Nexus One Dock to cost $45, imminently available?

What's this? Another Google ad heralding the imminent launch of a gadget desirable? We're guessing yes just as those Apple ads preemptively signaled the launch of refreshed Macs and new Mighty Mouse. Engadget reader Geoff spotted the YouTube ad above that clearly shows the Nexus One Dock being available... and for "only $45!" For that tidy tithe you'll get a charged phone and the ability to kick off a slideshow -- presumably the "and more" refers to Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and AV tethering we saw in the FCC filing. We give this one a week, tops, before it's available for purchase.

P.S. Don't feel bad, we tried to click the play button too.

[Thanks, Geoff]

[wuwtk Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:14AM]

Should have read the P.S. before i got frustrated at the picture for not playing.

[Nokia N900 Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:31AM]

nice! I use flashblock , I knew it wouldn't load unless I click Play.

[KrazyCalvin Posted Jan 22nd 2010 4:30AM]

@wuwtk I did the same thing too... i always watch the video first... heh

[HardToBelieve Posted Jan 22nd 2010 10:01AM]

@wuwtk

They shouldn't do that to us. We're only humans.

[schneiderman Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:15AM]

Hey that's Jon4lakers vid, for TechnoBuffalo

[dingledow Posted Jan 22nd 2010 7:08AM]

@schneiderman Can't believe it's a TechnoBuffalo/ Jon4Lakers clip!

[treats Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:15AM]

I clicked play and failed. :(

[Kennykenken Posted Jan 22nd 2010 3:43AM]

@treats - you're not alone... I too have failed.

[petey1111 Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:18AM]

i clicked on the x to close the ad so I could get on with the video. I failed as well.

[bergwitz Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:21AM]

@petey1111

Buahaha, that's even more fail than me!

[Ichoro Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:24AM]

@bergwitz lmao ... a bigger failure!! hahaha .... i did too !!

[BogdanGC Posted Jan 22nd 2010 3:33AM]

@petey1111
me too... and i've clicked it twice

[DWells55 Posted Jan 22nd 2010 4:39AM]

@petey1111
Yeah, I clicked it mostly because I was shocked to see that Adblock Plus had missed something.

[Badgerman Posted Jan 22nd 2010 6:25PM]

@petey1111
I clicked X and then play when it wouldn't work....

[bergwitz Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:20AM]

Total failure for me as well.

[Hydra Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:23AM]

I clicked the stupid X to out of habbit, wtf

[wussup Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:25AM]

i clicked the ad to earn some money for google out of habit. also failed

[Information Central Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:26AM]

How are they going to get audio & video out of this phone with only those three dots on the bottom of the unit? And how will said dots maintain a connection in a moving car?

[mrqs Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:55AM]

@Information Central

wifi / bluetooth

[Information Central Posted Jan 22nd 2010 9:18PM]

That's pretty useless, if true. That precludes plugging it into your car and home stereos directly, making it no competitor to the iPhone. Plugging into the headphone jack would be a crappy, cumbersome, and ugly workaround.

The lack of audio/video connectors on the bottom is a major oversight.

[Information Central Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:27AM]

Where are the comments going?

[cr8tive Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:38AM]

It may just be me but I am not a fan of how the adds pop up over part of the screen.

[Dshark Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:40AM]

Woot TechnoBuffalo.

[josesxi Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:46AM]

Just one more thing that makes the Nexus One better than the iPhone.

[martynmcfarquhar Posted Jan 22nd 2010 11:53AM]

@josesxi

Haha, yeah because there no such thing as a dock for the iPhone which can display photos! The AV stuff is quite neat, but the iPhone can also do video-out (no idea on quality mind).

[jtfromstl Posted Jan 22nd 2010 3:01AM]

It played fine for me! :P

[Einlander Posted Jan 22nd 2010 3:07AM]

You just lost the game.

[davebu3 Posted Jan 22nd 2010 3:13AM]

The real news story should be an engadget reader who doesnt have ABP, is it 2003 still? Seriously though, if I had a Nexus One I wouldn't buy it. Thankfully I have a Hero.

