yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant General] kboater:
m a little disappointed in the specs of the Nexus S. As everyone already mentioned, is almost the same as the Galaxy S phones we already have. 1ghz hummingbird, 512 ram, 4 inch screen...

but the google updates are sure nice.

Anyway, important question:

Many are saying that since the Nexus S is similar to the Vibrant, 2.3 and other Google updates should be ported over to us quickly.... But aren't the Fascinate, and Captivate similar to the Vibrant? The Captivate got an almost fully functional unnoficial 2.2 leak at least a month before we did. To my knowledge, that was not able to be ported over to the Vibrant and we had to wait for our 2.2 leak.

Furthermore, if it was as easy as porting it, the Fascinate would have 2.2 ported from the Vibrant or Captivate...right?

Am I missing something? Are the nexus S and the vibrant more similar then the vibrant and other US galaxy phones?

Im just trying to understand how Nexus S roms will be ported to us if we are not able to port things between the current Galaxy S phones?
[Vibrant General] s10shane:
well all i know is that it sucks u can only get it at best buy and not tmobile stores. i cant upgrade till next october but if i was to get the phone from tmobile then they would let me do an early upgrade but the phone wouldnt be 199. probably more like 320 but at least i can still get the phone. best buy wont let u do an early upgrade so it looks like im not getting the nexus s. oh well.
[Vibrant General] hellcatrydr:
YEAH!!!

Oh, and thanks to Pee Pad Pelosi for saving us all that time we would have otherwise wasted by deciding for ourselves whether we wanted to reply and kindly forming our opinion for us...
[Vibrant General] PaiPiePia:
come here your crying little girl, ah, here's a candy for ya, now go on your marry way and play with your Barbie doll. Don't disrupt the adults talking.
[Vibrant General] S0NiX0928:
Well, no offense to some here but what a collection of terrible and redundant insults this thread has. Give the drama a rest guys... we are only talking about cellphones here... =\

Anywho, I was jealous of the Nexus S until I heard it lacked a SD card slot... coupled with several other downgrades.
[Vibrant General] backslide311:
Well said,

the influx of retards and people that spew negativity has chased off a lot of good members, not to mention very important DEVS.

why can't people just learn to STFU?
[Vibrant General] robertd0619:
just a matter of time for gingerbread.:) someone have GB running on their HTC eris already.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=863156
[Vibrant General] _atlien_:
I have a feeling this will be a really nice New Year's present for us. :D:D:D

xda devs are incredible
[General Topics] donsasan:
Google officially announced Nexus S with Gingerbread!!!

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/introducing-nexus-s-with-gingerbread.html

http://www.google.com/nexus/#!/index

It's got the Cortex A8 processor, known from the Galaxy S.

Also, the specs are mostly similar to the Galaxy S except that the Nexus S has a LED Flash.
[General Topics] Oniyuri:
yeah, i spotted the page a few mins ago and i've got to say that the lack of a dual core processor is very disappointing, especially when LG's about to bring it with the Star and Motorola with the Olympus.:mad:
[General Topics] Akulamenuri:
I'm not sure what to think about the Nexus S. The phone is an Epic 4g, minus the keyboard and 4g, plus stock Gingerbread.
[General Topics] reubenbubu:
Can't wait till someone ports this to HD2 :-)
[General Topics] Oniyuri:
@Akulamenuri

not only that, but it's not even HSPA+ capable... wtf samsung?
[General Topics] 4512jth:
I see you've never used a samsung android phone. They are absolutely awful. Also, I hope that they release a CDMA version of this, though I doubt they will.
[General Topics] donsasan:
Bluetooth version on Galaxy S is 3.0 and on Nexus S it's 2.1 :D

Also, Galaxy S can record videos in 720p while Nexus S only can record up to 480p.

Ah and Nexus S doesn't have Video out.
[General Topics] Oniyuri:
@4512jth

nah, i've got a vibrant and i love it but gawd! the nexus was a beast when it came out and was hoping that google would've kept up on that trend.

[EDIT]

actually, the sad part is that i'm still considering buying this phone just for the fact that it'll be vanilla. well, either this or the galaxyS2 (damn you samsung and your ridiculous hardware! ~_~)

[/EDIT]
[General Topics] sn0warmy:
Well now I need Gingerbread on my N1!:p
[General Topics] donsasan:
I cant understand your opinion. Samsung built the best Android phone with Galaxy S and since the hardware is practically the same with Nexus S it wont be long until theres a ported Gingerbread.
[General Topics] bpye:
Who can port the sdk rom first!?
[General Topics] Oniyuri:
oh, i'm not worried about updates so much as me not liking TWiz or RFS (i'm not a modder but i am an enthusiast).

meanwhile, techcrunch already has a review out. http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/06/google-nexus-s-review/
[General Topics] donsasan:
Porting would mean stock vanilla without TW and RFS.

