let you install any application onto the SD card. Whatever application you want to install onto the device has to go on the built in memory which is only 512 for the flash and 512 for the ram, I think though am not sure that you start the device with about 200mb for applications. This is plenty for somebody who doesn’t plan on doing serious gaming. If you do plan on games, then you have a problem since games consume more space then eBuddy for example (which is a great instant messaging app).
One more negative i just realized is the app market which is much smaller then the iPhone’s one, I however don’t really feel like I’m missing anything except for the Mint.com app which i kinda want to try.
Conclusion:
If you’re not a gamer but a business man or just somebody who’s not into games go and order a Nexus one now! (did I mention I love it?) Otherwise the iPhone 3gs is probably a better choice.
Plea for Google: Please enable us to install apps to the SD card!
