Google Phone Nexus One pictured!

We knew it was coming, it was only a matter of time. The first pic of the Nexus One, the Google Phone has arrived via twitter. As you can see, it looks absolutely delicious, like a smarter brother of the HTC Passion.

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Apparently Google employees cannot reveal details of the Nexus One, but they can reveal how mind blowing it is. A San Francisco-based blogger named Cory O'Brien got his hot little hands on a Google Phone one earlier today and tweeted out that picture. He also notes that, "Google Phone = iPhone + a little extra screen and a scroll wheel. Great touch screen, and Android."

As we reported earlier , the 'Google Phone' is not just another HTC phone with Google's Operating System Android, in fact the gadget is a proper Google-branded phone which the company is building right now and will sell it directly through retailers. The Google Phone will be an unlocked GSM phone. The gadget is powered by a Snapdragon chip and is loaded with a super high-resolution OLED touchscreen.

Now here is the interesting part - the Google Phone is thinner than the iPhone. It has no keyboard and two mics which are on the back of the phone to eliminate background noise. Also, it will feature a 'weirdly' large camera for a phone. And in case you dislike the touchscreen keyboard, you can simply write emails using by speaking into the phone using its voice-to-text feature.

The Nexus One is powered by the Android 2.1 operating system, and is supposed to be really, really, really, really fast. Here is a Twitter message from a Google Program Manager, who writes "Stuck in mass of traffic leaving work post last all hands of 2009. ZOMG we had fireworks and we all got the new Google phone. It’s beautiful." Another Googler Jason Howell tweeted "The new Google Phone runs on HTC hardware. I saw it w/ Android 2.1. Homescreen has new visual enhancements like animated desktop wallpaper."