Google co-developed the Nexus S with Samsung, and represents what Google characterizes as a “pure Google” experience, without all the bells and whistles other phone makers and carriers layer on top of Android.Under the hood, the Nexus S is a well-specced Android phone—although the final specs don’t quite match up to all the rumors that have been floating about the device for the last few weeks.The Google Nexus S also comes with a refined chassis as well, featuring what Google calls the world's first mobile phone with a curved screen, which Google says is "designed to fit comfortably in the palm of your hand and along the side of your face"... which sounds odder than it (hopefully) looks.
The Nexus S features that 4-inch, 235ppi touch-enabled “contour display” with a curved glass surface and enough resolution to handle high-definition video with aplomb.
The Nexus S also sports two cameras (a front-facing VGA camera for video chat and a 5 megapixel back-facing camera), integrated 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless networking, near-field communication (for those point-of-sale systems and “bump” interactions), assisted GPS, and a battery Google says should offer up to 6.7 hour of talk time on 3G networks. The phone is powered by a 1 GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird processor—some fans had been hoping for a dual-core processor—and features 16 GB of onboard memory. Although the Nexus S has microUSB connectivity, it seems to be missing removable storage: there’s nary a SD or microSD slot to be found in the phone’s specs.The white metallic grill can be found on the HTC Desire HD and the Samsung Galaxy S, HTC's camera come with Flash and a circular design of some sort as on the picture, both HTC and Samsung tend to place SIM slots on the left hand side of handsets.The Nexus S is a quad-band GSM device with tri-band HSPA, offering mobile broadband at speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps (and 5.76 Mbps on HSUPA), and sports the usual panoply of additional sensors, including a gyroscope, accelerometer, digital compass, and a proximity sensor."This device combines hardware innovation by one of our partners, Samsung, with innovations to the Android platform, to raise the bar on what's possible when it comes to creating a powerful mobile user experience."