So the Galaxy S would be better than Nexus S because hardware is mostly the same but eg bluetooth is better on Galaxy S.
[General Topics] diehard2222:
please quick question.. will it have rfs?? please say no... also it has no expansion slot...
[General Topics] donsasan:
Nexus S has a whole other memory: iNand like the iPhone.

But it doesnt matter because its extremely easy to create ext4/jfs partition.
[General Topics] diehard2222:
i want a phone where i dont have to apply lag fixes for it to work properly...
[General Topics] flyboyovyick:
Look no further than a LG GT540 Optimus
[General Topics] diehard2222:
thats a nice phone u there i guess but im thinking more desire hd. 2000 quadrant score outta the box. where as with my galaxy s without a lag fix 900... fail.
[General Topics] donsasan:
Proof? But lets stay on the topic: Nexus S
[General Topics] diehard2222:
http://override182.net/blog/2010/09/17/htc-desire-hd-quadrant-score-and-some-benchmarks/

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1512154

nexus s is fail.
[General Topics] backslide311:
I freaking hope so
[General Topics] shrivelfig:
Nexus S is my next phone.

Not too big, not too expensive, no simlocks, no carrier crapware, and OS updates directly from Google.
[General Topics] mburt27:
Glad I still have my Nexus One (for at&t network). The Nexus S is disappointing on so many levels. I won't be getting this one.
[General Topics] hensk:
will see m8,

when Google chouse SGS+flash

should be interesting
[General Topics] gogol:
The thing that I still cannot understand, the Nexus S does NOT have micro SD card expansion slot!Why??????????????????!!!

I know it has 16 GB of internal memory, that's a lot, thanks!

However, without external micro SD card, we cannot use it as external USB drive!

Read the Android 2.3 User Guide page 48:

http://www.google.com/googlephone/AndroidUsersGuide-2.3.pdf

" ... The operating system

manages and carefully guards internal storage, because it can contain your private

information; you can’t view its contents when you connect the phone to a computer

with a USB cable. ..."

Crap! :( It became like iPhone :(
[General Topics] n1kki6:
Per the same page.

"Depending on your model of phone, your phone also has either internal USB storage

or a removable SD card. This is the memory whose contents you can view and copy

files to and from when you connect your phone to a computer (as described in

“Connecting to a computer via USB” on page 67). Some applications are also

designed to be stored in this memory, rather than in internal memory, by default or as

an option."

It should be able to work as USB but only for a portion of the memory.
[Wildfire General] vimjam:
image stabilization in wildfire is worst :(

recently shifted from nokia 6700 slide to htc wildfire ....seriously nokia is the best... even though i dont shake the phone while taking pics the pics get blur ...but while i was playing with the settings i found out that keeping iso at 800 and resolution in 3M the blurr is almost reduced :) tested it many times works for me (post your opinion,suggestions)

edit : does anyone know any app for image stabilization:confused: , and why is the cam recoding in 3gp format but not mp4 which is bit better:mad:
[Wildfire General] Gurdjieff:
I have downloaded from somewhere a sound recorder app which records in 44100 hz, so very good quality, it will be nice with video recording too.
[Wildfire General] vimjam:
plz name that app
[Wildfire General] Michealtbh:
The steady shot option in vignette works reasonably well
[Wildfire General] Gurdjieff:
Sorry, i went back to stock rom, and it was found on patched market, two months ago, i dont remember.
[Wildfire General] GéVé:
Use Camera360 ! It has Stabilization function !
[Wildfire General] vimjam:
thanks to all of you :)
[Wildfire General] ephbee:
instead of using trackball as shutter , long press on screen on subject, autofocuses then captures.:D
[Wildfire General] rommi0:
Wow! That's way more comfortable than using the trackball. Thanks for the tip!
[Wildfire General] vimjam:
thnx..but the anti shake feature in samsung phone is kicking the fun of wildfire :(
[G2 and Desire Z General] kidd657:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx3pdWBlZ34
[G2 and Desire Z General] theratdude64:
Awesome! :) And I dig that shirt :cool:
[G2 and Desire Z General] luis86dr:
Can anyone say CM7?

What device were they using to display the new features? Looked like the samsung 'nexus s/2'.

