I spent some time yesterday, the 14th and the morning of the 15th going through all the library files and various other system files from the Nexus One ROM and I have put together a running list of the hardware I found referenced in there. Here is what I have found so far. I will update with more as I find it. UPDATE: Snapdragon Specific Libraries found.
- Proximity Sensor/Light Sensor: Capella CM3602 per sensors.mahimahi.so in Nexus One ROM Dump.
- Accelerometer: BMA150 3-axis Accelerometer per sensors.mahimahi.so in Nexus One ROM Dump.
- Magnetic Compass: AK8973 3-axis Magnetic field sensor/AK8973 Orientation sensor per sensors.mahimahi.so in Nexus One ROM Dump.
- Wifi Radio / Bluetooth / FM: BCM4329 in lib/modules
- In libaudio.so I found “Routing audio to Speakerphone with back mic” reference.
- In libaudio.so I found “Stereo FM speaker” also referenced.
- Audience A1026 Noise Canceling Chip – No link but here is the A1024 found in libaudio.so
- Qualcomm QSD8K Specific hardware libs in lib/hw (QSD8250 Probably)
- Adreno 200 Graphics Core with OpenGLES 2.0 – Part of Snapdragon?
- Camera Info Vague, found some references to auto focus, flash, white balance and anti-banding in libcamera.so
- Synaptics Inc.’s ClearPad 2000 capacitive touch screen sensor
I am interested mostly in the BCM4329 as it has support for 802.11n and FM Tx and Rx. I’m not sure 802.11n would really be necessary, but it’s good to know it’s there, just in case someone wants exploit that. I did see a screen shot not too long ago of the Motorola Sholes with an FM software app in Android, so that is a possibility. One last thing about the camera. We know it will be at least 5MP based on the uploaded photos in Picasa. We know it has flash and autofocus, but I am not able to find a specific manufacturer or model number.
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42 Comments for Nexus One Hardware Running List
Android 1 | December 15, 2009 at 12:00 am
Tucknoloji | December 15, 2009 at 5:40 am
What???, are we looking only for FM reciever in Google Phone, which is pretty much unnamed so far. Specs are nice but still no solid words has been spoken by google on its official name…. Strange…..
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Edward | December 15, 2009 at 10:40 am
All I really care about is a damn 3.5mm headphone jack. I don’t want some stupid dongle like I have now with my G1.
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networkguru | December 15, 2009 at 10:53 am
What i would really like to see is also a built-in FM TRANSMITTER so that we don’t have use an external FM transmitter for in car audio(the newer cars have all the necessary hookups) in older cars.
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IwannaNexus | December 15, 2009 at 11:01 am
I am with networkguru, I think having FM transmission would be great, but maybe a battery drainer?
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Andrew | December 15, 2009 at 11:23 am
Any word on the camera or screen?
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Nexus | December 15, 2009 at 11:48 am
5mp Camera, Flash, 3.7 inch WVGA AMOLED screen. 3.5mm jack, no FM radio.
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Nick | December 15, 2009 at 12:06 pm
No doubt the monkeys at Apple literally took a crap in their pants when they read this. The fact that Apple is locked into AT&T will give Google at least a year headstart on saturating the market with this device using the other 3 US major carriers, not to mention the greater global audience that doesn’t want to be locked into AT&T’s BS data fees and bandwidth limitations (artificial and otherwise). Way to go Google!!
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Josh Chambers | December 15, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Forgive the ignorance if this is a bad question for this post… Any idea regarding the internal radio? Will it be GSM only for certain? And *only* T-Mobile as the FCC rumors seem to suggest?
Thanks!
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Android 1 | December 15, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I think it’s safe to say at this point it will be GSM only and a likely bet it will be T-Mobile 3G. This is too bad, but I can definitely see a Nexus Two in the future with a combo GSM/CDMA radio for all networks in the US, such as the Qualcomm MDM9K series.
http://www.thesearethedroids.com/2009/11/12/qualcomm-looking-ahead/
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danitual | December 15, 2009 at 2:13 pm
and the GPS?
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asatamer | December 15, 2009 at 3:12 pm
I cant wait to see its RAM and its storage space..
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Mekell | December 15, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Ya, I really want to know its RAM and processor speed… If there is a large improvement from current Android phones, I may pick this up
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Matthew | December 15, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Seeing as Google has released no official statement on Android 2.1 anywhere on their site or anything, I take this with a grain of salt. My thoughts are that Android 2.1 doesn’t exist and all this is is a custom UI of 2.0. Seeing how the Droid has recently been rooted. That is not to say the device itself does not exist, just the ROM running it.
