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Google was tired of having to hope phone makers would make something worthy of their Android operating system so they went to HTC with specs, designs and hopes and dreams and thus was born, the Nexus One... the Super Phone.

But just how super is it really?

Google has your average looking phone promo page found here: http://www.google.com/phone which has a decent 3d look at the phone and some good info on it, but as I said, it's an average page showcasing an average phone. To start, you have to go beyond that and look under the hood:

• Runs on a Qualcomm QSD 8250 1 GHz processor;
• Every text field is voice enabled so tweets, facebook statuses and searches can be spoken;
• Animated wallpapers and other funky personalization options
• a 3D framework for apps such as Google Earth
• 5 Megapixel Camera

Beyond these things, is it really a different phone from any other? Well, it has access to the Google Apps like any other Android phone, but while 16,000 apps is more than Windows Mobile or Blackberry, it's still pretty far behind Iphone's 100,000+ apps. It has custom apps for weather, news and even browsing on it's own browser but then so does every other phone. Oh, and it makes phone calls too... let's not forget that.

The display should look very familiar to anyone who's picked up an Android phone before, all the usual icons and features are there... a few new items are, as I said, the animated wallpaper, the neat weather information, gps looks a little better and so forth.

The 5 megapixel camera is impressive with great video capabilities but why only one LED flash when many other cameras now have 2?

And of course, the price. That's basically what it boils down too... does the "super" title mean having to pay more?

Well, apparently the Nexus One is going to only be available in the US on the T-Mobile network to start, and eventually also be available on Verizon. If you get it with service, it'll run you $179 and without service, it'll be $529.

Without actually using it, it's hard to make concrete judgements but honestly, this doesn't look so super to me. If this came out as the very first Android phone, perhaps then it would make people step back and be impressed but for right now, I think they'll have to hope for a lot of word of mouth advertising. People will have to love this phone a lot once it's in their hands for this to become a big money maker for them.

And who knows, maybe it really is and maybe it really will do well.

But for right now, don't expect any "super" numbers once it's available to the market.