Yeah. Animated wallpapers. Killer feature.
512 MB of RAM, as opposed to iPhone’s 256. But everyone continues to fail to mention that that 512 MB is ALL YOU GET for loading all your apps. You can pop as many 32 GB SIM cards as you want on this bad boy; none of that space can be used for anything other than music and videos. In other words, this phone is no more advanced in its memory architecture than my Treo was three years ago. And no one is going to be building serious software for Android anytime soon.
But my favorite quote from the coverage so far is from IGN: “What makes Google’s strategy for the Nexus One unique is that they are offering it as an unlocked non-network-specific device or on several existing networks, unlike the iPhone which remains exclusive to AT&T. ”
Now pair that with this statement on Google’s own web site: “The currently available Nexus One device is unlocked and will recognize SIM cards from any mobile service provider using the GSM standard, but is incompatible with the frequency band used by the AT&T and Rogers networks for 3G data (see below). Additionally, the Nexus One is incompatible with CDMA networks such as Verizon and Sprint.” So the unlocked Nexus One will work on any network in the U.S., as long as it’s T-Mobile.To be fair, you can make calls on AT&T, you just can’t get data. So for $529, you can get a phone that makes calls. That’s revolutionary, indeed.
