Google unveiled its long-awaited phone today, named Nexus One (specs), and it looks a lot like an iPhone: No physical keyboard, lots of icons. At the new Nexus One Google Web store, it's $179 if you buy it with a two-year T-Mobile contract, or $529 unlocked, without any service. Verizon and Vodaphone (for Europe) are to follow later, in the spring.

I've linked some reviews by favored tech press who were given advance copies -- as were Google employees, under threat of firing if they uploaded a photo of it -- but my favorite is the world's first video review of Nexus One against the backdrop of an unmade bed: YouTube - Google(Phone) Nexus One Review Android 2.1. YouTube uploader djnicho of Guatemala City says he won the unlocked phone at a Google Latin America conference Christmas Party Dec. 26.

Djnicho says, "I dont have a data service, like Internet service with a T-Mobile chip, and you can activate it without a data plan. You can activate it with WiFi..." Google Voice can make your calls if you can get on a WiFi network, and all those Google apps can do the rest. If you're always in WiFi range, you wouldn't need a phone plan, either. That's a killer app.

(Bring on WiMax, mobile broadband access whose range far exceeds that of our home routers. It's measured in miles rather than in feet.)

Related: Nexus One Pricing, Subsidized vs. Unsubsidized. At Ars Techica, a passel of reactions, including What does the Nexus One mean for Google Voice, Apps? and lots of photos of Nexus Ones screens in different modes.

Djnicho offers a second video, actually a slideshow of still photos of the Nexus One set to lively music: Nexus One (Google Phone).

Reviews by the usual suspects:

Walt Mossberg, WSJ: Google's Nexus One Is Bold New Face in Super-Smartphones

It's the best Android phone so far, in my view, and the first I could consider carrying as my everyday hand-held computer.

Engadget: Nexus One review

...the Nexus One is at its core just another Android smartphone. It's a particularly good one, don't get us wrong -- certainly up there with the best of its breed -- but it's not in any way the Earth-shattering, paradigm-skewing device the media and community cheerleaders have built it up to be. It's a good Android phone, but not the last word -- in fact, if we had to choose between this phone or the Droid right now, we would lean towards the latter.

Google Nexus One: The TechCrunch Review: "This is the best Android powered phone to date."