Nexus S by Google

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Gingerbread pre-installed

Nexus S is the first phone to run Gingerbread, the fastest version of Android yet.
Gingerbread builds on some of the most popular Android features like multi-tasking and Wi-Fi hotspot and adds a refreshed user interface, an improved keyboard, near field communication (NFC) support, and more.

Refined look and feel

There’s a slick black notification bar that’s easier to read and an improved on-screen keyboard with multi-touch support that makes typing faster and more accurate.

One-touch word selection and improved copy-paste

With Gingerbread, copying and pasting text is easier than ever. Use the new text selection tool to copy and paste when entering text or viewing a webpage.

Internet calling (VoIP/ SIP support)

Gingerbread allows Nexus S to place Internet calls with a SIP account. This allows for enhanced VoIP dialing to other SIP accounts and even phone numbers.

Portable Wi-Fi hotspot

Nexus S can function as a Wi-Fi hotspot for up to six portable devices such as laptops or tablets. Once connected, these devices will have access to the Internet with no additional carrier fees.

Fast just got faster

A 1 GHz Hummingbird processor paired with 16GB of internal memory makes Nexus S one of the fastest phones on the market.
Menus open faster, tabs are more responsive, and web pages load quicker with virtually no lag time. Switch between apps effortlessly with true multitasking on Android.
Nexus S has a dedicated Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Playing mobile games, browsing the web, and watching videos are fast, fluid, and smooth. It's like having a pocket-sized multimedia and game console.

Brilliant 4” Contour Display

Nexus S is manufactured by Samsung, and it is the first smartphone to launch with a Contour Display. The curved glass screen fits comfortably in the palm of your hand and along the side of your face.
A brighter screen with higher contrast means colors are incredibly vibrant, text is crisp at any size, and luminance is up to 1.5x higher than conventional LCD displays.

Outdoor viewing

Take Nexus S outside, there's 75% less glare than on other smartphone displays. Your videos, pictures and games look their best and the sun won't wash them out.

Lighter and thinner profile

The Contour Display uses a thin-profile glass panel, making Nexus S uniquely slim and trim. It's subtle but you'll notice.

Near Field Communication (NFC)

Nexus S can read information from "smart" tags, or everyday objects that have NFC chips in them. These can be anything from stickers and movie posters to t-shirts.

Rear and front-facing cameras

The rear-facing 5 megapixel camera is capable of taking stunning pictures and HD videos that you can share with friends and family. The front-facing camera can take VGA quality images and video.

Unlocked by default

Out of the box, Nexus S is unlocked, so it will work with any GSM carrier.

Latest Google Mobile apps

Nexus S comes pre-installed with the best of Google apps, including Google Search, Google Maps with Navigation (Beta), Mobile Instant, Voice Actions, Gmail, Google Earth and more. With Nexus S, be the first to receive upgrades, features and new apps as they become available.

Android Market

Nexus S provides access to over 100,000 apps, games, and widgets on Android Market.

Never get lost again

Explore the world from the palm of your hand using Google Maps with Navigation (Beta), Places, and Latitude.
Find local spots like restaurants and ATMs using Places. Then, use Navigation for free turn-by-turn GPS voice guidance.
You can also see hours of operation and reviews for places, get directions, view live traffic conditions, browse Street View imagery, and more.

Speak, don’t poke

Nexus S listens to you. With Voice Actions, press and hold the Search button from anywhere and speak almost anything.

Entertainment on the go

More people are watching videos on the go, and using the latest YouTube app for Android means having millions of videos right in your pocket.
YouTube for Android has been redesigned to include a personalized home screen feed, in-page playback, and a rotate-for-fullscreen gesture. Nexus S' blazing speed makes it easy to browse, play, and upload photos.

Email pushed to your phone

The Gmail app for Android has your favorite Gmail features–from labels to stars to archiving–at the touch of a finger.
With push email, new messages appear in your inbox as soon as they arrive. You'll always be up to the moment.

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 Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) processor
• 16GB iNAND flash memory

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

[Guest]

Ya beat me to this post. I watch the Android world closely as well

I actually saw someone today with this new phone and it was quite intriguing though I did not get a close up look at it.... yet

[gamfrkI]

i saw this today maybe about 5 minutes before i posted on googles main page

[crustyasp46]

Google’s Android Operating System Is Surprisingly Bug-Free

On Tuesday software-scanning firm Coverity announced the findings of its annual open source bug hunt, this year focusing on HTC’s “Droid Incredible” version of the Android mobile operating system. The company found 359 bugs, a quarter of which they classified as “high risk.” Coverity, which makes its money selling these code scans, found a higher rate of defects in Android-specific code than it did elsewhere in the Linux codebase.

What you might say: “Wow, Android has as many as a few hundred bugs?”

What you should say: “Wow, Android has as little as a few hundred bugs!”

People may have a hard time accepting that their precious smartphone has some bugs in its software, but the truth of the matter is that there are diminishing returns to code quality and defects get shipped all the time. It has been said that the industry standard number of bugs — measured in a standard units of bugs per KLOC, or bugs per thousand lines of code — is 5 bugs per every thousand lines of code at a cost of about $5 for every line of code. NASA reportedly pays out the nose to lower that rate to .004 bugs/KLOC, which comes a cost of $850 per line of code.

Coverity says it finds on average 1 defect per thousand lines of code. The big picture: “There’s almost no code we scan that doesn’t have defects,” says Andy Chou, Coverity’s chief scientist. And in Android? “The number of defects, if you count per thousands lines of code, is about half what we’d expect.”

Coverity uses static code analysis, an automated process that reads the code and tries to understand it rather than executing it and watching it run. Static analysis tools are good at finding defects like memory corruption — code flaws that attackers can sometimes use to take over a device. In part due to the nature of static analysis, about 15% of the bugs Coverity finds are false positive.

The scanned Android “kernel” code works at such a fundamental level in the phone that any “high risk” bugs Coverity found should be taken fairly seriously. Typically, companies pay Coverity between $0.07 and $0.10 cents per line of code for such reports.

Coverity is “giving these problems away,” says Chou, and “trying to get interest at Google.” It’s using both carrot and stick: Chou says the company is giving Google and the Android community 60 days to look at the bugs before releasing them to the public.

Kevin Mahaffey, chief technologist at Lookout, has been researching mobile device security since the days when BlueTooth was cutting-edge. His conclusion: The bugs found by Coverity are interesting and he’s happy to see attention paid to them. “I wouldn’t say that this is [unique] to the particulars of Android,” he cautions. “Every phone we’ve ever touched has had pretty large protocol implementation flaws.”

Mahaffey says Android is relatively bug free considering that, like Apple’s iOS device, the engine that runs Android mobile devices is powerful enough to run a desktop computer. Coverity’s research is positive in that it helps raise awareness around open source issues, he says, but that awareness shouldn’t be taken to mean an open source system like Android is any more buggy than its brethren.

In fact, among 30 open source projects Coverity has scanned in the past — projects including popular programming languages like Python and PHP — the company has only found two with lower bug rates.

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Google names its OS versions after, for example, cupcakes.

[Guest]

The android naming scheme is pretty neat actually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29#Update_history

It also is going in alphabetical order I noticed.

A - (alpha?)
B - (beta?)
C - Cupcake
D - Donut
E - Eclair
F - Froyo
G - Gingerbread
H - Honeycomb
I - Icecream
J - (anyones guess)

[Hot Trout]

J - Jockstrap (it would be a boot loader)