The new Google Nexus S by Samsung is a very hot smartphone at the moment and we thought we would put all the goodness into one article for you, covering the price, review, photo gallery, where to buy and the price.
First up the Google Nexus S will release in the U.S December 16 and in the UK you can get a hold of it on December 20, the two online places to buy this smartphone is Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse.
The Google Nexus S price at Best Buy will be $529 unlocked (No Contract) or you can choose the T-Mobile two-year service agreement and qualifying voice and data plan for $199, Carphone Warehouse in the UK will sell the handset unlocked (PAYG) for £549.95 or you can choose the contract option for £35 a month and get the Google Nexus S for free. You can pre-order via Carphone Warehouse right now.
Cnet got their hands on the Android 2.3 Gingerbread device and gave it the once over going into detail, they say the good pints about the Nexus S is the latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, the screen is big and beautiful, the handset is very fast indeed, comes packed with many features and looks like it will get updated promptly. However, they did have a few bad pints that include the new user interface is almost identical and that the NFC isn’t useful yet. Please read the full Cnet Review.
Big Boy’s Engadget had a little play with this handset as well at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco, they give great detail about the phone and have an awesome photo gallery and video, please do click the links here as it is very informative indeed.
This one goes out to our loyal readers: Once you have the Google Nexus S in your hands please do let us know what you think of the handset, we would like to know about first impressions, software, hardware, problems etc. Get those reviews coming in, thanks.
Samsung Google Nexus S Full Specifications via GSM Arena:
- GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 2G Network
- HSDPA 900 / 1700 / 2100 3G Network
- 4-Inch 480 x 800 pixels Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen (16-million colours)
- Oleophobic surface
- Multi-touch input method
- Touch-sensitive controls
- Contour Display with curved glass screen
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Three-axis gyro sensor
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones (Alert Types)
- Speakerphone
- Unlimited Phonebook and Call records
- 512 MB RAM
- 16GB Internal Storage
- NO card Slot
- GPRS
- EDGE
- WLAN – Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n; DLNA
- 3G – HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
- Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP
- v2.0 microUSB
- 5-megapixel Camera (2560 x 1920 pixels, autofocus, LED flash)
- Geo-tagging and Touch Focus
- 720p@30fps Video
- Secondary VGA Camera
- Android OS, v2.3 Gingerbread
- SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
- ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor
- HTML Browser
- GPS with A-GPS support
- Java Via third party application
- Image/video editor
- MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
- YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- Social networking integration
- Organizer
- Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Digital compass
- Flash Player v10.1
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail
- Near Field Communications
- Predictive text input
- Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh
- Up to 713 h (2G) / Up to 428 h (3G) Stand-by time
- Up to 14 h (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G) Talk time
- 123.9 x 63 x 10.9 mm
- Weighs 129 grams