Samsung NEXUS S

The Next Gen

Last Year Google's own Android phone was a HTC make and this year the company has chosen Samsung to make its next device.Called Samsung Nexus S,the phone nowhere liis in the league of slim phones. Its has well endowed waistline and still is pretty convenient to handle.

The device comes with a 4.0-inch Super AMOLED display and the glass covering it is slightly curved in order to improve its functionality. The sunlight legibility of the device is good and the touch response is great too. The back panel of the phone is made of glossy plastic which makes it quite messy due to fingerprints.

Smooth Operator

As mentioned earlier the touch of the Nexus S is really smooth.Additionally the phone runs on the latest Android 2.3 OS making it pretty up to date. As far as the interface is concerned it is plain vanilla Android and Samsung's own TouchWiz UI is missing.There are four haptic touch keys below the screen for back,menu,search and home. There are five home screen panels which you can customize by adding shortcuts ,widgets and folders or changing the wall paper.

Managing Multimedia

Samsung Nexus S comes with a 5.0-megapixel snapper that takes good pictures. It also has a LED flash for shooting in low light conditions. You can add color effects,choose picture quality and resolution and choose among various scene modes that are available. The picture can be gotagged too. You can select the front camera for pictures too. The video camera has just the color effects option and you can choose the video quality for shooting.

Alternatively

Samsung Nexus S  is priced at Rs 27,300. You can also consider Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc costing Rs 28,500.