Thursday, 7 November 2013

Google’s Nexus S : An Android Gingerbread Phone.

After a long time, Google has finally stopped the sale of  Nexus One phone. The Nexus One was the first Android phone to be designed and sold by Google itself. The death of Nexus one hardware have not resulted in the software death, Android still continues to grow, due to its open-source nature.
Android is gaining popularity to dominate the mobile OS market in the same way as Windows has dominated the desktop market. After the decline of Nexus one Google developed Nexus S joining hands with Samsung providing the latest hardware meeting amazing software to expose the new features of the Android platform. Google will not be selling it in retail market directly. Samsung will make it to reach people’s Homes.

Nexus S

Google Nexus S: First phone on the Planet Earth to run Gingerbread, fastest Android till date.
Google’s Gingerbread includes some of the vastly popular features that are multi-tasking and Wi-Fi hotspot. It also contains refreshed user interface, Predictive text input and an improved keyboard. Additional features like improved power management, control over applications, Internet calling, Downloads management, Gaming Enhancements. Gingerbread also supports VoIP/SIP calling.
A new concept of Near Field Communication is introduced in this new Gingerbread. NFC is a short-range high frequency wireless communication technology which allows the transfer of data among devices over a range of 10 centimeter distance.
Gaming Experience becomes fast like river water gushing in as Google Nexus S has a dedicated Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in it. Switching between web browsing and attending a call or Gaming and replying to a text was never so easy. It is unlocked by default so that you can use any network of your choice.
As Experts Say : Google Nexus S is a clean install of Android, and a pure Google experience.

#. Some of the Technical Specifications are listed here

Device Hardware

  • Haptic feedback vibration – A technology that takes advantage of a user’s sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, and motions to the user.
  • Accelerometer – Accelerometer is used to measure proper acceleration of the device.
  • Digital compass – A device used to measure the direction relative to magnetic poles.
  • Proximity sensor – Detects the objects nearer to it without a physical contact.
  • Light sensor – A mechanical or electronic apparatus that detects light around the device.
  • Three axis Gyroscope – Quite useful when users play games to the left and right, top and bottom.

Device Software

  • OS: Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
  • Allows hosting WI-FI network from your Mobile Handset that other users can connect to.
  • Android Market.
  • Calendar.
  • Other Google Apps Like(Gmail, Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Talk, Google Voice, YouTube)

Display, Size and weight

  • Type:- Super AMOLED Capacitive touch sensor
  • 4.0″ WVGA (480×800)
  • Contour Display with curved glass screen
  • Anti-fingerprint display coating
  • Size:- 63mm x 123.9mm x 10.88mm
  • Weight:- 129g

Battery Back UP

  • 1500 mAH Lithum Ion
  • Talk time – 6.7 hours on 3G and14 hours on 2G
  • Standby time – 17.8 days on 3G and 29.7 days on 2G

Device Processor

  • 1GHz Cortex A8 – It is called Humming bird processor.

Memory Management

  • 16GB iNAND flash memory
  • 512 Ram
  • No card slot

Camera Details

  • Back-facing: 5 megapixels (2560×1920)
  • 720 x 480 video resolution
  • H.264, H.263 MPEG4 video recording
  • Auto focus
  • Flash
  • Front-facing: VGA (640×480)

Multimedia Details


  • 3.5mm, 4-conductor headset jack
  • Earpiece and microphone
  • Software noise-cancellation
  • Plays all types of Music and video’s

Network Connectivity

  • Quad-band GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900
  • Tri-band HSPA: 900, 2100, 1700
  • 3G: HSDPA (7.2Mbps)
  • 3G: HSUPA (5.76Mbps)
  • WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 n/b/g
  • Bluetooth 2.1
  • Near Field Communication (NFC)
  • GPS: Assisted GPS (A-GPS)
  • PC Connections to be made by micro USB 2.0

MISC

  • SMS(threaded view)
  • Browser is HTML
  • Supports JAVA via 3rd Party.
  • Fully Social Network Integration
  • Have image video editor
  • Flash player 10.1
For Further Details You can have a look at thisGOOGLE NEXUS S.

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