The unmodified Nexus One, which powers the Strand-1 satellite, will be in orbit for six months and will send photos of Earth from space from its 5-megapixel camera.
This video shows an unscientific but intriguing battle between Adobe Flash and HTML5 on mobile devices. For all the talk about HTML5 being the savior of Web video, you might expect it to not get trounced so thoroughly.
The Nexus One was supposed to be the be-all end-all of Android phones. It was supposed to revolutionize the way phones are sold, and put Google at the forefront of the smartphone revolution. It did none of those things. And now it's dead.
Google announced today that they'll be shipping a new version of the Nexus One smartphone that's compatible with AT&T, firmly putting it up against the intra-network iPhone. Google, Apple: fight!
An analyst at Goldman Sachs has thrown a wrench into the works of Google's smartphone by downgrading the sales forecast of the Nexus One. Initial expectations were high: analysts had said as many as 3.5 million units would be sold in the first year. But with just 80,000 sold in the first month, according to mobile analytic group Flurry, figures have now been revised down to around a million.
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