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hey guys it's joe with pocketnow.com we've got three Nexus phones now we've got the nexus one the nexus s and the Galaxy Nexus so let's go ahead and take a look at the history of the Nexus phone alright so what we've got here is the nexus one this was the first Nexus device from google although not the first launch device that really goes to the g1 which unfortunately i don't have here to show you that was the one with the flip out slider keyboard so let's take a look first of all the nexus one it was a keyboard lyst device very slim very slick had this really cool whitish rollerball that got gray over time as you can see here this also was your notification LED it would light up and blink and was multicolored so you could have all kinds of different notifications come through here via apps and and custom roms now when this came out really was introducing the Froyo operating system which was really only available on the original droid if memory serves this came out after that and it served to show off everything google had and as you can tell this phone has really been well used the back panel slides up and off where you've got your micro SD card and sim plastic with some metallic like plastic right there built by HTC very well-constructed microphone at the top volume rocker over here on the left hand side with nothing on the right the power buttons at the top along with the microphone or headset jack really camera with flash speaker that kind of stuff down on the bottom we've got two things that i want to show you first we've got the micro USB port and second are the little gold dots now those were used in Google accessories for charging and pairing and not with the desktop dock and of course the the car dock so that is the nexus one next up was let's go ahead and turn this on so you can see it it's it's been updated to Gingerbread so you can tell running some widgets and whatnot custom launcher so overall you know really smooth really cool you know really nice so moving on to the Nexus S the Nexus S introduced a curved screen if you can see that and also brought with it the gingerbread operating system now this was just like the previous nexus where it was a flat screen this time you do have a camera up front speaker up front but overall very clean front display that's all you've got on the front on the top you've got nothing but a way to access the battery compartment over on the side we've got the volume rocker same as before over on this side power button now that's different from the last where it was up on the top down on the bottom we've still got that micro USB this is where the headset jack has moved to you can see that but if you'll notice there are no red dots this device was built by Samsung not HTC so Google is not just an HTC shop they work with motorola samsung and HTC so far probably other partners in the future looking on the back we've got another camera with flash now this is 5 megapixel kind of interesting speaker placement with a little bump on it and a couple things that i don't particularly like about this number one it's got kind of a cheap plastic ii feel where the last one even though it was plastic let me bring that back even though it was plastic had kind of a metallic feel to it and was kind of grippy whereas this one is really really smooth second thing if you look over here I've got very easy to access buttons these are capacitive buttons not physical buttons but whenever the screen is on there on so I can use them over here on the neck s see if we can get this turned on the buttons are capacitive as well there is no notification LED and unfortunately your capacitive buttons which aren't turning on right now for some reason are turned off unless they're on so when the screen is on they're not necessarily on so you have to kind of remember the order you know was this back was this menu as this search was at home and know where they were not really cool I didn't like it on the the galaxy s phones but that's kind of what we were left with so you can see it's booting up there with the unlocked bootloader and on to our last device the latest device this of course is the Galaxy Nexus that we've shown you in the past introducing the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system which is android 4.0 looking around this is also built by Samsung and it also has that nice curved front to it curve they're just really subtle but enough to to be there I can get it at the right angle you'll notice we have our three dots back again and that's going to be used on the as yet unseen or unreleased I don't think anybody's actually got them in hand yet the accessory docks there are several accessory docks for this not just the desktop dock and the car dock there are various different kinds of desktop docks and that is to accommodate that MHL port which is also the micro USB port so that you can get hdmi video out in the dock but you cannot do that through your three gold dots there so let's walk around the device again smooth front in this case we only have our cameras some some other indicators or sensors rather and the speaker grill but down here at the bottom you can tell we've got a blinking notification LED hopefully it'll come back there we go multicolor so eventually you know we'll be able to get customizations of colors in there through apps or custom roms right now I've seen kind of this bluish purplish white and green as my status LEDs up at the top nothing at all over on the Left we have a volume rocker that functions very nicely and over on the right we have the power button on the bottom we've shown you that headset jack microphone and MH l / microUSB port the back of the phone has a much improved back case this is textured it's still plastic but it's kind of grippy as well it doesn't feel like cheap plastic anymore in my opinion we've got the same same specs essentially on the camera this is a 5 megapixel camera the same as we had on the Nexus X it does have a flash speaker is down here on the bottom which is really ingenious a lot of people don't realize that that speaker sending sound away from you so if you want to listen to stuff their movies or music or whatnot it's pointing away that's really not cool until you realize that you're holding it in your hand like this and you've just created a sound channel right there to redirect that audio back towards you on the other phones when you're holding it and that's where your sound comes from so when you're holding like this it's going away from you over here same thing that's up at the top so it's going away from you as well now as far as processors go this guy had a 1 gigahertz processor this guy has a 1 gigahertz processor and this guy has a dual-core 1.2 comparing the size of the see if I can get them all lined up you can see right there how the the sizes have evolved quite a bit into larger phones they're still easy to hold in hand in fact one thing that I'm really noticing about the Galaxy Nexus is how nice it is to hold in hand and how much more room there is to breathe in the in the screen in fact going back to the Nexus S was relatively difficult for me not not all that fun in my opinion to go back to the the gingerbread interface let's look at some dimensions now put these side by side here so you can kind of see them that kind of all also shows you the curved screens but all slates all nice all really really kind of cool devices and all launch devices from google so there you have it the evolution of the Nexus phones if you want to see more videos like this comparing cool stuff make sure you subscribe to our video channel if you haven't done so already you give the video a big thumbs up so you can share it with your friends and to get more in-depth specifications about each one of the devices head over to pocketnow.com where we'll break those down in a little bit more detail for pocketnow.com showing off phones of the past as well as phones of the present i'm joe levi hmm