For the last few days I’ve been using the Google Nexus S, manufactured by Samsung, with the new Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” operating system. This is a phone that was designed with direct input from the Google Android team. And like its predecessor, the Nexus One, which was released in January 2010, it has a “clean” install of Android. That means there is no additional software layer from…
It can be difficult to review a phone like Google's Nexus S in a world already populated by so many outstanding Android devices. Not only does the manufacturer of this phone make a series of handsets that are all essentially the same (the Galaxy S line), but countless other OEMs are cranking away on hardware for the platform. Of course, the Nexus S is a decidedly different phone altogether.…
Last week I got a Nexus S to replace the Nexus One that I have been using for the past year. I love my Nexus One and was hesitant to replace it but the Nexus S looks like the exact same phone, just better, so I went for it.As I was installing the basic apps (Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook, Kik, Tumblr, GetGlue, Yelp, Flickster, etc) on the phone last week, I tweeted that I love the new Twitter…
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Google shook up the Android world with the Nexus One, throwing down the gauntlet to manufacturers to step up their hardware game and pushing the open-source platform to the bleeding edge of smartphone functionality. Now the search giant is back with its second self-branded device, the Nexus S, a Samsung-made handset with a few unique features of its own. Is this the best Android smartphone today,…
The Samsung NexusS gets points for its slick design, satisfying performance, and authentic Android user interface. But outside of the new Gingerbread OS and a
Freshly on sale in the US today, and headed to the UK next week, the Nexus S is Google’s second attempt to guide the Android ecosystem with a hardware reference design. Made by Samsung, rather than the HTC origins of the Nexus One, the smartphone arguably has a more difficult task ahead: the complaint today is one of OS fragmentation, not merely lagging performance. Can the Nexus S set Android…
The Google Nexus S is the second Google Nexus handset, and this time gets to introduce Android 2.3 to the world. But, is the phone much of an improvement on what's already on the market, and is Android 2.3 a big update?
Every once in a while, Google “shows the way” with a “pure” Android device, and by pure we mean “without carrier intervention”. This time, the Nexus S becomes the hardware reference platform for Android 2.3, also known as Gingerbread. The Nexus S is taking over the spot held previously by the Nexus One. Nexus One, had its share of problems (battery…