| A few months ago, the Consumer Electronics | | | | Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. It is considered to |
| Association (CEA) conducted their annual international | | | | be faster than the iPhone since iPhone comes with a |
| Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at Las Vegas, | | | | 600 MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor. This makes |
| Nevada. It was during this time that Google announced | | | | running of applications in the Nexus One a lot faster. |
| their Android phone, the Google Nexus One. This | | | | Multitasking |
| mobile phone that can rival the iPhone is said to take | | | | One of the main advantages of the Nexus One over |
| smartphones into the next level. | | | | the iPhone is its capacity to run more than one |
| How does Nexus One fair with Apple’s iPhone? | | | | application at a time since iPhone does not run third |
| What are the advantages of this Android phone? Is it | | | | party applications in the background. With the |
| a far more superior mobile phone than the iPhone? | | | | application Pandora, for example, running it on iPhone |
| Let’s take a look at some of the features of this | | | | will not let the user run any other applications. Nexus |
| Android phone. | | | | One users swear that they never once got into a |
| Better Features | | | | situation where they needed to give up certain |
| When talking about display, the Nexus One definitely | | | | applications in order to speed up the phone. |
| outshines iPhone. This smartphone from Google | | | | Battery and Camera |
| comes with a 3.7 inch AMOLED touch screen which | | | | The Nexus One comes with a removable battery |
| creates vibrant colors with display resolution of 480 by | | | | unlike the iPhone where Apple sealed in the battery. |
| 800 pixels as opposed to iPhone’s 3.5 TFT touch | | | | This is an advantage especially to those who are |
| screen with only 320 by 480 pixels. | | | | always travelling. They can simply pack up a spare |
| The Nexus One is also considerably lighter than the | | | | battery and swap it when ever their main battery |
| iPhone. It is 5 grams lighter than the iPhone with a | | | | goes empty. |
| weight of 130 grams. | | | | The camera is 5 megapixels which is better than |
| This mobile is also considered by most to have a more | | | | iPhone’s 3.15 megapixel camera. Google has added |
| flexible home screen than the iPhone. This is because | | | | more features into the camera such as autofocus and |
| Apple originally designed the iPhone to contain only a | | | | smile detection. The Nexus One camera also comes |
| fixed number of applications to a single screen. | | | | with LED flash. |
| However, because of the arrival of the App Store, | | | | Apple’s iPhone may have been the prototype for |
| Apple expanded by adding more pages for app icons. | | | | smartphones; it may have revolutionized mobile phones |
| Every app downloaded will show up on one of the | | | | with all their technology. But three years after the |
| pages until it’s filled up. With the Nexus One, | | | | release of the first iPhone comes the Nexus One |
| however, users can choose which app icons to place | | | | which is proving to be a more promising smartphone |
| on the home screen. | | | | than the iPhone. |
| The Android powered phone comes with a 1GHz | | | | |