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Google is always a nice choice, and we kinda all have a pretty good impression about this label, so now let’s check out how well Google has done on their first smartphone, Google Nexus One.

With all these smartphones out there in the market, the Google Nexus One is still worth a second look.

It’s been weeks since Google released its Nexus One Android phone and you might have already read several if not hundreds of reviews. And those reviews may have given you various opinions and comments about the Nexus One, that you might find it pretty confusing. So, to add to your confusion as to whether you would get the Nexus One or not, here’s our take on the Google Nexus One.

First of all, Google Nexus One Design and Form Factor

Knowing fully well that I’m probably among the first owners of the Nexus One in the country where I am located, you can just imagine how proud I am when showing the Nexus One to my friends and co-workers. I’ve got mixed reactions. But those who are tech savvy enough usually comment on how beautiful the Nexus One’s form factor and design is as compared to the iPhone. And I couldn’t help but agree with them. Don’t get me wrong here. I loved the iPhone’s design and form factor when I first got hold of it. But after two years of using the iPhone, I felt the same thing when I got hold of the Nexus One. The Nexus One emits a sense of geekiness while the iPhone now gives me a sense of fun and entertainment.

The Google Nexus One is lighter than the iPhone but thicker by a small bit. I’ve seen several HTC manufactured phones before but none of them appealed to me than when I saw the Google Nexus One. The Nexus One’s body is composed of two different materials – a metallic bezel surrounding the front and side of the phone and a rubbery material that serve as battery cover and the bottom part of the phone. Gripping the phone with your hand is a pleasant experience thanks to its thin form factor and its curvy shape.

On the face of the Nexus One are five basic buttons, unlike the iPhone’s one-button interface. The five buttons include a trackball which is actually pretty useless except when it blinks when something is happening on your phone while on standby-mode. It’s not really useful as a scrolling device since you can practically use the Nexus One’s touch screen feature to scroll. The other four buttons are – for navigating to the Homescreen, back, menu and search. All buttons have haptic feedback when you tap on them. But don’t get your hopes so high for this button as most of the time they don’t respond well. iPhone’s touch control between the Nexus One in this department.

At the back of the Nexus One you can find the camera and the LED Flash, the Google trademark and the HTC brand. On the left side of the phone is the volume control while on the bottom side is the USB port.

Overall, Google (or HTC) has managed to come up with a well designed smartphone worthy of competing against the iPhone. Make no mistake both smartphones are great looking in their own rights. Putting the Nexus One beside my iPhone 3GS makes it look more the male while the iPhone as the female.

Secondly, Google Nexus One Software – the Android Experience

With the latest Android OS 2.1 running as its OS, Google managed to come up with a robust mobile phone platform that may not be more revolutionary than the iPhone but is definitely at par with it. One thing you’ll quickly noticed when using the Nexus One is its speed, especially if you are on Wi-Fi. Downloading apps from the Android Market is a breeze through Wi-Fi, faster than when downloading apps from the iTunes Apps Store on the iPhone.

Android OS 2.1 may not have offered something different than what the iPhone is currently offering but it is certainly a great mobile phone OS in its own right.

Now, when friends ask me what’s the difference between the iPhone and the Google Nexus One aside from their looks, I always cite one answer – the Nexus One’s Voice command capability. Whether it’s the voice-to-text function or voice-enabled searching. Don’t get me wrong here, these features are far from perfect and I have personally experienced inconsistency when transcribing what I’ve spoken but it’s still fun and exciting how the Nexus One recognizes and transcribes what I want to say when composing SMS. It’s the coolest feature that I know of the Nexus One so far.

Another notable feature of the Google Nexus One is the live wallpaper. It’s pretty cool but useless and just eat up your phone’s precious battery life. Those who prefer usability over eye-candy will definitely find this as a negative feature of the phone but for those who don’t mind this feature definitely rocks.

When viewing applications you can either view it similar to how the iPhone apps look or via a more organized grid-like manner that displays in 4×4 arrangement on your phone’s screen.

Of course, you all know that the Nexus One also features a virtual keyboard like the iPhone. And if you’re fond of texting, this is very important. To be straight about it, I have more luck with typing the correct words on the iPhone than on the Nexus One. The keys on Nexus One’s virtual keyboard are placed so close to each other so much so that those with bigger fingers would often find it a pain to type messages. It’s a good thing that I don’t send SMS messages often, so I won’t have to deal with this problem most of the time. A quick fix would have to be downloading another virtual keyboard at the Android market.

