[Nexus One General] gs2020:
If you actually watch/listen/read most of the negative reviews of the nexus one as an avid android user you can easily tell that those people haven't spent much time with those devices before submitting their reviews. Some of it is fanboyism, some of it is just lack of interest in android as a whole. I worked at AT&T and had the iphone thought it was an amazing phone and it still is. I then went to work for T-Mobile who I am currently with and to be honest when I first laid hands on the G1 I was not impressed in the least bit when comparing it to my iphone. Then with the release of the MT3G I spent more time with it since it was a new phone and found that it seemed to be less laggy compared to the G1. By this time the android market had also increased the number of quality apps available, google's own apps became leaps and bounds better then where they started and I fought it but started falling for android. I got the MT3G and only then did I really have the opportunity to realize what a great OS that android has to offer. Everything that I complained about with my iphone I found that the android phone had. Things that I complained about with the G1 were suddenly fixed through useful 3rd party applications. Coming to this forum and finding out just how much you can really do after rooting the phone and adding custom ROMS to the phone. All this really made me into a hardcore android follower.

Without spending time with these devices or having someone knowledgeable to explain all that the devices can have to offer, you are never truly going to understand what is possible with the android devices. Iphones are the obvious choice for most (although I see a change in that which I will address in a bit) because of intelligent marketing by apple as well as AT&T. It's also the ease of use of the iphone being so stripped down that a 4 year old can use it, I know... my friend gave her 2g iphone to her 4 year old and she can operate it just fine. When you see repetetive commercials about all the apps you can use, functionality of the phone, a seemingly never ending supply of applications at your fingertips, you are going to become conditioned to lean towards the iphone and believe that it is the best thing ever, without considering other options. The only place where the android phones fail is in advertising and allowing the users to know exactly what the capabilities of the phone are. Other then verizon's droid commercials, which I think actually do a good job of showing phone functionality, we have the mytouch commercials with some odd celebrity just swiping their finger across the screen, cliq commercials just showing a bunch of people running towards one person stating wonderful social networking, htc hero commercials just showing the main screen swiping back in forth with a message that just says "you" everywhere. Android isn't progressing itself with this type of advertising from all the different companies IMHO... so really the only way you find out how much more an android phone can do over something like the iphone is through personal experience or having a knowledgeable salesperson that can explain the differences between phone a and phone b as well as the productive tools it has to offer.

Now, reverting back to a previous statement I made, you really can't compare the sales of the Nexus One to the sales of an Iphone because it's an unfair comparison. More so what should be considered is the sales of ANDROID phones compared to the iphone. OS A vs. OS B and lately android has been winning this war. With the multiple android options people have now on multiple providers, there is a rapid interest growing over android. I have sold too many MT3Gs and Cliqs to count in the past couple weeks because I spend the time to make sure the customer understands how the phone can cater to them because unlike other phones, you could have two people with Cliqs and basically have completely different phones based on how they customize it. That 20k sales for the nexus one and 50k sales for the iphone statement is misleading because as of 4 months ago percentage of users of iphones was somewhere around 39% of the market, RIM being at 21%, and android being next to WinMo around 8%. Now, 4 months later Iphone has dropped to around 27%, Android gaining to around 22%, and RIM dropping to around 8%. Basically in a small 4 month span iphone -12%, android +14%, and RIM dropping around - 13%. Those are really numbers people need to look at, not just zero in on the nexus one itself as it will really only appeal to techno inclined or existing android users but android as a whole is gaining interest from just about everywhere. Not to mention the growth of the android market jumping from an estimated 7k apps to 15k apps in that 4 month span as well.

I watched attack of the show yesterday and they gave a raving review about the phone and you could tell they spent some time using it because they went through the features offered on the phone thoroughly for the alotted time they had for the review that they gave. They gave it a 4.5 out of 5 and everyone that I have seen that has spent quality time with the devices have really enjoyed them. Again it really just comes down to whether you have interest in the device in the first place or whether you have informed yourself about the capabilities of these devices, and from the negative reviews I have read it's been obvious the people reviewing the nexus did neither. I read gizmodo's review of the nexus and I posted a response in their blog basically explaining that the phone could do the things they said it couldn't do. It was also apparent which phone they were comparing it to so I listed a nice long list of functions that were available on the nexus that weren't available on "the other phone" used for comparison....Needless to say after pending approval for being published on the site it was not approved and never seen by others that blogged on the site. So it's kind of sad how someone can review something and then decline a more knowledgeable feedback on that particular device for others to see in conjunction with the original review.

I will leave saying this, Thank you apple for creating the iphone, it was a wonderful phone and dwarfed anything else out there on the market. I thank you for this because without you apple, We don't know if we would ever have android. Thank you for making leaps and bounds in the mobile industry so I can now have android. Thank you Apple for allowing android to happen :)