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Journeyman
Its time for the review.. Its time for me to review my GOOGLE NEXUS S..
I spend a week with my nexus s and m overall happy wid my phone..
Lets start wid the review.
1. 1st comes the design.. I don’t know y many people doesn’t like the curved display of nexus s.. but I loved it a lott and m very happy wid the design of my phne. The phone overall looks very good
2. 2nd comes the display. I haven’t seen the AMOLED display till nw. so I wont be able to say the diffrnce between AMOLED and S-LCD. But for me I m happy wid the display of my phone. It’s very clear and feels real. And sunlight visibility is also good. I kept the phone on auto-brightness mode and I don’t hv any problem with the display..its good at all times. Touch response is damn good in the phone. But I didn’t like the home button in the screen when we go to menus. We have a capacitive home button so y v need an extra home button on screen. It cud have saved some space and 4 more menus cud b seen at a time.
3. 3rd comes the android. Preinstalled plain vanilla gingerbread looks good. And I got preinstalled 2.3.3 and vry 1st day itself I got updated to 2.3.4. I love the android and its usability. Don’t know how sense UI in htc works but plain android is not bad too. Its good.
4. 4th is the voice quality. Nexus s is nt dumb. It has a good volume. Bt as far as I saw Samsung phones are not much louder. At 50% of volume u wont hear anything. And as u increase above 50% then u start hearing a bit. At max nexus s performs good. Earpiece volume is also fine using with the provided earbuds. But I tried als with my apple headphones and it performed much better with it. I installed equilizer app and voice quality improved a bitt.
5. 5th is the camera. Though u r not given with the zoom option but the clearity of camera is good enough to tke nrmal pics..
6. 6th is applications. Nexus s being a google phone doesn’t come with many inbuilt apps. So u need to download them from very first day. The first 2 apps u need to download to ur phone and which are very essential are “advanced task killer(ATK)” and “apps2sd”. These are the must have apps. Ithout them its hard to survive. ATK helps u a lott to free ur Ram or else u vl find urself getting lagged in no time. When v talk of apps I didn’t liked the inbuilt messaging feature. It didn’t give any enter key while typing. So I installed “go sms pro” a damn good messaging app. It has lots of functions which inbuilt memory app don’t have.
7. Next comes the memory. It comes inbuilt with 16gb of memory. But in real 1gb is internal memory wherein the apps are installed at times and rest 13.3gb usb storage. 16gb is more than enough for me coz I don’t c any videos and also m not a big fan of music.
8. I think there shud have been extra 256mb of ram coz 512mb ram is divided betn cpu and gpu. And in one hour or so u vl c some background apps getting strted automatically and eating ram. So u need to keep freeing ur ram regularly. I don’t know y apps get strted in background everytime. I tried many ways to stop them frm strting but still cant get it done. Can anyone help me in that. One thing I noted today is ur ram keeps getting low and low even if u keep stopping the apps. So atlast I hd to restrt my phone to get the necessary ram back.
9. I wont be rooting my phone for nw coz I m waiting for next uptate i.e ice cream sandwich. Vl b intresting to c wat more features will b included in the update.
10. I would like to tell about the signal strength nw. network signal is always good. But the wifi signal strength of the phone sucks. Even at the same room whre my wifi modem is kept the phone doesn’t shows full signal.. and it constantly keeps going up and down. I wud like to say that my apple ipod performs much much bettr.. the signal strntg is best of my ipod and it works great.
11. The most imp thing is battery backup. At 1500mh the battery performs damn gud. If u use ur phone just for calls and sms(i.e 10-12 calls per day and 100-200 msgs a day) then u surely vl get backup of more than a day. So overall the phone has a gud battery backup.
So the conclusion is that NEXUS S is overall a very gud phone with decent battery backup and plain vanilla android. It lacks in the radio which can be activated thru custom roms.
Personally I liked the phone very much bt I must say that if GOOGLE NEXUS ONE was 10 step ahead of the competition NEXUS S is just a single step ahead.
Hey guys suggestions are alwys welcome.. i know that i didnt say everythng abt the phone. but m not professional so thts all i cud say for nw.
Help me to love my NEXUS S more and more…and also help me wid apps tht I cud install to improve the usabilty.