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Josh Chambers | December 15, 2009 at 4:52 pm
The update Android 2.0 received on the Droid on December 11th actually put in place a few of the visual changes I’m seeing in the “2.1″ screenshots. No animated graphics, but small things like an unlock tab being perfectly horizontal vs. an arch…I wonder if that means Droid will be receiving a 2.1 update in the next few months.
I still have a hard time believing 2.1 will have an incredible UI. Have you *seen* 2.0’s music player? It’s horrible.
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Matthew | December 15, 2009 at 6:12 pm
What you’ve said makes me think more that all it is is a custom UI. I would like to hear something from Google before I believe that it is in fact 2.1 and not 2.0.1 customized.
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zunguri | December 15, 2009 at 10:31 pm
All the snapdragon devices I’ve seen, save one, have been running at 1GHz. Good bet this one will be too. So which to go for, the N1 in January or Motorola Sholes in ? (I’m really hoping the 8mp camera in the sholes is not crap.)
I wonder how they will make a giant flan for the Google campus?
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JUmal | December 16, 2009 at 3:38 am
I’m excited about the noise canceling built-in.. no need to buy expensive headphone.
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DroidTouch | December 16, 2009 at 5:01 am
With this being an unlocked phone, do you think the carriers will support 3G on this or will it default to EDGE? Isn’t that one of the problems using an unlocked iphone with t-mobile?
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Sackboy | December 16, 2009 at 7:14 am
I want the HTC Bravo NOW!
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Jucktioner | December 16, 2009 at 9:22 am
This surely looks great. The features seams awesome. Cant wait.
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Jodokai | December 16, 2009 at 10:04 am
Didn’t the “sholes” become the Droid?
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Android 1 | December 16, 2009 at 10:34 am
During the first rumor runs of the Motorola Droid, many terms were used for it, including “Sholes”, which makes sense because there really is a Sholes out there. However, I think at this time it’s safe to say the Sholes was a unique phone on it’s own. Basically, a Droid without the physical qwerty keyboard.
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Matthew | December 16, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Droid without a keyboard is only a available in China.
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hbhTech | December 16, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Camera info from FCC test report:
(1) Model No.: 08PM15A ; Supplier: LiteOn
(2) Model No.: 50-70483HTT8 ; Supplier: Primax
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Matthew | December 16, 2009 at 9:06 pm
I believe that this device will probably be an in house device only. i.e. Not sold to public. But I could be wrong. We shall see in due time.
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Brian | December 16, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Any details on the audio chip? The iPhone 3GS has a pretty good quality headphone jack for a phone.
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Matthew | December 16, 2009 at 9:45 pm
I’d like to know how these details were ascertained in the first place.
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Nexus One Forum | December 16, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Does anyone know which specific Snapdragon processor (or, rather, the Mhz) that it’s running?
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Matthew | December 16, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Supposedly 1 GHz
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smart smart | December 17, 2009 at 6:39 am
funny that it doesn’t have a front camera for video calls over 3g network
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Matthew | December 17, 2009 at 7:22 am
Not many phones do.
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no gps?? | December 17, 2009 at 10:44 am
no gps???
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Android 1 | December 17, 2009 at 12:18 pm
There is GPS for sure. It’s listed as part of the Snapdragon chipset, QSD8250 as mentioned.
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Matthew | December 17, 2009 at 8:07 pm
This site is so slow with news. I don’t know if I should trust it or not.
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Raju | December 18, 2009 at 2:57 am
I am surprised that they can offer all these at such a low cost!
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Matthew | December 19, 2009 at 7:11 pm
They haven’t released a price, but be prepared to spend at least six hundred if it’s truly an unlocked phone.
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Akshaya | December 25, 2009 at 7:09 am
Is it possible with such a price??????
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Jrei | December 29, 2009 at 8:00 pm
This phone will never be sold for $600, it will be sold for around $200 because google will self subsidise the cost by doing the advertising on their own through their internet search engine and the android market. By doing this the cost will become more affordable and it will succede in passing the supremacy of the iPhone
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Drabbit | December 29, 2009 at 9:26 pm
If it actually comes out at around the $200 price range, I would absolutely get one.
There are really only 2 good snapdragon phones out right now (HTC HD2 and the Sony Xperia X10), both of which are $800 and above.
The next technology that help make devices more portable will be neural interfaces so that we won’t need to type anymore. Haha, but then will lead to “thinking while driving”.
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subhasis | December 30, 2009 at 11:31 am
the phone will bw sold at around 200$ not more than that .
http://www.pressalive.com
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aditya | December 30, 2009 at 2:49 pm
After perusing the datasheet for the acceleration IC, it is interesting to see that it also provides an absolute temperature output. I wonder
a) where the IC is located inside.
b) whether the operating temperature of the device will cloud the output
c) when there will be a thermometer app 
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It’s quite possible this phone will have at least an FM receiver. We saw an FM app somewhere out there. I’ll try and find it.
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