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greetings all this is deke Adams with pocketnow.com and today we're taking a closer look at the hardware of the nexus s 4g from sprint so sit back relax and enjoy the show as you mentioned in the unboxing video that google nexus s 4g from sprint is a google specific phone it is running a 1 gigahertz hummingbird processor it has 16 gigs of internal memory there is no microSD slot size and weight is pretty light it does have a curved screen and again it's really hard to see here but it curves on either end here and when you lay it flat on a table it lifts the edge up just a little bit across here keeping the screen from actually touching the ground on the back it's got another little bump here purely for aesthetic purposes although it does provide a little bit of a gripping point the back piece here this back plate is very fingerprint prone as you can see already I just clean this and it's already picking up in your pants and it's very very slippery I hope that they get some options to replace this with a matte back I'm not a big fan of this particular back here on the sides we've got a power button and I really like the power on and then power off little fade effect that's really kind of fun not terribly useful volume rocker on this side other than that no other buttons on the bottom it's got the microUSB slot the microphone hole and the headphone jack headphone volume is outstanding as expected I appreciate that they moved the these two ports to the bottom of the device because on my sprint epic 4g there on the top which makes cabling a little bit funky to manage also on the front is the 3 megapixel or point 3d pardon me megapixel vga camera for facing camera capabilities the speaker for the headset itself not the speakerphone they're these the light sensor and the proximity sensor as well here no leds on the front of this as far as indication lights for charging or for messaging or anything like that a bit of a disappointment they're down here at the bottom the touch-sensitive standard android buttons here are bright in this particular view but when compared against the sprint epic 4g they are really really dark i'll show you that here brightness comparison there it's pretty obvious that the nexus s 4g is considerably darker in that case volume from here is plenty loud no complaints there no complaints about the audio quality when I've been in calls which I appreciate on the back the speakerphone is seems to be quieter than my sprint epic 4g but other than that it does a decent job of volumes they're back camera and the flash back camera does a pretty good job and what a lot of people reporting and what i'll be testing as well is that even the back camera has 720p recording capabilities the google software does not have that functionality i'll be testing that and we'll be posting that in the full review let you know how that really works popping off the back cover here i get from the right side you'll notice inside here is a couple of little contacts and then the near-field chip is hiding inside of here i haven't had a chance to find anything yet that uses near-field hopefully something soon before i finish the review we'll see about that when we get there other than that it's just standard black plastic speakerphone your contacts for the near-field chip the battery as we mentioned in the unboxing is a 1500 milliamp hour battery and the battery life has actually been pretty decent getting in with an hour of hour and a half of phone calls and some navigation and web browsing and display on a little Google Music app ranking in there about 12 hours more if I'm using more of the display but so far I've been pretty pleased with the results there otherwise interior not a whole lot to see there are a couple of extra data ports here that are unused from a day to day point of view it's pretty standard and straightforward this is essentially when it comes down to it the same google nexus s but with a wimax antenna and looking at the WiMAX functionality and the data capabilities it's been so so and I've unfortunately I haven't found really good zones with 4G for sprint anyway which is really a pain when they charge you an extra ten dollars a month we'll come back to that once this be finished booting up as we talked about before the screen is brilliant although it is a little hard to see from here and once this finishes booting up we'll take a closer look at this but as you tilt the phone away from you there is a little bit of color change here not too terribly much it's definitely bright and brilliant and in sunlight it looks fantastic on auto display which I appreciate very much let's go take a look at those speed tests before it gets a chance to try again so as far as results go I've been getting anywhere from like 1700 down I had a 2300 down at one point using the 4g service the 3g service is the 400s you see here the this 71 and 76 was actually with the 4g on but i wasn't getting good service so you can see we did plenty of speed tests here and it's just been average results but it's pretty typical compared side by side with the epic it's been about the same speeds running the speed test exactly the same time comparing the screen brightness side by side between the two with my epic 4g and the nexus s 4g you can see that the epic over here has a slightly more blue screen it is a little less bright this is on full brightness on both devices and the black contrast on the nexus s 4g is much much better the nexus 4g though does have a it's hard to see in this video a yellow color cast to it side by side as you can see here the epic 4g and the nexus s 4g both from sprint there is a considerable size difference and as we mentioned in the unboxing video the nexus s 4g is about the same size as the keyboard here you can actually stack two of them on top of each other and end up with one epic 4g device so that the form factor is really nice in the pocket but I looked from the bottom it's about the same there and then also from the top lengthwise it's about the same as well one thing the sprint marketing talks about on its site is the anti fingerprint coating on the front of the display and I have to tell you that this device picks up fingerprints just about as easily as every other device that I have owned including the iPad it does make you know wiping off the screen is really easy but you know as soon as you touch it it's going to get another fingerprint on it so i'm not sure where they were going with that and i mentioned on the back it just as fingerprint pone as as the front that wraps up the hardware portion of our video review if you have any comments or questions leave them below and we'll get back to you as soon as possible thanks for watching you