Google Announces the "Super Phone"

Posted by: Peter Burrows on January 05, 2010

I’m at the Google-plex, where the company just announced what it calls the first of a new class of products called the Super Phone. Kinda makes an iPhone sound pretty pedestrian, no?

So far, project leader Mario Queiroz has given a hint as to the answer regarding a key question about the device—that Google sees it as an “examplar” for what’s possible for handset makers to do, rather than a new Google offensive to be a leading phone maker itself. “The volume, quality and variety of Android phones in the market today has exceeded our most optimistic expectatioins. But we want to do more,” he said. “What if we worked even more closely with our partners to bring devices to market that help us showcase the great software technology wer’e working on here at google.” He then explained that the “dictionary definition of Nexus is that it’s a point of convergence, a means of connection. The Nexus One is where web meets phone. It’s an exemplar of what’s possible.”

Now, Erick Tseng is walking through some of the specs, including a 3.7-inch AMOLED display and 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and flashy new “multi-color LED” trackball that gives you context about what you’re doing. And all in a package that’s lighter than a standard Swiss Army Knife, and the thinness of a No. 2 pencil.

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