Google Phone Vs. iPhone: 7 Things Nexus One Has The iPhone Doesn't (PHOTOS)

Everyone's asking if the new 'Google Phone' will be the ultimate 'iPhone killer.'

So what's the deal? How do the two smartphones stack up?

We've put the iPhone and Nexus One head-to-head to create the ultimate guide to seven key features the Nexus One has -- and the iPhone doesn't.

Check them out in the slideshow below, then tell us what you think!

Get the full scoop on the Nexus One with HuffPostTech's review roundup, and read more about the Nexus One vs. the iPhone in this terrific chart.

Typing Tricks

The Nexus One's keyboard is conveniently arranged so that users don't have to switch screens to enter a period when typing (saves precious seconds when typing URLs and e-mail addresses). As you're typing, the phone will also offer auto-complete suggestions that you can easily scroll through and select. Guy Kawasaki writes, "Five guesses for the word that I’m typing instead of one. I’ve seen Nexus One display as many as fifteen if you vertically scroll."

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[dndavis]

03:00 PM on 01/16/2010

It is incorrect to state that the Nexus One's camera is superior to the iPhone's based simply on megapixel count. Doubling the megapixel count only yields a 42% increase in linear resolution. Cramming too many pixels onto a given sensor size results in image degradation due to interference between pixels. Lens quality is much more important than the box the lens is attached to. Chase Jarvis recently published a book of photos taken entirely with his iPhone; I'd be interested in seeing a comparison of actual image quality between the phones performed by a photographer of Mr. Jarvis's caliber.

[estoppelboy]

03:50 PM on 01/13/2010

Key point for me is the fact that iPhone revolutionized the field, changed the very landscape of smartphones, and did it with a reliable, intuitive produce. The Google Phone does nothing more than take the iPhone, make the minimal number of structural changes to avoid patent infringement, and then claim something novel. It's a farce - look at the thing. Once again, Apple breaks ground and the others make minor tweaks to profit from their hard work. Rest assured the next Apple products will break more ground than putting a period on the main typing screen and making a gray case. They are innovators and, to date, don't sweat the other megalith companies picking up their crumbs. For that, they get my money. If everyone switched and stopped buying Apple and Apple somehow went out of business, in 2027, Google would announce the newest major change to the Google phone - a GREEN case! With new fonts! And the thing would still ape the iPhone. That's what makes Apple great and deserving of our support.

[Cryostatic]

12:36 PM on 01/13/2010

Chances are, if you don't have an iPhone, you simply don't want one, and have been waiting for something like this to come out. Comparisons are pretty pointless.

[Tazirai]

12:40 AM on 01/14/2010

Fanned. you make WAAY to much sense for the average person to comprehend.

[TammyTT]

08:04 PM on 01/11/2010

> conveniently arranged so that users don't have to switch screens to enter a period when typing

Er... uh... the iphone automatically detects the end of the sentence... and adds the PERIOD for you....
you don't have to "switch screens"... or even type the period AT ALL.

Duh.

[themainpoint]

12:55 PM on 01/11/2010

that's "texting"..."the high risk of car accidents that teXting creates"
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[themainpoint]

12:54 PM on 01/11/2010

Best feature is being able to dictate texts! That eliminates the incredibly high risk of car accidents that testing creates.

[simdee]

09:45 PM on 01/10/2010

There has been a lot of hype and tension erupted after the unveiling of the nexus one. Today, we are seeing some of the errors and glitches that a future user may want to look before buying the N1 phone. As they said, 530 USD has never became cheap. Details: http://bit.ly/nexus-one-disadvantages-compiled-details

[1computermaster]

12:16 PM on 01/10/2010

The people who choose Iphone dont know a phone is.

[wilray]

10:20 PM on 01/09/2010

http://james.gameover.com/index.php/2007/hiltons-paris-vs-apples-iphone/

[LCLA]

12:26 AM on 01/09/2010

These phones seem way cool, but the monthly costs keep me away. I'm amazed at people who have far less income than me who spend that much on a phone. Something tells me that they are not going to be able to afford to retire when that time comes.

[RButler]

04:51 AM on 01/09/2010

I'm guessing many are the same younguns that don't want to have to buy health insurance. I love the way Americans let non-essential products and things like entertainment and such skim the first dollars off their incomes while the basics like savings accounts, retirement planning and health care are last on the expense list if at all. Upside-down priorities.

