News: Nexus S, Fastest Android Phone from Google

Gingerbread, the fastest version of Android OS yet, has it own home from his mother, Google. On early December 2010, Google was launch their 'pure Google' smartphone called Nexus-S. This product was co-developed with Samsung. It ensuring tight integration of hardware and software to fully support the latest advancements of the Android platform. Also, Android Gingerbread was open-sourced after Nexus-S launched to gathers contributions from the Android ecosystem.

Nexus-S is the first smartphone to feature a 4” (480 x 800 pixels) contour display designed to fit comfortably in the palm and along the side of face. This is super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen. A 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8, PowerVR SGX540 GPU (Hummingbird chipset) processor paired with 16GB of internal memory and makes Nexus S one of the fastest phones on the market.

It comes pre-installed with the best of Google apps and enabled with new and popular features like true multi-tasking, potable Wi-Fi hotspot, and full web browsing. As the fastest version of Android yet, it delivers a number of improvements, such as user interface refinements, near-field communications (NFC) support, a new keyboard and text selection tool, Internet (VoIP/SIP) calling, improved copy/paste functionality and gyroscope sensor support (as in Google Blog Post).

As a 'pure Google' and part of the Nexus brand, Nexus S delivers many Googling experience such as unlocked to support all operators widely, unfiltered access to the best Google mobile services and the latest and greatest Android releases and updates.

Specifications:
Connectivity

• Quad-band GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900
• Tri-band HSPA: 900, 2100, 1700
• HSPA type: HSDPA (7.2Mbps) HSUPA (5.76Mbps)
• Wi-Fi 802.11 n/b/g
• Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
• Near Field Communication (NFC)
• Assisted GPS (A-GPS)
• microUSB 2.0

Display

• 4.0" WVGA (480x800)
• Contour Display with curved glass screen
• Super AMOLED
• 235 ppi
• Capacitive touch sensor
• Anti-fingerprint display coating

Size and weight

• 63mm x 123.9mm x 10.88mm
• 129g

Hardware

• Haptic feedback vibration
• Three-axis gyroscope
• Accelerometer
• Digital compass
• Proximity sensor
• Light sensor

Processor and memory

• 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8, PowerVR SGX540 GPU (Hummingbird) processor
• 16GB iNAND flash memory
• 512Mb of RAM

Cameras and multimedia

• Back-facing: 5 megapixels (2560x1920)
• 720 x 480 video resolution
• H.264, H.263 MPEG4 video recording
• Auto focus
• Flash
• Front-facing: VGA (640x480)
• 3.5mm, 4-conductor headset jack
• (stereo audio plus microphone)
• Earpiece and microphone
• Software noise-cancellation

Battery

• Talk time up to 6.7 hours on 3G
• (14 hours on 2G)
• Standby time up to 17.8 days on 3G
• (29.7 days on 2G)
• 1500 mAH Lithum Ion

Software

• Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
• Android Market
• Calendar
• Gmail
• Google Earth
• Google Maps with Navigation
• Google Search
• Google Talk
• Google Voice
• Voice Actions
• YouTube

The phone cost is $529 unlocked, or $199 with a two-year T-Mobile (US and UK) contract.