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How can I 'Google phone' Nexus One buy in Germany?

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on 05/01/2010 who has come out Nexus One phone , weeks in advance as the Google phone web hype is, unfortunately, been available directly only in the U.S. and can also be delivered in a few countries (including England). While these rumors appear that it should already be available in February in Germany, there may be some who do not want to wait that long. As can proceed, then?

An important caution about

I do not guarantee that the procedure works or is legal. Also, no liability for side effects of the described changes in their own computer to take effect. Also, the reliability of the vendors mentioned here will not make any statement. An imitation is therefore always at your own risk.

Update: The below costs and schedules of the order, a separate report by the beginning of 03/2010 Nevertheless, the experiences described may not be generalized..

hurdle 1: Google Website harness

The order of the Nexus One can officially only via the Google website:

http://www.google.com/phone/

Unfortunately you get when you access this site from Germany from the following Note:

What now? Basically the same here as in other services is hurdle to overcome, which will be accessible for various reasons only to U.S. citizens. With well-known example is the Pandora Internet Radio for which due to its popularity, there are specific descriptions, such as here on netzwelt.de .

Of the described there three methods (proxy, TOR, Rewebber) I take the second, TOR. For the proxy solution would have on the difficult and make new search for a readily available public proxy servers. Although here are many lists (eg here and here ) this is very cumbersome and unreliable. Rewebber as Proxify certainly allow a quick initial look at the Nexus One side, as it appears in the U.S., but are not able to provide advanced functions such as the necessary support Javascript.

install TOR

The TOR will be installed in the netzwelt.de page rather well described, it is but not correct on all points. The download can take place directly from the homepage of the TOR project in the form of Vidalia package.

After installation you have to in their browser (perhaps in another as in the one who just shows these instructions), contained in the TOR proxy (called Polipo ) entry. Has the address

127.0.0.1, port 8118

Although TOR works immediately and can be used as a proxy in the browser, but is not guaranteed that the real goal, namely, the Nexus One page as American Surfers seem to achieve is: The use of TOR endpoints can be located anywhere in the world. It is therefore still some manual work required, and, by adjusting its file torrc . Where to find this file is described in the TOR Faq .

must be defined exit nodes This file, located in the United States. The general format is described in the TOR Faq , but it is enough to supplement the time:

exit nodes {us}

We have reached our goal and cleared the first hurdle. After that, the call to the Nexus One uses page with a browser that the TOR proxy to deliver the desired result:

is important to know is that with TOR in general, and the forced road about a U.S. exit node in particular, the speed of Internet access is suffering a lot. So be patient in the next steps.

Google Checkout account

for the purchase has an account with Google or Google Checkout necessary. But because Android anyway does not work properly without a Google Account should not be a barrier:)

Tip: If you set up their checkout Account has yet to, so should you do this for speed reasons, before getting into the TOR connection changes (or any other use browser that does not of TOR is running).

hurdle No. 2: A delivery address in the U.S. or UK

Now we are right in the shop, may have already entered our custom engraving, and are suddenly faced with the next problem: There are only a destination within the U.S. or UK (or Singapore, which are no longer interested) possible. Who is not by chance friends or relatives in these countries, needs something else: a 'dead' letter-box in one of these countries. The 'dead' mailbox must end on our package and, of course trustworthy, so we do not already paid Nexus One disappears en route. And of course

service is also available here already, take something. One of them is Borderlinx . It offers perhaps the facts that he is tied in DHL. After registering, you have to even have an address in the United States and in the UK. There are also a handy calculator. To feed it you need a few details:

Weight: In my experience, the Nexus One package is about 1.7kg difficult
mass : Can I leave empty

Now you can fill out the order form. That the credit card used is not a U.S. interferes in the order any further. An alternative provider for 'dead' Mailboxes is www.myus.com .

much does the fun?

After I pointed out in early March 2010 an order to the process described above can I enter in my case, here the actual costs incurred. The costs are divided into the cost of the phone itself (Google) and the shipping / import (Borderlinx). All prices are in U.S. dollars:

cost	costs (U.S. dollars)
Google:
Nexus One Phone	529
Nexus One Docking Station	45
Shipping - FedEx overnight	0
Tax (OH)	38.74
Google gesamt	612.74
 	 
Borderlinx
Tax	116.37
Duty	0
Shipping Charges	38.50
Borderlinx Gesamt	154.87
Total Cost	767.61

To convert to the current European price, you can use the Yahoo converter. The docking station is optional of course and I was wondering if you, the Ohio Tax not somehow get back could.

script ordering

The expiration of an order looks like this (very concrete example of an order from early March 2010):

Day 1 (Sunday night)	order on the Google website. The confirmation of Checkout is a short time later.
Day 2 (Monday)	The Google Store has sent the Nexus One. Delivery can be tracked via the FedEx website.
Day 3 (Tuesday)	FedEx delivered the package, according to tracking code on Borderlinx.
Day 4 (Wednesday)	Google burden on the credit card that Nexus One is paid for it. Borderlinx notified by email of the receipt and allocation of supply combined with a payment request or question, to be sent and when. Borderlinx payment and contracting with the sending (Normal not Express). Borderlinx confirmation of delivery by mail
days 5-8 (Monday)	In the period of leave sold by Borderlinx to delivery by DHL, unfortunately, only a few tracking information received and forwarded via the website Borderlinx . Usually there is a message that no status is available. Meanwhile, there were ads like the one that the delivery of Cincinnati had been sent off and then on Monday that it had left Leipzig. On Monday morning, the package is then ready to come!

