Watch Nexus One get built, then beaten mercilessly
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This might be the best entry yet in Google’s Nexus One video series . Today’s double feature is marked by the testing and manufacturing of the device, and while the all-white facilities and assembly lines can be interesting in their own right, we love nothing more than seeing just how Google and HTC stress test its labor of love. Watch it dropped, slammed, bent, poked, and detonated — okay, maybe not detonated, and …

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