[tommyarmour Posted Jan 22nd 2010 11:23AM]

@davebu3

The iphone is better than the hero, and the Nexus One is a god compared to both of those phone's. LMAO

[martynmcfarquhar Posted Jan 22nd 2010 12:49PM]

@tommyarmour

I had a Hero and hated it, switched to a 3GS and couldn't be happier! I'm really not sure how the Nexus one could be a god compared to the 3GS.

Yes the hardware is superior, but having used Android I really really don't see how the arrival of the Nexus one could suddenly lead to a mass of quality apps for the platform, especially with news of developers pulling out from Android.

I'd still say iPhone is the most stable and nicest of all the mobile OS', only seconded by WebOS and then Android.

[davebu3 Posted Jan 22nd 2010 12:59PM]

@tommyarmour I disagree, I had 3 iTouch's all break before I was able to get a phone in the fall, and the majority of the appstore apps are useless, compared to the amazing android apps such as locale, screebl, google nav when it gets updated, not to mention the fully customizable interface. Not to mention the monthly savings on Sprint over ATT. The iPhone is a dumb smartphone, thats why it was so successful.

[martynmcfarquhar Posted Jan 22nd 2010 1:49PM]

@davebu3

Yup, so dumb it manages to have more than one email account in its email app! Sorry google but that Gmail app is a joke!

Whilst I was an Android user it was very buggy and very slow, the marketplace constantly wouldn't load and never notified me when I had updates, the keyboard was inaccurate due to the lack of multitouch, the WiFi was terrible, so much so that I just used data networks constantly, and all the apps I downloaded had awful UI's making non of them a pleasure to use.

I'm sorry, but Android was just not for me, but despite that I can accept that the iPhone isn't for everyone. Calling it a dumb smartphone is stupid, I'm pretty sure with the wealth of things you can do with WinMo and BlackBerry those users would call Android a dumb smartphone platform.

Each to their own!

[Abe Posted Jan 22nd 2010 3:24AM]

$45? That thing better make sandwiches AND the bed.

[ready 2 rumble Posted Jan 22nd 2010 3:42AM]

@Abe
What kind of sandwiches?

[CJ Posted Jan 22nd 2010 4:29AM]

@Abe

Try explaining that to my iPod dock, I paid 99 dollar for it, and all it does is output audio and data.

[CJ Posted Jan 22nd 2010 4:28AM]

You are a terrible, terrible person Thomas Ricker!

Confusing all the nice people like that! For shame!

[incogneo Posted Jan 22nd 2010 5:05AM]

They could have said. It;s not a video. Fail on me!! But Nexus One, ehh like joshua said if i cant run emulators on it, I'll pass. I can;t wait to get my Cliq Neo Geo CD on that thing would be awesome.

[androidboi Posted Jan 22nd 2010 5:24AM]

@incogneo
The developer who makes the emulators (nesoid,gensoid,etc) is working on adding multi touch it now, so its only a matter of time.

[flett Posted Jan 22nd 2010 9:44AM]

wow. i clicked it too. i also clicked the x on the google advertisement. nice one engadet

[jellotime91 Posted Jan 22nd 2010 10:02AM]

I think the wording is too specific to be real. I think this is a photoshop. :/

[Bobbo Posted Jan 22nd 2010 10:43AM]

I'm still waiting to hear when the Engadget App for Android will be imminently available. That's what the Nexus really needs.

[nexusone Posted Jan 22nd 2010 1:58PM]

Without seeing the dock you can't really say if it will be too expensive or not, but I don't see why Google is so secretive about a damn dock :)

Discussion about it here though:

http://www.nexusoneforum.net/forum/nexus-one-accessories/280-nexusone-dock.html

[bshakil Posted Jan 22nd 2010 2:43PM]

I was wondering how engadget video is on front page instead of inside ... But i really did click it .. :$

[lelywrestler Posted Jan 22nd 2010 10:40PM]

Np, Iv tried for years to get a story up on engadget and its finally come true. =) lol

[numbnuts Posted Jan 23rd 2010 1:49PM]

What's the opposite of FAIL?

[tech head Posted Jan 27th 2010 8:04PM]

just btw, the video that they are trying to load is one from technobuffalo.com. great site just incase you havn't seen any of their content. Ran by a great guy named john rettenger.