Last week, my long awaited Nexus one (ok, i allready have a Nexus One) arrived.

After opening the big box and looking inside, i found a retail Nexus One Box (the left one on the picture, compared to my own one).

Inside the box, everything themes to be the same like the retail version. All the small manuals are inside, along a power source, usb cable and headphones.

So after a long wait, german developers also got their phones.

Let´s see, what i will do with this one. My “old” Nexus One is allready rooted and some nice additional features are running.

At last, i can only say thank you to all people who downloaded my app, and a big thank you to Google for this nice gift for our work.

Like you could read some time ago, i was one of the Android Developers who where choosen to get a free Nexus One from google because of writing an app with more than 5000 downloads and a rating equal or better than 3.5 stars.

The first phones than arrived within the USA but until now, i didn´t receive my free phone. So i started to ask some other german developers, if they had gotten their phones allready, but they either didn´t receive their phones.

So i started to ask google, what was going on.

Here you can find their original answer

XXXXX,

We have verified that there is no problem with any shipment. We apologize for the delays in the shipments; we had some issues which have been resolved. You should be receiving your phone within the next 2 weeks.

We apologize again for the delays and thank you for your ongoing patience.

Thanks,

XXXXX

Like you could read, that the first developers phones from the android device seeding programm allready arrived in the USA, there is no news update within germany.

We are still waiting for our devices, like i got to know also from another german developer.

In the meantime, let´s update our apps and give the users more feautures.

As soon as there is any news update, you will read it.

Hi.

Like i could read in the news of twitter and on xda, the first free handsets from the Android Market Device Seeding Program are arriving. Until now, i only read that the developers get the more loved Nexus One from google.

Bad words can be heard, that they deliver more N1´s because googles first phone sold by themselves only via online store does have not so good sell statistics.

But i only can say, that i love my N1 very much. For me, it would be great to get the Droid, but only within the USA, google is sending a Droid or a N1 to the developers. Outside the USA, you will allways get the N1.

But i don´t cry about only getting the N1 (which hasen´t been devlivered until now). This is a great move from google and it makes me feel good in a way. I will still go on with developing new apps and improve my actual ones (an update of InfoDroid is around the corner).

Keep on coding

HI.

Since i got my nexus one, i couldn´n withstand to root and customise it again.

The rooting process is very easy on the Nexus One and can be done by really everyone.

For the moment, i go again like on my G1 with the Cyanogen Builds. I prefere them, because they run really stable, get frequently updates and have some nice add ons against the stock rom.

I´ve also did some graphical things to my Nexus One. But take a look yourself.

If you want some info about rooting or customization, drop me a mail or post a comment.

Google is giving the people in the world a little view behind the scenes of making the Nexus One.

These are little nice stories posted on youtube.

Here you can directly watch the making of movies in HD qualitiy.

Nexus One: The Story – Episode 1: Concept & Design

httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2WtBwAL0SE

Nexus One: The Story – Episode 2: Display & 3D Framework

httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7-p15xbXB4

Nexus One: The Story – Episode 3: Testing

httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1sz5c-R9h0

Nexus One: The Story – Episode 4: Manufacturing

httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9qeN42KAc0

As soon as there are more stories, i will update this post. So keep an eye on my blog.

Update 1:

Nexus One: The Story – Epiosode 5: Day One

httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_G38j_DYiA&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=4ACDE3CAD0636572

Heute gegen kurz nach 8, nach gerade einmal 3 Tagen Versandzeit, ist mein dev phone bei mir angekommen. Bilder der auspackzeremonie folgen heute noch I’m laufe des Tages.
Dieser Text wurde mit dem dev phone geschrieben.

Bisher hat google seinen Mitarbeitern ein Weihnachtsgeld in höhe von ca. 1000$ gezahlt, doch heuer gibt es etwas besonderes. Jeder Mitarbeiter erhält einen HTC Dream. Auf diesem basiert das G1 von HTC. Den Mitarbeitern wären wohl die 1000$ lieber gewesen, denn erstens ist das Gerät nur ca. 400$ wert und zweitens, werden die meisten Mitarbeiter bei Google sicher schon ein Handy ihr eigen nennen.
Letztendes muss man aber sagen, lieber ein kleines Weihnachtsgeschenk als gar keines. Denn viele der US Konzerne haben Aufgrund der aktuellen Weltwirtschaft das Weihanchtsgeld komplett gestrichen.