Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Samsung Google Nexus S Announced: Everything You Need To Know



Google has officially announced and released moments ago the Google Nexus S which is a successor to Nexus One. It is the first phone powered by the newly released Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

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.

The official Google product page for the Nexus S is now up-and-running and specs include a 4-inch WVGA display, a 5-megapixel camera, 16GB on-board storage and 512 MB of RAM. It runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and has a 1GHz Cortex A8-based Hummingbird processor.

The phone will be available for purchase after December 16th in the US, and December 20th in the UK. It will be the first Android device which will support NFC in both hardware and software.

Customers in US will be able to purchase Nexus S for $529 as an unlocked phone without a contract. Nexus S optimized for T-Mobile’s network is available for $199 with a two-year service agreement and qualifying voice and data plan. In UK, at £35 on contract, and £549 for the unlocked version.

Check out the Detailed Specs of Nexus S below:

* Specs:

Previously known as Samsung i9020
General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 1700 / 2100 /900
Announced 2010, December
Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2010, December
Size Dimensions 123.9 x 63 x 10.9 mm
Weight 129 g
Display Type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches
- Oleophobic surface- Contour Display with curved glass screen
- Multi-touch input method
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Touch-sensitive controls
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Three-axis gyro sensor
Sound Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Speakerphone Yes
- 3.5 mm audio jack
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 16GB storage, 512 MB RAM
Card slot No
Data GPRS Yes
EDGE Yes
3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n; DLNA
Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB
Camera Primary 5 MP, 2560 x 1920 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features Geo-tagging, touch focus
Video Yes, 720p@30fps
Secondary Yes, VGA
Features OS Android OS, v2.3 Gingerbread
CPU ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
Browser HTML
Radio No
Games Yes
Colors Black
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Via third party application
- Social networking integration- Digital compass
- MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
- Organizer
- Image/video editor
- Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- Flash Player v10.1
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Predictive text input
- Near Field Communications
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh
Stand-by Up to 713 h (2G) / Up to 428 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 14 h (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G)

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