Verizon Nexus One to Include Sense UI, Being Sold by Google?
According to an image Androidandme posted, the Verizon Nexus One will include Sense UI.
Now, it COULD be a typo, but if it isn’t then this is a nice upgrade to the Nexus One.
Then again if this is true, it brings up some other questions/issues:
1. If the Verizon Nexus One is to ship with Sense UI, and both it and the T-Mobile version are to be sold by Google exclusively then how can Google not give an update to the T-Mobile version as well?
2. If the Nexus One has Sense UI, then doesn’t that kind of make it very similar to the HTC Incredible soon coming out for Verizon? Would they take the risk of being stuck with tons of HTC Incredible inventory if subscribers buy the Nexus One first?
3. And finally, the main benefit of having a Google phone (that has yet to be fully demonstrated by Google), is that Google will control the updates. New Android version? Straight to your Google phone, no need to wait for manufacturers or carriers to add their tweaks. But if we have Sense UI on the phone, that would mean that Google would release a new Android version and have to wait for HTC to create a new Sense UI to run on it before they could push that update to their new Verizon Nexus One.
So again noone knows if this is true yet or not, but with the points against it, I’m leaning ever so slightly towards it being a typo (not like it matters, T-Mobile Nexus One’s already have Sense UI…)
UPDATE: Just as we suspected… it has been removed from the page, was a “typo” apparently.
First, “erizon Nexus One to Include Sense UI from Google?” doesn’t really make sense. Sense is from HTC, not Google.
Second, because it’s from HTC and Nexus One is meant to show off Google Android at its best, it’s very unlikely that Google would sell the Nexus One with a UI on top of Android.
Jason,
From Google as in Google is selling it, not that they made Sense.
I had a Sprint HTC Hero with Sense. Now I have a Nexus One. In Android 2.1, the need for Sense seems much much less.
I think the only actual real benefit of sense, as I see it, is that the Phone button remains in the same place on every single screen.
That really is a feature, especially when you expect your phone may be used by people unfamiliar with Android (like my kids.) It makes it much easier to use AS a phone.
However, all the other stuff sense gives you? What is that? I don’t see it.
well go to the site that u got the picture from
they came out and fixed the typo about an hour after this article came out. The N1 does not have sense ui.