Nexus One Desktop Dock now available for $45
By Chris Ziegler 
posted January 27th 2010 7:37PM
posted January 27th 2010 7:37PM
The rumored desktop dock for the Nexus One has been made official today -- conveniently (and accurately) bearing the official name of Nexus One Desktop Dock -- running $45 sold separately or bundled with your phone purchase. As expected, dropping the phone into the dock triggers the Clock application to fire up to give you access to alarms, music, and weather (not unlike the Droid), but the special sauce lies out back where you'll find a 3.5mm jack that connects to your stereo system using an included 3.5mm-to-RCA cable. A charger's included to keep the phone topped off while it's resting in the cradle, too, and considering the presence of Bluetooth here, we're guessing audio is ferried via A2DP rather than a hardwired connection. Technology! The dock's available right now for purchase directly from Google.
FINALLY!! Non-iPad news!!! KEEP UP THE TREND.
@TechGuru
Well knowing the big Failure that is the IPad we can all agree that it's a slow news day for engadget, if not we would have been getting bombarded by Engadget. You I was really expecting something revolutionary but it ended up being crap.
@TechGuru
Well knowing the big Failure that is the IPad we can all agree that it's a slow news day for engadget, if not we would have been getting bombarded by Engadget. You know I was really expecting something revolutionary but it ended up being crap.
@TechGuru
yesss please keep em coming. Overload of ipad news is hurting my poor little pre+
@yyandrew
Well give the iPad a big middle finger as YOU run 50 apps... SIMULTANEOUSLY. Ha!
@yulebellow
Does Pre + actually have 50 apps in their catalog to run simultaneously?
I kid, I kid, :D
@yyandrew
My Droid is stuttering at ~20 :-(
@TechGuru
Correction:
FINALLY!! Non-iPad RUMORS!!! KEEP UP THE TREND.
@TechGuru If we are lucky, we won't have to hear about the damn thing again after today.
@TechGuru I love how thanks to you, this article not about the iPad has all the first comments about the iPad. Ironic isn't it? Now next time... shut the hell up
@yulebellow You're having problems then. I'm at 25-ish on my ATK and no worries.
Can it multitask and does it support flash?
@lookseehear
What about SmS or a camera?
@lookseehear
I made a dock for mine with a couple of magnets and some cardboard for about $0.50 and *it* supports flash, so I'd say this one def. does.
-Taylor
Boo, where is my iPad!
@onlymyrailgun
Aisle 7, next to the Massengill.
Best article all day.
Theres a dock for that?
That's one sexy dock...
That's one pricey dock.
@hey Considering the fact that Android phones don't really sync things like podcasts through a computer, it seems pricey to me too. This is more of a giant USB connector with a few perks.
does it take a microSIM?
@ericisthename
Good question.
Does anybody know if you can DISABLE the automatic triggering of the Dock application on the phone? I have a charging dock for my MyTouch on my desk at work and I take my phone in and out of it constantly. I like to set it there with something already on the screen so I can keep tabs on it, if it automatically switches to something else when I set it down it would be extremely annoying.
@Chefgon you can press a button and bring it out of dock mode while its in it.
Ok
It'd sell better and all it's shortcomings would be ignored if it was called iDock.
What's the difference between using Bluetooth to stream music from the phone vs using Bluetooth to stream music from the dock?...
eforcity on Amazon will eventually have a dock for $0.01 that works just as well anyway.
@Johnny Rockets
Is so that if you want to connect it to an external system. The phone streams to the dock and the dock has an audio out that connects to your equipment.
I'd like to know why use BT audio instead of a wired connection. Sure its /cool/ but quality wise, its lacking.
Where's the car dock?
@chopsui Yes, where is my car dock. This is nice, but the googlenav is useless without a car dock!
@chopsui looks like as far as google is concerned there is all ready a car dock.
http://www.google.com/support/android/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=27201&topic=27232
nice. now...find it!
For a UK buyer that works out at $93.65 (dock+'country specific charger'+shipping). Then ~another 25% on that for the import duty and..
...erm I think I'll wait until Google sort out their global distribution thing..
Does it have AV out? That is my question and determine whether I get a Nexxus One (once it comes to Verizon) or an Ipad
@HDD Since you are already looking at two completely different products, the N900 has an AV out.
@kraken Not really different. I'm basically looking for something I can plug into my car's navigation system and use like a carputer.
I currently use a HTC Touch Pro for that. I surf the web, download web content during my car commute. Since the Nexus One is made by HTC, I figure it may have it. Even though my car has nav, I prefer to get the newest, latest maps, nav apps through my phone (or possibly iPad).
@HDD
Personally, instead of doing it that way, I'd get a dedicated carputer. You would only need integrated graphics since you aren't gaming or pushing 1080p video. I would think for ~7-800 you'd have a carputer that would be more capable.
As an alternative, you could get a Mac Mini, and with a few modifications would be nice. For a data connection, you could tether your phone. Large data transfers like maps and such could be done over you home WiFi connection, and other things could be done using your phone's data connection. You could even go the dedicated route and get a MiFi or something. I think they charge over USB, so (I assume) you could leave it plugged into the Mini/Carputer all the time.
If you go on YouTube and look at Meade916, somewhere toward the beginning in his system rebuild playlist, he has what he did to modify his Mac Mini.
@BigJayDogg3
Go to youtube and search yellowbrothersf. I have a carpc and wasn't happy with it. I then started to use a HTC Touch pro as my carp hooked up to my car's navigation screen. I want something like the HTC Touch Pro I have no. A Mac Mini wouldn't be any good to me because there are no real good GPS apps on the Mini. The Ipad, is a different story altogether and would work. I am hoping the Nexus One could do what my HTC Pro can do.
Yes! Yes!! Finally companies are understanding the power of the market that docking stations are! I don't want to have to open stupid flaps and have cables messing around my table.
I just want to get home and in a easy way to charge it!
Took them a while to figure this out hein?
A quiet day for most tech news, I guess.
Smart PR hacks will be holding off their own product announcements for a day or two.
Is it really portrait? I was so hoping for a night stand dock that's in landscape mode like the Droid!!
@chrisarney
I love the droids landscape docks. Moto was smart to put the USB port on the side. Devices are more usefully to use in docks in landscape... apparently apple didn't get that memo either.
Gonna go ahead and wait for the Car Dock thank you very much
$45 for what exactly?
That's about $2 worth of parts. Oooo it's a charging station and has an RCA cable for your stereo. Big freakin deal... how the hell does that add up to $45?
This should be included with the phone, or at most, cost about $20.
Since when did Google get pricing advice from Monster Cable??
@Hazdaz: Home run.
@Hazdaz
Actually it also has a bluetooth chip in it so lets add at LEAST another $4?
Either way.... I still ordered it lol.
am I a bad person because im more excited about this than the new iTampon?
@Jono20
haha have you seen madtv's skit on the ipad.
i think they should get royalties every time apples sells one
@haan agreed... I would be banking on this if I wrote up that skit...
@haan
haha yeah I have, I think it sums up this whole day quite effectively!!