Thursday, March 18th, 2010...7:09 pm
Google Nexus One Desktop Dock Review
Google shipped my Nexus One Dock two days ago and it arrived this morning, even though I picked the free ground shipping. Ill give them credit for the shopping experience — it was seamless and obviously the delivery was quick; on a Saturday morning, no less! The dock has a very minimal look and feel, which is good and bad. Youll see why in the video — Im not convinced the metal interfaces between dock and handset work consistently. Then theres the price question — is it worth $45? Thats a personal decision of course, but keep in mind that the dock includes a duplicate phone charger for the phone; so youre getting both a dock and second charger. And then theres that wireless Bluetooth functionality to pipe music from the phone to external speakers that you provide. I initially wondered why Bluetooth would be used, but now I see why — without a USB interface between phone and dock, theres no other way to get data or music between the two. About that Bluetooth — theres a limitation that I didnt expect. I really like the night mode however — although I didnt show it in the video, the phone displays the time in an old-school, green alarm clock color thats not too bright. It turns out that the dock actually is capable of streaming Bluetooth audio when the phone isnt in the dock. However, if you let the dock auto-connect wirelessly to the handset, you lose the wireless music streaming when you pick up the phone. If you manually connect via Bluetooth, you can use the dock or pull …
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If you connect via bluetooth to the dock, before you place the phone on the dock, it will stay connected even after you put it down and pick it back up again.
Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Enable bluetooth, and click Bluetooth settings: touch “Nexus One Desk Dock” to connect.
Play some music, set it on the dock, pick it up, still playing.
The clock app doesn’t seem to show up when you do this. You can just run it though.
Good review keep it up
first of all your a hater if u connect to the dock via blue tooth (and ur paired) u can remove the phone and it will remain playin the song
Just throwing in my two cents, but when I’m sleeping and wake up in the middle of the night, and I need to hit the home button for whatever reason, txt, email, etc. all I will be able to see is the pre-lit home button, so that maybe the reason for the dual home button thing. N1 rules
ive seen a video explaining how to fix the problems with bluetooth. You can fix it so that you can remove it and still play
without looking at your channel or other videos, i can already tell that you are an owner of an iphone.
press play, buddy.
It seems you have a lot of your settings messed up. It actually does route the audio through the pins. If you want to take it off the dock you have to enable to bluetooth in the settings to the dock.
you can still press play and the music should play again
good music
Thank you for all these very good point.
It’s like oiling the machine to move faster Robot
Hope that our friends at Google have Youtube
now I can totally understand how to use the dock and play the music via BT remotely.
To keep the music playing while carrying it around, “Connect” it to the dock in the wireless settings. Saw that in another review.