I spend a week with my nexus s and m overall happy wid my phone..
Lets start wid the review.
1. 1st comes the design.. I don’t know y many people doesn’t like the curved display of nexus s.. but I loved it a lott and m very happy wid the design of my phne. The phone overall looks very good
2. 2nd comes the display. I haven’t seen the AMOLED display till nw. so I wont be able to say the diffrnce between AMOLED and S-LCD. But for me I m happy wid the display of my phone. It’s very clear and feels real. And sunlight visibility is also good. I kept the phone on auto-brightness mode and I don’t hv any problem with the display..its good at all times. Touch response is damn good in the phone. But I didn’t like the home button in the screen when we go to menus. We have a capacitive home button so y v need an extra home button on screen. It cud have saved some space and 4 more menus cud b seen at a time.
3. 3rd comes the android. Preinstalled plain vanilla gingerbread looks good. And I got preinstalled 2.3.3 and vry 1st day itself I got updated to 2.3.4. I love the android and its usability. Don’t know how sense UI in htc works but plain android is not bad too. Its good.
4. 4th is the voice quality. Nexus s is nt dumb. It has a good volume. Bt as far as I saw Samsung phones are not much louder. At 50% of volume u wont hear anything. And as u increase above 50% then u start hearing a bit. At max nexus s performs good. Earpiece volume is also fine using with the provided earbuds. But I tried als with my apple headphones and it performed much better with it. I installed equilizer app and voice quality improved a bitt.
5. 5th is the camera. Though u r not given with the zoom option but the clearity of camera is good enough to tke nrmal pics..
6. 6th is applications. Nexus s being a google phone doesn’t come with many inbuilt apps. So u need to download them from very first day. The first 2 apps u need to download to ur phone and which are very essential are “advanced task killer(ATK)” and “apps2sd”. These are the must have apps. Ithout them its hard to survive. ATK helps u a lott to free ur Ram or else u vl find urself getting lagged in no time. When v talk of apps I didn’t liked the inbuilt messaging feature. It didn’t give any enter key while typing. So I installed “go sms pro” a damn good messaging app. It has lots of functions which inbuilt memory app don’t have.
7. Next comes the memory. It comes inbuilt with 16gb of memory. But in real 1gb is internal memory wherein the apps are installed at times and rest 13.3gb usb storage. 16gb is more than enough for me coz I don’t c any videos and also m not a big fan of music.
8. I think there shud have been extra 256mb of ram coz 512mb ram is divided betn cpu and gpu. And in one hour or so u vl c some background apps getting strted automatically and eating ram. So u need to keep freeing ur ram regularly. I don’t know y apps get strted in background everytime. I tried many ways to stop them frm strting but still cant get it done. Can anyone help me in that. One thing I noted today is ur ram keeps getting low and low even if u keep stopping the apps. So atlast I hd to restrt my phone to get the necessary ram back.
9. I wont be rooting my phone for nw coz I m waiting for next uptate i.e ice cream sandwich. Vl b intresting to c wat more features will b included in the update.
10. I would like to tell about the signal strength nw. network signal is always good. But the wifi signal strength of the phone sucks. Even at the same room whre my wifi modem is kept the phone doesn’t shows full signal.. and it constantly keeps going up and down. I wud like to say that my apple ipod performs much much bettr.. the signal strntg is best of my ipod and it works great.
11. The most imp thing is battery backup. At 1500mh the battery performs damn gud. If u use ur phone just for calls and sms(i.e 10-12 calls per day and 100-200 msgs a day) then u surely vl get backup of more than a day. So overall the phone has a gud battery backup.
So the conclusion is that NEXUS S is overall a very gud phone with decent battery backup and plain vanilla android. It lacks in the radio which can be activated thru custom roms.
Personally I liked the phone very much bt I must say that if GOOGLE NEXUS ONE was 10 step ahead of the competition NEXUS S is just a single step ahead.
Hey guys suggestions are alwys welcome.. i know that i didnt say everythng abt the phone. but m not professional so thts all i cud say for nw.
Help me to love my NEXUS S more and more…and also help me wid apps tht I cud install to improve the usabilty.
