I’ve never had the urge to buy an i-phone but this phone from google may be the one that cyclists turn to. It will have great interactivity with google maps and what I’m wondering is how much it will effect companies like Garmin.

Having a heart rate monitor may be what saves some of the GPS companies like Garmin.

If the google phone can work like a bicycle computer it could well be my next phone.

The Nexus One was designed by HTC, which has a close relationship with Google.
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The Nexus One has a 1-GHz Snapdragon CPU, a 3.7-inch 480 x 800 display, 512 MB of of RAM and an expandable 4-GB microSD card. … The 1-GHz processor alone should make the Nexus one of the fastest smartphones available currently. … It has a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, Wi-Fi connectivity, accelerometer, compass and proximity sensors. The phone is also reportedly extremely thin — slimmer than the iPhone.