Android: On Context Buttons
David Barnard complains about the capacitative buttons below the Nexus One screen. As I have done in my Motorola Milestone review. But it gets both more interesting and, unfortunately, worse, in the story of these buttons. There are four buttons1: Back Context menu Home Search While programmable, the back button mostly works as you’d expect. [...]
Everybody Expects Phone, Google Announces URL
Yesterdays big Google announcement wasn’t the Nexus One phone as everybody expected. As it turns out, the Nexus One is just the first in a batch of really good phones. The big announcement was the URL to an official Google store: google.com/phone. Where we will be buying Google phones no doubt.
Engadgets Nexus One Video Walkthrough [Update]
As much as I love my Droid (Milestone), I do see myself getting one of these rumoured Nexus One phones. The question is, when will it hit Europe? Will its screen layout be better suited to have non-intrucive capacitative buttons? Will Google be disillusioning 3rd party Android phone developers by making their own phone? And [...]