[Nexus S General] big_adventure:
I have an iPhone 4 and a Nexus One, and am patiently awaiting my return to the US next Wednesday to open my Nexus S.

I love the iPhone 4 as a camera and games platform, as well as a media consumption tool. iOS seriously kills Android in that respect. It has limitations (specifically, only Apple approved happiness by default - I'm jailbroken, but that means I'm still stuck on 4.1), but it has a better media experience, much better games and a camera / video package that is AT LEAST as good as anything else on the market (not just Android - all phones), and which just works with nearly no screwing around.

The iPhone 4 also SMOKES the Nexus One on battery life. Of course, the I4 also destroys the iPhone 3GS in the same category. I am anxious to see how the NS lasts - the iPhone 4, while I was using it, was the first phone I've used in a long time that was effectively sure to last the entire day for me.

However...

My Nexus One is, roughly, 7.6 million times better than my iPhone as a communications and connectivity tool. I use TONS of Google Talk, as well as some other chat tools. On an iPhone, you basically HAVE to pay 5 (Trillian) or 10 (BeJive) dollars for a chat application to get push messaging. And even once you do, I'd say you get "pinged" less than 25% of the time that someone starts talking with you, and maybe 10% of the time when your browser-based session is also connected and also picks up the chat session. With Android, I get roughly 100% of my chat messages. I use Gmail (both personal and business apps versions) for mail, and the iPhone is just pathetic with this (if you want a controllable notification, you again have to pay a third party for it AND you have to either give them access to your email or forward every message you receive to them, plus the mail application does NOT download the entore mail in the background - even with push on, you have to open the email app and wait for the email to finish loading), while my Nexus usually notifies me before my desktop and the message is always downloaded and waiting for me in the box. On a Nexus, you can pretty easily make it download what you want, when you want, whether you are connected on WiFi or 3G. On an iPhone 4, everything is either limited or blocked completely on 3G. Yes, if you jailbreak, you can pay for an app to eliminate this restriction - but again, that leave you stuck 2 revs behind on software sometimes, AND you have to pay for it. Finally, the Nexus gives you integrated, free WiFi hotspot hosting. On an iPhone, that's going to cost you a jailbreak and 20 ro 30 bucks on top of it, OR you can pay your provider through the nose to use the "sanctioned" version and then only if the PC has iTunes on it. You also can't compare maps and navigation on iOS to Android - Android is as good as or better than anything on iOS, and it's free, with free traffic, free and constantly updated local information, free navigation, etc. Oh, and Maps 5 is awesome. Soooooo much smoother and faster to load, scroll and render. I tested the off-line caching and it works as advertised.

Basically, what this means is that I went back to using my Nexus One as my phone and my iPhone 4 as an iPod+ (better screen, better camera, much better battery, GPS, etc.).

All that, I write before even opening my "S" - so that is all.