HTC Google Nexus One

I have had the Nexus for 6 weeks now - I bought it from the USA and got it shipped to the uk. The buying process went well but I did have to pay import duty which made it quite expensive. This should not be a problem when the phone is available in the UK. Setting up the phone on the O2 network went well. I inserted the sim and just had to configure the gateway in the wap settings. Initially I had an email account on an an Exchange Server as I was using a Windows smart phone. The built in Exchange Mail software worked ok but I paid about $15 for a better mail client called TouchDown. Eventually ... more

It seames that when makeing this device HTC (who make the hardware) skipped some majour design processes. It seemes that instead of doing things like thinking about practicality when making this phone they have just tried to pack as much modern tech into the small package as they can (im not saying that is a bad thing). An example of a problem with this is that when useing the phone in the horizontal position weather or not that is when texting or useing an app then the virtual home button at the bottom of the phone can be prone to activating which deletes text that you are writing or deletes ... more

I really like my Nexus One, it is so much better than my old Nokia N96. I particularily like the sat nav functionality that Google have just released. it works for car or walking, fantastic! I also like the way it syncs to my work Outlook account, so I can get all my work emails when they are sent! I can also download loads of useful apps from the Android market site. There is a great one called Google Sky that you can hold up to the sky and it tells you what each star/planet is. Another good app is Guardian Anywhere which allows you to doanload an electronic version of the Guardian newspaper ... more