[Full Google Nexus S Review] The Google Nexus S is an Android 2.3 smartphone. The Nexus S is the first Android device to hit the market with the Gingerbread version of Android. Inside it's packing a Qualcomm Hummingbird 1GHz CPU, coupled with 512MB of RAM and 1GB of ROM. It is also the first phone to include a Near Field Communications chip. The bright screen uses Super AMOLED technology and is 4" and WVGA 800x480 resolution. Read on for the latest Nexus S news, reviews, and videos:
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by Anton D. Nagy | July 25, 2011 1:43 AMRead OnEver since the Google Nexus S for AT&T appeared on Samsung's website, future owners were counting the days until the Google-phone made it to the shelves and Mountain View confirmed the Samsung device for this week, as a Best Buy exclusive. If you're into the unaltered Android experience and AT&T is the carrier of your choice, you can now grab the Samsung-made Google Nexus S from Best Buy. It has full support for AT&T's frequencies and will cost $99.99 with new two-year contract. If you prefer to have the phone only and not sign a commitment you'll have to pay up $529.99. As a reminder, the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | July 21, 2011 12:42 PMRead OnWhile Google fans in the States have a choice between the Nexus S on T-Mobile or the Nexus S 4G on Sprint WiMAX, there hasn't yet been a good way to get set-up with the smartphone on AT&T. Sure, Canada has the Nexus S with the right bands for use on AT&T down here, but that would see you paying full retail price and missing-out on any subsidies. That's all about to change, with Google announcing that an AT&T version of the Nexus S is about to become available at Best Buy stores. Pre-sales of the flagship Gingerbread model start today, with the smartphone actually becoming available this ...
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by Stephen Schenck | July 13, 2011 4:35 PMRead OnWith Google Wallet rolling-out this summer, many of us with NFC-equipped Androids are about to get our first taste of using NFC to conduct mobile transactions. Google won't be the only game in town, and today we learned it will have a new competitor in the form of PayPal, which revealed its plans to release its own NFC payment app in late summer. The way the system will work, you type in the amount of money you'd like to be paid, then tap NFC-enabled phones with the person you're requesting the money from. They'll see a notification of the request pop-up on their smartphone, then can enter ...
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by Stephen Schenck | July 12, 2011 11:27 AMRead OnBack at the end of May, we saw a leaked picture claiming to be a prototype for the next Nexus smartphone (later revealed as a fake), accompanied by the rumor that Google was looking for a new manufacturer for the device. As you know, HTC made the Nexus One, and Samsung the Nexus S. We heard that the third Nexus could be either another HTC handset, or possibly one from LG. Now it looks like it could be Samsung again, with a tweet from Samsung's division in Romania apparently confirming its intent to manufacture the next Nexus device. The company responded to a tweet about the new Nexus by ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 18, 2011 2:22 AMRead OnEarlier this year Apple considered that Samsung is ripping it off by copying its iPhone design and applying it to a couple of its own smartphones. Cupertino claimed to take a look at Samsung's upcoming models and the Korean company instantly responded demanding the same, plus adding in a couple of patents to raise the stakes. If the original complaint referred to designs of the Samsung Captivate, Continuum, Vibrant, Galaxy S 4G, Epic 4G, Indulge, Mesmerize, Showcase, Fascinate, Nexus S, Gem, Transform, Intercept, and Acclaim smartphones, Apple has amended it to add an additional eleven ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 6, 2011 8:04 PMRead OnThere are several options for setting up video chats on a smartphone now, but if you want something cross-platform that supports more than two parties per call, you'll be checking out Fring. The app introduced four-way video chat in an update this past April. A new version of its Android release, available as of today, makes several changes, including support for some new phones. Fring 3.1.1.1 now lets you make video calls with the Samsung Galaxy S II and Droid Charge, T-Mobile's G2X from LG, and the Nexus S when running last month's Android 2.3.4 release. Even if your smartphone already ...
