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hey guys it's Breanna minuman from pocket now calm and this is the hardware review of the google nexus s let's get to it so first of all we have to give credit to samsung in 2010 for extending and really utilizing the galaxy s platform not only on the galaxy s and the galaxy s other phones but they've used it on the samsung focus and now in the Google Nexus S and what that means is that you get the same sort of specifications same kind of device across all of these different sort of phones that have different names we've got the 4 inch Super AMOLED display and super amoled is still unrivaled in clarity and contrast compared to any other screen out there it's got the 1 gigahertz hummingbird processor 512 megabytes of ram Wi-Fi with wireless n I mean the specs are pretty much the same across all the devices 5 megapixel camera sometimes with a flash sometimes without front-facing camera sometimes sometimes not and as we're going to see in a minute this device is basically the same as the Samsung Focus same as the 18t captivate just with different software but of course we have to remember the original nexus one which was made by HTC a completely different device but similarly spect it just looks very much different it's got that HTC style with the trackball the buttons below the screen it's got sort of a really good in hand feels feel super high quality compared to the Nexus S which is kind of lightweight and a little bit cheap feeling some well if it gets cheap but those that appreciate the lightweight feel really won't care that much the nexus s make use of some pretty good materials that had a rubbery backing here if got really solid in hand and it's still a really great phone you know about a year since its release and it's going to continue to be a good phone because Google is going to upgrade the nexus one to Gingerbread like the nexus s already has and the Nexus S will presumably have an even longer life than the nexus one as future versions of Android are released okay so let's talk about the hardware the actual design here of the Nexus s now you may have read about the contour display which I've come to the conclusion is just marketing talk because it really doesn't mean that much it's not curved that much in fact the screen part that you actually use is pretty much flat and then on the edges you get a little bit of a curve this looks cool and that's pretty much it yeah it feels a little bit better against your face when you're talking on the phone because most people's faces are curved but you shouldn't be holding the phone up to your face that much anyway until somebody concludes whether cell phone radiation is good or bad for our brains use speakerphone if you can and of course the speakerphone on the Nexus S is very high quality just like it was on the google nexus one so besides this contour display we have a front facing video camera which you can also use for photos self-portraits and videos i will take vga pictures or vga video i should say and over here is the light sensor and the proximity sensor and we get this nice blue glow to the screen that you get also on the other Samsung Galaxy S devices down here you don't get to see the hardware buttons until you turn on the device and then they appear as you can see it's really interesting to see how with every generation or it seems that with every new samsung android device or even you could say this for any android device the placement of the buttons keeps changing so let's look here at the placement of these buttons next to the nexus one ok so the home button is here the home buttons on the right completely different placement even if we take a look at this device next to the captivate here you know one of the true galaxy s smartphones the buttons are different place in all of these devices it's very strange why they don't just stick to one configuration of buttons so as mentioned these buttons will light up when you're using the phone and they're capacitive and they vibrate a little bit when you touch them which of course you can turn off that feature it's really striking this piece of glass on the front it is pretty cool got to say but again it's not curved as much as you think it is but you've probably never seen a phone that has any sort of curvature in the display so it's it's pretty remarkable to see for the first time and then the novelty kind of fades away speaker up here on the bottom we have the charging port and a microphone and the 3.5 millimeter headphone Jack unlike the nexus one there's no two microphones on the Nexus S for noise cancellation so if you remember on the nexus one here we had a microphone here a microphone here to do noise cancellation they didn't bring that forward on the Nexus S turning over to the back we've got the 5 megapixel camera with flash doesn't do 720p HD video oddly out of the box but I'm sure that a software hack will come along in the near future that will enable this we've got a very fingerprint prone background here are backing you've got little dimpled dots but they're not textured the back is completely flushed completely smooth and it really picks up fingerprints this device feels very it's kind of almost too smooth like it's going to slide out of your hand compared to the nexus one which is a real solid device we've got this interesting hump back here which helps a little bit when you're typing because you can rest your middle finger there and sort of type away and of course gingerbread has an improved on-screen keyboard and we'll talk about that in a future video so pop off this back battery cover here and up here is where you do that now some interesting things to note back here what is this this is the NFC sensor so we have two contacts that connect with this we have no microSD storage which is really weird but OMS are not including that but 16 gigabytes should be enough for most people got a 1500 milliamp hour battery so far is providing really good battery life sim card holder I've got the micro-sim adapter there because we're using the iphone previously and I'm using this on AT&T right now so I'm not getting 3g data you're going to want to put a tmobile sim in here if you want to get tikka the full 3g data and overall it's a relatively thin device I've got to get the back on right here it's not the thinnest it's definitely not i think part of the reason that this displays curved or part of the reason it doesn't feel so so fin is because of the curved display compared to say here is the the Samsung Galaxy S or the captivate on AT&T it is razor thin and then it's got the flat glass obviously but what the curved glass makes it seem a little bit thicker as you can see there and again bringing all these devices in here these are all pretty much the same devices the Samsung Focus the AT&T captivate and the Google Nexus S which one is the most attractive looking at them on the table hard to tell this kind of looks like an unbranded nondescript phone whereas of course you get the ATT branding and the samsung branding kind of in-your-face on the captivate and the focus definitely the most interesting device is then that is the nexus s because of the curved display although from the view right now you can't really tell I guess if we kind of tilt them a little bit you may be able to tell but probably not so overall the Nexus S has some pretty slick hardware I personally preferred the the feel and the look of the original nexus one it just had this sort of powerhouse you know functional feel to it whereas the Nexus S has gotten a little bit more glamorous with the curved glass the really shiny materials you know the lack of buttons down here until you actually turn on the device it doesn't seem as friendly I guess you could say or as approachable as the original Nexus Nexus One but it's still quite a nice device powerful fast the most important thing here is that it's like a galaxy s which is fast to begin with but it's not running the TouchWiz interface so you really get Android 2.3 and it's full fast glory which is a great thing we're going to do speed comparisons and upcoming videos and talk a lot more about Gingerbread and how it's different than Froyo please give this video a thumbs up if you liked it and check out pocket navcomm for smartphone news and reviews thanks for watching that's it for now