Overall, software-wise, the Nexus One is also short of introducing something new and revolutionary into the market. Most if not all of its features are already with the iPhone and other touch-screen smartphones, except of course for the voice-enabled commands.

Thirdly, Other Important Information that You Should Know about the Nexus One

Very important – how’s the Nexus One’s battery performance? Quite surprisingly that Nexus One’s battery performance is pretty good. It could last you one whole day of normal use. This if of course pretty standard among smartphones with touchscreen features. If I have to compare it with the iPhone’s battery performance, the iPhone wins for a good couple of hours more.

Camera features – With a 5 megapixel camera, the Nexus One takes pretty decent shots. Nothing exemplary but good enough for what it is capable of given its extent. Of course it beats the iPhone’s camera in terms of resolution and output. But the one thing it failed to beat though is the iPhone’s camera speed and touch to focus feature. The Nexus One’s camera is slow. Perhaps an Android update would make it faster later on. But then, it’s the main reason while you would want to have this phone, anyway.

Photo Gallery – I believe the Nexus One’s photo gallery uses Cooliris. So there’s some coolness factor into it. Not as great as the iPhone’s photo gallery of course but is good enough to make it different from other mobile phones.

Lastly, Conclusion

When rumors leaked out about the Nexus One, expectations were high over the fact that it is a Google Phone. Now that it’s out in the open, did Google meet these expectations? It varies from every user. As for me, I am more than happy with my Google Nexus One. I wasn’t really expecting too many features that my iPhone 3GS could not do. In fact, I wasn’t expecting it to be an iPhone killer. But now that I’ve used it for a couple of days, I would have to say that it is NOT AN IPHONE KILLER, but more of an iPhone rival.

The question is, if you’re an iPhone owner, should you replace your phone with the Google Nexus One? Definitely not. Unless of course you’re tired of using your iPhone anymore. If you’re not an iPhone user and would like to use an Android phone, you might as well get the Nexus One instead of the other Android phones. Why? For the simple reason that it is a Google phone, and Android happens to be a Google platform.

If own an iPhone and you have the money to get another smartphone just for the heck of it, go and get your unit now. You certainly won’t regret it.

Well, this is how we think of this Google phone, what’s you opinion on this?

Smartphones are always nice, but never nice enough for us users. The truth is we really can’t find a perfect phone, simply because ‘perfect’ is really too much to ask for a smartphone, or for anything else, so let’s just see what choice do we have right now. Giving credit to Motorola, as they always come up with some real nice phones, this new push-to-talk phone is really worth worth your time to check out.

The CTIA 2010 kicked off weeks before in Las Vegas and this early Motorola is announcing its latest Android phone with a rather unusual look and features. The Motorola i1 is the first iDEN device that carries the features of most smartphones today thanks to the Android OS running on it. Some of these smartphone features include – a 3.1 inch touch screen, Wi-Fi, optimized browsing experience, Opera Mini 5 browser, access to thousands of Android apps from the Android Marketplace and of course push-to-talk feature. Motorola is releasing the i1 ruggedized phone to Sprint anytime this summer.

The Motorola i1 boasts of a solid body construction that passed military specs for protecting against dust, shock, vibration and blowing rain. It was designed for users who sport a rugged lifestyle and working environment. The phone automatically syncs and integrates with office and personal information including your emails, calendar appointments and contacts. It also syncs with Microsoft Document Viewer and corporate synch for Word or Powerpoint files.

The phone also features both Android standard virtual keyboard and Swype virtual keyboards offering you a easy time when composing messages. It’s high 5 megapixel camera has flash, geo-tagging and panoramic features – providing your with crips photos and clear displays perfectly suited for its vibrant 3.1-inch HVGA screen. The phone also comes with a microSD card and the latest Opera Mini 5 browser that provide quick internet browsing on Nextel Network and Wi-Fi. Plus, the phone is Flash 8-enabled as well, thanks to the Android browser.

The Motorola i1 is slated for release this summer under various Sprint data plans including the Sprint Everything Data 450 plan with Any Mobile, AnytimeSM for only $69.99 per month, and the Sprint Business Advantage Messaging and Data PlanSM starting at $59.99 per month.

Well, how do you think of this smartphone? Cute look, nice features, I think this is a smartphone I really want to get my hands on when this summer comes!

Cellphones today are quite versatile and as a result of that they’re quite expensive too. For someone who doesn’t required much from a phone but still not satisfied with a basic phone, then this Nokia 3711 might be nice. As for the price, it’s quite reasonable, and for T-Mobile subscribers, it’s free! Yes, we’ll see what we can get for free from T-Mobile.

