The Nexus One will be my backup phone.  Here’s some F.Y.I. on plans and such things.  This is the best feature comparison of the top smart phones that I’ve seen.

If this decade begin with the bust of the tech bubble, then the decade might just end with technology back in the headline, more specifically, the raise of mobile platform. On the eve of the most important technology trade show, Consumer Electronic Show (C.E.S.), search engine giant Google is gearing up for one of its most important product launch, and this time it isn’t a software. Instead, the company will officially debut Nexus One, or more commonly known as the “Google Phone”.

The build-up to this anticipated launch really found its start when Google purchased a small start-up named Android back in 2005. 2 years later, the company launched its first mobile OS with the same name and plugged it in a consortium of some 47 corporations called Open Handset Alliance. When tech pundits speculated a Google stand alone phone in the near future, Dr. Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, was quick to point out its unlikeness in a press release. And despite its denial, the company’s actions proved otherwise. Finally, the proverbial line in the sand was drawn last August when Dr. Schmidt resigned from Board of Directors of Apple, currently the #1 maker of smart phones.

So how good of a smart phone is Nexus One? Ahead of the official debut at Google headquarter in Mountain View this morning, tech mega blog Engadget got its hands on one. Its verdict – the phone lives up to the anticipation. Manufactured by Taiwanese mobile device OEM, HTC, the Snapdragon powered phone resembled the curvilinear shape of its competitor, Apple iPhone. Yet retained many physical attributes of its predecessors, the T-Mobile G1. Nexus One will feature the latest version of Android, the Android 2.1, which translates to a more responsive and faster OS. via: Engadget

*NOTE* Interesting enough, not only today marks the eve of Consumer Electronic Show.  Its also the birthday of Sir Issac Newton, who explained the law of gravity when a supposed “APPLE” fell on his head…

Other specs on the phone are:

Dimensions:
Height 119mm (4.68-inch) x Width 59.8mm (2.35-inch) x Depth 11.5mm (0.45-inch)
Weight 130g with battery/100g without battery

Processor:
Qualcomm “Snapdragon” QSD 8250 1GHz

OS:
Android 2.0/2.1

Capacity:
Flash Memory: 512MB
RAM: 512MB
SD Card: 4GB Micro SD Indluded

Camera:
5-Megapixel Camera with Autofocus
2X Digital Zoom
LED Flash
Geo/GPS Tagging Enable

Connectivity:
GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.1
AGPS Receiver
Wi-Fi Positioning
Digital Compass
Accelerometer

Display:
3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED Screen

Buy it here

via engadget

The conglomerate known as Google has released an official developer preview of Google Chrome for the Mac. Chrome is supposed to be a big deal.

Chrome samples several features similar to Safari 4 in Snow Leopard, such as sandboxing – each tab runs as its own process, so if one crashes, it doesn’t bring down the whole browser. It also sports the “tabs on top” interface present in some builds of the Safari 4 beta released earlier this year. Some people hated tabs on top in Safari, but others eventually got used to it and even missed the feature when it was omitted from the final release of Safari 4; if tabs on top is your thing, then Chrome has you covered. Chrome supports importing bookmarks, settings, and history from whatever browser you’re currently using

Click here to download Chrome.

Google Sync: Set Up Your iPhone or iPod TouchPrint
To set up Google Sync on your iPhone or iPod Touch device, please follow the steps below .
Requirements and Upload

1. Google Sync is only supported on iPhone OS versions 3.0 and above. You can check your current version by going to Settings > General > About > Version. To upgrade, follow the instructions at http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/. Please upgrade to iPhone OS 3.0 before setting up Google Sync.

2. Perform a sync with iTunes to ensure that Contacts and Calendars from your iPhone are backed up to your computer.

Getting Started

1. Open the Settings application on your device’s home screen.
2. Open Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
3. Tap Add Account….
4. Select Microsoft Exchange.

Enter Account Info

5. In the Email field, enter your full Google Account email address. If you use an @googlemail.com address, you may see an “Unable to verify certificate” warning when you proceed to the next step.
6. Leave the Domain field blank.
7. Enter your full Google Account email address as the Username.
8. Enter your Google Account password as the Password.
9. Tap Next at the top of your screen.
9a. Choose Accept if the Unable to Verify Certificate dialog appears.
10. A new Server field will appear. Enter m.google.com.
11. Press Next at the top of your screen again.

12. Select the Google services you want to sync.

13. Unless you want to delete all the existing Contacts and Calendars on your phone, select the Keep on my iPhone option when prompted. This will also allow you to keep syncing with your computer via iTunes.

If you want to sync only the My Contacts group, you must choose to Delete Existing Contacts during the Google Sync install when prompted. If you choose to keep existing contacts, it will sync the contents of the “All Contacts” group instead.You’ve set up Google Sync for your iPhone. Synchronization will begin automatically if you have Push enabled on your phone. You can also open the Mail, Calendar or Contacts app and wait a few seconds to start a sync.

Next learn how to choose which calendars to sync, if you’d like to enable multiple calendars.

Tip: If your business, school, or organization uses Google Apps, your administrator will first need to enable Google Sync before you can take advantage of this feature.