Can Google’s Nexus One Really Challenge the iPhone?
Over the last several years the iPhone has completely opened the floodgates as far as innovation are concerned in the mobile phone market, with a number of different companies trying to gain their fair share of the pie.
Recent evidence of this can be seen by looking no further than the Google Nexus One. This is the smart phone that Google has been working on as an effective competitor for the iPhone.
The way that the company has been testing the applications and the different features of the phone is through Google employees around the globe. As a result, this has led to various reports about the state of the art features that the device has and what it is truly capable of in relation to other phones. The only difference is many of the reports that are surfacing are uncorroborated. To add even more mystery to the Nexus One a video could be seen on the internet which shows the different features of the phone with no sound.
What all of this shows, is that Google could be on the verge of introducing a viable competitor for the iPhone. However, at this time information is sketchy at best, which means that once the product has been introduced to the general public only time will tell how effective it will be in a fiercely competitive market.
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(Yawn) Another “iPhone killer”…..whoopee
Jdub, where are these other mystical iPhone killers? I’ve yet to find one that even stands up to the test.
You haven’t found these “iPhone killers” because you haven’t looked. My HTC Hero is running Android 1.5 and it hands down stomps the iPhone. All my friends have iPhones and they will all agree with me. To be honest, iPhones are dumb downed technology to be used by older people who can’t handle doing more than one thing at a time. One button and a touch screen limit you to what you can do. No multitasking? No decent notification system? No widget system of any kind? I hope Apple comes out with something to keep the Android team working hard, but it’s inevitable. By 2011 the iPhone user group will be cut in half. There’s not a doubt in my mind about that.
From the words of Mr. Nike. Just do it! Quit talking about it.
“Over the last several years the iPhone has completely opened the floodgates as far as innovation are concerned in the mobile phone market”
Er, no. It has led to yet another round of “look what Apple had done, let’s rip it off”
“with a number of different companies trying to gain their fair share of the pie.”
Fair share? I think that companies like Nokia for example, who have responded with legal action because they cannot compete with the technology, have all but given up their “share” voluntarily.
“Recent evidence of this can be seen by looking no further than the Google Nexus One. This is the smart phone that Google has been working on as an effective competitor for the iPhone.”
Google are going for it but the Android has many technical limitations which make it no iPhone killer. 512 megs of RAM being shared by both the OS and the Apps is but one example. They seem to point to inherent design issues at the lowest level.
Are we hoping to get some hits? The article actually adds nothing to the debate and leaves one with nothing said.
Google will find it difficult to dent the loyal Iphone/Apple demographic – but I expect Nexus will be a huge success with Symbian, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile OS users, amongst whom there is likely to be significant attrition towards the Google phone.
I seriously doubt Google would make a move like this without carefully considering potential market share and saturation points, both within the US and internationally.
Hate to say this, but I think Google has a winner here.
Who cares? you use your iPhone and I’ll use Android
“Can Google Nexus One really challenge the iphone ?”
No – but the 100 Android devices being released in perpetuity can blow it out of the water… although Apple will always have a niche.
Kiddies play in a sandbox.
I read this article on my Motorola Droid and can honestly say I enjoy using this phone. Is it an iPhone killer? I don’t know but it is a great phone for me and I really don’t want to leave Verizon as they provide the best coverage in my region. Apple is very innovative and I use an iPod and iTunes but I doubt I would be happy with the Apple App Store as, from what I’ve read, it is tightly controlled by Apple in an anti-competitive fashion.
Google could careless about creating a phone to be an IPhone killer. Google plans to flood the market with Android by having as many phone manufacturers install it as possible. That is how they will kill the IPhone platform. Duh!!!
I should have said “That is how they will stifle the IPhone platform”. Also, Gogoles biggest competition will be Google. Android Manufacturers will compete against each other, but there competing will have to be hardware based considering they all will have the same OS.
um just to let who ever brought the 512 mb for apps Sry to burst ur lil iphone ifanboy u only use like 2 k bits on the phones 512 mb and the rest of it goes to the sd card fag lol learn about something before trying to talk Shit about it and theres only one big thing that hurts android and that’s fragmentation but even that its not as bad as u think the reason there is fragmentation is cuz google is making So many updates So fast that it has fragm. and the telcos don’t want to end out the updates
this phone may truly not be an iphone killer but it will hurt it iphone honestly is for dumb ppl that don’t KNO much about tech they say “heck i c So many ppl with iphones i want one” i bet more than half of them can’t even name the processor or its clock speed i won’t say some android users r like that too and im not really down talking the iphone but iTs users that think there hot Shit cuz they have an iphone hardware speaking iphone is way behind nexus So i don’t see y ppl talk to much Shit