I have been using this new Google Nexus One phone for two weeks already and I am very satisfied with the new phone, love it a lot although there’s still don’t-like about the phone.
I live in Malaysia and it’s not listed in the shipping destination of four countries. There’s United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore. Luckily, I have a brother who resides in Singapore, he helped me to order and shipped to his address in Singapore, only then he bring it back to Malaysia during the Chinese New Year holiday two weeks ago.
The shipping from USA to Singapore was pretty fast, it took DHL 4 days and hand delivered on a Sunday.
The package comes with the phone and another order of the Europe-Asia AC Adapter, it’s actually useless because the two-pin works here too!
Inside the phone box, there’s the phone, a pouch, earpiece, USB cable and 2-pin adapter.
I like the earpiece because the microphone is tiny, although not as tiny as the iPhone’s but still it camouflaged into the media key and not many will notice it’s actually an earpiece with mic for the Nexus One. People will think that I am either talking to air, or just listening to MP3.
I was on Symbian, familiar with iPhone OS and it’s my first time using Android 2.1. Very unfamiliar with the UI and not very friendly at first, the keyboard was not as sensitive as the iPhone but I am getting used to the OS already. Although Android apps are not as many as the iPhone apps, but I believe it will grow, perhaps is because that it’s still new.
Another thing I dislike is the capacitive touch screen doesn’t feel good as the glassy one on the iPhone, and last dislike thing is the 4 touch sensitive button below the screen are annoying, because I always touch on it accidentally.
Afterall, I like my phone, I am satisfied with it. I can’t dislike the battery life because all smart phone’s battery life is like that.
If you want this phone, you need a data plan because it syncs a lot.
Here’s mine LIKES and DISLIKES.
Likes:
Larger than iPhone’s screen.
Capacitive multi-touch screen.
Thin and lightweight.
Solid built.
5MP Camera.
Android open-sourced platform.
Google Account and Facebook sync.
Cheaper than iPhone.
Unique because less people own it here at my place.
Oh yeah people. Apple didn’t announce anything about iPhone 4G or OS 4.0 so which means that I won’t be getting the iPhone. I’ve been using Symbian for 2 years already and it’s time for a change, actually wanted an iPhone but due to the cockyness of iPhone and price, I’ve decided to go for the Google Nexue One.
You know right, iPhone here in Malaysia was like I can’t get the phone on the spot, I have to pay for deposit and wait the phone for at least a month. I hate this, I’ve money already still I can’t get the phone. Although iPhone is now available in store, still Nexus One has a better specs and a faster processor. What I want is a fast phone, my N95 is very slow and lags a lot.
Although Malaysia is not in their testing market, my brother who is in Singapore helped me to get in and the ETA is 10 days and I will be checking the status everyday. For sure, I will have the phone before Chinese New Year which falls on the valentine’s day too! =)
Stay tune for some Android updates here when I get the phone. Very excited right now.
I love Google Maps both on my PC and the mobile! I plan my trips with it and when I get lost on the road, it helps me a lot. Although it lack voice navigation on my Nokia N95 8GB, the “get direction” do helps too.
I also use it to favourite an eating place when I visit, then later use as reference for my food blog. With the latest version 3.3.1, I can sync my favourited/starred location to my Google Maps account online.
Previously, I can’t do that. Frankly, I kinda out-date because I only update my Google Maps now, but I believe some still stuck with old Google Maps on their phone, so faster update yours now!
By the way, if you are using Android, you get extra navigation feature and don’t forget, this is data-based, so you need a data plan for it. =)
Google have this video of the unboxing of their Nexus One. Seeing a 3 ninja chopping off the box of Nexus One to unveil what’s inside. Seems like there’s no manual. I find it quite lame and funny.
Walked around the exhibition hall and found something to play and try out and that is the iRiver M3 GPS system. The design is not bad, but the screen is rather small, it will be nice if it’s widescreen. Since it’s indoor, there’s I can’t navigate around with this thing, so I place search on my house address and it works. It has preloaded maps of Malaysia and it search by cities.
What’s this different from Garmin is that it is also a media player which plays music, video, text and photo. The storage is via SD card and addition features are like local yellow page listing, 3D junction view, landmark icons and toll rates calculator.
Price at RM499 for PC Fair price, I don’t like this because the touch screen is unresponsive, I always keyed in the wrong word when searching for road and navigating around is not easy.
I went around the PC Fair to look for some cool gadget to play with but most of them don’t have demo unit. One of which is HTC which doesn’t have any demo set for their units which disappoint me a lot. I wanted to check out the HTC HD2 a.k.a. HTC Leo running Windows Mobile on their fast processor but somehow the HTC guy told me that they only got dummy set to show. That’s really bad.
The only thing I can try with the dummy set is feel the size and compare it. The HD2 will probably not be my wanted phone because it’s too huge. Although it’s thin, light, and the screen is extremely big, yet it still feel big, wide on hand and in the pocket. 4.3″ is a little bit too big IMO.
I haven’t tried a Android device before. It’s all looking on Youtube and reading about user experience in before, HTC Hero is the only Android device in Malaysia currently and, still I don’t get to try on it. Boring.
If you are looking for a phone, I recommend you to wait for Motorola’s MILESTONE or the new HTC Hero replacement in early 2010.