T-Mobile subscribers looking for a free flip phone should check out the Nokia 3711—even though it doesn’t look like much. Underneath its drab surface are some pretty powerful features, including a proper mobile Web browser, 3G data speeds, and decent music and video playback. Nokia made a few poor design decisions with the hardware, but even so, it’s worth a look.

The Nokia 3711 measures 3.5 by 1.8 by 0.6 inches (HWD) and weighs 3.3 ounces. The hard, rubbery finish features a textured wave pattern. I wasn’t thrilled with the look, but still looks clean. At least the material makes the phone comfortable to hold and resistant to light scratches. Build quality was also questionable, which is unusual for Nokia; the shortcut keys above the numeric keypad were uneven on my test handset, and the plastic frame around the keys felt excessively cheap.

The 2.2-inch QVGA (240-by-320-pixel) looked reasonably sharp and bright. Dialing numbers was super-easy thanks to the large, raised keys. The Nokia 3711 is a quad-band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and dual-band UMTS (1700/2100 MHz) device. It supports 3G data speeds, which makes it the first free phone I’ve seen on T-Mobile to do so. Voice calls sounded clear and warm overall. The Nokia 3711 doesn’t get very loud in the earpiece, but it was fine in quieter environments. Reception was average, calls sounded fine through an Aliph Jawbone Icon ($99.00) Bluetooth headset, and the phone’s voice dialing doesn’t require training. The mono speaker on the back was too quiet. Battery life was average at 7 hours and 3 minutes of talk time in EDGE mode.

Nokia’s Symbian Series 40 OS was responsive and easy to navigate in testing. The main menu employs a carousel on the home page for T-Mobile myFaves contacts, and another carousel one level down for basic media, messaging, and other functions. One of the 3711’s signature features is Maps, which can pinpoint your current location using the phone’s GPS radio, and then search for nearby points of interest (presuming you sign up for the data plan).  TeleNav GPS Navigation was also on board for voice-enabled, turn-by-turn directions at $9.99 per month. This isn’t really a messaging phone thanks to the numeric keypad. But there were plenty of e-mail and IM options available for all major Web services, even MySpace IM.

The 2-megapixel camera lacks auto-focus or a flash. Test photos leaned toward red in the color spectrum, with overly warm tones indoor and out. The phone dealt surprisingly well with light sources and poorly lit interior rooms, though motion blur ruined a few shots thanks to the slow shutter. Don’t bother recording videos; the 176-by-144-pixel, 15-frame-per-second results were too small and pixelated.

Overall, the Nokia 3711 shows how much you can get for “free” nowadays. And the phone is admittedly not very good, but then again, still worth a look! And I actually quite like the look, it’s simple and professional. Take this to consideration: it’s ‘free’ after all! So I’m now really wondering: would you like to have this ‘free’ phone?

I’m aware that iPhone’s all over the world, and women do love that. But what’s fun about everyone using the same phone? Since all women love to be special, here comes a nice phone especially made for fashionable women, the LG Prada, the combinations of LG the fashion-phone maker and Prada the well renowned fashion house.

Instead of a girly pink or bejeweled phone which screams for attention, this one is much more and different, I do like understated tastefulness that mingles fashion and femininity in equal measures.  Design and colors aren’t the end game for us, the professional, hip and smart women of today want cell phones that also offer great functionality (as opposed to a ton of features) for not just work but also play. And this is it!

When it launched the Chocolate phone last year, LG established itself as a serious fashion-phone manufacturer. Gone are the days when the company made ugly lumps of plastic–now its mobile phones are synonymous with class and style. LG has in fact become so stylish that Prada, a fashion house rumored to have rejected many offers to make a co-branded phone in the past, has teamed up with it to create this new model.

The LG Prada is a very attractive, slim, candybar handset with a large color touchscreen that looks a tad like Apple’s iPhone. But, unlike many fashion phones on the market, it comes with a decent feature set. It was conceived by designers from both LG and Prada–Miuccia Prada herself was involved in its design. The LG Prada is expected to be available in April, but be warned: it will be popular, so getting your hands on one might be difficult.

To make a long story short, this is the phone I’ve ever wanted, elegant, powerful, playable. And you know what’s fun? Take out your Prada phone from your favorite Prada bag! Sounds great to me…

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We all love games, one best part about smartphones is so that we can play much more interesting games on phones. And most importantly  it’s extendable, always fun new games coming in the way! And here’s one really nice little game, Plants vs. Zombies!

