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The Road to Nexus One: Travails in Dumbphonery

I’m without a smartphone right now, in a period of transition between iPhone 3G and the Nexus One. It’s been enlightening, so I thought I’d document my experience here, since it’s a story with a happy Android Ending. Read on for a laugh or maybe just a good cry. In November 2007, I bought an [...]

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Some Nexus One Hardware Capable of all US 3G Frequencies

The Nexus One currently being sold through Google, while only officially supporting the UMTS 3G frequency bands of 1,4 and 8 (2100Mhz, 1700Mhz-AWS and 900Mhz) carries the Qualcomm RTR6285 RF chip, which fully supports UMTS 3G frequency bands 1,2,3,4,5,6,8 and 9.  These bands pretty much cover the whole world in case you were curious.  In [...]

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Nexus One Advertising and Sales

Google officially introduced the world to the Nexus One phone on Jan 5th, exactly four week ago.  Apart from the semi private introduction part, only open to invitees and of course all their web blogs/video feeds (for the rest of us), there has been very little advertising of the Nexus One.  The N1 available today [...]

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