Techie
6:17 PM | Saturday | 13 March 2010

From the United States with love

Look what we have in our hands! It's our very own Nexus One!

We've been waiting for the Google phone ever since it was launched three weeks ago. The fact that Big Brother is not shipping the "superphone" to the Philippines doesn't mean that we didn't beg for money find a way to get our hands on one. We Filipinos are not described as creative for nothing. Of course, we didn't do what the little ninjas did in this unboxing, but our costumes aren't even finished yet, so this will have to do for now.

Meet Google's superphone, the Nexus One, now selling for $529 on Google's Web store. Because they don't support our country (we Filipinos feel soooo special), you can either: 1) trick them into believing that you're in the States by getting a US proxy IP address then have them deliver the Nexus One to a US mailing add; 2) get your tito who's based in the States, the UK, Singapore, or Hong Kong to buy you one and wait forever for him to come home ask him to ship the Android device to you; 3) check out sites like Tipid CP and Gadget Grocery; or 4) go to Greenhills.

 

We will, Google. Don't worry. You better not let us down.

 

What does it say?

1. Insert the battery.
2. Charge the phone until the notification light turns green.
3. Press the power button (top left).
4. Touch the android to set up your phone and sign into your Google Account.
5. Place calls, send Gmail, surf the Web, shoot and share videos, navigate with Maps, download Market apps...
   

The goodies that came with the package include a USB cord, an AC adapter, headphones with a built-in microphone, and a neoprene sleeve.

 

The Nexus One's battery compartment houses two slots for your SIM and microSD cards. See the metallic area near the HTC logo? You can have Google engrave whatever fancy name that comes into your mind there.

 

And in goes our Sun SIM card...

Oh, you're alive! For a while there, we got worried that you wouldn't power up...

...and go loco on us.

We're getting ready to set up our Google account.

Keying in our username and password...

Success!

 

All the 3D goodness makes us feel that we're in a different dimension.

 

Dragging the screen to the right gives us the Camera and Gallery icons.

 

Dragging it to the left gives us the Gmail and Talk icons.

Tapping the Menu button brings up a context-sensitive menu.

There you have it, folks! We gotta go. We really should get back to tinkering with this Android device. Hey, we still need to do a full review of this phone. This work's a bitch, but someone's gotta do it.