Be Careful When You Put Your Nexus One in Your Pocket, You Might Break its Screen
Crave.net is reporting about their experience with a cracked Nexus One screen. According to them, upon advise by Google, they brought the Nexus One to HTC for examination. And after some time of investigation, HTC got back to them for their findings as to what might have caused the Nexus One’s screen to break.
According to HTC, they really couldn’t find any reason why the incident happen and what could be possibly done to avoid it. HTC suggested that putting the Nexus One inside your pocket especially if you are wearing tight jeans might have caused its screen to break.
So, there. Do you believe this reason? Are you going to heed HTC’s advise? Are you fond of putting your Nexus One in your pocket?
Google to Give Free Nexus One, Droid to Android Developers
Are you an Android app developer? Have you submitted an app to the Android Market? And does your app currently have a 3.5-star rating and was downloaded 5,000 times at least? If you answer yes to all those questions, you’re one lucky folk! Google is said to be giving away Nexus One units to Android developers meeting those qualifications. This is part of Google’s “Device Seeding Program.” Possibly to make the Nexus One reach as many hands as possibly.
The lucky developers will receive either a Verizon Droid by Motorola or Nexus One. To get a Nexus One or Droid, you must be a developer with an address in the U.S. If you’re in Canada, EU and the EEA countries, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, you’ll get a Nexus One. Unfortunately, even if you have the most downloaded app in the Android market, if you’re address is not anywhere in the listed countries, you’ll not get a free Nexus One.
We hope that you will enjoy your new device and continue to build more insanely popular apps for Android!
So, there. Hopefully this program will enable Google to distribute the Nexus One to as many users as possible. Never mind if they don’t get a payment for them.
Via TechCrunch
Nexus One Hitting Vodafone UK Soon
Aside from the HTC device that just passed through the FCC and which is rumored to be the Nexus One for Verizon, another Nexus One is rumored to be coming out, this time for Vodafone UK, Telegraph UK is reporting.
The said Nexus One maybe sold through http://google.com/phone and will most likely have the same price as when the first Nexus One was released months ago.
Both Google and Vodafone would not issue an official statement as of this time, although they said that the Nexus One will be delivered in the UK, in spring.
Verizon Nexus One Passes Through the FCC
It looks like Verizon customers will soon have a taste of the Nexus One. The folks at Unwired View spotted an FCC filing for an HTC-made phone with a model name PB99300.
And since the T-Mobile Nexus One has the model number PB99100, the PB99300 might just be the Nexus One hitting Verizon. Of course we all know that Google really has a plan of bringing their first real Google phone to Verizon as announced earlier.
So, could this be it? Let’s wait and see.
Google Cancels Nexus One Launch Gig in China
Sorry to our friends in China who have been waiting for the arrivial of the Nexus One in their homeland. It looks like, this won’t push through after all as Google has just cancelled it. And the reason for the cancellation – possibly due to the ongoing Google-China Crisis.
Fortunately for Hong Kong and Taiwan the Nexus One product launch will be happening on that day.
via Reuters
FarmVille, Flash 10.1 On Nexus One
So did you have the courage to install the HTC Desire ROM beta on your Nexus One? If you did, you might want to check out visiting some Flash-based sites and see if your phone does support Flash 10.1 as mentioned by a post at Redmond Pie.
Or better yet, go check out FarmVille on Facebook and see if you can actually play the game on your Nexus. If you don’t believe me, check out the video by Redmond Pie showing Nexus One running Flash 10.1 via FarmVille.
Will you install the HTC Desire ROM now?
Google Earth Now Available for Nexus One
In case you haven’t heard about the latest Google mobile product that graced our beloved Nexus One, well you might be missing a lot. Actually not really a lot since the app has just been outted a couple of hours ago. I’m talking about Google Earth for Android which is currently available for download at the Android market.
If you’ve used Google Earth for iPhone before, this version for the Nexus One definitely much better. The app utilizes the Nexus One’s capabilities in terms of graphics and fast processing power. The result a cool new app that you should be downloading right now.
Run HTC Sense UI on your Nexus One
Here’s your chance to finally run HTC Sense on your Nexus One. Paul at Modaco just made available the HTC Desire ROM which you can install on your Nexus One. As this is an early Alpha release, expects some bugs here and there including the probability of bricking your phone in case the ROM doesn’t run well.
But if you’re brave enough, now only can you have the HTC Sense widgets but also Flash 10.1 on your Nexus One.
So, if you’re ready check out the steps at Redmond Pie.
Opera Mobile Browser Demoed on Nexus One
MobileCrunch has posted a short video of Nexus One running the latest version of the Opera Mobile browser.
Check it out and see for yourself whether we should all be excited about the fact that Opera Mobile might soon land on various Android devices including our Nexus One.
Innodock Jr. Desktop Cradle for Nexus One
If you don’t feel like getting the official Google Nexus One Dock, here’s a good alternative – the Innodock Jr. Desktop Cradle. This is a convenient desktop cradle that lets you sync and charge your device at the same time. It is compatible with bare Nexus One as well as those with any of the Innocases or skins.
Yup, the dome shape definitely looks better than the usual squarish dock. Read more
