Yesterday it was finally time: After eight long days, the waiting was from the U.S. Nexus One ordered by DHL courier delivered to your doorstep. In this blog entry I will describe the first steps with the Google Phone . Since the Nexus One at the time the latest Android Version 2.1 brings such a description might be interesting for others.
Unboxing
If you look before you open the box takes a moment, so you can see on almost every package or label. They document the long journey, it has already laid back. Starting from a container code that probably comes from the transfer from the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC in the U.S., a FedEx label through to the DHL label and issued by Borderlinx transfer papers. 
phone and dock come in beautiful, sturdy white cardboard boxes so that really are much too good to throw away. Makes you look slim because the carton Nexus One unpacking, we find a mobile phone before the usual ingredients:
Coming to life: Charge
the beginning - as always with a new mobile device - of course must now be once the battery is charged. A true test of patience. When inserting the battery, you can also install the same his SIM card. The installation of the battery is described in the booklets, open the mobile phone on the back by pushing the portion of the cover that protects the camera.
Charging is always done via the mini-USB connector and can be done either by the included AC adapter, the docking station or via the USB cable. To use the AC adapter and the docking station (which, incidentally, contains a completely identical power supply), you must have an adapter to hand, the flat U.S. plug sure to get the local outlets: 
was in my case as an adapter or from any Lumix camera around, it could therefore start at once. If no such adapter just at hand can be said as the USB cables are used on a computer.
the charging process to a small light on the front of the first orange and then green. Although in my case the battery apparently summoned to a certain extent - the Nexus One report by the onset immediately with the start screen - I I indulged in the device but then only two hours at the loading port.
On Air - the androids get online
As soon as there is enough battery power must by now the SIM card can be used. Hopefully, connected to a data plan, otherwise it could be at the end of expensive:) After switching welcomes us to the small android and is chosen in the first step language: 
In the following steps, you can read some help to get to the crucial step: the application at Google Account. Without Google account is what to do with Android. Those who do not have one can perhaps more easily create a normal from a PC to complete the steps to take on the phone. Of course, must be present to sign a data connection over the telephone network.
For those who like me have taken off their email, contacts and calendar with Google, the Google Account login to the setting up of the Nexus One is actually done already to a large extent: The Nexus One begins immediately with the synchronization for B . the contacts. Depending on how much data it must be shoveled back and forth, this may take longer or shorter. For me it has only lasted a few minutes.
Important Tip: By default, when you first set up the phones might not change, synchronize all contacts from GMail account . Even those with only an email address! Who is using GMail for quite some time here has quickly hundreds to thousands of 'contacts', which are abundant in the Nexus One redundant. You should immediately change (before the end of the synchronization) in the settings and select the option when you synchronize, by which only contacts with phone numbers to be transferred. The contacts substantially reduced. When writing e-mails are the other addresses of course, remain available.
first Tuning - Multi Touch, Screenlock and wireless
The Nexus One is now ready for operation and all the exciting applications such as Maps, goggles and so on are available. Here are three things I think are important:
Updates: Shortly after starting I get the message to an available operating system update (pure visible in the bar at the top). This update only the multi-touch functions are active, which has sued Apple just HTC. An important feature that you want to miss any more if you learn to know them first. So do not wait long to install (but perhaps before that point to the wireless device to read). The next day came at me one more update to the Google Maps, which seemed to me important.
Screenlock: To an Android phone will need it to function - I know the Google's own - as described. And quickly gather additional passwords on a small piece of jewelry (the app is already installed), for example, the Facebook password. It is therefore with such a device is still important to establish at least minimal protection against unauthorized use. The easiest way to do this through setting a visual key: In the settings under location, and safety is the so-called soft unlock turned on and set. To unlock the Nexus One you drive up a self-defined pattern to the screen. This is not an absolute protection - but the smears on the screen can tell already the solution - but better than a completely open mobile phone. 
W-LAN: Who is not one of the lucky ones who can call an unlimited data plan their own, will take place as another very early step in the wireless device. W-LAN can also use the above updates are carried out quickly. With me was the connection to local T-DSL with a Speedport no problem. The W-LAN at the University of Bielefeld however, was not yet a nut to crack. Once there I managed to access I will write to have a separate text. By the way: If one is afraid of high costs of unwanted data connections over the telephone network, which is the flight mode mentioned as a tip. This can be via the settings under wireless networks and set, preventing the construction of all types of wireless connections.
And is everything else then of course:)
Oh: The page with the description of how the Nexus One can now order already in Germany, one finds here .
