Google Nexus One vs Nokia N900 Hardware Photos and First Impressions

January 7th, 2010 • Mark Guim • Filed Under •

In case you’ve been living under a rock, the Google Nexus One was announced, available for purchase, and shipped at the same time just a couple of days ago. Mine was just delivered and the first thing I wanted to do is compare it in size with Nokia’s own super-phone, the Nokia N900. Take a look.

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Nexus One First Impressions

So far, I’m blown away by the size and display of the Nexus One. It’s more pocketable than the Nokia N900 because of its thickness. The colors on the display are richer and appear to stand out more than the N900 too.

I still need to get used to not having a real hardware keyboard on the Nexus because I’ve already misspelled plenty of messages. Correcting myself was annoying.

I don’t have any complaints about the web browser after some quick browsing, but I didn’t like it when websites forced me to use their mobile version.

Setting up the Nexus One was very fast. My Google mail, calendar, contacts were all synced right away after entering my email address. The Nokia N900 cannot currently sync all these three services using Exchange. As expected, there were also much more apps available on the Android device over Maemo.

I’ll have a full review of the Google Nexus One soon after more usage. This is primarily a Nokia blog, so I’ll place a lot of emphasis on comparing it with other Nokia devices especially the Nokia N900.

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  • The Nexus One does score over N900 in terms of looks and styling but somehow I'm still more comfortable with a reliable Nokia handset in my hands.
  • hannes
    dont forget that n900 have a much higher memory than the nexus but otherwise i think the both are great phones n900 just one step ahead of nexus in almost everything except for the processor speed , thats all
  • valcosmos
    Nexus has a better screen (Amoled and capacitive), thousands of apps from Android and most importantly voice recognition. So lacking in a hardware department thinking of a keyboard it fully beautifully compensates with voice feature. Just speak what ever app you wanna use, be it a mobile number or google search or whatever. Also being lighter and slimmer it definitely has a serious edge over N900. Just my 2 cents. Val.
  • cloud
    processor is almost equal yet cortex is more power efficient. snapdragon needs the 1ghz juice to process things, take care of the video, and sounds by itself while cortex of n900 have dedicated dsp for video and dedicated dsp for sound while the processor itself is just for crunching things...
  • Ryan
    So really nexus is better then i should not get nokia n900 then right
  • arempee
    you should get the n900, i highly recommend it...
  • Ryan
    and then which one is better droid,nexus one,nokia n900
  • I would like to see the speed of nexus one from browsing the web and from playing some games =D

    btw. nice shot mark!
  • arempee
    my cousin recieved his nexus one today and i was playing with it, the phone is way thinner than my n900, better resolution, the only complaint i have on the nexus one is the web browser, n900 has better web browsing... way BETTER...
  • grogeek
    I'm a G1 and Magic user. Now i've buy a N900.
    The N900 & Maemo is better ! Android was a good thing, but maemo offer a lot of more possibility
  • arempee
    yup that's right! hopefully we get more apps for the n900! that's the only advantage of the nexus to the n900, they have a lot of apps!...
  • "Better resolution"? Both the nexus one and n900 have 800x480 resolution. Do you mean the display is clearer, or brighter, or something like that? Thanks!
  • arempee
    yes, that's what i meant. nexus is clearer and brighter.
  • Eina
    How does the Nexus work with Google Apps email accounts - i.e. those with myname@mydomain.com email addresses? I find it frustrating that I can't do things like Google Alerts & other Google functionality unless I use a myname@gmail.com address.

    I probably will wait for the N900 to get to Malaysia anyway - as a longtime user of the E90 I can't imagine having a phone without a physical qwerty keyboard ever again.
  • grogeek
    @eina

    you have the gmail client AND a pop / imap client too !
  • Its thick and nice looking, indeed.
    But why do you need a trackball on a touch device? Is it useful?
  • My guess is that the trackball is intended to support web sites that require "hovering" the cursor over links or icons to use properly. The N900 does this with the "swipe from the left" gesture followed by clicking the cursor icon, after which dragging your finger on-screen moves the "cursor" rather than scrolling the the screen.
  • lance wex
    Having the trackball on the G1 was pointless. I never used it; didn't get why it was there.
  • Its thick and nice looking, indeed.
    But why do you need a trackball on a touch device? Is it useful?
  • arempee
    hey mark what's with the penny? but if you'll ask me, i'll stick with my n900! i'm still hoping that soon there's more apps for the n900!..
  • Steven
    I don't know where you are, but if you are in Europe, could you check if the 3G works on the Nexus?
  • Nook
    I love N900's symmetric design
  • Hey Mark, thanks for the review. But you should really come out with a more detail review quick so that you can help those people like me who still can't decide on buying N900 or Nexus One. People out there are having serious issue one this. :)
  • Mark, are you aware that using Nuevasync.com you can get many-to-one calendar syncing on the N900? I believe contacts etc. works as well.

    A colleague's already ordered a Nexus One, I'm looking forward to having a play.
  • I read about that, but other platforms work out of the box with Google sync. Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian. I hope a firmware update for the N900 fixes this problem.
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