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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 18, 2012
The Nexus One's not LTE enabled, but it does have an SD card slot. And it will never get Jelly Bean. But if you've got $80 to spend on what many people think was the best built phone ev...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 02, 2012
From the Nexus One to the Nexus Four — and a couple Galaxies in between
Back in the winter of 2009, the rumors were flying about Google getting into the phone business. Previously they off...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 30, 2012
Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 -- Google's 'pure Android' mobile devices
Google's Nexus devices are sold directly from the Google Play Store, unlocked and running the latest versi...
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by Alex Dobie
Aug 02, 2012
The CyanogenMod team has announced that it won't be able to officially support phones powered by first-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon chips in version 9 or 10 of its popular custom firmware. The...
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by Alex Dobie
May 16, 2012
Google's reported introduction of more manufacturers into the Nexus fold could be a stroke of genius, but it’s not without its risks.
We don’t often present entire articles of...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 02, 2011
Researchers at N.C. State University have performed a study of eight Android phones (HTC's Legend, EVO 4G, and Wildfire S; Motorola's Droid and Droid X; Samsung's Epic 4G; and the Nexus ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 26, 2011
Shouldn't come as too much of a surprise, but according to Google's Hugo Barra, as reported by The Telegraph, the Nexus One is just too darn old for an official update to Ice Cream Sandwich....
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 24, 2011
Not to be forgotten, the venerable Nexus One got itself a little update overnight. Now at Android 2.3.6, Build GRK39F, the update ... does something -- the update screen just says "importa...
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 08, 2011
Believe it or not -- there are still a few carriers out there who have yet to push out Android 2.3.4 for the Nexus One. Until today, Videotron in Canada was one of those carriers but they can no...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 05, 2011
If you're still rocking an unrooted, Vodafone-branded Nexus One, then you'll be pleased to hear that today sees the release of the official, Voda-approved Gingerbread update for these phones. Th...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 03, 2011
OK, boys and girls. The official Android 2.3.4 update for the Nexus One is pushing out. And with it you get whatever it is that Google's fixed and added. But one thing you won't get is the newfan...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 13, 2011
Been looking for the latest Gingerbread system image for the Nexus One? Sure you have. And HTC's just posted it up on its developer site for everyone to have. No, this isn't new -- it's just the...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 24, 2011
Whenever we talk updating our phones, we inevitably talk about "manual updates." And that leads to the inevitable questions, "Is it safe?" and "How do I do it?...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 24, 2011
The Nexus One's over-the-air update to Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread (erm, not Android 2.4) is starting to push out. But if you can't wait (that'd be us), you can manually install the update. It's the sa...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 22, 2011
Good news for long-suffering Nexus One owners - Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread has finally begun rolling out for the original Nexus and its big brother, the Nexus S over-the-air. For the Nexus S, 2.3...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 22, 2011
Anytime a new Android SDK comes out, you'll quickly see an onslaught of ports popping up on various phones. These aren't even unofficial builds, but ports from the Android system images bui...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 16, 2011
Following the initial handful of phones we reported had received CyanogenMod 7 release candidate 1 yesterday, a bunch more devices have now been graced with official RC1 builds of the Ginge...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 12, 2011
AT&T and Open Feint announced at CES that they would be partnering, and offered up a SDK for interested developers. Now they have announced the details of what they were cooking up, and pres...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 10, 2011
This one's been kicking around for a while, but with CyanogenMod 7 nightlies getting better, and the hard work Unforgiven512 has done with the files, WiFi calling for the Nexus One is now worth using ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 24, 2011
Two researchers from George Mason University, Dr. Angelos Stavrou, and Zhaohui Wang, have demonstrated the ability to use a smartphone (a Nexus One, but Dr. Stavrou says this applies to the iPhone as ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 17, 2011
If you went ahead and tried out any of the CyanogenMod 7 nightly builds, you've surely noticed the new Gapps builds. This is something that the fellows on the CM team has been working on as...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 06, 2011
If you've taken matters into your own hands and use custom ROMs on your Android device, you've surely heard of CyanogenMod. Version 7 is the initial Gingerbread build, and it looks like we'll be...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 20, 2010
OMG! The Nexus One will get its over-the-air Gingerbread update in a few weeks, according to the GoogleNexus Twitter account. In a few weeks?!?!? That means we should repeatedly hit the software updat...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 20, 2010
You hear a lot of talk about rooting, especially when a new or difficult handset gets rooted. But what many of us forget, especially those new to Android, is that rooting, and having to root pho...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 15, 2010
While we still don't have a definite date, Googler Jean-Baptiste Queru lets us know that we'll be seeing Gingerbread in the AOSP tree soon after the Nexus S ships. My geeky side is all tingly, a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2010
The Nexus One will be getting its Android 2.3 Gingerbread update "in a few weeks," says Google's Reto Meier. That's in contradiction to at least two unsourced reports today, one of which ha...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 27, 2010
Let the teasing continue: Christophe writes in again to say he's spotted another build of Android 2.3 Gingerbread that reportedly is pinging his app. This time it's GRH47B (the previous sighting...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 18, 2010
The Google Nexus One just got itself a little update. It's still Android 2.2.1 -- no Gingerbread yet, folks -- and the 1.3MB download looks to be a bunch of patches and bugfixes. We've poked arou...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 08, 2010
We're positive Gingerbread is on the horizon. We're pretty confident it's close if you're rocking a Nexus One. If you're like us, and have your Nexus One hacked nine ways to Sunday, you'll...
Review
by Sean Brunett
Oct 27, 2010
I had been resistant to put a case on my Nexus One because I could never find one that I was happy with. They were always either too bulky or felt too cheap.Having said that, I have been very pleased ...