[G2/HTC Vision]
[G2 and Desire Z General] nivlac978:
Yeah that's the nexus s. I was kinda hoping it would have much better hardware, but what are you gonna do, it's a samsung.
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
More official info at http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3.html , including the 2.3 SDK.
[G2 and Desire Z General] funkadesi:
How long do you reckon it will take T-Mo to send out the 2.3 OTA?
[G2 and Desire Z General] kidd657:
probably after nexus s gets released which is after dec. 16th
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ImHuge07:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=737526

Can I browse the forums and find themes from any phone and then theme it to the ROM I'm using? (cm6.1) Or can I only use certain ones?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acejoker25000:
I'm sure you could but hdpi to mdpi wont look to good
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ImHuge07:
I see....

So which phones themes do I need to steer clear from?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acejoker25000:
Everything but g1 mytouch hero aria lower end lg phones most others are hdpi
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MusicMan374:
Nonono the G1 and the MT3G are both MDPI, and if I remember correctly, so is the aria? It's just the newer phones like the vibrant, G2, MT4G, etc, with higher resolutions that won't display correctly. Most phones are MDPI still. There are a few phones that are smaller than MDPI but I doubt those are themed anyway, so you should be fine, just steer clear of HDPI.

EDIT: just downloaded it because I want to port a theme myself, and it looks like it has an HDPI to MDPI mode built in, so you MIGHT be able to take themes from the G2, Vibrant, MT4g, etc., and port them, but it might be glitchy since I have no idea how it does that, if it just crops the images or actually scales them. Feel free to try it out, but make a nandroid before you flash it just in case it doesn't work right.
[Legend General] lullesha:
So google officialy announced Gingerbread.

It's time for flashfags to start refreshing all ROM related forums :)

i know i will :P
[Legend General] TyCam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx3pdWBlZ34&feature=player_embedded
[Legend General] petertakov:
It's always good to know what we, the Legend owners, are missing and how far behind we are. Thank you for posting this in the Legend sub-forum :-)
[Legend General] marcchelala:
And of course... HTC will only offer 2.3 to HTC Desire HD and Z (who will only get it by December 2011 :P), and their upcoming phones....
[Legend General] bradtraver:
lolflashfags..

Yea thats me
[Legend General] lullesha:
@petertakov I be a good sport, so I'll tell you a secret: root. Do it now!

After all, nobody waits for anything nowadays :)

Anywayssss, UI looks hellagood... I wish I was some kind of a dev, I'd have that gingers ass on my legend ASAP :) (no pun intended)
[Legend General] aneesh45:
The moment a working ROM appears for our Legends, Im rooting.
[Legend General] pavan_bitsgoa:
+1 Me too :D

This is the last HTC phone i will ever buy! Will go with pure google, much better support
[Legend General] latorante:
Excatly - last HTC phone ever and never again ... I bet I'm gonna buy the new nexus sooner (when it rolls out here in UK) then HTC is gonna release Legend Froyo update...
[Legend General] lullesha:
Since my current status is: no job, no money and no girl, I don't think I'll be jumping on the Pure Google train anytime soon. And tbh, so many newer phones are still froyo-less, so I wouldn't rage so much.

Nexus S had me at "Allo Allo Je T'Aime Je T'Aime" :D:D
[Legend General] aneesh45:
@latorante, Oh! I still love the looks of the Legend. Nexus S looks ugly to me!

Might be a bit careless on HTC's part, but I still love them 'cos you pay mainly for the hardware. Software can always be tweaked to your liking. At least this is how I see it.
[Legend General] pavan_bitsgoa:
Whats the use of beauty without substance??:confused: No doubt legend was a good phone when it was realeased. Hell thats y we all bought it to begin with.

It still is beautiful. But thats about it.

Its like having a really hot girl and not being able to do anything about it;). Yeh people can be happy with hookers (hacks) but we want the real deal! Dont we :D

P.S - No offence to the awesome hackers on this site. If it werent for you guys, my phone would be glorified paperweight!
[Legend General] nolook:
+1 for me too...my last htc phone

guys will gingerbread even run on the legend?
[Legend General] lullesha:
It will. I'm pretty positive.

I don't wanna push it, but I'm even confident it'll run smothly. Legend's got decent GPU and ginger (u dont mind if i call u ginger do u?) says yes to hardware acceleration ^^

Still people say gingers don't have souls. Oh, how wrong they are!
[Legend General] polarn:
But still no IPV6 for 3G... :(
[Legend General] lullesha:
Well slap me silly and call me stupid. Why on earth would you need IPv6 on 3g?

It's not like all IPv4 addresses will be used up anytime soon...
[Legend General] bradtraver:
lol I saw a podcast (Hak5) we have about 15 days till all IPv4 addresses are used up!

