NEXUS ONE (VIDEO, PHOTOS, UPDATE): Google Phone To Hit Stores Next Year

A video claiming to show the Nexus One Google phone in action as surfaced online, reportedly posted by Twitter user DJRobRob.
The Telegraph describes the video (see it below):

In one shot, the screen shows large menu icons arranged in a diagonal curve. In another, the screen shows icons for maps and email programs, with streaks of light in the colours of Google's logo pulsing behind them.
Photos have also surfaced picturing the Nexus One being unboxed. See them in the slideshow below (via TechCrunch<./a>.)
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UPDATE 12/14/09 7:54 AM ET: Pictures reported to be of the Nexus One Google phone have been leaked on Picasa. See the slideshow below for photos. (via Mashable and EnGadget)
AllThingsDigital has also reported that although Google will be selling its phone directly to consumers through its web site, sources have suggested that the handset creator will also be teaming up with wireless carrier T-Mobile for help in launching the Nexus One device.
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On Saturday, Google posted a message on its Mobile Blog referring ambiguously to a new mobile phone 'concept' device that Google's employees had been given to test. This new device, the blog said, "combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities."
So what is this mysterious new product? According to reports, it is Nexus One, Google's first attempt at a cell phone that it will sell directly to consumers, with software designed entirely in-house.
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The phone is being manufactured for Google by HTC Corp., reports said. It runs Android, the operating system for mobile phones that Google developed.
But unlike the more than half-dozen Android phones made by phone manufacturers today, Google designed virtually the entire software experience behind the phone ice separately.
Google has designed virtually the entire software experience behind the phone, from the applications that run on it to the look and feel of each screen.
The direct sales move by Google could alienate wireless carriers and handset makers that offer Android phones and do not want to compete with Google, WSJ said adding that Google has repeatedly said that its goal is to have hundreds of Android phones rather than one.
TechCrunch has more details here.

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