Nexus One finally caught on video alongside its packaging (updated)

Frankly, we're surprised it took this long, but lo and behold, here we are with the first video of the Nexus One we've seen. It's just the all-too-brief and familiar boot animation, but thenexusone.com promises this is just one of many videos to come, and with any luck, a nicer video camera can be found in the interim. Also on hand is a few snapshots of the casing it came with -- don't read too much into that, however, as even the developer-only Google Ion had fancy packaging. Video after the break.

Update: Video of the animated background now available over the break as is a first pic of the onscreen keyboard

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

[Bobbo Posted Dec 16th 2009 11:21AM]

@admed
Do you like put this on every Android related post or what? Cause I sware I've seen this like 10 times already.

[AdrianGazz Posted Dec 15th 2009 8:42PM]

I just wish they posted more then just the boot screen.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 15th 2009 8:45PM]

@AdrianGazz

is just creating buzz for their website...

[Needsahaircut Posted Dec 15th 2009 8:45PM]

@AdrianGazz

Perhaps they're legally binded not to do so?
Naw thats stupid.
I wish they would as well.

[AdrianGazz Posted Dec 15th 2009 8:48PM]

@AdrianGazz There's one thing wrong with the bootup, it's not the same one as the ones posted on youtube and such

[yyandrew Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:40PM]

@AdrianGazz it is really odd that this whole thing is unfolding almost too perfectly ..almost as though google planned it all along.

first we get the mysterious tweets, next a few nonrevealing images, then some higher quality images and now a slightly improved video of a bootup screen that we've already seen.

wait for it folks, by this weekend we'll have a few more revealing videos showing off the OS and by next week we'll have hands on previews.

this has got to be the cheapest and most effective marketing scheme the world has seen

[PorkchopFlavoredCupcake Posted Dec 16th 2009 12:14AM]

@yyandrew
It won't be "the cheapest and most effective marketing scheme the world has seen" until there's an infrared video of the Nexus One and Rick Salomon, titled "one night in Android" streaming free on porntube - afterwhich the Nexus One will be given some reality TV shows and then it's all down hill.

[MXY23 Posted Dec 16th 2009 12:37AM]

@AdrianGazz
Here's another VERY LONG boot sequence of the Nexus One ROM on a G1 :)

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTM4OTI5Njc2.html

[SamTime Posted Dec 16th 2009 2:04AM]

@yyandrew was there also a gunman on the grassy knoll? *sniff* *sniff* Smells like CONSPIRACY!

[nexusonebb Posted Jan 5th 2010 11:21AM]

@AdrianGazz

I know it is kind of dissapointing that is all you get to see.

http://nexusonebb.com/forums/

[phandy Posted Dec 15th 2009 8:45PM]

i hope the Nexus One has some significant internal memory for apps. anyone who has would like to share some numbers?

[DefPoet Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:24PM]

@phandy

every android phone out might have limited internal memory but the apps need only store a little code onthe device all images audio maps graphics etc can be stored on a sd card

[ethana2 Posted Dec 15th 2009 11:27PM]

@phandy

I have more apps than I can count but still have 164MB left.

It's just not the problem we thought it would be. Sonic? .bin iiissss on the SD card. Mario? onnnnthe SD card. Zelda? Onnnnthe SD card. Doom .wad file.. on the SD card.

[glenskey Posted Dec 15th 2009 8:46PM]

oh, i get it now.. it makes an X..

[Streetfights Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:27PM]

@glenskey

OHHH

as in ne-X-us

that makes sense

[cobaltage Posted Dec 15th 2009 11:14PM]

@glenskey But Nexus doesn't begin with X....

[RockNStuff Posted Dec 15th 2009 8:47PM]

It looks.... stupid.

[vanolize Posted Dec 15th 2009 8:47PM]

it looks nice, more than the window's logo

[BogdanGC Posted Dec 16th 2009 3:29AM]

@vanolize
in fact, it's the same colors as the Windows logo - same position if you look at it in landscape mode: Red, Green, Yellow, Blue clockwise. My guess it's just an accident, this phone has nothing to do with windows mobile, right?

[a falling stone Posted Dec 16th 2009 5:15AM]

@vanolize
It would have been funny if it booted to windows.

New android device, ohhh wait! Windows phone this sucks!

[webran61 Posted Dec 15th 2009 8:48PM]

Screen looks better than the iPhone. Want.

[SC40095 Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:10PM]

@webran61
You can tell all that from a boot logo?

[N900 Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:14PM]

@SC40095 I think he's talking about the screen and not the performance.

[iHakr Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:39PM]

@SC40095 android > iPhone thats how

[yulebellow Posted Dec 15th 2009 8:49PM]

I don't really care about the actual phone anymore, at least not as much. What Id really love to hear about is some solid facts about the plan/subsidy/selling situation.

