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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and in this video we're really excited to unbox the Google Nexus S a samsung phone that is supposed to represent the best Android experience and let's get to the unboxing now as mentioned the Nexus series of devices is supposed to represent the best Android experience possible Google partners with an OEM in a previous case it was HTC with the Nexus One in this case it's Samsung with the Nexus S to create a device that is really the benchmark Android phone and you know what the Nexus One really lived up to that claim the Nexus One even today about a year after it's released it's still a really good phone it's fast it's light it has great battery life and there's an extremely robust development community that supports this device so we get constant ROM upgrades not only from Google this device will get at Gingerbread 2.3 but from sites like XDA who produce roms for this device more than any other Android phone of course some people are disappointed with the Nexus S saying that it's very much similar to a Galaxy S smartphone that is true but there are some exceptions and we're going to talk about that and compare the Nexus S to a Galaxy S smartphone in a minute but thought it might be interesting to compare the unboxing experience of the Nexus One with the Nexus S as you can see the box has shrunk a lot it's much smaller we can look on the side it says Nexus S we flip it the other way blank sides on the top it's blank on the back very clean backs back here it just says Google Samsung over here just says Nexus One the unboxing experiences are very much similar so we've got a liftoff top and a vacuum-sealed here and we get cool Google colors blue red green and yellow around the outside and with the Nexus S it's kind of similar but everything's compacted you see so we've got the same red at the top green on the bottom actually they shifted the colors around a little bit but really cool unboxing experience to make it memorable for those that have gone out and bought the Google Nexus S made by Samsung now this is a t-mobile phone I'll be using it over AT&T meaning I'll only be getting EDG data there's a tiny possibility that like the Samsung Vibrant the Nexus S has sleeping AT&T 3G bands that can be unlocked via software it's not likely don't count it on happening but it's something that we're definitely gonna watch out for so we'll take a look at the device in a minute see what else we get on the box so here's a t-mobile SIM card in case you want to activate it and use it over t-mobile's network although you're not going to be able to get there HSPA+ 4g like speeds so of course the model number for this phone for those keeping track is the GTI 90 22 boring stuff here got a nice little spelt Samsung charger they get smaller and smaller and if you take off the plastic this this area probably glows a little bit when you plug in the charger to the wall and we get some headphones some really nice headphones actually they are just earbuds with little chrome pieces we'll talk about that later and of course this battery and people are claiming that the Nexus S has good battery life just like the Nexus One is rated at 1500 million of hours in fact this is the same exact battery most likely we're going to test this in a minute that goes inside of the the galaxy s smartphones like the captivate so let's push all this aside and take a look at the glorious Nexus S so the big claim to fame here from an aesthetic point of view is the curved glass screen although it's not as curved as you might think so it is curved really on the top and the bottom and if you look at the screen it's mostly flat it's hard to really see this on video and and we're gonna talk more about this in upcoming videos so I'm gonna take off the back here it's a lightweight device like the other Galaxy S smartphones so it's not using a lot of metal to make it feel heavy or high quality in in the case of some phones so we got this big predominant screen on the front how is this different than a Galaxy S well let's take out a galaxy yes here here's the AT&T captivate a great phone but it's a little bit weighed down by samsung's touchwiz interface the Nexus S is running on Google's lightweight interface free installation of Android 2.3 which a lot of people are going to appreciate of course we also have the addition of the front-facing camera on the Google Nexus S and we also have the NFC function which will allow the Nexus S to do Near Field Communication stuff when and if that becomes big so let's go to the side here to see how the Galaxy S with captivate compares to the Nexus S it's very weird holding up the Nexus S to another device because it's got this curved screen and on the back we've got a camera although the Nexus S adds a flash five megapixel camera over there and we have this nice little hump here which actually should go a long way in making the device feel very steady in hand when you're typing because you're wrapping your fingers or your middle finger is resting on that hump so you can type that plus an improved on-screen keyboard and Gingerbread should make for a pretty good typing experience so let's compare the Nexus S to some other devices you may know and love the Galaxy S version of Windows Phone 7 yeah the the Samsung Focus which has the same four inch Super AMOLED display we don't have the battery in on this particular device so it should have a similar kind of feel to the Samsung Focus because it has that same screen and in fact if you tilt the screen in the light you kind of see the blue color associated with that Super AMOLED dudo on the focus if you can get it in the light you just right kind of difficult to do that let's go there at next to the iPhone the iPhone these days is made to look to have a small screen 3.5 inches compared to the large 4-inch display it seems that four inches is really sweet spot nowadays of course you want to go a lot bigger you've got more HD HD - with a 4.3 inch display and it's probably actually thinner than the Nexus S actually so that's quite interesting now I want to take a look at this battery and see if this battery is indeed the same battery that is found on the galaxy s so pop off the back on this take this out and no actually it's not my mistake it is they are both 1500 milliamp hours but got a thicker battery here in a thinner one for the galaxy yes so a lot more coming up on the Google Nexus S really excited to see how this next benchmark Android device performs in daily use curious to see how it works on the AT&T network although I'm sure we know edge speeds are pretty slow but maybe we'll be surprised with a software hack in the future that will bring the the Nexus S to 18 t 3G no dedicated camera button just noticing that now so a lot more on this if you like the Google Nexus S please give me give the video a thumbs up leave a comment below on what you want to see next that's it for now 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