The question remains: Should we take the import?

Once the process is now explained, the question remains, can we dare to import it? The following questions arise here: Can a

Import Nexus use the UTMS network?

The technical specifications basically give information about the hardware configuration of the device, but is more specific this page in the Help Center .

Does speech recognition for German?

The speech recognition seems to some commentators, such as in netzwertig.com and neuerdings.com , one of the fundamental innovations One of the Nexus to be delivered Android 2.1 operating system for the first time. This Youtube video shows them very clearly and convincingly, despite the strange title:

would be important to know it, therefore, whether the voice recognition does work at all for the German language? Unfortunately, the Help Center here at the moment seems to be no real answer.

Update: the beginning of March 2010 ordered Nexus One does not have any German speech recognition. However, the language is immediately available when it is offered in principle to the Google servers.

warranty issues

The warranty is certainly an argument against the import. If you are prepared the risk is to take, you should go just maybe unpack a little more cautious on ways than in this video:

alternative descriptions

There are other pages that describing how to get the Nexus One in Germany:

• neuerdings.com
• borderlinx.com - has now also Borderlinx own description specially made to resemble Nexus One

The process of my Description, however, set both to the use of a proxy. (The proxy can finally read along the whole communication) after the experience, the uncertainty and potential security problems appear superior to the solution described above TOR remains fragile.

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Heiligenhafen for 'Daisy'

achieve in this year's winter holiday in Port Saint us a lot more calls from friends and relatives than in previous years. All are in custody. Reason is obviously the very drastic descriptions of the situation after the passage of deep 'Daisy' in Fehmarn and nearby cities suffering from power cuts and heavy snow drifts or were suffering. In Heiligenhafen but our impression was not really dramatic, and that means you believe us here is a small stretch of pictures yesterday and today.

snow, but not like in mass

on Saturday, is 09.01.2010, in Heiligenhafen almost no snow, no one at all on Sunday. Only on Monday is a significant amount (especially now, as this text is written).

's still in some places are definitely caused huge snow drifts or pile is cleared, however, that the fierce wind all fallen in previous days snow resumed, transported and concentrated in a few places have. This is what one high in the scenery drifts (note in the picture the dog's head) in addition to completely bare fields:

The flat fields saw therefore the correct selection of view this afternoon like this, as if in recent days and weeks, almost No snow had fallen:

If one goes the other hand, to other agencies, we find right snowdrifts:

this image stood upright, the photographer, and was not on his knees, Zorro is, about to head height, while the summit of this massive snow drift has been overcome.

Strong winds and high water

was really extreme for us landlocked countries, however, the wind conditions on Saturday and Sunday. For coastal communities such a roaring storm is probably accustomed to us he was the main event at the weekend. When will we have with us ever seen a wind, the one pushed forward and the progress can be similar to a straight line like a strenuous climb to our local Teutoburg forest?

A wind is so hard that he can hold for days lying snow again and run many miles with him and then another two full days last? Probably only once in 10 years.

A Thereafter, this wind could be because a high water level, the sink in the Marina, the webs for the most part in the water read:

Otherwise, these webs are at least half a meter above sea level. On the beach, spitting out the stormy Baltic Sea from a lot of flotsam:

In the background you can see the wind turbines on Fehmarn. Whether this storm because of too much wind or because the power lines had been cut had to be shut down, unfortunately we have not observed.

for the wildlife, the weather is no problem

The adverse weather conditions but rather seem to us to touch people, nature in the form of animals and plants is apparently not impressed. Thus, the ducks, gulls, geese, cormorants, coots, rooks, and so on as usual at the port, on the grass and watch the Steinwarder:

at the prevail of ice ocean boundaries gründeln the mallard ducks and the seagulls appear with the wind, and he is still so hard to play actually. are

on the bare, wind defenseless been set fields on the steep bank to see all rabbits that look in small groups without coverage weather the storm and the snow:

makes obvious the 'hares' this weather is not the least from. The Belt Galloways behind the Holiday Centre are indeed densely crowded around the feeders, but appear under their incredibly thick fur completely unmoved and deal as always substantially with regurgitation: have

As long as it freezes and so 'dry' remains they have no problems. Only the high water might make them 'worry': It's still flooded large parts of its salt marshes, so that the cattle remain on their food hills.

For us tourists an experience

For us this exciting holiday weather is nice, even if the locals rather annoying drops. Even while shooting, it provides design possibilities that are on the lake quite unusual and new. With such a rather abstract and slightly distorted motif of the short weather report from Port St. ends after 'Daisy':