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Google phone : Galaxy Nexus

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How long has the gadget-loving world been talking about the idea of a Googlephone? For  at least three years -before there was an iPhone, let alone an Android. The longer people talked about it,  the more revolutionary it was supposed to be . Who better than Google, after all, to show what an Android phone can be and shatter people's assumptions about how phones and phone service are sold while it's at it? On Tuesday, Google finally announced the Googlephone, in the form of  the Nexus One -if you define "Googlephone" as a phone with Google software and Google branding, sold by Google on a Google site. And...there's nothing radical about it. Judging from the first few hours I've spent playing with one, it's a good phone-a  really  good phone. The best Android phone so far, and (along with Palm's Pre) one of the few phones worthy of being discussed in the same breath as Apple's iPhone. But everything that's better about it is