There has been a bit of discussion about different Android Phones on the Motorola Xoom thread. It did make make me wonder if anyone besides me bought a Nexus S and if so what they thought of it. I know it is basically a Samsung Galaxy.
I am somewhat disappointed. The battery life is the worst I have had on any phone I have owned but some others tell me that iPhones can similarly go through the battery in less than a day when being used heavily. I know a group of mobile manufacturers were trying to standardise the phone charger connector to the Mini-USB connector in order to reduce the number of different chargers. It doesn't seem like Samsung is going along with this as the phone uses a proprietary connector. I can probably live with the lack of MicroSD upgradeability. I don't think the iPhones have ever had upgradable memory and that seems the primary competition. Probably my main gripe is that in the end I will have paid more of this Nexus S that I would pay for an iPhone 4. This doesn't seem conducive to the culture of Android phones generally providing equivalent functionality for less. I am glad I own an Android phone and I do have access to Gingerbread but I don't know if it was good value for money. Maybe I should have waited (but I wanted to buy something before the VAT went up). I wonder if I could have got a better deal if it were not for the fact that Carphone Warehouse had an exclusive contract to sell the Nexus S in the UK. It is certainly a powerful phone. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
