In the US, the top 4 carriers are all incompatible. This Nexus One works only on T-Mobile in the US, and there is apparently a different Nexus One coming for Verizon later. The unlocked price only enables you to buy it without getting carrier service for it (for example to use it as an Android development test machine) or to attach it to your existing T-Mobile service, where you’ve already used your subsidy on another phone. If you don’t already have T-Mobile service, you are better off buying the Nexus One from T-Mobile for $179.

> part of what it called an emerging class of smartphones
> called “superphones.”

“Emerging” doesn’t sound right to me when iPhone represents almost half the US smartphone market, and iPod touch (which runs Skype) is also very, very popular. There are more iPod touch in the world than PlayStation3 and XBox 360 put together. And Android is 7 years old, 5 of that under Google ownership. It’s great spin to say the smartphone+computer is “emerging” but only if you work at Google or Nokia or Palm or Blackberry.

Nexus One has the same fatal flaw as all Android phones to-date: almost no storage for 3rd party apps. Even if you are a rabid apps user, I don’t know how many “super” things you are going to get done with 0.2 gigabytes of app storage. Nexus One is like buying a Windows PC with an 8GB hard disk.