Whenever I write a comment like this, someone usually rants about how 'it's my money and I'll do what I want'. Well, when they get in financial trouble for being irresponsible it's likely to affect others who might have to pick up the tab. A 20 years who gets in an accident while talking on their iPhone and runs up a huge hospital bill with no insurance, costs the rest of us something. I say, go to the Apple Store to get your broken bones set and see if they'll pay for it.

[wilray]

09:24 PM on 01/08/2010

I actually see Apple making the exact same mistakes they made during the Mac / PC WAR, and that ended with Microsoft literally having to save their competitor. Microsoft is primarily a software company. Apple is both hardware and software. Apple essentially has a closed system of their software on their hardware. The Smartphone wars are not really about Iphone vs Nexus. They are about Iphone vs Android. ATT which had been the exclusive carrier of Iphone even wants in on the Android phones. Do you see where this is going? ATT is even poised to sell the phone of my choice. Their uber phone and darling will now be an Android phone. Iphone was exclusive to ATT, but ATT was not exclusive to Iphone. Exactly who benefited from that marriage. ATT is planning on kicking Iphone to the curb, even after Iphone delivered all those customers to its lackluster service.

http://phandroid.com/2009/11/21/xperia-x10-to-att-details-emerge/
http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-sales/promotion/ces.jsp?wtSlotClick=1-002RQT-0-1&WT.svl=calltoaction

[RButler]

04:55 AM on 01/09/2010

Thanks. I keep forgetting about MS saving Apple when I read all the boasting from Apple fanatics. We should keep reminding them. It's like having to remind republicans about the mess Bush caused and left. They forget so easily.

[dndavis]

03:26 PM on 01/16/2010

Or reminding Democrats that the dot-com bust happened on Clinton's watch; that a Democratic president lied the US into Vietnam, to provide political cover for his Great Society Welfare State; or that Progressives were some of the biggest backers of US entry into World War I, because they recognized the opportunities to exercise limitless power over the economy and society (all for our own good, of course).

[Cryostatic]

12:44 PM on 01/13/2010

Exactly. The closed, proprietary system is what's kept Apple in the pathetic home computer market share it's had for ages, and it's repeating that with the iPhone. Google's giving it's OS away to any phone manufacturer that wants it, and it's open source, so if they so desire, they can modify it to suit their hardware in any fashion they want. Google's giving 30% of Android Market sales to the customer's service provider, something Apple won't do. Not even AT&T can resist an offer like that.

[GGSS2020]

03:18 PM on 01/08/2010

Eris23 and Exigent are among the dumb people who, with the internet, have the freedom to express their prejudice or envy of other people --- in this specific case, people that are iPhone users, like I am. There are a lot of points I could take them on, but the main one is: just because we're iPhone users it doesn't mean we're sheep or "cultists" or whatever else you called us. If that is so, then any choice you make makes you one because you chose whatever it is ABOVE everything else, so you see how dumb that is?

In my opinion, the iPhone still is king and other companies are playing catch-up. And this coming from a guy who's a fan of Google just as much as the founders themselves --- I would LOVE to work for them. Also, IMO, they're the one of the most powerful companies in the world, easily.

Stop hating.

[yogandclimber]

04:09 PM on 01/08/2010

The iPhone was the true innovator in this area and three years later the other products are just catching up. 3 years ago they showed the iPhone and everyone thought "WTH, no way anyone needs all that on a huge phone and pay that much." It was a big risk and they are the ones who took it. Now 3 years later this comes out and it looks almost exactly as the iPhone of 3 years ago and it's not cheaper and yeah you get locked into 1 network too.

[RButler]

04:59 AM on 01/09/2010

If Apple is so great, why do Apple users have to bash Microsoft or other companies constantly. If anyone should criticize MS it should be Windows users. What's it to Apple people? Oh, that's right. That's how cultists behave. "Our way is the best".

[wilray]

06:18 AM on 01/09/2010

I've lost someone to a cult so I don't have to say further.

[Eris23]

10:52 AM on 01/11/2010

Trust me. Egg shell ego Apple Cultists believe that they invented criticism of Microsoft. ;)

[rbryanh]

02:53 PM on 01/08/2010

And now for the usual blog-jihaad with righteous hysteria over an imaginary conflict, both sides of which are far more alike than different.

In this instance, the devices are for all intents and purposes identical. They do the same thing in similar environments in ways that aren't significantly different for a cost that will, over time, work out to be identical.

