Alternative | Google Nexus S Announced
Posted by The Blogging Desk on Tue, Dec 07, 2010 @ 09:00 AM
Google:
Nexus S is the first smartphone to feature a 4” Contour Display designed to fit comfortably in the palm of your hand and along the side of your face. It also features a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, front and rear facing cameras, 16GB of internal memory, and NFC (near field communication) hardware that lets you read information from NFC tags. NFC is a fast, versatile short-range wireless technology that can be embedded in all kinds of everyday objects like movie posters, stickers and t-shirts.
Gingerbread is the fastest version of Android yet, and it delivers a number of improvements, such as user interface refinements, NFC support, a new keyboard and text selection tool, Internet (VoIP/SIP) calling, improved copy/paste functionality and gyroscope sensor support.
Fresh off the supposed end of their Nexus One campaign, Google has gone on and revealed the Nexus S. The Nexus idea at first was so that Google could sell a clean OS build of their Android phone, without the hassle of going straight to the carrier. They even put a pink on their front page to the phone.
The problem was that they only sold a couple 100,000 of the phones after several months. Not even Google.com could push a phone without the ease of walking into a store to touch one yourself.
This time around Google will be going another alternative route, inside of Best Buy.
This is also the very first phone to contain Gingerbread, Android 2.3 and includes many new features. Time will tell if their second foray into the Nexus project will be a success.