Curiously this doesn’t seem to confuse my Nexus One, even though the passwords for the two are slightly different. Hence email and address book etc. syncs to the Apps login but stuff like Latitude data is automatically scoped to the identically named Google account. I still can’t use Buzz though as that only works through Gmail and if I try to access mail through the Google account it tells me to start the process of creating a gmail username.

Anyway, the Nexus One is amazing, would not be without it. Seems odd that there is no native app that talks to your Google Reader subscriptions.

But it doesn’t seem to be a real email address at all. What on earth is going on?

The benefit of the Android – that I got an update to my Maps client the instant they announced Google Buzz – is rather outweighed by Google’s irritating policy around Google Apps accounts not linking properly with @gmail.com accounts.

I like Listen, but prefer Doggcatcher, a neat little podcast downloader/scheduler. One of only two Apps I have bothered to pay cash for.

The Android Market is poor, but at least you can install any program that anybody’s written! Google Sky Map is brilliant though, and enough to make me want an Android phone.

The real odd thing on it is the trackball which is basically pointless. You don’t need it, and in my entire time using it, I didn’t use it once.

I’d buy one. But I think I’ll wait to see what the Sony Ericsson X10 is like. It has a much better camera – and that’s kind of important to me. There’s also rumours that it might have decent 720p video. Or not.

And there’s the HTC and Motorola phones coming very soon that are similarly specced to the Nexus One. My one concern with buying from the US is that if it breaks then you’ve got an annoying international repair process to go through (at least until Vodafone start selling it). The same is true for the Amazon Kindle of course.

Yup, that’s because it uses the 3G/Nokia streams, which for some reason are completely different to the Flash ones, hence subtitles need manual shifting, and the quality is well below what any Android phone is capable of.

Unfortunately, it’s also the only stream Android can play – the iPhone streams use a container than OpenCore2 can’t read, and of course Android has no RTMP support so the Flash streams are out, and compiling librtmp has proven to be a bitch due to all the various dependencies…

Still, it was only meant as a temporary solution until the Beeb do their own client, or let me access higher res streams via RTSP!

I thought Google Voice wasn’t available outside the US? Can I get it to work in the UK on my phone? :D

Interesting review and you’ve helped me make up my mind – I am a VERY keen speed and I’m a Google Apps user, but I’ve invested too much in my iPhone Apps to say good bye to it for a Nexus One. Perhaps I’ll change my mind – but I VERY much appreciate your review here as the only other reaction I’ve had is that of Leo Laporte who loves it. It’s the OLED.