Engadget takes a closer look at the Google Nexus One phone

The iPhone Blog’s Rene Ritchie takes a look at the Android OS on the Motorola Droid / Milestone

About Motorola Droid: The Motorola DROID is an Android-powered smartphone for Verizon Wireless. It sports clean lines and a side-sliding design, which allows for a four-row QWERTY keyboard. The display is pretty big – 3.7 inches, while other features include a 5MP camera, microSDHC slot, GPS and Wi-Fi

About Motorola Milestone: The GSM variant of the Motorola DROID sports a dual-band 3G support for Europe and Asia. It runs on Google’s open-source Android OS 2.0 and packs a large 3.7-inch touchscreen, 5MP camera, microSDHC slot, Wi-Fi and GPS. It has a side-sliding design that allows for a four-row QWERTY keyboard.

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Here are some high quality pictures of the Google Nexus One. Enjoy!

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This is a 3D benchmark video of the Google Nexus One running on the Android 2.1 OS. So what do you think about the performance?

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Swype for Androd devices gets demoed on the Motorola Droid / Milestone. Swype is a system where users can type blindingly fast on a touchscreen by tracing their finger or stylus over the letters without lifting up. The technology will then connect the letters to form words.

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Here’s the “leaked document” for the Google Nexus One that everyone are talking about right now (at least in the Android community). Cred goes to Gizmodo for publishing the document.

• Yeah, it’s $530 unsubsidized. Google’s not going to be selling the phone at cost, like so many people considered. They’re not going to save us from the “making money off of hardware” culture we’ve got right now, so this is basically just another Android handset, albeit a really good one
• If you want it subsidized, you’ll have to sign up for a 2 year mandatory contract
• There’s only one rate plan: $39.99 Even More + Text + Web for $79.99 total
• Existing customers cannot keep their plan if they want a subsidized phone; they have to change to the one plan, and this only applies to accounts with one single line
• If that doesn’t fly with you, you have to buy the $530 unlocked version—this actually might save you money over two years if you already have a cheap plan
• Family plans, Flexpay, SmartAccess and KidConnect subscribers must buy the phone unlocked and unsubsidized for $530
• You can only buy five Nexus One phones per Google account
• There is language in the agreement of shipping outside the US
• Google will sell it at google.com/phone, which explains what they were doing with that page a few weeks ago
• Google will still call it the Nexus One apparently, and not the Google Phone

[Via] -  Thx Thierrz

Here’s a video demo of the SlideIT app for Android, demoed on the Samsung Galax. SlideIT is a new and revolutionary way to enter text easily and fast, and in a way that is much more “fun” than existing methods. Check out the video demo after the break…

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