Image from Cory O’Brien's Twitter

Image from Cory O’Brien's Twitter

Yesterday afternoon, news spread of Google’s new phone called “Nexus One“. This smart phone runs the Android operating system and has already been sent out to some google employees apparently. The photo above is from Cory O’Brien’s Twitter page. He describes the device: “Google Phone = iPhone + a little extra screen and a scroll wheel. Great touch screen, and Android.” This phone will be sold online by Google carrier free, unlocked, and estimated to be available in early January 2010.

It has been confirmed that Google has sent out the Android 2.1 operating system to employees running on the HTC Passion unit to test over the holidays. Expect the final version to be similar.

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