The reviews for the Nexus-S I've scanned were generally underwhelmed. It's a nice phone, but not much of an advance on the Nexus-One, which should get the Gingerbread release of Android before Christmas. And no support for the HSPA+ digital service on T-Mobile, so you probably will need wifi to make a video call with it. The camera was singled out as a disappointment, too.
A month ago I was encouraging Irene to go for a Verizon phone to replace her iPhone and MiFi with a single package and bill, but now I'm thinking wait until Verizon has the LTE capable phones next year. So lots of nice phones for Christmas, but all oddly out of sync with the developing network capabilities. I'm two releases -- oh, wait, now three releases -- out of date in checking whether Android can do the kind of audio synthesis I want to do, the API was plagued with latencies that made user initiated sound ridiculous. AT&T did score last, which is easy to remember, but the other national carriers were not stellar standouts in the ratings either. -- rec -- On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > This is apparently The Next Big Thing for android: > > http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/06/googles-nexus-s-product-page-goes-live/ > > If anyone gets one, could they let us know about what they think? Heck, > while I'm at it: Android users: what would be your 3 wishes in terms of > improving the OS? > > I need to replace my iPhone 2G and I haven't found a good way to get a new > iPhone at subscription prices ($400 less than the unlocked price). The > Nexus S goes for $199 from my provider, TMobile. (And no, I won't switch to > ATT which just won the worst US network prize. Again.) > > I'm particularly interested in the camera. Only until the iPhone 4 were > phone cameras really a replacement for simple digital critters (Casio etc), > from what the reviews say. > > -- Owen > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Santa Fe > Complex "discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to disc...@sfcomplex.org > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > discuss+unsubscr...@sfcomplex.org <discuss%2bunsubscr...@sfcomplex.org> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/a/sfcomplex.org/group/discuss >
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