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Google Nexus

Google Nexus

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Overnight Google unveiled their next big brand, Nexus.

Nexus is a phone, a tablet, and a media player (kind of like an Apple TV). Nothing really new with any of these devices, apart from the complete end to end control, and therefore better integration and experience, from Google.

Finally it looks like Google might have learnt a lesson from Apple, in that controlling the entire product experience means that you’ll likely have better adoption as everything just works together properly.

Regular people aren’t geeks, they don’t want to hack things together to make a working whole, they just want things to work. Apple has excelled in recent times with this philosophy all the while Google was preaching ‘open’.

Good work Google, hopefully these devices will help them get back in the market, and by proxy make Apple have to work a little harder.

Samsung’s bullshit Galaxy pre-order numbers

The Loop called it the same way I did, just with a little more profanity.

Like I mentioned in my comments on the Samsung presser, it’s looking like these 9 million phones are going to carriers and not directly to customers.

Spec wise the phone is nice, most Samsung phones are, but I still have reservations over the UI they put on top, along with the Android / Google app store, and the supposed ‘open’ nature of the OS. Call me a fanboy if you like, but Android is still playing catchup on many fronts.