UPDATED 10:35 EDT / DECEMBER 15 2009

Details of the NexusOne keep leaking out all over the place

fccnexusoneHave you heard about the NexusOne?  If you answered "no", you are either Amish or dead.  If you’re the latter, please don’t eat my brains as reading this means you have come back to life as a zombie and yet you are still interested in news on this phone.

The phone completely dominated the past few days of coverage in the tech blogosphere, which is quite possibly good news for anyone pondering developing apps for the Android OS.

Sorting through the plethora of news that has come out is the tough issue, but the most important points to focus on can be summed up pretty simply.  First up, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing for the phone came out Monday morning and revealed pertinent information such as the device features microSD and Bluetooth, which are just about standard at this point in smartphones, but the inclusion of 802.11b/g Wi-Fi is where it gets interesting.

Wi-Fi has been a problem in some smartphones due to conflict with various cellular bands, but HTC/Google got it in here, and that opens up all sorts of possibilities with Skype and Google Voice.  Considering how the phone may be sold without a carrier, who would need a carrier with those running on the handset?

Jan. 5th is looking like the probably release date, but we still have no clue as to pricing or exactly how you go about purchasing one.


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