so my friend says his Nexus One is superior...

[DroidxRage]

N1 has less pixels than the droid

N1 has faster stock processor,but no GPU

Droid can be OC'd to 1.2-1.3GHz depending on the phone

Droid has physical keyboard / N1 doesn't (preference mostly, but some cases the keyboard is better ie; NES gaming)

AMOLED Screen on the N1 is tougher to see in the sun than the Droids also, but is brighter in low light settings

N1 has native 2.1 with 3d app drawer, Droid has 2.0.1 stock (for now), and with a ROM can have everything the N1 has minus the app drawer.

Those are the hard-fact differences that I can see, make your own assumptions on which is better I guess.

[CongoJack90]

The droid has a higher pixel density than the N1 and the droids screen was shown to have a near perfect balance of contrast while as the N1 made colours a little to dark and the iphone made them too watered down. Sorry I don't have the link to the article.

[briankeith513]

So, what i get from this is the N1 is better? Can't they overclock the N1 as well?

They have been tested side by side and the N1 is no faster.

This statement is ridiculous. Every review thus far that I've read says that the Nexus One is faster, some say much noticeably faster. I don't even want a Nexus One, but just look at the processor specs would let you know it's at least a little faster.

[mikes]

[DroidxRage]

Brian - your forgetting the Droid has a dedicated GPU, so it should be faster on graphics intensive applications. On a CPU intensive app, stock-to-stock the N1 would win.

That being said, my Droid is running at 1.1Ghz 24/7, so that coupled with my dedicated GPU should topple any stock N1 benchmark.

[JhankG]

1. Droid has a better touch sensitive screen.
   
2. Comes standard with more memory

Droid sales are also hugh where Nexus sales are weak.

Root your Droid and get the 2.1 OS and he will have nothing on you, besides having the far weaker phone.

This is false.

[pyro6128]

Yea after rooting, overclocking, and running some of these roms, I would say the only advantage I would give to the N1 is the fact that it has 512ram compared to our 256. I wouldn't mind having all that extra space for apps.

Edit, i think he meant that the N1 comes with a 4g card, whereas the droid comes with a 16. If you combine that with the internal memory on each phone the droid does in fact have way more space. However, on the phone itself, the N1 has twice the storage capacity.

[Mojo]

Its a stupid comparison to make.. (not calling anyone stupid) its like saying what is superior a Lamborghini or a Ferrari. They both are bad azz. In every way.

[JhankG]

Yea after rooting, overclocking, and running some of these roms, I would say the only advantage I would give to the N1 is the fact that it has 512ram compared to our 256. I wouldn't mind having all that extra space for apps.

Edit, i think he meant that the N1 comes with a 4g card, whereas the droid comes with a 16. If you combine that with the internal memory on each phone the droid does in fact have way more space. However, on the phone itself, the N1 has twice the storage capacity.

The Nexus has more RAM (which is not what dictates how many apps you can download, that is called ROM) then the Droid. The Nexus has 512mb of RAM while the Droid has 256mb of RAM.

Taken from wikianswers:

"Random Access Memory (RAM) is a form of memory that can be read without having to begin at the first address, then the second address, then the third, and so on. This is a carryover from when most memory was Serial Access, such as magnetic tape, paper tape, or punched cards. The on-board memory computers use for temporary storage is Random Access Memory, but on chips, instead of a hard disc drive.
Read Only Memory (ROM) is exactly what the name implies, it can only be read, not written to. A CD-ROM is a form of memory, as is a chip on the motherboard which is used to store instructions for the Central Processor Unit. RAM is your computer's temporary storage space. RAM is really the computer's short-term memory. As such, it remembers everything that the computer needs to process the data into information, such as data that has been entered and software instructions, but only when the computer is on. This means that RAM is an example of volatile storage. When the power is off, the data stored in RAM is cleared out. This is why, in addition to RAM, systems always include nonvolatile storage devices for permanent storage of instructions and data when the computer is powered off. Hard disks provide the greatest nonvolatile storage capacity in the computer system."

[DroidxRage]

^^ 100% correct - Random Access Memory vs Read Only Memory

Yeah, I could take a little more RAM on the Droid.... but its not crippling or anything. I hover at around 50mb free most of the time. Good and snappy.