Here we go, folks, final post of the day, and then vast quantities of mince pie will be taking up residence in my belly. Much ale (well, alright, coca-cola, ‘cos I don’t drink) will be quaffed, and you can guarantee more than one person will make a complete numpty of themselves in the pub tonight. And I’ll probably get shouted at for putting Judas Priest on the jukebox. But before then, we come to the final post on this fine, chilly (well, alright, chuffing freezing) Christmas Eve, and like much of the news this past week, it’s about the Nexus One.
Y’see, according to Engadget Mobile, we now know the full specs and release date for what some people are calling the ‘honest, it really is the Googlephone, this time’…
January 5th, apparently. Although, as many other people have predicted, it’s not going on general release on that date. Nope, it’s going on sale ‘by invitation only’. You have to get a proper, official invite from Google themselves, to buy one. So, why would a phone go on sale, but not really go on sale, except to a select few?
*cough* dev-phone *coughcough* told ya so *cough*…
I’m still maintaining this is a phone that’s going out to developers, and I’d put money on them being the first people to get an invitation to buy one, on January 5th. The question is, will we see a general release after that? Well, I reckon we might, but I also reckon we won’t see it hit the mass market as the Nexus One. Consider that it’s made by HTC, and that it’s also known as the HTC Passion, and you can probably work out what I reckon will happen.
Yup, just like the G1 and the Magic, which also had pretty much identical dev-phones that did go on sale, but for big bucks, and not to the mass market, the actual release version won’t be the Nexus One, but the HTC version that corresponds to the Nexus One. S’what I reckon will happen. I still say that if Google were to mass-release their own phone, it’d really annoy their hardware partners, since you know it’d make life difficult for third party Android phones, like the upcoming Sony Ericsson X10 and Motorola Milestone (both of which look like stunners).
So, yes. I still say dev-phone. I also say all the people who are driving mental shouting “Googlephone, Googlephone, I tells ya” need to calm down a bit. Oh, and before I forget, these are the main specs:
- Android 2.1
- 11.5mm thick
- 512MB RAM, 512MB ROM, 4GB microSD in-box expandable to 32GB
- 5 megapixel camera with mechanical AF and LED flash
- HSPA 900 / 1700 / 2100, 7.2Mbps down and 2Mbps up
- 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED display
And that’s it for Christmas Eve! Time to go and stuff myself silly! However, if you get fed up of the family tomorrow (I know I will, at some point), then wander over to the blog, as I have a special surprise. Yes, for the first time in the recorded history of Mobileshop, I am going to do a blog post on Christmas Day.
After all, the Queen does a speech every Christmas Day. And how hard can it be?
I’ll probably just end up screaming about Doctor Who, though. S’what usually happens on Christmas Day…
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