Earlier today, Google announced Samsung Nexus S – the successor to Nexus One, the new smartphone is rumored to come to the US on December 16th, and to UK on December 20th. Designed by the folks (Google) in Mountain View, California, and manufactured by Samsung, Nexus S will be the first phone powered by the just announced Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

Here are the official specs:

Connectivity

• Quad-band GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900
• Tri-band HSPA: 900, 2100, 1700
• HSPA type: HSDPA (7.2Mbps) HSUPA (5.76Mbps)

• Wi-Fi 802.11 n/b/g
• Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
• Near Field Communication (NFC)
• Assisted GPS (A-GPS)
• microUSB 2.0

Display

• 4.0? WVGA (480×800)
• Contour Display with curved glass screen
• Super AMOLED
• 235 ppi
• Capacitive touch sensor
• Anti-fingerprint display coating

Size and weight

• 63mm x 123.9mm x 10.88mm
• 129g

Hardware

• Haptic feedback vibration
• Three-axis gyroscope
• Accelerometer
• Digital compass
• Proximity sensor
• Light sensor

Processor and memory

• 1GHz Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) processor
• 16GB iNAND flash memory

Cameras and multimedia

• Back-facing: 5 megapixels (2560×1920)
• 720 x 480 video resolution
• H.264, H.263 MPEG4 video recording
• Auto focus
• Flash
• Front-facing: VGA (640×480)

• 3.5mm, 4-conductor headset jack
  (stereo audio plus microphone)
• Earpiece and microphone
• Software noise-cancellation

Battery

• Talk time up to 6.7 hours on 3G
  (14 hours on 2G)
• Standby time up to 17.8 days on 3G
  (29.7 days on 2G)
• 1500 mAH Lithum Ion

Software

• Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
• Android Market
• Calendar
• Gmail
• Google Earth
• Google Maps with Navigation
• Google Search
• Google Talk
• Google Voice
• Voice Actions
• YouTube

The Nexus S will be available unlocked or on a T-Mobile contract, in Best Buy/Best Buy Mobile stores or online in the USA on the 16th of December, or in Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy stores in the UK on the 20th of the same month. In the USA, the phone will retail for $529 off contract, or $199 on a new two-year agreement, much like the Nexus One. Across the pond, Carphone Warehouse are already listing the Nexus S and its tariff on the Vodafone UK network, with the device coming free on a £35 two-year contract.

Google also created an advertisement to go along with the release of the Nexus S, showing many of the phone’s neat but hardly novel features:

[Source: Google Nexus S; @GoogleNexus]

Authors: _GadgetNews

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