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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here with the release of the Nexus S it's the second officially sanctioned Google's smartphone that's been available the first being the nexus one so while these might be a bit outdated hardware on the nexus one versus a new refreshed Nexus S I know a lot of you out there Oh nexus ones there are public curious it's going to be worth the upgrade so let me go ahead and show you the different dis between the two let's go ahead and get started so let me jump right in with a few disclaimers we're obviously dealing with a close to last generation hardware on the nexus one still relatively moderate however the Nexus S is using a lot of newer processors and certainly the newer operating system on Android which is of course gingerbread so whether or not this is going to be a comparison of froyo versus gingerbread 2.2 versus 2.3 it's probably going to be a lot of differences that we're going to see here in addition to a little bit more efficient processor to talk about in just a minute on the nexus s so this isn't going to be a typical head-to-head battle with different rounds that would necessarily be fair I just want to show you differences between the two phones and you can try and figure out which one is going to be right for you so let me preface this was saying that each phone has just about been completely restored nexus s just came as a fresh install about two days ago the nexus one did a complete fresh install yesterday before we jumped in tsar talking about everything let me clear the memory on each so we're dealing with the fair comparisons so Android 2.3 as I showed you my gingerbread walkthrough has a built-in memory app managers like going to manage apps that I can go right into running and I can kill everything that's running at the exception of Google services so go ahead and select that stop running gmail android keyboard not going to let me stop so mostly everything is stopped except for google services which is pretty much always running but i'll try and stop that anyway see what happens settings we need to keep so everything else is fresh and clean we'll go into a task killer here and we will kill all selected apps so now we're dealing with the least clean memory on both so let me refresh some of the specs we have here on the nexus one we have a 1 gigahertz Snapdragon processor the same processes are still found in a lot of new phones coming out right now it's got a microSD card slot for expansion so you can go up to our blues high of 32 now on the back it's got a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash 3.7 inch AMOLED screen resolution of 480 x 800 and that's all being supported by 512 megabytes of RAM and ROM the new just released Nexus S has a 1 gigahertz cortex a8 hummingbird processor same processor that we've seen in the galaxy s series of devices and very similar in architecture to what we see power in the iPad and the otic phone for now not an all tests by the majority of tests that's being regrets I've been run comparing these two the cortex a8 has been a bit more efficient so it expected this to be a little bit faster of course it's running the newest version of android 2.3 which is only going to help its speed increases once the nexus one gets android 2.3 i will have to retest less and see if there's any sort of speed differences that we see this has 16 gigabytes of internal storage no microsd card slot oddly enough has a a similar 5 megapixel sensor on the back with autofocus and flash but it also has a vga camera on the front for video chat or what else wanted pictures of yourself on the front it's got a little bit larger 4 inch screen which is super analytes you're going to get darker darks and richer colors we're also going to get a bit of tint bluish tint to the screen may be able to see that here on camera at the same resolution of 480 x 800 also has 512 megabytes of RAM alright so let's do some speed and performance sets here and through the differences are I think one of the best way is to sort of garner processor and memory management is to jump right into a application it doesn't have much practical use but it's kind of fun to play with and that's Google Earth so I'm downloaded that on both these devices will go ahead and launch them and see how well they handle alright so unsurprisingly the nexus s sort of launched things a little bit quicker and ready to go we've got a bit of a loading thing here and a lot of these increases that we're seeing may very well be from android 2.3 not necessarily related to hardware the software but the way these two phones are now this is the best we can compare it looks like that switched on over okay so this is good to go as well let's see how smooth things are booth look to be handling things pretty nicely if i zoom in try to zoom in here a little bit slower on the nexus one see as I roll around then pull back just a little bit enough so you can see it there we go I roll around on the Nexus S relatively smooth but I do the same thing here in the nexus one it's a little bit jumpy but it's not bad and certainly usable this is probably one of those places where you get a minor increase in graphics efficiency on the Nexus testing your the nexus one certainly this reason alone is not going to be a particular reason why you'd want to ditch your Nexus we want to go pick up the nexus s of it is something to think about and again this may be related just to Gingerbread and not going to focus on the differences in Gingerbread who actually get a comparison doing android 2.2 or just 2.3 but certainly you can see some differences right at the top all right so let's go back home go back home now and let's try launching the same applications on each we will launch angry birds seasons and I'll go ahead and let it lunch all the way till it's ready to play so I'll go ahead and try and hit those at the same time which is sometimes more difficult than you think alright that's like I didn't know I did get it on the looks like it launched a little bit faster on the nexus one on is still watching on the Nexus S that's sort of a surprising alright so the nexus s actually launched the Angry Birds application a little bit faster it might be because it's been optimized for 2.2 