Nexus One News

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One of the major issues that arose from the Nexus One being only sold on Google website was the Google’s customer service. Google were using an email system to gather and reply to support issues, which were simply not appropriate for phone usage or fast enough. Complaints began rising and Google have responded by releasing a phone line for support. A good step to improving their business model, which needed and still needs to be radically c...

Good news and bad news, the good news is that the Nexus One will soon be available in the  UK. Bad news is that it costs £599.00 from Play.com. According to the website the phone will be available from the 16th Feb 2010, however, can already be pre-ordered. Although it is available in the UK there is more bad news, the UK handsets will not come with the Multi-touch, the Google Navigation software, free sat-nav, satellite images or even traffi...

As you may remember, Nexus Gossip reported the disappointing sales results for the Nexus One after their first week, this figure was said to be as little as 20,000, far bellow expectations. Today Flurry announced another blow for Google’s Nexus One, estimating only 80,000 sold in the first month. Flurry tracks over 10,000 developer’s applications on the iPhone and Android platform. Based on the applications being used on new devices, ...

Sat there waiting for Google to send you the notification saying you are finally able to download the new update? Well thanks to Android Forums you don’t have to! Just follow these simple steps and you can update manually! 1. Download the update from here (Google official) or here (mirror). 2. Rename the file to update.zip. Note that if you’re using Windows, just rename it to “update” (no quotes, of course) because it̵...

You may have seen our earlier post on how to make your Nexus One have Multi-Touch, well now you don’t need to as Google have done it for you! The new updates allows you to use Multi-Touch on your browser, gallery and on the Maps. As well as this the 3G issue reported earlier by Nexus Gossip has been fixed which means connectivity via 3G should be back to normal. What do I have to do to get the new Nexus One update? Nothing… Google are...

Motorola have announced that they plan to sell their new Android phone through the Google store, the same place they currently sell the Nexus One. Sanjay Jha, the company’s chief plans to announce the ‘to be named’ phone on Thursday following Motorola releasing their results. Could this be what was rumoured to be the Nexus Enterprise? “In smartphone, we plan to launch at least 20 devices, including at least one direct-to-c...

Yesterday (27/01/10) Google released the Nexus One desktop dock to Google’s online phone store. The dock costs $45 and the specs announced on Google’s page here are as follows The Nexus One Desktop Dock is an elegant place to charge your phone, on your desk or nightstand. Just drop your phone in the Desktop Dock, and the Clock app launches automatically, making it easy to: Check the local time and weather Set and clear alarms Watch...

Yesterday, Walmart posted on their Coming soon page, a link to their sales page  which included the information of the Nexus One. Everything looked normal, as if Walmart were to get the Nexus One, however, to keen eyed viewers the technical specifications were different to those listed on Google. Obviously this could have been a mistake until today when Walmart removed the product and posted. Due to a technical error, this item erroneously was d...

What the ####?? As found by Reuters it appears that Google sensor swear words during their speech to text technology. If a swear word slips it will be replaces with a string of # symbols. So why do they not allow it? Here is what a Google spokesperson had to say “The “feature” is less about sanitizing users’ speech and more about making sure curse words don’t accidentally appear in transcriptions erroneously, a real possibility give...