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This is turning into a deja-vu feeling that I am not particularly fond of. Ever since Apple launched the first iPhone I was waiting to see the response of the competition. No cell phone maker was able to deal with Apple’s blow and come up with a decent, fun to be around, iPhone competitor.
Apple, who didn’t make any phones until the iPhone, managed to climb atop of the smartphone business with one simple yet very complicated gadget. We’ve seen the BlackBerry Storm announced as the true iPhone competitor. Then came the Palm Pre which everyone was waiting for in the first half of the year. Then came the Motorola Droid, which is, in my opinion, the only gadget that can truly stand a chance in front of the iPhone. And then most people anticipated, including yours truly, that the Google Nexus One was finally going to be the phone that could affect the iPhone dominance.
Don’t get me wrong, the iPhone had and still has its flaws, only it still manages to make a better impression than everyone else’s phone!
In other words, I was wrong again! You will notice how I left handsets like the HTC HD2, the Nokia N97, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 or the Samsung Omnia and Omnia II out of this comparison. They are all great devices but they are simply not running a competitive enough OS.
The Nexus One still has 3G problems and support forums are filled with complaints about it. Furtermore it lacks multitouch in the U.S. and the Android Market simply can’t be compared to the App Store. Will Google fix everything? I would imagine so, but the Nexus One failed to make a good first impression as two major requirements in the modern smartphone business: 3G support and multitouch, have not been flawlessly delivered.
Maybe Google hurried to launch the phone at the beginning of the year. Maybe a later launch would have given us a better device. While Android is still a major threat for Apple, Cupertino can rest assured for now that it will still dominate the smartphone business with its iPhone. And in less than three weeks, iPhone OS 4.0 could be unveiled and Google will have even more things to deal with.
The moral of the story is not to buy the Nexus One yet unless you want to chat a lot with customer care reps. Better sit on that cash and wait for everything to be fixed. In the mean time other phones will come out as MWC is right around the corner.
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Thanks for the tip. Don’t buy the very first version of something the day it comes out because there might be problems with it. That certainly didn’t happen with the iPhone…
I’m a MacHead, I own two macs, two ipods and I like the iphone. The Nexus One is prob. the only one that would lure me away. That and not having to use AT&T.
I’m sure Google can fix the problems as quickly as Apple fixed the 3G problems that are not an issue anymore at all…
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I have to disagree I have the nexus one and I have not had any problems with it. To say the apple I phone is the best phone on the market would be a personal choice as of now do to the open source platforms and other os that are doing really well. And the problem with nexus ones 3G is T-Mobile 3G cellular net work that is affordable for people and somewhat reliable. Now if you really want the best 3G net work go with version. Even though you can surf the web and talk at the same who does that.
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iPhone all the way! The iPhone has no competition
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This is hilarious. You mention 3G (or any connection at all) when comparing the iPhone. One word: AT&T.
T-Mobile can get bad-mouthed all day, but it’s because they’re the smallest carrier of the Big 4. Yet AT&T is number 2, former 1. And their 3G is how bad? Let alone the reception on the iPhone is ungodly. And why does that matter? Because at the end of the day…with your Pandora you can not multitask, the customization you will not see, the individuality of a phone….its still a phone. Point blank. And the iPhone sort of fails at that.
Yet lets get to your point…multitouch it has, not in native apps though. Kind of the reverse process of Apple and multitasking (seems these companies just don’t like “multi” things) where Apple limits a certain task to only native apps. So seeing as our multitouch option is only limited by developers…it’s not THAT bad.
Android Market vs App Store…I find to be a moot point. You can have all the apps in the world. But the truth of the matter is of those 100,000 apps a lot are copies. So for the main consumer, what you can find on iPhone you can find on Android. The main thing I will say market must work on is cleaning up the organization (which the App Store must do too) and getting better UI’s to these apps. Because when you have 20,000 apps there will normally not be a mainstream app you can not find.
Not to mention the Market is growing each day and will continue to see additions. Only thing the App Store will ever hold over Android at the moment is games…which doesn’t bother too many Android users I have seen.
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Chris Reply:
January 10th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Well yes Davey, you have a couple of points there. But I am not comparing T-Mobile and AT&T. I think it’s clear for everyone that AT&T is not exactly ready to let customers enjoy the iPhone to the fullest. The main point I am making is that I was expecting the Nexus One to come in blazing through and make a very good first impression. Kind of what the Droid did back in November when it was launched. It’s only a matter of time before Google makes everything go away but this shy Nexus One launch might make some people think twice before buying it.
The iPhone is not the phone it could be yet and it also had various problems along the years. Nonetheless Apple managed to better market it and sell millions of it. Will Google do the same with the Nexus One or any of its followers? One could only hope so, right?
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I’m surprised to see that few reviewers have mentioned the comparative flash storage capacities of the Nexus One versus the iPhone. Though $100+ more expensive (I’m comparing service contract subsidies), you can obtain 32GB of disk space with an iPhone 3GS. I take photos, download music, and now – some movies to my iPhone. 4GB even supposing a 16GB microSD for the Nexus One is not comparable. Does this seem like an obvious point that’s been ignored? Just curious.
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the new product is not yet perfect but the soonest possible time it will became number one smartphone in the world…go go go Nexus
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