We've already told you everything you need to know about the Nexus One. Still, you might be curious to see Google's self-proclaimed "superphone" splayed wide to reveal a Samsung-branded OLED display, Qualcomm QSD8250 "Snapdragon" 1 GHz ARM processor, and Synaptics touchscreen controller. Of interest is a Broadcom chip labeled Broadcom BCM4329EKUBG. Why? Well, the BCM4329 (albeit, without the "EKUBG" qualifier) is capable of 802.11n (HTC only lists 802.11b/g) WiFi in addition to FM transmitter and receiver. Bet you didn't know that? Picture of the Broadcom chip after the break.
Update: Just noticed that
Google does list 802.11n on the specs page although
HTC does not.
posted January 6th 2010 4:07PM
i didnt know that
@cswright you did this with your review model? :( poor thing
"We've already told you everything you need to know about the Nexus One."
Actually Engadget, the more I read the more it seems you missed out most of the interesting facts about this device in your "review"...
@cswright
Did you also know that it has a noise-cancelling extra mic?
@Charlie Eggwhite That, and they focused only on the negative things about the phone, along with treating it as "just another Android", and not a standalone phone with tons of features.. but this article is actually interesting :)
@gerrrg
Not to mention voice to text capabilities (which will be on all new android phones). I would love to text in my car by just speaking. Makes driving helluv a lot easier!
@cswright
Wireless N was known for ages about the nexus one, Engadget Nexus one Review is a big pile of JUNK to begin with
They listed all the subjective things as negative and never talked about the objective superior stuff about the Nexus one
Hell the even said in the end they rather have a Droid over Nexus one as if nexus one was a disease or something, punch of hypocrites biased reviewers to be honest.
I mean just go look at the speect to text function the guy talked very fast and wasn't even clear to my HUMAN ears yet Nexus one copied everything to text 95% accurate, i rather edit 5% and let google do the rest over typing every word, imagine writing a full email via the nexus one :)
@GoogleCEO
1-800x480 AMOLED LCD 3.7 1m Response 100.000 contrast Ratio
2-Android 2.1 3D wallpaper/3D photo Galary/etc better OS overall
3-Speech to Text in every Text input
4-Open source (No locks or limitation BS)
5-BT Sharing/HD access/No itunes Required
6-Thinner/Slimmer/Better Battery life/bigger LCD but smaller than iphone
7-1GHZ CPU = super fast phone
8-Lag free MULTITASKING thanks to 512Ram/1Ghz cpu
9-Removeable Battery/memory
10-5mp Camera with FLASH and 720x480 video
11-Unlocked phone worldwide use when you travel
12-Google Navigation+Full Google Support
13-Traceball mouse with 3 LED light for different type of notification
14-Second microphone Noise cancellation
15-Better speaker and audio Sound when talking than iphone
16-Full resolution pictures view no Downscale BS like the iphone
17-OPEN SOURCE (this is huge)
18-FREE Customaztion and live active widgets
19-Wireless N (Bigger Range+Faster Speeds)
BUT OF COURSE all these are USELESS stuff to engadget because there is no "i" before them, steve jobs must paying them very good lol.
@GoogleCEO
truth.
@(Unverified)
Please refrain from using your phone to text while driving, whether it be by traditional input methods or by some text-to-speech system.
If you do, please tell me where you are so I can make sure to avoid sharing the road with you.
@GoogleCEO
Well put! :)
@cswright Not to mention the thickness is like a mongol pencil, bet you didn't know that. And also, tethering will be available soon.
As for the post, Questions if Nexus One is competitive enough to go head to head with the iPhone kind has been answered and so far, the answer is yes! It's funny coz when you hear what the nexus one developers said, if Nexus One was an iPhone killer they replied instead, "This is our superphone". Now, that's more like it.
Droid, iPhone, Palm Pixi VS Nexus One details: http://bit.ly/nexus-one-matchup-droid-iphone-palmpixi-details
@GoogleCEO It is a disease. It has no keyboard and as such should be burned with fire...check that plasma. Burn it with plasma.
@GoogleCEO
I would have loved to see UMA on this phone, it would make it the perfect phone.
@ManoloDF
+1 again on UMA. TMO is a UMA capable network, does the N1 support hardware that would allow it as a fw upgrade down the line?
(UMA handles 50% of my calls right now, GV is not a UMA replacement, though it may be the best alternative)
@GoogleCEO - OWNED!!!!!
