A tear-town by reveals that the Nexus One carries a Bill of Materials of $174.15 based on a preliminary estimate from their team. This is the likely actual costs of the components themselves and doesn’t allow for other expenses such as manufacturing, software, box contents, accessories and royalties.
The report breaks down individual components in the device showing the Qualcomm processor ($30.50) and the AMOLED display from Samsung ($23.50) to be the top two most costly items.
Nexus One teardown: Fixit have gone and blown $530 of their hard earned cash on a Nexus One only to tear it apart. Full details on their site if you’re interested in finding out what’s inside the phone.
Clearest pictures of the Nexus One to be published to date - Close Up [Gallery].
Clearest pictures of the Nexus One to be published to date - Unboxing [Gallery].
Screenshots of designs for some of Google’s Nexus One sales pages posted via a tipster suggest some interesting details about the new device. If authentic they reveal that the phone will be available unlocked and unsubsidised from Google for $530 and $179.99 with a T-Mobile plan.
The $530 unsubsidised price would seem to disprove speculation that Google may choose to heavily subsidise the phone in order to fuel sales.
The $179.99 subsidised version of the phone would require a 2 year contract with a single rate plan of £39.99 + Text + Web for $79.99 total.
Side by side comparison of the Nexus One, iPhone and HTC Hero. These from a source in France whose passion obviously lies elsewhere than in photography.
Yes, the Nexus One has a headphone jack. Not the biggest news story of the day but it’s a question some people have been asking. We’re starting to wonder by the way if anyone is able to take a decent, in-focus picture these days.
Back of the Nexus One showing removable battery cover, camera and interestingly a QR code (2-dimensional bar code). Users with a camera phone equipped with the correct reader software can scan the image of the QR Code causing the phone’s browser to launch and redirect to the programmed URL. The QR code here is a link to a Nexus One christmas game making it likely that this is an early developer version only QR.
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The Nexus One in its packaging showing Google branding and logo
Nexus One showing onscreen Tutorial - Learn how to use your Nexus One.
- Using the onscreen keyboard
- Setting up a Google Account
Nexus One sighting - Starbucks San Francisco via
Nexus One exclusive photos via
Nexus One - first shot of Google’s new smartphone captured in the wild.
