Well, good things come to those that wait! I haven’t been around the scene in the last few days, and look what I find? It’s not the Froyo source (where is it, Google!?) but it’s something almost as good. Considering the iPhone 4 was just annouced, and will bring with it 720p video recording. charnsingh_online from XDA-Developers has worked tirelessly to dig into the Nexus One kernel and pull out a pretty big coup, considering how everyone has been talking about the newer crop of phones and their recording capabilities. Sure, the Nexus was previously able to record as a respectable 840×400 resolution, but this is a major step forward.

Sure, there are still issues with low framerates and the works, but the announcement is more a testament to the sheer power of the Android development community, the benefits of an open platform where people can pool resources. I see it every day at XDA-Developers: people thank other developers for creating great things, and then use those things to build their own things, and so forth. It’s truly inspiring, and is why I believe the Google phone, for all its distribution issues, is here to stay, at least in the geek world.

Check it out at XDA-Developers