And yea, I sensed the sarcasm, just wanted to add
[Legend General] lullesha:
Well sure, there's no more IPv4 addresses but ISP doesn't give you static IP while you're on mobile internet... Thanks to subnetting and dynamic IP addressing.

Server providers, on the other hand, will soon have to adapt to this situation.

My guess is, you only need IPv6 settings if you wanna set up static IP and use your

phone as a server....
[Legend General] marcchelala:
Well... I just love the Sense UI... I have an HTC Legend with the 2.2 update and sense, and a Nexus One with 2.2.1, no sense...

I still prefer the Legend ;)

And I bet that if HTC doesn't want us to have 2.3 with Sense on our legends, that we can port it from some other phone ;)
[Legend General] amstuzmarco:
HTC UK on Facebook, directly under the FroYo for Legend News:
[Legend General] ananthm2k5:
Yes it will . Google engineers said there are no minimum specifications. Gingerbread is a small upgrade. All devices running froyo can run it, only with better performance :P
[Legend General] kleutscher:
I think gingerbread 2.3 will run on legend. if it will be released for legend I don't know but it doesn't matter there are enough community developers for it.

Honeycomb is 3.0 so i think that this will bring a bigger update to Android and that there will be some minimum specifications.
[Legend General] dannsf:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

I totally agree with you..!! LOL
[Nexus One General] SugarMouth:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/introducing-nexus-s-with-gingerbread.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxUXulxE5o0&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt6GboJAxbQ&feature=channel
[Nexus One General] slowz3r:
Im torn, I dont want the phone because it doesnt really bring anything new and ground breaking to the table but then again the support for the devices is there
[Nexus One General] inkogn:
Carphonewarehouse does not deliver to rest of eu?
[Nexus One General] mingkee:
Best Buy will sell it in States and Canada.

$200 with T-Mobile contract; $530 without (same as nexus one).

I will get it and let go of nexus one.
[Nexus One General] irishrally:
no dual core, what about HSPA+?
[Nexus One General] kaiser_tytnii:
Canada? Are you sure? I doubt
[Nexus One General] norazi:
id say the following are pretty significant upgrades:

- hummingbird (faster and less power consumption)

- s-amoled

- HSDPA+ support

- hopefully the fixed the stupid buggy "multitouch" panel

the only con really is if its more locked down like the current galaxy s
[Nexus One General] dinan:
I can almost guarantee the touchscreen will be fixed. Galaxy S phones have tracking for up to 5 fingers at once, accurately and smoothly so if it's almost the same screen technology, it won't be a problem.

Aside from that... assuming the screen technology is the same except for the contour design, it'll probably be another pentile matrix (RGBG) AMOLED... which I'm sorry to say is far inferior to LCD's for reading text =(
[Nexus One General] wondercoolguy:
so can some one officially say this is a TMO 4g phone? Im stupid when it comes to bands
[Nexus One General] lnjryan:
not a 4G phone...No HSPA+ at least not according to Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/06/googles-nexus-s-product-page-goes-live/#disqus_thread
[Nexus One General] wondercoolguy:
I thought hspa + was tmobiles "4g"
[Nexus One General] davados:
I feel the phone is not a big enough jump from it's predecessor looks and specs are good but it doesn't hold any wow factor. It seems just another smartphone imo shame really.
[Nexus One General] wondercoolguy:
I agree we are on the verge of dual core phones with smarter power consumption....
[Nexus One General] rori~:
Well, if there´s CyanogenMod support, that´s what counts for me :p
[Nexus One General] Prod1702:
http://www.google.com/nexus/#!/tech-specs
[Nexus One General] SoberGuy:
Have to agree. Nothing wrong with the phone, it seems OK. It just doesn't seem to really step things up, like the N1 did.

However, I hold out hope. There were rumors about Sammy having a dual core flagship, dropping right after the Nexus S. Rumor was the delay in Gingerbread had to do with it not being designed to support dual core processors, and the Honeycomb crew had to get together with the Gingerbread and make it play nice. Again, all just rumors. If true, I'm waiting to see their flagship device hit the FCC, and hopefully with pentaband hardware.
[Nexus One General] th0r615:
sooo temping!!! My Nexus 1 has a broken screen so i need a new phone but no duel core :(
[Nexus One General] MaybachMan:
It's £550 SIM free! :eek:

That's put me right off.
[Nexus One General] fliint:
#Fail_______-

No Hspa+

No 720P recording

No SDcard slot

No Dual Core

Come on!!!
[Nexus One General] galaxys:
I'm not jumping ship just yet...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rakeshchn:
I moved from Los Angeles CA to Columbus OH last weekend. I noticed much faster 3G connection here (6 Mbps in Columbus Vs 1.5 Mbps in LA) on T-mobile however I noticed the battery dropping insanely fast. It drained 50% in one hour. It used to last 16-18 hours with moderate use when I was in LA. I cannot figure out why this is happening. Anyone? I haven't changed any settings on the phone.