might be just because the nexus one did faster not sure if it was sort of a interesting result alright so we'll go ahead and jump back the one thing that I did install on the nexus one after the fresh install addition to the applications that you see right here it's flash so both do have a flash support let's go ahead and launch a website and see the many differences in speed and both of these are connected to the same Wi-Fi network go ahead and launch TechnoBuffalo Oh see if we can do the same thing here as well I'll go ahead and type in TechnoBuffalo it should be right there ready to go so i'll do a a refresh and both obviously the sites have been loaded on each DC advices so be representative of sites you visit on a on a regular basis so go ahead and hit that and hit that and we are off on each all right so it looks like the Nexus S shows up a little bit earlier nexus one came back nice and quick Nexus S is done and the nexus one is still loading I will tell you almost a year later since the nexus one came out it's still a very fast phone it really holds its own against some of the newer phones that are being released today so there you go there's some differences between the two and hopefully on a site like this you can see they're just between the screen as well that Super AMOLED really doesn't make colors pop it also has sort of that curved contour display you might not be able to see so well does only have much practical ability it feels nice when you're scrolling your finger over it when it's up to your face as well it's got a bit of a higher quality field speaking of higher quality let's talk about build quality of the two devices the Nexus S is made by samsung and the nexus one was made by HTC HTC at least in my opinion hasn't really solid industrial build quad and that translates very nicely to the nexus one the phone feels very solidly built there's some metals on the back soft touch plastics the Nexus S build nexus one or Nexus S rather built by Samsung has a plastic back and doesn't have that same high quality fuel I think you get with the nexus one so when it comes to build quality I'm definitely going to give the edge to HTC / samsung here alright so let's continue it was sort of talking about some of the other features of the phone and we'll have to talk a little bit I suppose about android 2.3 up where i can get into that much detail with it alright so let's go ahead and see what's going to come standard with the apps so these are both sort of standard Google experiences so you can see how quickly the application trailer loads you got some 3d rendering down there on things do load very quickly one of the niceties that the Nexus S has over the nexus one again this is a preference thing and it's also security industry and it's also a android 2.3 thing out of the keyboard certainly there are tons of third-party keyboards you can use to plug in to make this a totally moot point but I certainly prefer the keyboard on Android to quite three found on the Nexus S so finally I want to run a benchmark tests on both of these guys I've got quadrant here which is a pretty decent benchmarking application I'm going to go ahead and run them on each and then I'll come back and show you the results if you want to see these tests being run I'll put them at the end of the video so you can watch sort of the whole the whole test and run the whole gamut of it let's go ahead and get started with that okay so the results are in the quadrant test actually crashed the nexus s the first time had to be run a second time you can see the results here let's go ahead and look at the nexus one hopefully all that will be in focus for you guys and you can see it its second right below actually what surprisingly a nexus one didn't recognize this as a nexus one see the motorola droid HTC evo droid x galaxy s there's another nexus one down there probably with android 2.1 and it can say the score there is a little over 1250 so very nice score showing the phone is still very quick and very fast if we look at the Nexus S here you see the score is a noticeably higher go ahead and benign to focus just over 1,500 it was actually the highest of any of the phone be tested including the nexus one these are all sort of scores that quadrant pulls in from other devices nexus one droid x HTC evo galaxy s and a few others the interesting thing is the galaxy s that might show differences between the touch with skin that's on the galaxy s and android 2.3 because specs respect they're very similar the nexus s and the galaxy s so i guess in conclusion is it worth jumping off ship from your nexus one to run out and pick up a nexus s the answer is probably not the nexus one is still a very very very quick phone if you're one of those people it has to have the latest and greatest and you want the Super AMOLED screen you want a bigger display you want to have that new operating system right now certainly 2.3 will make its way the nexus one you haven't go ahead and make it upgrade a one of the problems that I fail to mention the nexus one and I've mentioned this in every nexus one video might be unique to my video is capacitive buttons at the bottom of the nexus one I've had a horrible time right there's where they are had a horrible time working them sometimes they don't respond they're much more responsive on the Nexus S although you don't have on the Nexus S any sort of a navigational pad like you've got that little scroll ball there on the nexus one and i hope you enjoyed this comparison of the two devices if you look right here by the way you can also see the big differences between the Super AMOLED screen the black just look blacker than on the nexus one anyway I will see you guys next video be sure to check out technobuffalo for all your tech news for exclusive context check me out of twitter twitter com /strong for lakers buh-bye you alright so go ahead and hit launch on each of these this isn't a speed test but i'll quickly application loads it's just a benchmarking test so hit ok we'll get a license is there and we'll go ahead and run full bench marks on each and even right here you can really see difference between two black levels on the quadrant test it look much darker on the Nexus S and they do on the nexus one you we get crashed on the nexus s weird share that you yay