Google Nexus One smartphone launched

Google has offi­cially intro­duced the Nex­us One smart­phone made by HTC run­ning brand new Android 2.1. This meas­ures 119 (H) x 59.8 (W) x 11.5 (D) mm, weights 130 grams, and boasts a 1GHz Qual­comm Snap­dragon pro­cessor QSD 8250, 512MB of flash memory and 512MB of RAM, a 3.7‑inch (800×480) AMOLED screen, plus a 5 mega­pixel cam­era with auto­fo­cus and LED flash.

Nex­us One comes with 3.5mm head­phone jack, and a mul­ti­colored LED under the track­ball. There are also two mics, one on the bot­tom and one on the back, for the pur­pose of noise can­cel­la­tion, and can be cus­tom engraved with two lines of text at the time of order.

The phone sup­port fea­tures of HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA 2 Mbps, 3G and GSM, EDGE, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, an accel­er­o­met­er, light and prox­im­ity sensor and a digit­al compass.

The Nex­us One is cur­rently avail­able from Google at $529 unlocked or $179 with a two-year T‑Mobile con­tract ($79.99 per month). The plan-free Nex­us One can ship in the US, the UK, Hong Kong and Singa­pore, with a wider avail­ab­il­ity being sched­uled for later with­in the year. This spring the phone will also be offered with con­tracts from Ver­i­zon and Vodafone.