Played with the Nexus One Today ..

[barkerja]

I was out at Red Robin's today and I noticed a gentleman sitting next to me with a familiar looking phone, it looked like the Nexus One! Living in San Francisco it didn't surprise me if it was, so I asked the man if it was. He was a Google employee and let me play with it ..

My god, what a phone. There is absolutely no lag with anything, it is very slim fits in the hand perfectly. It puts the Droid and any other Android phone to shame in performance.

I can't wait for this phone. I would have taken some pics but he seemed to not want me to, so I respected that.

 

[TaeKwonDonkey]

What you're saying is tough to believe, give us some more details

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Cool! I get to have some hands on time over New Years and can't wait.

It must be a pretty strict Google thing. I went to school with this fellow and have known him for 20+ years, and he can't send me a pic either. As he understands it, both T-Mo and Google would like the heads of the few people who have leaked images to the public...harder to have mysterious hype after people have seen it.

 

[TaeKwonDonkey]

take some pictures or something when you get your hands on time, I really want to see the real back of the phone.

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

You know I'm gonna try

 

[sprint_fan]

Sounds cool. How was the build quality? And how does everything work (camera, etc.) on the phone?

 

[herki]

From what I hear, a lot of those performance boosts are from 2.1, not from the hardware. Apparently Droids running Flan are significantly snappier than ones running 2.0.1 as well.

 

[barkerja]

Of course there are performance enhancements in 2.1, but that coupled with the 1Ghz Snapdragon processor, it FLIES.

The build quality felt phenomenal. A bit thinner than the Hero, and weight wise about the same. I didn't take a pic with the camera, as I literally only go to play with it for about 30 seconds. I just opened a few apps, checked out the new 3D animations, and opened the browser and poked around.

He was sitting at the table next to mine and I didn't want to be too big of a nuisance.

 

[hal1]

You didn't ask when, and which carrier?

 

[barkerja]

He just said soon and I did notice that it was using T-Mobile.

 

[DNRuffin]

And I'll be getting it whenever it's released.

 

[TaeKwonDonkey]

He said soon?
Soon could be anything from tomorrow to the second quarter of 2010 lol, buts it good to see that it'll be on Tmobile. I definitely getting this the day it comes out

 

[Diesel]

I have the Nexus One. It is ridiculous. VOIP with Google Voice works amazingly.

 

[TaeKwonDonkey]

more details diesel