The game has been popular on Windows and Mac for quite a while, and you might already have had lots of fun with your PC by now. Plants vs. Zombies is a super fun Tower-Defense style game made by PopCap, also know as a very hit casual game. A mob of fun-loving zombies is about to invade your home, and your only defense is an arsenal of 49 zombie-zapping plants. Use peashooters, wall-nuts, cherry bombs and more to mulchify 26 types of zombies before they can reach your front door.

Each zombie has its own special skills, so you’ll need to think fast and plant faster to combat them all. But be careful how you use your limited supply of greens and seeds… as you battle the fun-dead, obstacles like a setting sun, creeping fog and a swimming pool are added to the challenge. And with five game modes to dig into, the fun never dies!

And personally, I really love the cartoonish graphics, looks very clean and fun! And the most exciting part about this game on iPhone is really the fun of playing the game on a touchscreen, faster and more visually, totally beats the mouse game play! The game fits perfectly on iPhone, easy yet challenging, really entertaining! This is a very, very good game in a fairly crowded category. And the cost is $3, definitely worth it.

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We love Apple products, they always bring many surprises. And yes, I know it’s not a cellphone, but doesn’t it seem like a giant iPhone to you?! And did anything other than the iPad happen Wednesday? Did anything even matter before the iPad? Well, that’s why we’re talking here about this fabulous new device!

My first impressions of the device are mainly positive. Apple has once again built a product that looks good and feels great in the hand, and the familiar user interface, borrowed from the iPhone and iPod touch, is perfectly suited to the bigger screen. The iPad whizzes along, opening applications, re-sizing web pages, and zooming in and out of maps almost instantaneously. It’s a great, fun gaming platform, and it’s lovely to view full-size web pages while browsing the internet.  As Steve Jobs said during his keynote, if you’re going to create a third category of device, between the smartphone and the laptop, then it needs to be better than either for certain tasks. In many areas, this is true for the iPad — web browsing is much better on the iPad than the iPhone, just because of the bigger screen, and physically flicking through photos, music and movies is just more enjoyable on the iPad than a laptop.

But in several crucial areas, the iPad falls short of the functionality that would have made this more than just a large iPod touch. The lack of Flash support is a major issue; The iPad’s inability to multi-task could also severely hamper its appeal. It’s being pitched as a portable device that you could kick back and use on the sofa at home, but you can’t run two missions at the same time. It’s one or other, just as it is on the iPhone and iPod touch, but for the extra money you’re paying for the iPad, you expect something more akin to a laptop computing experience.

Still, a very good device that really offers lots of advantages over your smartphone or laptop, but to totally replace both, we might need to set out eyes on the second or third version.

There’re plenty of games on iPhone lately, but this one is really exclusive and totally worth playing. Before we start, I have to say that the first thing that catches my eyes was the picture-style, feels like sketches and very much enjoyable. And then, the gameplay is truly creative and full of fun!

Rafter is 21 levels of Da Vinci-inspired fun provided by Emantras, Inc.. The action doesn’t last very long, but this $0.99 title is definitely worth the money, cause Rafter presents one of the better physics-based puzzle engines I’ve seen out on the iPhone, and also, there is some replayability thanks to the OpenFeint-enabled scoreboards. The gameplay is indeed very simple: draw a shape at the top of the screen and have it drop onto the red mine at the bottom of the screen. Then again, it’s not quite that easy as you thought.

There are two kinds of obstacles in Rafter: the ones that move and the ones that don’t. The game also occasionally adds an extra challenge in the form of wind, but the gameplay always boils down to bouncing, rolling, or sliding your shape towards the red mine. You draw circles or rectangles at the top of the screen, each of which will bounce or slide off of in-game obstacles in a different way. The size of a drawn objecthas an effect on its mass too, that smaller shapes will fly further. You can use this mechanic to your advantage by making your drawings bounce off each other, to launch them into the level-ending red mine. However, you can’t simply take your time with your drawings, as every level features a time limit that affects your score. If you need a little bit of time to think, you can double tap any where on the level to pause. You get more points for completing a level faster, as well as for doing so with a minimum number of drawings..

I thought the experienced was tiered quite nicely, and the puzzles never got so complex that I just wanted to give up. So generally it is a really addicting game with a very much addicting core gameplay. Totally worth the $0.99, well, enjoy!

There’s really a lot of smartphones out there in the market, and now here’s just another one. And if you’re interested, let’s see what’s different and new about this one!

