Google Nexus One mobile phone set to launch! Yes folks, Google is set to launch its first official mobile phone, the Nexus One. Will this be the fall of the giant Apple iPhone? Well, let’s all wait and see.
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Google will unveil its very first handset called Nexus One at its Silicon Valley headquarters in America tomorrow, and the device is set to go on sale there from January 12. A UK launch date has not yet been announced, but it is likely to follow early this year.
Google has already launched the Android, its own mobile phone operating system that works on a range of devices. Now Google moves on to their next step, bringing their first handset that the company has designed itself, the Nexus One.
Google Nexus One mobile phone
Like the iPhone, Android offers fully integrated web-browsing, music and video playing and a large library of applications that users can choose to install to add to their phone’s capabilities. One of the services likely to be available for the first time in America is European-based music service Spotify, which challenges Apple’s iTunes.
The Nexus One has been built by manufacturer HTC, and is rumored to include a larger screen and better camera than those featured on the iPhone. It also offers free satnav capabilities, which are only available for an additional charge on the iPhone.
The handset is likely to cost consumers $179.99 (£111) on a contract with T-Mobile, but will also be available for $529.99 (£324) without any contract tying users to a specific network.
Google’s announcement is timed to challenge the dominance of the world’s largest technology fair, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which takes place this week, and to overshadow Apple’s launch of a tablet computer, which is expected on January 26.
The name Nexus One is a reference to the film Blade Runner, which is reported to have led to the estate of author Philip K Dick threatening to sue Google.
