Google Nexus One – Coming to Wind?

Engadget has an exclusive hands-on preview of the new Google Nexus One phone up on their site. It’s definitely worth a read, with quite a few pictures and even a quick intro video to the phone in the initial article. They do promise a full review up soon.

The most interesting part of the review for me was this little snippet:

The HTC-built and (soon to be) Google-sold device runs Android 2.1 atop a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, a 3.7-inch, 480 x 800 display, has 512MB of ROM, 512MB of RAM, and a 4GB microSD card (expandable to 32GB). The phone is a T-Mobile device (meaning no 3G if you want to take it to AT&T), and includes the standard modern additions of a light sensor, proximity sensor, and accelerometer.

T-Mobile runs their 3G network on the 3G-AWS part of the spectrum which is not the same part as the 3G networks of Verizon, AT&T, and Telus/Bell/Rogers here in Canada. However, Wind Mobile DOES run on 3G-AWS (as will DAVE and Public Mobile), so it looks as though there is a good chance for the Nexus One to come to Canada first through Wind Mobile. We will have to wait and see.

It should also be mentioned that Bell, Telus, and Rogers also have some 3G-AWS spectrum so they will also be able to support the Nexus One once they get those networks up and running.