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by Joe Levi | June 1, 2011 10:00 PMRead OnWith Google's recent announcement of Google Wallet and other fun goodies using NFC, they got our collective hope up -- only for us to realize that owners of the Nexus S and new phones with NFC built in will be able to take advantage of all the NFC fun, and not the rest of us. To get around that a Chinese company called Netcom (no relation to the Norwegian carrier with the same name) has put together a microsd card with NFC built in. Much like the EyeFi card (which combines Wi-Fi and flash storage), this card will combine an NFC chip and antenna with a flash memory card. Sounds great, ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 27, 2011 6:28 PMRead OnA leaked picture, purporting to be Google's next Nexus smartphone, has surfaced, showing off a design that lacks the familiar Android buttons. According to the source, supposedly a Google employee on the Android development team, Google is considering both HTC and LG manufacturing this Nexus 3. Whatever they decide on, the phone would be targeted for a December release, along with Android Ice Cream Sandwich itself. While the picture he was able to snap doesn't give us much to go on, it shows the absence of the Android navigation buttons we're used to. ICS, it's claimed, will no longer ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 26, 2011 1:20 PMRead OnNear Field Communications could finally be about to find its killer app, as today Google has revealed details of its NFC-based payment program, Google Wallet, along with deal-finder Google Offers. Earlier this week we heard that Google and Sprint were planning to announce their NFC-payment venture today. Sure enough, not only is Sprint involved, but Google's partnered-up with MasterCard and Citibank, as well. This is no exclusive club, though, as Google Wallet will be an open platform, with other carriers and financial institutions invited to join in. To use Google Wallet, you'll need to ...
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by Evan Blass | May 12, 2011 9:30 AMRead OnSamsung appears to be preparing its website for the US release of its two-toned, AT&T-compatible Google Nexus S, although it's still unclear if this will be available directly from AT&T -- like the Sprint Nexus S 4G -- or strictly from third party retailers, as is the case with the T-Mobile-flavored Nexus. Categorized as "pearly white" despite maintaining the black version's dark face -- a la AT&T's white HP Veer -- this version of the Nexus S goes by the model number GT-I9020A instead of SGH-Ixx7 as would be expected from a Samsung smartphone sold directly through the carrier, so perhaps ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 4, 2011 11:15 AMRead OnEarlier this week, Samsung sent out invitations to a press event it's got planned for tomorrow afternoon. We've yet to learn just what it has up its sleeves for that one, and now it's already sending out invites to its next one, scheduled for Tuesday, May 24. Unlike tomorrow's event, which Samsung has revealed will be a joint venture with AT&T, there's not any carrier attached to Samsung's shindig later this month. We'd been thinking that this week's announcement may have something to do with the Galaxy S II, as that's the hot new Samsung model of the moment, yet to be introduced to US ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 3, 2011 1:52 AMRead OnRIM launched the new BlackBerry OS 7 platform yesterday with the occasion of launching the brand new BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 smartphone variants that are bringing the platform refresh to the world. At that time of the presentation, RIM claimed that the browser on BlackBerry OS 7 is able to outperform both Apple's Safari on iPhone's iOS and Google's Android browser. The BlackBerry Bold 9900 was compared in terms of browsing to the iPhone 4, Nexus One and Nexus S and the numbers are rather interesting. RIM claims 1.6 times faster page loading than on BlackBerry OS 6. SunSpider test ...
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by Joe Levi | April 28, 2011 7:52 PMRead OnEarlier today Google teased us with an announcement of a "surprise" coming later today. Some speculated the tweet was simply an announcement that the Sprint/Google Voice integration had been completed. A few hours passed and they announced Android Gingerbread 2.3.4 was being released, bringing bug fixes to the Nexus One and audio/video chat to the Nexus S. This, however, wasn't the "surprise" they'd mentioned in their tweets. The big "surprise" turns out to be a "Twitter Puzzle contest" which will give participants ten chances to win a Nexus S. "To enter the Contest, visit the Google Nexus ...
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by Stephen Schenck | April 28, 2011 7:49 PMRead OnJust hours ago Google announced Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, with some Nexus S fixes and the big news: video chat support. At the time, the company stated that the update would "gradually roll out to Nexus S devices in the next few weeks", but you may not even have to wait that long. Jean-Baptiste Queru, Android Software Engineer with Google, has uploaded Android 2.3.4, build GRJ22, to the Android Open-Source Project. Besides the source code, Queru has uploaded the proprietary binary files for the Nexus S, meaning it shouldn't be long at all before some Android fans compile the code and come ...
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by Joe Levi | April 28, 2011 5:11 PMRead OnEarlier today Google teased us with the promise of a "surprise" coming to the Nexus S. A few hours later they announced that Android Gingerbread 2.3.4 would be distributed over-the-air over the "next few weeks". Included in the .4 revision to Gingerbread are various bug fixes for the Nexus One and video chat for the Google Talk app on the Nexus S. This is a major milestone as it will theoretically bridge the gap between desktop and mobile video chatting! What's more, they say that's not even their big surprise! Source: @googlenexus on Twitter 1,2