[jarek Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:10PM]

There is no subsidy, it's a developer device.

[Akhen Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:34PM]

@jarek Oh, jarek said it therefore it must be true.

[Butler Posted Dec 16th 2009 2:42AM]

@jarek
Both previous dev phones, the Dream and the Ion have been released worldwide, subsidized, as the G1 and Magic, respectively.

[zenomatic Posted Dec 16th 2009 7:28AM]

@Akhen
Go and see yourself (click on "Dev Phones" and look at the image on the right):
http://developer.android.com/index.html

[Junyor Mynt Posted Dec 15th 2009 8:52PM]

hum, does nothing for me. I need a little more. This phone somehow feels like it is already behind the curve. It could just be a feeling, or the resemblance it has to phones in the (not too distant but still out dated) past.

[nelagster Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:17PM]

@Junyor Mynt

Already behind the curve? It's got a 1GHz Snapdragon processor to say the least. How is it behind the curve?

[iDavey Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:19PM]

@Junyor Mynt How exactly would it be behind this curve you mention??

[Hotrod Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:44PM]

@Junyor Mynt I believe he's speaking about aesthetics, not sure.

[gusgorman Posted Dec 15th 2009 10:24PM]

@Junyor Mynt

There are only so many ways to skin a cat, or an OS for that matter.

[yulebellow Posted Dec 16th 2009 12:31AM]

@nelagster

He meant the BlackBerry Curve

[TheCodexAlera Posted Dec 15th 2009 8:55PM]

Google is a master at this virial marketing shit (not sure if I'm using the right term)...

But w/e it is they're are GENIUS.

And the phone itself doesn't look half bad in that video. Sorta bland but we'll see.

[Jeff Kibuule Posted Dec 15th 2009 8:57PM]

It's as if Google has a rulebook on what's allowed to leak when.

[AphotiX Posted Dec 15th 2009 11:54PM]

@Jeff Kibuule Thats because google pretty much runs the internet.

[chanlaw Posted Dec 15th 2009 8:58PM]

i've handled the device. there's a good amount of heft in the build quality. it's the fastest android device i've played with. 2.1 is not ground breaking at all

[m0zzie Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:00PM]

This is NOT just another developer device like the ADP1 or ADP2. See http://www.dereenigne.com/nexusone/

[davex Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:18PM]

@m0zzie While I believe the sticker is real, and the web page is likely going to exist, the "analysis" used on that link is wrong. The 404 page for /phone vs. /somethingelse is different because /phone is directing to another separate server (or farm of servers) in google's cluster, which is configured with a different 404 error page.. As an example, try http://google.com/phone/blahblahlbl .. you see the 404 page is the same as http://google.com/phone - meaning it isn't some "custom special 404 page". Still, the fact that /phone is "something different" holds true regardless, and I don't doubt Google will populate that address with information about, at the least, Android. Still doesn't make this a "Google Phone".

[ale Posted Dec 16th 2009 12:49AM]

@m0zzie
Now that you say that and considering google.com/phone is already a website.... I'm starting to think that the magic of the "google phone" is possibly an online cloud version of iTunes. As in some ecosystem that allows easy synching of multimedia, apps, google docs, gmail, and everything else igoogle. I could be wrong obviously... but that would seem like a cool strategy

I personally think the iPhone's srtength is iTunes and AMAZING synching of different types of content - not the sheer amount of apps. If Anrdoid/google could pull off an online version of iTunes, it would level the playing field a ton. If google hasn't thought this up already... then I want a cut. Of course they have, though, as they have the power to read human thoughts.

[Johanu Posted Dec 16th 2009 8:30AM]

@davex If you check out http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://google.com/phone you'll notice a change in the page dating April 28, 2008.. They don't have the page in cache, but could mean that this Google phone stuff dates back to the launch of the Dev Phone 1, back in December 2008, rendering all this speculation moot.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:03PM]

Reminds me of Mac OS X

[Roy911 Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:04PM]

Is it just me, or is http://thenexusone.com/ pointing to a wordpress installer?

[Ipwnnubletz Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:18PM]

@Roy911 Yup. Looks like wherever it's pointing to, the MySQL is down.

[cybereal Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:05PM]

This looks like a Zune KIRF. It's ugly, with the aesthetics of Ford Explorer interior. The color patterns are, and always have been, huge Microsoft ripoffs. Google... what happened to that quirky engineer-plant you used to be respected for? Just a big old Microsoft wannabe now.

Disappointing.

[LAY Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:17PM]

@cybereal

And you got all of that...without even touching the device for 1 millisecond?

[iDavey Posted Dec 15th 2009 9:20PM]

@LAY He's gonna come back with a "I did touch and use the phone" rebuttal...wait for it.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 16th 2009 9:28AM]

@cybereal microsoft wannabee??????????? that's funny.