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nexu one

Google’s Nexus is a speedy smart phone. It’s a intuitive handset having five customizable home screens with animated backgrounds. It also provides slick speech recognition capabilities. Nexus is now integrated with most of the software services provided by Google. Nexus One represent itself as a search giant’s first expansion in the world of e- commerce and hardware. Although that some well-publicized customer service issues come up with the device, still it remains among those ionic customer electronics which are at top of the list throughout the year.

Lenovo IdeaPad U1

Lenovo IdeaPad U1 is a 1.6 inch Linux based PC. It can also become a fully functional 3.7lb notebook having multi-touch capabilities that boasts an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. This device really functions well while offering solid five hours of battery life. E-mail and other web surfing facilities are also available. It attracts to those mobile professionals who are looking for great diversity in computing solution. So you can call it as two for one deal.

The Google Phone

The Google Nexus One debuted as the exemplar Android Phone: it was the purest, the most powerful, the brightest and, above all, the Googly-est. From a technological standpoint it was a triumph, and to a certain type of tech-savvy, iPhone-averse user, its arrival was rapturous. Even today, nearly a year after it debuted, the discontinued Nexus One holds its own against the new breed of Android "superphones."

But to Google­—and to its observers—the Nexus One was more than a single piece of hardware. Before launch, word leaked that Google would be selling this phone directly from its website, without the need for a carrier contract. This unleashed a flood of speculation about what the "Google Phone" meant for Google, and the cellular industry as a whole: Was Google getting into the hardware business? Was it starting its own carrier? Would it finally be able to break the major carriers' hold on the cellphone market?

No, no, and no. Google's HTC-built phone was an ambitious piece of hardware, and its plan to sell it through its website, with the option to forgo a carrier contract, was unorthodox. But when early sales numbers came in, it was clear that this bold new strategy had failed. In May, Google's VP of engineering, Andy Rubin, posted on the Official Google Blog that the company would stop selling the handset directly, refocus its sales efforts of traditional retail outlets, and convert its online phone store into a general showcase for Android devices sold elsewhere. In December, Google announced the followup to the Nexus One, a Samsung-built handset called the Nexus S. Like the Nexus One, the Nexus S provides a powerful platform for Google's latest phone software, but unlike its predecessor, this one isn't expected­—or meant—to change the world.

However, despite the Nexus One's unfortunate arc, Google can rest easy: according to Nielsen, 2010 saw Android's market share surpass the iPhone's for the first time.