Comments on: Review: Google Nexus One phone

By: how to become a police officer

how to become a police officer — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:51:23 +0000

Interesting post. The great thing about openness is that once the Drop box app is built you know it will be available in a short period of time, no more waiting for Apple app store approval. That’s a big win for customers!

By: Ryan Kennedy

Ryan Kennedy — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:41:25 +0000

Too bad DropBox doesn’t have an API, otherwise the community probably would have written an application for them by now. I’m also enjoying Google Voice on my Motorola DROID, I just wish I could port my number to get all the Google Voice goodness, not just the visual voicemail.

There’s also some nice things down at the SDK level that I’ve been trying to play with. Contacts integration, for instance, is nice. You can add contacts from one account to the contacts database and Android will automagically link contacts from multiple accounts (you can see this today if you add your Gmail and Facebook accounts).

By: David E. Wheeler

David E. Wheeler — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:21:49 +0000

On the iPhone, 3rd-party apps cannot run in the background, but Apple’s apps can. This is why you can listen to music while reading your email. The same applies to mail: it works in the background and checks mail regularly. Perhaps you just didn’t have it checking all that often? In the “Mail, Contacts, Calendars” settings, Select “Fetch New Data” and then you can chose to have it check every 30 mins or every 30 minutes or manually. Maybe yours is set to only check manually?

—Theory

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:53:47 +0000

I am curious to see if the openness factor also effects the secure nature of the device. Time will tell but for now I am upgrading my 2g to the 3gs while I sit on both Apple and Motorola(Droid) stocks.

By: Farhan Lalji

Farhan Lalji — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:31:51 +0000

Sounds like Goog suckered Motorola and the networks into doing their R&D for them, and then took all the lessons learnt from the first couple of Android phones to build the Nexus One.

The great thing about openness is that once the Dropbox app is built you know it will be available in a short period of time, no more waiting for Apple app store approval. That’s a big win for customers!