Nexus One (edited)

picture credits to techtree

Now everyone has been talking about it. Only few months after the era where HTC HD2, the successor of my HTC Touch HD, dominated the mobile market, and 2 days ago Google, with cooperation with HTC, launched another new phone - Nexus One. HTC has been working hard to beat other major handphone producers, such as LG, Samsung, and of course the forget-me-not Apple's iPhone. My personal opinion is that if we are only to shrink down to hardware comparison, the HD2 definitely is leading the race. But then I think it didn't really beat iPhone was because of the software part. We all knew the flaws of HTC's Sense UI 2.5 under the Operating System (OS) Windows Mobile, and that's where the dragon loses it's flame-burst to win all-in-all against the iPhone.

So this time, the rather new sword was put aside and Google had drawn out another claymore, the Nexus One. Basically if we look into the specifications of Nexus One, it is much similar to that comparing to HD2:

Display: 3.7" AMOLED vs 4.3" TFT-LCD
Input Sensor: Multi-Touch capacitive sensor

EDIT: Just realized that despite it's capacitive sensor, multi-touch is not enabled in Nexus One. Maybe developers will do something on that. But well, it has the trackball already.

CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz
Memory: 512 Ram
Connectivity: WiFi, GPS (+A-GPS), Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR, etc

Looks much or less the same to me, but when it comes to OS, you can notice which is better:

Operating System: Andriod 2.1 (Eclair) vs Windows Mobile (WiMo) 6.5.1

This alone will make Nexus One becoming the real competitor to iPhone. Why? It's all because of Open Source, as promised by Google when it formed the Open Handset Alliance. They don't hide anything behind the stage. They allow people to modify the source-codes and tweak it to improve its performance. In short, there're places to grow for Nexus One. This is the major difference to HD2 and with Android, the developers from Apple would sweat more than ever.

But of course, we see people from Microsoft are retracing the steps to the point where they lost the footsteps, and that was quite a great move. If they keep on being proud on WiMo as how they were (are?) on Windows, they are to fall real hard to the point where WiMo is no longer significant in mobile world. This is true, by just looking at the hardware specs of HD2. Yes, both Nexus One and HD2 have the same Snapdragon 1GHz processor. But with this processor it is actually possible to process videos up to High-Definition (HD) quality - 720pixel. It is not a full HD, but still, it's already something. However, Windows Mobile 6.5.1 couldn't recognize HD, so it was actually a waste of the processor on such-a-good device, especially when you're putting it to the 'battle front line' to have a head-on with Apple's iPhone 3Gs.

I guess Windows didn't and will not suffer such a great lost mainly because they had strong foundations before the rise of other operating systems and people especially those in businesses and companies are using Windows OS as platform for data storage and so on. But this safe-zone will never apply to the mobile world. But of course, Microsoft people realized that early enough, despite it was kind of late ;) , to start developing better OSes to continue to stay in the league. Sony Ericsson has started to produce their own platform and the incoming one would be the Xperia X10, which will also based on Android. Microsoft, on the other hand, with their development teams (COM1 to COM???), starting to create another weaponries - Windows Mobile 6.5.3 with Start and functionalities buttons at the bottom screen with better Graphical User Interface (GUI). And on top of that, although it's not official, we heard words from insiders that Windows Mobile 7 (W7) might come to surface in 2nd or 3rd quarter 2010.

It's not officially released, but I'm currently using a WiMo 6.5.1 rom on my Touch HD and I personally think that Microsoft has indeed reached out a huge step. Congrats. But to be honest, it's not significant enough to even give a scratch on Android 1.0, what else more on Eclair? Nevertheless, there are still people, people like me, putting hope into Microsoft, that they will not disappoint us in W7. But how it'll turn out, we shall see, but too bad, not so soon *rolleye*

We expect good 'fights' between Google Nexus One and Apple's iPhone 3Gs. Now, in every fight, all we need is some other elements, for example kerosene (paraffin) to turn the flame into a beast. But instead of kerosene, we have Steve Kondik, webname Cyanogen getting his hands laid on his on-twitter-so-called 'Bacon One' few hours ago, so we can expect not just sparklings, but might be explosions with his modded ROMs in the near future.

Apple, maybe it's time for you to drop down from topping the tree? Just don't drop on another Newton, else we might need new Physics textbooks ;)

I just realized I'm so excited. =D but it's not like I'm getting one Nexus One. =S

or someone buy me one? =)