@GoogleCEO
The Nexus One is the new iPhone killer of the month just like the Palm Pre was. In another month, there'll be a slightly better Android phone than this for even less money. The Nexus One is definitely a fine handset, but when thrown into a virtual sea of Android handsets for the general consumer it'll probably get lost in the shuffle. Google still needs to prove it can make any money from this smartphone.
GoogleCEO is marking all the features better than the iPhone GS which was announced in June 2009. It's six months later and smartphone tech has increased leaps and bounds over that time. By the time the next version iPhone is out, the Nexus One will be six months old and as would be expected, the iPhone will have some hardware edge. However, the Nexus One doesn't have much of an ecosystem to speak of or a strong consumer retail base, so don't expect huge sales from this puppy. It's a nice piece of hardware, period. Google still has plenty of work to do and they'll certainly keep trying.
@GoogleCEO
The Droid has Voice to Text Already.... Works without a problem..
-sun
@GoogleCEO +1
I definitely agree to your post.
No idea why engadget is doing this.
@GoogleCEO
+1
Maybe it's just me.. but the google.com/phone page clearly lists wireless N..
@DarkLord7854 You sir is correct.
@redman12 are?
@Oli D no, I enjoy the "is" do not change that about yourself!
@DarkLord7854
Ok, for the record, I mentioned the N capabilities of this phone weeks ago but did anybody care then? No....
Here's the proof:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/exclusive-nexus-one-full-specs-detailed-invite-only-retail-sal/
@DarkLord7854
Didn't HTC also do this with the HD2? I remember an article saying it supported N, but they never mentioned it in the specs and it was disabled to save battery.
Nice to see new stuff still coming out about the Nexus One!
Seems that I read that the Iphone has FM built into the Wifi chip, yet they don't enable it. I wonder if this is true of other phones out there... Just a thought.
@MichaelDola Iphone 3gs has the same FM transmitter capability built in the Wifi chip
@MichaelDola
They'll enable it in the next version and charge $100 more.
@MichaelDola I'm starting to wonder if these FM transmitters are wiretapping back doors or something. Companies don't just throw in extra parts for no reason.
They list 802.11b/g/n
http://www.google.com/phone/static/en_US-nexusone_tech_specs.html
@artissco Droid also does N, so I don't know why you would expect any less from a future device tbh.
Nexus One FTW!
so..........what's up then, why would they leave out such juicy info.
Is there anything this phone *can't* do?
@plastik i dont know, but Engadget still think the iPhone is way better,i know things the iPhone cant do, but this one , dont know yet..
@plastik
Install apps more than a couple of MB in size?
@outlaw85
It doesn't matter how many features it has. Maybe some people like to go on blogs and say stuff like 'my phone can do 10 things, yours can only do 9, ergo mine is better'.
They think the iphone is better. And it probably is.
@plastik Sorry I may be stupid, but what use does a phone has for 802.11n? You're pretty much limited with the speed of your internet connection anyway, and most of us don't live in Japan.
As for the FM transmitter, it's pretty much standard on every Broadcom chip. I yet have to see any phone with it enabled..
@plastik
how about have 3g on AT&T!!!
@Jakob So we don't have to run stupid dual band wi-fi at home just to support those laggards like the iPhone that only support 802.11g.
@plastik does it do tv-out? No one has ever mentioned anything about that... Never, ever, on any site, I can't believe such a trivial thing can't be confirmed or denied. For a superphone, it'd better be able to do that!
Otherwise I'll wait for the motorola's with mini hdmi output, other than that the specs are almost the same (except the processor in these motorolas (xt800, xt701, sholes) are not specified yet).
@plastik
It can't do video calling (it doesn't even have a front facing camera), it probably doesn't have TV out...
In terms of features the N series Nokia phones are still more equipped. They are a different category of phones, tho, can't really compare the two. But if we're talking about the number of features..
@Jakob N97 has the FM xmitter enabled. Dunno which chipset off the top of my head.
Engadget did you miss the part it says "Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n)" here http://www.google.com/phone/static/en_US-nexusone_tech_specs.html ??
Ummm what's up with no link to the original tear down?
@Yoda
it was on the main page, under "source." I don't know why it doesn't show up once you open the article... at least I don't see it either.
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus-One/1654/1
@petey1111
That totalllyyy wasn't there when the article was first posted!
@Yoda
its on the article page too now. I must have been clicking back and forth when they added it.