We believe that freedom consists of being able to choose between 100 different brands of deodorant every time we walk into a store, and never question the implicit assumption that we must choose one. Conflicts over the choice of consumer goods remind one of the old saw about academic competition: it's so vicious because the stakes are so small. When we define ourselves by what we own, we're sheep debating the interior design of the slaughterhouse.

It's 2010 and in a country where the government frequently declines to regulate corporations, it's up to citizens to do so. The real choice for any individual is not which product to buy, but which corporation to support. It doesn't matter which handheld you buy. The real question is what will the seller do with your money.

In this as in all such instances, we should ask ourselves which corporation is more likely to promote the general welfare and less likely to do harm. GIven that corporations are intrinsically amoral profit machines, the one with the least power to do harm is the moral choice at any given moment.

[wilray]

03:10 PM on 01/08/2010

Google's motto is "Don't Be Evil"

Perhaps, this will help you to decide, if they live up to their motto.

http://www.google.com/nonprofits/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-bk&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=google%20charity

[RButler]

05:15 AM on 01/09/2010

Re: 100 different deodorants. I've had several HP printers which I like due to their design but, really, when I go to buy ink cartridges, there must be 50 different kinds. That doesn't serve me. It makes me think that the company is up to something for their benefit. Same with Oral-B electric toothbrushes that have about a dozen models and buying refills is a real pain cause not every place stocks them all. I think many of these ridiculous numbers of models or types of products is to get the most shelf space in stores. Tide detergent has about a half dozen different bottles, the latest has something to do with helping people get their clothes washed after a disaster and has a different color cap. God help us.

This isn't new. I recall a Mad Magazine bit on GM creating new car divisions to fill in between the existing ones. The new model was called the Cheviac and filled the niche between the $2000 Chevrolet and the $2400 Pontiac and cost $2200.

"Serenity now"

[wilray]

01:04 PM on 01/08/2010

I don't like batteries I can't change. I don't like being tethered to one company. I prefer Sim Cards open source and more choices. I don't consider 100k apps to be much of a choice when the ones I really want are the ones that cost. I don't want inferior products that look slick and are supposed to be sexy. I don't even care to have to upgrade anything because of a stupid adherence to a company and I am afraid that someone will get something a little slicker than the company that I toss my money at. I actually think that it a low selling point to tell me that something is so cool that I won't have to think.. I can actually keep a virus off all of my computers with little effort and without having to be tethered to one company. I am way smarter than that. I am not staying with any company because I am afraid to leave and actually think. The sheeples can stay and believe they live in Nirvana, and keep trying to tell us that are they so much smarter than us cause they figured this out. Yea, I love Google's encouragement of pet projects. Most of you smart people haven't a clue of what I am talking, or why it is such a terrific thing. Most of the things that your precious company offer are unattractive to me. I used to think Microsoft was bad but not compared to you fanatics.

[yogandclimber]

05:11 PM on 01/08/2010

Yeah the iPhone really isn't for you. Not because it's inferior but because the style of the company is not your style. You see something sexy and sleek and you think it's got no material to it. If Apple came out with this Google phone 3 years ago you would have gawked. Why do I say that? Because they are the essentially the same phone. It takes this non-Apple phone to come out to get the Apple haters to realize how great these features are when 3 years ago they came out and you all put down this large expensive shiny thing that does too much. Now this new phone comes out and everyone is like Wow! It not as sexy and slick but looks just like the old iPhone which was sexy and slick 3 years ago. It is still behind and 6 months from now a new iPhone will come out. So you don't want to be locked in but you're locked into tmobile and Nexus-One and what's next for them? I think early on you can say we were "fanatics" and maybe just blind followers but there was no competition and now 3 years later this comes out and it really is essentially the same thing so yeah we can say we were smart.

[wilray]

07:44 PM on 01/08/2010

I thought you would learn but apparently not. But if you had read oneof my posting you would have learned that I am actually not that interested in either of these phones. I am interested in the Xperia X10. I have liked the phone since their first iteration. However, now that I have just learned that they have dropped Microsoft OS in favor of Android, it is very attractive to me. But go ahead please do your snarky thing and tell how it is such a terrible phone and doesn't stand up to the Iphone.

http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/xperiax10

[The-Philosopher]

12:21 PM on 01/08/2010

Well at least both of them can still be used as a PHONE.