The best phone of the best phones

Read on if you wish to see my reasons for potentially swapping to a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) phone in the near future tense – and why it won’t be the Google Nexus One…

For a long while now, I’ve been using the iPhone series of phones (3G and 3GS). I transitioned away from Nokia (New York Stock Exchange: NOK) Series60 for all the same variety of reasons as many citizenry rich person mentioned on their blogs – both this one, and others. Moving to the iPhone instantly gave me:

the best touchscreen – bar none a superb(ly simpleton) UI a headphone that could do tons of things wellspring, and a few things really wellspring a replacement for my aging iPod

… and all this in a parcel which I still think has the best industrial styling of any gimmick on the market!

But of course, the iPhone isn’t perfect – far from it – and has numerous failings. The email node (which is brilliant at rendering emails, but flaky in the extreme point at retrieving them), the locked-down feather environment, and (in my survey) the build caliber (of the 3GS, for sure) could be better.

However, the key matter(s) I require right field now are a gimmick that does email very well (both retrieval and rendering), can sync to an online calendar, and can manage contacts well when synced with the PC/Mac (without mangling the information fields, as some manufacturers devices do). Interestingly, I already use Google services (Calendar, electronic mail) partially with my iPhone, so I curiosity, would moving to a Google device shuffle it a seamless solution?

Well, you’d think so, wouldn’t you – I’ve not had chance to play with a Nexus One (yet), but the effect I get from eyesight various videos, and reviews, is that it should be a star topology performing artist in this area. It’s impossible to know for sure if it satisfies you personally without acquiring the device in-hand and having a play, but I think if it can support those services, and shuffle a decent fist of the other things I require from the device, then we might have a rival to replace the iPhone – and it’s cheaper sim-free people too!

But wherefore not the Nexus one? Well, ace understanding is computer storage – there’s only 4GB of the sundry. Now as I said before, I use my iPhone as an iPod extensively, so I’d need excellent media handling, but also somewhere to store all of it – and whilst I appreciate the memory is expandable, I’d like to see my gimmick advent with more built-in as standard. Both the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre and Pixi just got memory upgrades, and it’s extremely logical to think the next Nexus will be coming with more onboard too.

The 5MP camera is a touch on the low position too – the N95s that I was using before transitioning to iPhones had 5MP, and I was expecting the photographic camera game to have moved on slightly since then (in fact, it has – 8MP now seems really green). I appreciate the iPhone 3GS only has a 3.2MP camera, but then again, you father’t bargain an iPhone expecting it to rich person the highest spec photographic camera (although a better one would be nice – come on Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)!). I’m sure the Nexus One will do a great line of work of capturing images, but again it’s another prime candidate for an rise when the next Nexus comes along.

And of course the matter closely allied to the device is the business modelling (or as we know it, duty) – we’ve seen the iPhone stage business model evolve over time, and there are now a great kitchen range of networks and options than there were when the master edition launched 2+ years ago. Finally, shoemaker’s last but not least, it’s my personal survey that smartphones from a presumption manufacturer proceeds 2 or 3 ‘generations’ or ‘iterations’ (usually 3 I believe) to become ‘great’ – evidenced (depending on what you course of instruction as ‘generations’) by many smartphones in recent years.

Will there be another Nexus device from Google? Almost certainly yes. Could it be with us before the end of 2010? Very likely. Will it have punter spectacles than this current device? Almost certainly – right field, I’ll rich person one of them then please, and in the meanwhile I hope to get to play with a Nexus One, to see if what many citizenry are expression about it organism on a par with an iPhone, is really true

What are your plans regarding the Google Nexus One? Thinking of getting one? What gimmick have you got now? Answers in the comments please

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