Tech Mania: Google Unveils Nexus S with Gingerbread OS plus 1 more articles

Google Unveils Nexus S with Gingerbread OS

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 08:38 PM PST

We knew this was coming and finally Google has unleashed Nexus S along with Gingerbread OS.According to the Official Google Blog, the Nexus S which is manufactured by Samsung will be available for purchase after December 16th “online and in-store from all Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores for $199 with two year contract with T-Mobile or $529 contract-free or unlocked one,” So keep looking for the Nexus S to hit December 20th at Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy UK.

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Coming to the specs Samsung Nexus S runs on a 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird processor ( which is also found in the Galaxy S) with a 4″ Super AMOLED Contour Display, 512MB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, accelerometer, proximity sensor, digital compass, light sensor and Near Field Communication (NFC- which should be a standard in upcoming Gingerbread phones) which will be instrumental into turning phones into digital wallets for mobile payments.

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The Nexus S also comes with a front camera along with a rear camera capable of 720p HD encoding and 5-megapixel digital still capture with LED flash. The Nexus S will be available in the U.S. through online and via Best Buy stores and will debut with Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread.More details on the Samsung Nexus S are also available on google.com/nexus.Check out the videos below for some Nexus S action.

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Android 2.3 definitely supports game controls,not sure whether it’s PlayStation-related

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 08:24 PM PST

Google’s really been keen on emphasizing the fact that Gingerbread is better than ever for game development, and that’s already bearing itself out thanks to a page culled from the Android 2.3 SDK where we see a handful of new keycodes in the system clearly targeted for gaming: L1, L2, R1, R2, Select, Start, and so on. Does it have anything to do with the Sony Ericsson Zeus Z1 and all the PlayStation phone noise, though? it’s hard to say whether it is or not ? PlayStation famously uses shapes for its primary controls, and we wouldn’t be surprised if Sony were working on a separate development environment of some sort for PlayStation-branded titles rather than letting it all flow through the official Android SDK proper. We also don’t yet know whether Sony Ericsson’s gaming efforts are coming in the Gingerbread or the Honeycomb timeframe (though we’re definitely expecting news next February at MWC), but one way or another, game devs should find it a little easier now to map the controls they need.

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