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 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

Bot of my apps fullfilled the requirement and so i´ve choosen the better one: InfoDroid.

Today i got my confirmation mail (see original mail at the bottom of the post), that i will get my free Nexus One and that i will receive my device in 2 – 4 weeks.

This is a really great gift from Google, but after all, a little bit funny for me especially since not living in one of the four countries, where google is shipping their Nexus One at the moment, but allready having one.

But i must say, that this is a rally great move from google to give away free phones for top devs. This provides every developer to go on with new apps on the newest system builds (2.0.1 for the Droid and 2.1 for the Nexus One).

So we will see a lot of new apps in the coming month which will all focus on the newer Versions.

For myself, i´m still updating my application InfoDroid like you my allready read on an eralier post.

So now, i only can say “thank you” to all the people who downloaded my app and made this possible.

Dear XXX,

We’ve received your information for the Android Market Device Seeding Program and have successfully validated the Google Order Number from your developer account.

Your information will now be sent to our shipping partner for order processing. Just to confirm, the information we received from you was:

XXX

XXX

XXX

XXX

XXX

XXX

XXX

If you need to make any changes to your information above, please contact us at android-market-seeding@google.com as soon as possible. Otherwise, you should receive your phone in 2-4 weeks!

On behalf of the Android team,

Thanks, and happy coding!

Google, Inc.

1600 Amphitheater Parkway

Mountain View, CA 94043

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2WtBwAL0SE

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

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

Nexus One: The Story -- Episode 3: Testing

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

Nexus One: The Story -- Episode 4: Manufacturing

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_G38j_DYiA

After a long time without an Android device, i will be back soon.

Because i live in germany, where the nexus one is not available at the moment, a friend of mine who is doing his practica in the UK, ordered a Nexus one for me. He will be here by the end of January. So you will see a lot of images, videos and application updates.

If you have any special requests, feel free to post in the comments.

“Android, i´ll be back”