Get the most out of Google's powerful brand new Nexus One smartphone and its integrated phone, email and web access functionality. Learn how to use your own voice to call up locations; get audible turn by turn directions; create email messages and post updates to Facebook and Twitter; record and upload photos to Picassa and videos to YouTube with a couple of clicks; get connected to local businesses plus much more!
About the Book Google has just announced details of the brand new Nexus One smartphone that is available immediately and raises the bar on available smartphone feature sets. Nexus One includes several features that market leader iPhone can't touch: a thinner, lighter handset; a larger screen with more than double the resolution; voice enabled text entry for all fields; better battery life; and a far better camera with 5 megapixels of resolution and built-in flash. And Nexus One incorporates into its sleek and sexy design an all-touch keyboard, accelerometer, digital compass and ambient light capabilities. Since the Nexus One smartphone is WAY more than just a phone, How to Do Everything: Nexus One shows how to map routes, use Google Voice, use Google Mail and other mail services, use Google Apps, play games, take and upload photos and video, use music, find apps, synch the phone with your Mac or PC, and more. The book is organized to match the user's actual process in buying, setting up, and using the Nexus One. Chapters 2-7 match the order of icons users will encounter on the Nexus One home screen. Later chapters add detail on downloading software and content for the phone and extending it with add-on hardware. Details are included for using the pre-loaded Google services such as Gmail. Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Navigation, and Google Voice. If you want to know how to do everything well with your Nexus One, this is the book for you.
Key Selling Features
Master all the communications features including desktop synch, voice control, phone contacts, Bluetooth headsets, and more
Send and receive emails, text, picture, and video SMS and MMS messages, and explore additional messaging options (Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, and others)
Personalize your Nexus One with applications, ringtones, themes, and wallpapers and explore accessories built just for the Nexus One
Surf the web, take and upload pictures and video, play games, and listen to music
Readers quickly learn how to use basic features like making phone calls, sending text messages, taking and sharing photos and videos, and managing contacts, as well as synching music, photos, e-mail, contacts and other data with your PC
Contents are arranged so readers can either work through the book chapter by chapter or use the book as reference, using the Table of Contents and Index as a guide
Readers will learn what fun and games are available at the Android Market site, and download and install 3rd party applications created for Nexus One and other Android phones
Market / Audience Google launched on Jan 5, 2010 their first foray into smartphone sales, indeed calling the Nexus One the first "super phone" with its lightning fast processor, pixel-rich 3.7” touch screen and 5-megapixel camera. Groundbreaking voice-enabled capabilities allow users to speak a desired destination and get audible turn-by-turn navigation as well as the ability to speak the text of an entire e-mail, Facebook update or Twitter post. The Nexus One is described in the press as a sleek, sexy device, as thin as a No. 2 pencil and as light as a keychain Swiss Army knife (4.6 oz, or 53 pennies!).
Nexus One is only available for sale at www.google.com/phone; no retailers are allowed to stock this phone. Pricing is set at $179 with a 2-yr T-Mobile contract or $529 for an 'unlocked' phone that can run on the carrier of your choice. Verizon coverage is due Spring 2010, and carriers in Europe are expected to sign on in the next 3-5 months. (By comparison, the first iPhone sold for $600.)
Analysts and other experts note that the big significance of the Nexus One launch is Google's play to change how cell phones are sold by offering the Nexus One and future versions of Android-powered phones from its own online store, with a choice of subsidized service agreements from wireless carriers, as well as "unlocked" phones that will ultimately allow users to select from a variety of wireless carriers (as is common currently in Europe). By offering this powerful new phone that can easily roam the Web and run thousands of apps, and allowing customers to buy phones online and choose their wireless carrier, Google's ultimate hope is to be the leader in all services for people on the move, including driving more people to its lucrative search business, an effort one Google executive called "the next front in our core business."
It's early to gauge what the buying public's actual reaction to Nexus One will be, Barclay's Capital analyst Doug Anmuth predicts that 5-6 Million units sold in 2010, based on distribution through T-Mobile at launch and Verizon Wirelss by Spring 2010
Author Profile Bud Smith (Oakland, CA) is one of the top authors working in technology today. Beginning in 1984, he's written more than fifteen books, selling more than a million copies in total. Published books include nine editions of Creating Web Pages for Dummies (Wiley) and Internet Marketing for Dummies (Wiley). Topics Bud has written about include the first book on Google Voice, using Google applications, using Word Press, AutoCAD, and more. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including all major European languages, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian. His current bestseller is Creating Web Pages For Dummies, now in its Ninth Edition; the recently released Google Voice For Dummies is the first book on the topic, and the sales outlook is promising as Google Voice and Android expand.
Bud has also worked for a wide range of technology companies, including Apple, IBM, Microsoft, AltaVista and others. He has served as a technical writer, project manager, and marketing director, taking an active role in development of QuickTime software, GPS devices, and software, Web services, and portable computer hardware for the blind, among other products.
Bud holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of San Francisco and completed an MSc at the London School of Economics in 2007, both in Information Systems. Today, he is a full-time author living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
