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28 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Nexus One strapped to a rocket takes Android to 28,000 feet

Nexus One. Android. Rocket motors. You see where this is going, right? Self-described "Freelance scientific molecular evolutionary biological videographic NASA microgravitational & space education specialist" (and Phish fan) Matthew…

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28 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Awesome combo of Nexus One, Wiimote and bike handlebar holder

What do you get when you combine a Nexus One, a bike handlebar holder and a Wiimote? The answer is a whole lot of awesome. YouTube user baza210 made this awesome contraption and made a video demonstrating it while playing an old-school SNES ROM. See th…

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27 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Screen wars! AMOLED vs. S-LCD vs. LCD vs. Super AMOLED

HTC recently announced it was going to start outfitting certain handsets with SLCD screens rather than AMOLED, due to short supply of the latter. The SLCD screens may be easier more plentiful, but do they look as nice? The people over at Howard Forums …

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26 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

HTC adds SLCD displays to its Desire, Nexus One lines

HTC has announced it will introduce SLCD screens to its manufacturing of the Nexus One and Desire later this summer.The Desire and Nexus One originally have been manufactured with AMOLED screens, which have been in short supply of late, leading to…

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23 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Google Nexus One retrospective

Call the Nexus One what you want — failed experiment, iClone, ahead of its time, whatever. We’ll call it a solid phone, born from Google’s desire to "shake up" the smartphone market, both in terms of available hardware and the way it w…

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21 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Google expects to sell out of remaining stock of Nexus One within 10 days

Google has told the L.A. Times it expects to sell out of its remaining stock of Nexus One phones by the end of July — which comes in about 10 days. Google gave no figures about how many N1s it received in the last shipment, and we’re in no position to…

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20 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

First Ari, now ‘Entourage’s’ Johnny Drama spotted using a Nexus One!

The season premier of Entourage showed us the lovable Ari Gold using a Nexus One. It turns out that he’s not the only one of the group who has decided to use Google’s (soon-to-be-retired) phone. Johnny Drama was spotted using the device in the third e…

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19 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Multimedia test: Super AMOLED vs. AMOLED vs. LCD

 We’ve had a ton of touchscreen technology thrown at us in the past year — hell, in the past several months. We’ve gone from LCD (liquid crystal display) to OLED (organic light-emitting diode) to AMOLED (active matrix OLED) to the brand…

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16 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

If you still want a Nexus One, better grab it fast, as Google gets its last batch

If you’re still on the fence about buying a Nexus One, you need to pull the trigger pretty soon. (Get it at Google.com/phone.) Google says it’s taken its final shipment of phones from HTC, and that’s likely to be it for the phone, since it’s closing i…

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09 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Ubuntu squeezed onto Nexus One and Sprint HTC Evo 4G [Update -- Droid too!]

  If Windows 3.1 on your Droid isn’t good enough for you, how about a modern desktop OS running on your Nexus One or Sprint Evo 4G? Braniac Max from NexusOneHacks.net managed to shoehorn Ubuntu onto his Nexus One over the Independence Day weekend….

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