What better way to write about the Nexus One, than on the Nexus One itself?

But first, a little history.

Until a few days ago, I had had a Nokia E61i, my then favourite phone of all time. Full QUERTY keyboard, S60 OS power, good 3G and E-mail, but most of all my loyal companion for many years.

For a short while (while that was out of commission) I had had an original iPhone; I found that a rather painful device, as my numerous posts on the subject gently hint at.

And last Thursday we embarked on the next phase – a Nexus One appeared on my desk.

Here’s my thoughts on the phone, having had it in my hands for a few short days.

So here it is, the unboxing of the Nexus One.

More about what I think of the phone itself are to come soon; but this is just a really early glance at the device. I couldn’t even turn it on for a few hours because it was charging (and I was supposed to be working).

Couple of things I will say for it though; first of all its a truly stunning piece of hardware. It also gave my camera an extremely hard time because it is so shiny and there was so much light – so excuse the slightly blurry ones.

The packaging was excellent too, very sturdy, well put together and thoughtful throughout. I liked the Google 4-colour accents around the bottom rim of the box – a nice touch.

Without further ado, on to the gallery!

Since the Nexus One appeared towards the start of the year, I have basically spent all my time trying to convince myself to wait at least for the European model before I splash some serious cash on it.

Today I noticed a commentary on one TechCrunch’s blog posts about the Nexus One vs iPhone.

Now for those of you who may not be aware of the back story of TechCrunch and its love affair with Android,