Nexus One

User Reviews: Keith Woo, Day Two hands on with the Nexus One

Our new biggest fan in Malaysia, Keith Woo, has been putting his complementary Nexus One through it’s paces. Following up on his first day with the phone, here’s his impressions from Day Two with the device:

Nice, battery lasted the whole of yesterday with average use of the phone. Today I put it through a little more thorough testing with wifi and 3G. Been 6 or 7 hours and battery is at 50%. Decided to plug it into the laptop for charging. I realize the phone charges pretty quick, like you can literally see the numbers move up before as you watch. Haha.

Exploring the phone further today made me really impressed with the algorithm intergration Google has thought of with the phone. With the entire world going the Google Way, it’s kinda hard to say that they’re not out for world domination. I’m liking it though.

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User Reviews: Keith Woo, our new man in Malaysia: Day One with the Nexus One

Thanks to Keith Woo, who’s been keeping daily notes on his experience with the Nexus One that we sent him as he gets used to it. Looks like he’s going to do a pretty thorough job of letting us know what he thinks of the phone. Stay tuned for day two.

Just got the Nexus One. Unboxing it felt like Christmas morning or Birthday morning for kids scrambling to see what’s inside. Haha. Feel of the phone is extremely solid, basic primary setup was extremely efficient and effortless.

Took a while to get used to the idea of how the phone multifunctions though. Long presses, short presses, swipes up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A. Didn’t sit down immediately to configure the phone and was outta the house, so it felt kinda like a normal phone for a bit. A bit.

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User Reviews: A week with the Nexus One

Jez Currin, creative director of the Media Collective, has been for the last week. He knew nothing about the phone before we asked him to try it out for us and has never used an Android phone before. He uses Apple computers exclusively at work and at home, including an iPod Touch, but has never gotten around to buying himself a smartphone. Would the Nexus One persuade him? We caught up with him after a week to find out what he thought of the device, and how willing he would be to give it back to us.

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There’s been a lot written about Google’s new Nexus One a week ago. Some tech sites seem to have have a clear agenda to rubbish the device, whilst others are giving it more positive reviews. We thought we’d lend a Nexus One to a typical user for a week to find out what they think of the new smartphone.

Jez Currin, creative director of the Media Collective, has been living with the Nexus One since monday. He knew nothing about the phone before we asked him to try it out for us and has never used an Android phone before. He uses Apple computers exclusively at work and at home, including an iPod Touch, but has never gotten around to buying himself an iPhone. We caught up with him after 3 days with the Nexus One to find out how things were going:

User Reviews: Nexus One speakerphone - I’ve heard better on Razr

Hey guys. I received my Nexus One yesterday, and I was wow’d with all the features and openness that it has. This is my first Android smartphone (it’s not even close to being worthy of a “superphone” moniker), and I’m migrating from the iPhone.

After playing with it for an entire day, I’ve concluded that it’s a great data device, and even the battery does a pretty good job of holding up. However, where it fails is audio. I think that HTC really put the “phone” aspect on the backburner with this phone. I bought it unsubsidized for the full $530 price, and when I tried playing some music through the speakerphone (which I do at night before bed), it sounds HORRIBLE. It’s not even bad, it’s awful. Anything that comes out of that speaker, whether it a phone call, podcast, or music, it all sounds so flat (no bass, treble, etc.) I’m not expecting a full-fledged stereo here, but honestly, the speakerphone on my mom’s Razr sounds better.

I read the Engadget review before the phone shipped, and they did say it was “tinny”, but I thought “ok, how bad can it really be?” They showed me…

What do you guys think? I haven’t noticed anyone really talking about this on forums, so I’m guessing either people don’t use the speaker or maybe mine is defective, though I doubt that last part. Everything else works ok. Thanks!

Credit: Thanks to who sent this review in from New York.

If anyone else is lucky enough to have taken delivery of a new Nexus One you can drop us a line to share your first impressions.

Nexus One shipments arriving in the UK: share your first impressions

Customers who ordered their Nexus One handsets on 5th January have started receiving deliveries from DHL today. wrote to let us know that a ‘chirpy chap’ from DHL turned up at with a well packaged parcel at 10am this morning. Interestingly he was told that Google had pre-paid the VAT so we’re still waiting to find out the full story on how this will work.

If you’ve taken delivery of your Nexus One in the UK - or anywhere else for that matter, and would like to share your first impressions, thoughts, opinions, experiences, or even write a review, send an email to , including any pictures and we’ll publish the best ones here on the site. Let us know what you think of your new phone…