 Sony Ericssson has just unveiled a new smartphone with full touch screen features – the Sony Ericsson Vivaz. The Sony Ericsson Vivaz is a full featured smartphone with great features such as a high resolution camera that lets you capture video in HD quality. It has a dedicated video key that lets you shoot video quickly with continous auto focus. This phone also lets you review video content in standby panel or online via Wi-Fi on its 3.2 inch touch enabled widescreen display. You can also upload your videos to YouTube and Picasa directly over Wi-Fi. And since uploading takes time, you can let the uploading run in the background and use the phone for other purposes. The Sony Ericsson Vivaz is also an open platform handset so you can personalize it with entertainment content and other applications that you can find from PlayNow and Symbian Developer Community. And it also has a GPS like many other smartphones do.

Design-wise, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz boasts of a design that can be attributed to what Sony calls as human curvature. The design was made to mirror the shape of the human body while at the same deliver a precise and compeling phone interaction. The Sony Ericsson Vivaz will be available in Moon Silver, Cosmic Black, Galaxy Blue and Venus Ruby designs.

However, no words on pricing yet. A exclusive nice phone, or just another smartphone? To me, I got really tired of these smartphones, and this one is just not my idea of a pretty cellphone. So how do you think?

In the sea of smartphones, I am getting a little lost, wondering about the significant difference between all these phones. Actually, are we using the sames phone in deed? So, what I mean is I’m a little tired of touchscreen phones, therefore I’m coming up with this today!

Nokia has just announced the new slider phone – Nokia 7230 with colorful looks and solid set of features at a very affordable price. To be released sometime in Q1 of 2010, the Nokia 7230 will have a price tag of around EUR 100. The Nokia 7230 offers quick access to various social networking communities as well as great photo capturing features thanks to its 3.2 megapixel camera. Photos you’ve taken can be viewed on its 2.4-inch display. The Nokia 7230 also provides fast 3G connectivity as well as quick access to email and instant messaging.

A nice feature of the Nokia 7230 is an illuminating light that tells you if you have miss calls or incoming messages from your friends. The Nokia 7230 also supports Nokia Ovi store, giving you quick access to media sharing sites such as Ovi Share, Flickr, Facebook and more.

Additional features of the Nokia 7230 includes an FM radio, MP3 and AAC ringtones, Bluetooth, phonebook with a maximum of 2,000 entries and support for Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging as well as MMS. And it also comes with a TFT screen. So this is another Nokia Mobile Entertainment Handset, as the band goes in this area, you know you can count on this little cutie.

As the most important things for a phone – to make calls anywhere, the Nokia 7230 is a WCDMA 850/1900/2100 and 900/1900/2100 phone and also supports GPRS/EGPRS network connectivity. It provides you with up to 14.3 days stand by time and 4.1 hours talk time. It runs S40 mobile platform. The Nokia 7230 comes with a 2GB microSD card.

So, how do you like it? Quite tempting to me, round corners, cute look, nice features…Really a good choice if you’re not really fond of touchscreen phones.

To be honest, I have to admit that I am quite a Google fan, that I use google chrome, Gtalk, Gmail and a bounch of other google products, and most of all, Google search! So I’ve really been looking forward to this for a long time since the rumour goes around, and it is exciting to see this it finally goes official. Well, shall we check…

Google has finally launched the first real Google Phone so to speak – Nexus One. We can now lay all rumors, photo leaks, unofficial information as Google formally unveils what could possible pose as a real threat to the iPhone. The Nexus One runs on Android 2.0, features a 5MP autofocus camera, AGPS, and all the standard features that you normally find with the usual smartphones in its class.

The Smartphone is actually wisely designed, Nexus One is what you could probably expect from another HTC manufactured smartphone and it definitely looks a lot like the iPhone. It has a touchscreen display occupying the full front of the phone without any physical keyboard. It is thin at only 11.5 mm thick, and light at 130 grams. While the iPhone only have one functional touch button that does everything, the Nexus One has four of them – back, menu, home, search. In addition, it also has a navigation trackball, power and volume controls. One of the best feature of the Nexus One is of course its capacitive touchscreen measuring 3.7-inch and with 480×800 resolution. It’s definitely way better than the iPhone’s 480×320 display. The Nexus One’s standby time is at 290 hours on 2G and 250 hours on 3G, while talktime is up to 10 hours on 2 G and 7 hours on 3G.

The Nexus One is available now at Http://google.phone at various pricing schemes. The phone is really nice and tempting to a google fan like me, definitely worth buying!