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The most recent rumor flying around in these here parts is a big one. Apparently this is Google’s new phone, the Nexus One (which is what it’s being referred as, but that’s not the official name we don’t think). Designed by Google and manufactured by HTC, it sports a 3.7-inch AMOLED display, a Snapdragon processor running on Android 2.1 and features a 5.0 MP camera along with two microphones to assist in noise cancellation. The phone will be sold by Google as an unlocked, carrier independent device and it’s said that phone will work with T-Mobile and AT&T (Verizon shot it down). Rumor originally got around when the phones were handed out to Google employees, which were then tweeted about.

It’s said that the Nexus One will be releasing in January 2010 and leaked photos have already shown up in multiple places (including the one above), but Google has yet to make an official announcement even though they posted about something on their blog.

This is quite a big leap for Google. If they’re going to enter the smartphone war this late in the game, they better be pulling off something extraordinary if they want to compete with the iPhone, BlackBerry and the other Android devices. Many are saying it could be the next iPhone killer, but we aren’t going that far out of our way to call it that just yet.

UPDATE: Engadget now has exclusive photos of the Nexus One. They’re much clearer and say a lot more about the device. The main thing is seeing that it’s running Android 2.1 like we mentioned earlier, but it looks very similar to 2.0.

UPDATE: Boy Genius Report has a couple of high res photos!

via [Engadget]

Image Credit: Cory O’Brien