EDIT: Forgot to mention. I am running Obsidian V3 (Foryo JK2)
[Nexus S General] mapas:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/introducing-nexus-s-with-gingerbread.html

http://www.google.com/nexus/#!/index

Nexus S is the first smartphone to feature a 4” Contour Display designed to fit comfortably in the palm of your hand and along the side of your face. It also features a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, front and rear facing cameras, 16GB of internal memory, and NFC (near field communication) hardware that lets you read information from NFC tags. NFC is a fast, versatile short-range wireless technology that can be embedded in all kinds of everyday objects like movie posters, stickers and t-shirts.
[Nexus S General] t1mman:
Hell yeah! Pretty much the SGS hardware!

Front+Back cam

1Ghz HummingBird

16Go

Let's hope we'll get a Gingerbread on the 16th! :D
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
WHY is that always all the good phones are on 900 bands?

:(

There are so many phones I like, but none on 850 version (only I9000M), they always make them for Europe first... Why?!?!?! :confused:
[Nexus S General] Zvenn:
Very nice, the specs look almost identical to the i9000. I guess we'll see a port soon! :D
[Nexus S General] Zerod Zunaro:
I'd say I can't wait to have Gingerbread on my Galaxy S, damn I hate TouchWiz.
[Nexus S General] Zvenn:
Review:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/06/google-nexus-s-review/
[Nexus S General] GadgetCheck:
Yes even Gingerbread 2.3 has now gone official i just hope some one in the XDA community ports it soon for our i9000's to unleash its true power and potential with out off cource instaling a lagfix.

It is said that 16th is when tmoble is getting the nexus s

(via Engadget)

My request some one please port 2.3 for our i9000 too coz samsung is gona take ages to bring it as a official update via keis they dint even completly realease there 2.2 update to every one....

I mean XDA members are way better with software anyways so

"Hurray for 2.3"

My final verdict any ways

Galaxy S i9000 (with out a micro sd slot) (beefed up design of the device) + Better Gps chip + 2.3 + NFC (Which v wont b using any time soon) + Faster Update via Google paractcally = "The New Nexus S"

Yes yes u heard me the Nexus S dosent have a micro sd slot for memory expansion only built in 16GB kind of odd any ways.

So i am nt gona buy a Nexus S perhaps i will wate for the nex gen Nexus coz any ways if v port the nexus s software to out i9000 its gona give us the same xperence as with the Nexus S so why to buy it!!

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[Nexus S General] bossman74:
Which provider in Canada will work on the new Nexus S ?

Since Bell Mobility is using 850MHz and/or 1900MHz, does that me I can just put in my SIM card and be good to go ?
[Nexus S General] °Dexter°:
I hope GB will arrive soon on our phone...only hw difference seems to be this NFC feature,but i guess devs could just disable it (or not)...assuming it's a hw component and not just software app (i could be wrong)
[Nexus S General] Maddmatt:
Could the reason for Samsung's 'lazy' implementation and rollout of Froyo be because more development resources are being spent on getting Gingerbread on the Galaxy S?
[Nexus S General] zorxd:
so... the Nexus S is a Galaxy S with Gingerbread.

Bad news for those who hoped something new.

Good news for Galaxy S owners. I hope we can flash the Nexus S rom as soon as possible!
[Nexus S General] Highl1:
I wouldn't count on it
[Nexus S General] fluidd:
hot damn that looks amazingly sexy! the minor changes just looks so much better!! wowww.. but no dual core??
[Nexus S General] waspbr:
Nah, I would think that the delay with froyo had to do with Sammy's work on the SGT, rather than the Nexus S.
[Nexus S General] jaju123:
This will definitely be ported, it might even not require a port if it uses odin. I can't wait, we might have it in less than 10 days if samfirmware get their hands on it.
[Nexus S General] Croak:
No. It will fail on Bell or Telus HSPA, it won't even work for voice. It will work voice and EDGE only with Rogers/Fido. Wind/Mobilcity will support it, inside their microscopic zones.

I'm pretty sure they'll do what they did with the Nexus One, which is to give T-Mobile a month or so of "exclusivity" in North America, then roll out a 850/1900 HSPA version.