0xfeedface Tech musings and rants

I just received my Nexus One today. After a sleepless night of excitement and nervousness, having the Nexus One in my hand feels reassuring about how well technology is progressing. The Nexus One is a big improvement over my last two Android phones (first the G1 then the MyTouch 3G).

The Nexus One feels sturdy. I love that it doesn't have the chins the previous Android phones I've owned had. The chin, in fact, can be detrimental to the phone: my MyTouch 3G started chipping on the top chin. I dislike where the lock/power button is. Being a right-handed user, the lock button is hard to get to.

The phone's processor, the Snapdragon, is faster than I had anticipated. With the MyTouch 3G, I couldn't even send a text while using Pandora (my most used application). Grooveshark on the MyTouch 3G seemed impossible to run and hogged the CPU even worse than Pandora. However, this isn't a problem in the slightest with the Nexus One. I can run Grooveshark and multitask just fine. I have yet to use Google Maps while using Pandora or Grooveshark.

Overall, this is the best phone I have ever laid eyes on, let alone owned. Over the past two years, I've owned five phones (LG EnV, iPhone 3G, G1, MyTouch 3G, and Nexus One) and this one passes all previous phones up by miles. I'm excited to see what this phone can do and push it to the limits. I have yet to fully explore it.