Google's first in-house smartphone "Nexus One" is officially announced, prices start at mid 10,000 yen

In December last year, Google adopted OS "Android" for mobile phones that we are developing in-house,It is clear that we plan to release our first in-house smartphone "Nexus One"At last, the official announcement was held today.

In addition to being fully released and releasing it, we are achieving very high performance among many smartphones, as well as various services offered by the company, it is possible to input texts using voice , It is content which can be said to be exactly high end.

Moreover, from the information which became clear this time, it seems that you can guess the career that will release "Nexus One" in Japan.

Detailed specs and demonstration movie playback from the following.
Google Offers New Model for Consumers to Buy a Mobile Phone | Google Press Center: Press Release

Google announced that it will release its first smartphone "Nexus One" in the USA. The price is SIM free model is 529 dollars (about 48,500 yen), 2 years contract model with T - mobile is 179 dollars (16,400 yen).

"Nexus One" has adopted the latest version "Android 2.1" in the OS, and will be able to use mobile phone as a full-scale car navigation system linked with the Internet "Google Maps Navigation, Multiple Gmail accounts, and "Android Market" which contains 18,000 applications.

In addition to Google search and e-mail creation by voice input, it also has a function that allows you to view pictures taken with built-in camera in 3D Warehouse, upload video to YouTube.

Although it is a spec of "Nexus One" which is worrisome, it is a Snapdragon processor that drives at 1 GHz, a 3.7-inch wide VGA (800 × 480) organic EL touch panel, and a 720 × 480 movie shooting capability also possible Autofocus with LED flash 5 million It has a pixel camera, a wireless LAN compatible with IEEE 802.11 b / g / n, GPS, Bluetooth, a microSD memory card slot (4 GB card is included) compatible with up to 32 GB, etc. The thickness is 11.5 mm, It is 130 g.

For more detailed specs see below.

Nexus One Phone - Feature overview & amp; Technical specifications

The back of "Nexus One" looks something like this


The demonstration movie of "Nexus One" released by Google is as follows.

YouTube - Nexus One: "Web meets phone"


This is a photo 3D gallery

YouTube - Nexus One - Camera and 3D Gallery


Introduction of text input function using voice


Just by launching the application and talking to you, you can enter text


It seems that recognition accuracy is not low.
YouTube - Nexus One - Voice Input


There are many other movies on YouTube's special page.

YouTube - GoogleNexusOne's channel


By the way, when I accessed the following 'Nexus One' official website, I received an indication that it can not be used in Japan at the present time, but SOFTBANK MOBILE 's Winter 2009 and November Spring Terminal Presentation , The specification matches "Nexus One"An Android smartphone equipped with 1 GHz Snapdragon processor and 3.7 inch organic EL display will appear in the spring of 2010Given that revealed, the seller SOFTBANK MOBILE, the first in Japan Android mobile "HT-03AIt seems that there is a high possibility of becoming NTT docomo that released "

Nexus One Phone - Web meets phone.