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Nexus One sells out as HTC struggle to find AMOLED panels

By Chris Davies
on 20 Aug, 2010

Google's general sales of the Nexus One via their US webstore may not have set the world alight - though they were apparently enough to satisfy CEO Eric Schmidt - but it seems its appeal as a developer device is stronger. The company has confirmed that the Nexus One is currently out-of-stock through its developer portal, with both Google and HTC having burned through their supplies of the smartphone. Google is blaming a "worldwide AMOLED shortage" for HTC's inability to produce Nexus One handsets quickly enough, but says that "Everyone appreciates that it’s important to the platform to get phones in the hands of developers, so we’re working hard on re-stocking the shelves." No public timeline for that to happen, however.

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Finalized for Nexus One

By Evan Selleck
on 16 Aug, 2010

Adobe, at the Flash Summit in San Francisco today, officially announced that Flash Player 10.1 for the Nexus One has lost that whole Beta tag, and is now officially, official. What's even better, though, is that if you have a Nexus One, you can find your wait into the Android Market, seek out Flash Player 10.1 with just a quick search query, and get to downloading right now. That is, if you haven't already.

Google’s Nexus One Lives on as Developer Device

By Evan Selleck
on 5 Aug, 2010

When Google announced that their online phone store was going to the wayside, everyone's immediate thought wasn't about the store itself, but more about the device it was selling: the Nexus One. We had always heard Google say that they would be selling the device outside of their store, and when the store closed its doors they again said that carriers around the world would be selling the stock Android device. While that panned out, it didn't show up in as many places as people would like (like at T-Mobile USA). But, if you're still interested in buying it, you can, right from Google.

Nexus One Won’t be Sold in T-Mobile Stores

By Evan Selleck
on 28 Jul, 2010

Pretty much, the title says it all. When Google's Phone Store went down, there was confirmation from the house that built Android that the Nexus One, in effect, wouldn't be going down with it. In fact, the handset would still be sold courtesy of wireless carriers around the globe, like Vodafone. But, thanks to a new document, it looks like T-Mobile (you know, the wireless carrier in the States that supports the Nexus One) won't be included in that list.

Nexus One for Vodafone to Get Android 2.2 Next Week

By Evan Selleck
on 20 Jul, 2010

If you bought the Nexus One on Vodafone, you got Android 2.1. No surprise there, considering it was the phone to launch the mobile OS into the world. But, with that being said, everyone who owns a Nexus One has either been waiting patiently to get their official upgrade to Froyo (which was released by Google a little while ago), especially those on carriers. Getting updates from your wireless carrier can be a bit of a pain, as all Motorola Droid owners know, but Vodafone is hoping to calm of their wireless customers down here next week.

Nexus One Now Faces its Last Shipment

By Evan Selleck
on 16 Jul, 2010

Earlier in the year, Google announced that their online phone store, the Phone Store, was going to go away. And, while everyone probably assumed that that was going to happen from day one, it was still a sad day. Especially considering the Nexus One is still nowhere to be found in retail stores (at least, not in the States). And, while that's still being spoken about in regards to its changing status, right now it's not fixed. But, that's not stopping the changing times. Because, well, they-are-a-changin'.

Nexus One gets Ubuntu install [Video]

By Chris Davies
on 8 Jul, 2010

The Nexus One may be the first to get new releases of Android 2.x, but it's also one of the first to get a usable install of Ubuntu. NexusOneHacks have a massively comprehensive tutorial showing how to get the usually desktop-bound OS onto the 1GHz smartphone. Usefully, the Ubuntu install doesn't wipe the original Android OS, but lives alongside it: the Ubuntu terminal runs in the background, while the Ubuntu X11 GUI runs as an app under Android's VNC client. If you're currently asking "why would I want to do this?" then you should probably stick to what's on offer in the Android Market, but if you've ever wanted a portable Ubuntu test server then here's your chance. A tutorial suited to the HTC EVO 4G is also promised. [youtube xN4c61ETCWg] [via BRG]

Android 2.2 Crushes iOS4 in JavaScript Benchmark Tests

By Effie Tjhai
on 7 Jul, 2010

There's no doubt about the fact that we love our benchmark tests around here. We see them as great ways to get a feel for the competition, even if those benchmarks are normally Android vs Android. Thanks to Ars Technica, we finally get to see what a real fight is: Apple's iPhone 4 versus a Nexus One. Or, more accurately, Apple's movile Operating System iOS4, versus Google's Android 2.2, or Froyo. They performed two tests: SunSpider and V8, both of which are javascript benchmarks. Despite the results, which you can clearly see below in the graphic, we're sure there's still going to be plenty of people out there who still try to fight them.

Samsung Galaxy S crushes Nexus One in Quake 3 Duel [Video]

By Effie Tjhai
on 5 Jul, 2010

The Samsung Galaxy S, pitted against the first superphone (the Nexus One),has managed to come out on top. As you might recall, porting Quake 3 to devices has become a national past time for some developers out there, and now that the game has been given its paces through Samsung's own super-device, the results are quite revealing. According to Android Police, the Nexus One can only render 22 million triangles per second, while the Galaxy S can render a staggering 90 million triangle per second.

Schmidt: no Google Nexus Two plans

By Chris Davies
on 5 Jul, 2010

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has confirmed that there will be no Google Nexus Two device, telling The Telegraph that "the idea a year and a half ago was to do the Nexus One to try to move the phone platform hardware business forward. It clearly did. It was so successful, we didn't have to do a second one." While previous rumors have suggested that Google might follow up the Nexus One with a hardware QWERTY model, Schmidt said of the decision not to continue with own-brand devices that they "like that flexibility, we think that flexibility is characteristic of nimbleness at our scale." As for criticism regarding sales of the Nexus One, Schmidt says that of the decision not to make a sequel "[Google] would view that as positive but people criticised us heavily for that. I called up the board and said: 'Ok, it worked. Congratulations - we're stopping'." The CEO also touched on data security, saying "the reality is we make decisions based on what the average user tells us and we do check. And the reason that you should trust us is that if we were to violate that trust people would move immediately to someone else. We're very non-sticky so we have a very high interest in maintaining the trust of those users." [via Neowin]