Despite the Nexus One from Google not doing particularly well, the founder of the Linux foundation Mr. Torvalds apparently likes it a lot; or at least it's "the first phone I don't hate".

Quoted from his blog Torvalds said, "But I have to admit, the Nexus One is a winner. I wasn't enthusiastic about buying a phone on the internet sight unseen, but the day it was reported that it finally had the pinch-to-zoom thing enabled, I decided to take the plunge. I've wanted to have a GPS unit for my car anyway, and I thought that google navigation might finally make a phone useful."

"And it does. What a difference! I no longer feel like I'm dragging a phone with me "just in case" I would need to get in touch with somebody - now I'm having a useful (and admittedly pretty good-looking) gadget instead. The fact that you can use it as a phone too is kind of secondary. "

Its estimated that Google have only sold around 80,000 of their new smart phone, but it has been criticised for not being very well publicised or advertised; possibly being a major cause for the lack of buzz around the device.

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