Don't let the standard candy bar design fool you: the Nexus One brings welcome new offerings to the Android table. Of course, the Nexus One wasn't without its problems: the music player continues to underwhelm, app storage remains limited to the internal memory, the handset lacks full multitouch and hands-free Bluetooth dialing, and we would have appreciated dual-mode (GSM/CDMA) support. The operating system can already go to head-to-head with the iPhone, and the Nexus One only gives Android more ammunition. Perhaps its greatest benefit is that the Nexus One is sold exclusively by Google in two versions.

Design.
Though sleek and attractive, the Nexus One's candy bar, touch-screen-only design doesn't break new design ground. The display also offers an accelerometer, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor. A square touch control with a grid design replaces the menu tab found on other Android phones. The four touch controls below the display--a back button, home and search keys, and a control for the notifications menu--are standard Android. A long press to the home screen will bring up your recent features, and a long press to the search control will activate voice search.

Features.
The contacts menu is limited by the available memory, but each entry can store multiple fields for phone numbers, street addresses, work information, e-mails, URLs, instant-messaging handles, nicknames, and notes. Contacts are automatically synced from your Gmail account, and you can also sync Facebook and Microsoft Exchange contacts. As with previous Android phones, you must store applications from the Android Market on the 512MB of internal memory. MicroSD cards (the Nexus One comes with a 4GB card, but it can accommodate cards up to 32GB) are only for other data files. "It's unfortunate that Google launched a mobile device without properly integrating e-mail from Yahoo--the number one mobile mail service in the United States. The Nexus One's primary feature selling point is its voice command features. Photo quality is satisfying. Check out our Nexus One camera slideshow for a full assessment of the image quality.

Video quality is about average. On the downside, the troubling Android shutter lag remains. The Gallery application offers a few improvements. Other features include a calculator, a full duplex speakerphone, a compass, a text-to-speech feature, A2DP stereo Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, text and multimedia messaging, and the full slate of Google applications like YouTube, Picasa, Google Voice, Google Talk, and Google Maps. Please see the Performance section for more on the Nexus One's Bluetooth feature and Web browser. Thanks to Android 2.1, the Nexus One also has the Car Home application, which offers local search and real-time, turn-by-turn directions with voice.

Performance.
We tested the Nexus One in Las Vegas with T-Mobile service. As a quad-band world phone (GSM 850/900/1800/1900), you'll be able to use the Nexus One with any GSM carrier, but its 3G bands (2100/AWS/900) are compatible only with T-Mobile's network in the United States. We'd also love to see a dual-mode phone that supports both CDMA and GSM networks. With thousands of cell phone-happy people in one place, CES can be a notorious dead zone. Speakerphone calls were satisfactory as well. We tested the Nexus One with the Sound ID 200 Bluetooth headset. Bluetooth calls were admirable, though it's worth noting that like the Droid you cannot initiate voice dialing without touching the phone. The Nexus One's greatest triumph is its 1Ghz Snapdragon processor. Applications loaded instantly and there was no lag when switching between features. We tried to time the average loading time for opening memory-heavy intensive applications, but it was so fast we had trouble recording it on a stopwatch. It's not an understatement to say that the Nexus One is the fastest Android phone we've seen.

Specifications:
* Manufacturer: HTC
* Part Number: CNETNEXUSONE
* Product Type Smartphone With digital camera / digital player
* Service Provider Unlocked
* Width 59.8 mm
* Depth 11.5 mm
* Height 119 mm
* Technology WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM
* Band WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900
* Phone Design Candy bar
* Antenna Internal
* Phone Navigation Buttons Trackball
* Call Timer Yes
* Wireless Interface Bluetooth (A2DP) , Bluetooth 2.1 EDR
* GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) Yes
* Messaging / Data Features Text messages
* Sensor Resolution 5 megapixels
* Digital Zoom 2
* Camera Light Source LED light
* Video Recorder Resolutions 720 x 480
* Type OLED display
* Technology AMOLED
* Display Resolution 800 x 480 pixels
* Display Languages French , German , Korean , English , Italian , Russian , Spanish , Japanese , Portuguese , Chinese (simplified) , Chinese (traditional)
* Features Ambient light sensor
* Supported Digital Audio Standards AAC , AMR , MP3 , WAV , AAC + , Ogg Vorbis
* Flash Memory 4 GB - microSDHC
* Connector Type 1 x Micro-USB , 1 x Headset jack - Mini-phone 3.5 mm

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