I posted the below on facebook, but I also figured that silk has a large population of past and present employees of both companies referenced below. What do you folks think? _
Interesting. I am almost reminded of Yahoo's early 00s attempt to be all things to all people. Can google pull this off? http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-10425187-251.html We knew it was coming, but we had to wait for Google to spill the news before we could talk about it with authority. And the company did so Tuesday morning at a press conference at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. As expected, the Nexus One is a new Google Android phone that offers an inside designed by Google and an outside designed by HTC. According to Google's Mario Queiroz, the Nexus One is a "super phone" where the Web meets the cell phone. "It's an exemplar of what mobile phones can do with Android," he said. The handset will be available first for GSM carriers like T-Mobile, but a Verizon version will follow. Though its slim (0.45 inch), lightweight (4.58 ounces) touch-screen design doesn't stand out from the current Android crowd, it offers a loaded feature set with a few notable offerings, including a 1Ghz Snapdragon processor. The primary interface is a 3.7-inch AMOLED display with five customizable home screens. The Nexus One runs the Android 2.1 OS and the WVGA display can show 3G graphics. The trackball below the display lets you navigate menus, but also lights up to alert you to new messages. We're pleased that HTC added a 3.5mm headset jack. As described by Erick Tseng, Google's senior product manager for the Nexus One project, the feature set includes everything you'd expect from an Android phone and adds a couple of unique goodies. Inside you'll find a GPS with Google Maps and turn-by-turn navigation, an accelerometer, a virtual keyboard, a light sensor for adjusting the display to save battery power, a proximity sensor, a compass, a 5-megapixel camera with a LED flash, Wi-Fi, a new media gallery interface with access to Picassa and YouTube, Facebook access, and stereo Bluetooth. Tethering and multitouch are not yet supported and app storage will be limited to the 512MB of internal memory. The Nexus One will be the first Android handset to offer noise cancellation, with two microphones (one on the bottom of the handset and one on back) that will adjust the volume level according to the background noise in your environment. It also delivers more voice command options than existing Android handsets. Among other things, you'll be able to update your Facebook status, compose a text, and search the new Android Google Earth app using only your voice. <snip> -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
