Google unveils Nexus S, its second house-brand Android
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ABOVE: Google's official videos introducing the Nexus S.
When Google pulled its Nexus One handset from its website, many bloggers reported it as the death of the search giant's house-brand Android handset - ignoring NBR's protestation that the company was simply moving from direct sales to a more conventional phone company distribution model.
Today, Google released its second Nexus phone.
But instead of being called the Nexus Two, it's dubbed the Nexus S.
The S stands for Samsung, Google's manufacturing partner this time around (the Nexus One was made by HTC).
The handset features a widebody form factor and a jumbo 4-inch touchscreen, which is apparently contoured to fit your hand, plus a 1GHz processor and 16GB of internal memory (large for an Android).
But it's most notable feature is Android 2.3, aka Gingerbread.
Again, Google is using its own-brand hardware to push the latest version of its mobile operating system software.
New-fangled features will include support "NFC tags", a wireless technology with (cough) those special marketing messages.
"NFC (near field communication) hardware that lets you read information from NFC tags. NFC is a fast, versatile short-range wireless technology that can be embedded in all kinds of everyday objects like movie posters, stickers and t-shirts," says Google on its official blog.
NBR staff
Tue, 07 Dec 2010
Tue, 07 Dec 2010
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Google unveils Nexus S, its second house-brand Android
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