[Nexus S General] unremarked:
So I mentioned the two things I didn't like about the phone, so now I'm going to point out the things that I did. Yes, I'm fail for not doing this in the first post. :(

Also before I get called out as some kind of Samsung fanboy or something check my sig. :P This is my first Samsung device. Ever, actually. I think my DVD player is Samsung. Does that count?

Likes:

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SAMOLED.

When I first got my MT4G, there were a number of posters on those forums who were thinking about coming from the Vibrant but wasn't sure if they could give up its screen. I really didn't get it at that time and now I do.

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Perfect Size.

4" is the sweet spot for me. 3.7" always felt small, and every time I saw a 4.3" phone all I could think was "Damn, that's a lot of phone." I've never been able to type portrait because it was fairly uncomfortable for me, but on the NS, I'm able to with comfort and ease. :)

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Data Speeds.

Are they as fast as HSPA+? No, not reallly. I'm getting around 2-4mbs here in Dallas, which is actually nearly the same as what I was getting on the MT4G. Never quite explained that one. My Nexus One, for comparison, was lucky to get over 1mbs and the G2 was getting 4-6mbs. I find 2-4mbs to be perfectly acceptable for what I use the phone for. I'm going to throw the GPS in here too and just mention that I've had nearly zero issues. I say nearly zero because yesterday my GPS couldn't get a lock for the life of me inside my office, but here in my apartment with wifi/agps turned off, it locks immediately. The distance between my office and my apartment is about... oh... 300meters? How's that for commuting? :D

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Build Quality.

"But wait, the phone is made out of plastic!" Yes, this is true. But I'm not one to equate heavy and made up of every piece of material in the warehouse(looking at you, MT4G) with build quality or an expensive feeling. With the G2, it was uncomfortable for me to hold the phone to my ear for long periods of time. So much so that I used the speaker phone quite a bit for business conversations I knew would last a while. Maybe I need to hit the gym, I dunno, LOL. That being said, I've dropped the NS twice from a normal desk height without any damage whatsoever. I don't feel like this device is cheap or like a toy at all. I'll take slim, light, and sexy over fat and heavy any day. I will admit I miss my Nexus One's trackball, but only as a notification light. GB has a great text selection/movement method.

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Battery Life.

It's exceptional, imo. I'm one of the people who do the "calibration" thing where you charge the phone to 100%, discharge to 0%, turn it on, let it turn off, then charge to 100%. It may just be perception and in actuality completely unnecessary, but I've always found it to make a difference to me on all my phones. It took a long time to kill the battery phone this phone. I had the screen brightness turned up to 100%, set to never turn the screen off, Pandora streaming, GPS on, Bluetooth on, Wifi on, with Maps/Navigation running in the background and providing a nearly solid white screen(since blacks are power savings on SAMOLED). I started this procedure at around 10:30PM and it wasn't until 7:00AM that the phone was finally dead. Now granted, it does take a long time to charge as well.

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Speaker/Camera.

The speaker on this phone is great. I can hear someone on the speaker phone from across the room, into the bedroom, and into the bathroom if necessary. On the G2 and the MT4G, I was lucky if I could hear them from my desk to the couch just a few feet away. Playing music through it also sounds pretty good to my non-audiophile ears. Obviously an actual speaker system will sound better, but I don't think it's bad at all for a cell phone. I haven't used the camera very much, but what few pictures I have taken are very clear and crisp. I do miss having a dedicated camera key, as using the virtual one sometimes causes my pictures to come out blurry from me moving around. I think this could be fixed if Google moved the camera button from the bottom left, to the top left. Swap the gallery button with the shutter, imo. I haven't used the FFC at all, and folks have reported that most of the video chat programs don't recognize the Nexus S yet which is a bit annoying, but should be fixed in updates.

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Gingerbread.

A relatively minor like since we all know that GB will come to other Android devices either through Google themselves or through the excellent work by the devs here on XDA. This is a great revision to the platform, and I dig nearly all of the changes. Especially the new keyboard. I couldn't stand the old keyboard and it was one of the first things I replaced as soon as I could. Reviewers and bloggers are torn about the keyboard, and are miffed about the fact that there's no comma on the default screen. But if they spent two seconds in the keyboard's settings, they'd see they can swap the Mic button for a comma very easily. On the topic of OEM's layovers or UIs, I don't care for them like most folks here. I like Sense. I think Sense has some great widgets and some cool features that should be incorporated into the whole of Android(like their Dialer, and the easier Facebook linking). However, stock Android without carrier apps or those layovers runs so much smoother, imo.

I don't really know what to call it, because I'm not really that tech savvy. On previous Android devices, if you watched your memory usage like I do, then you'll know what I'm talking about. Taskillers are, admittedly, completely unnecessary on most devices these days but I still run one because I like to. I don't have it set to autokill or anything crazy like that, but I do like to see how much memory I have avaliable and what's running in the background as well as the ability to kill it very quickly. Froyo, and the versions before it, never seemed to recover memory very well after killing all running programs(besides those that couldn't be killed or immediately relaunched, which I had taskiller set to ignore). So for instance, let's say we had 300 memory avaliable at boot. Run a few programs, it's down to 250 and you taskill. Now it's up to 270. wait a little while longer and run a few more programs then do it again. Maximum is down to 230. And it continues to do this until the phone settles in at around 200mb of memory avaliable. Gingerbread seems to reclaim memory in a much better way. I've gotten it down to around ~50mb of memory, taskilled, and it goes right back up to the 230ish available right after boot.

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Hackability.

Another relatively minor thing since most phones do get rooted one way or another. I'm glad to see that Google inculded fastboot oem unlock on this device, and thrilled to be able to relock it. I hope that the NS is a success and more OEMs will allow this time of end user customization. Also it makes it quite easy to sell, when the time comes to replace this phone. Some deroot/return to stock methods are easier than others.

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Futureproofing.

This is more of a conjecture bit than an actual like of the phone. Should Google have held off and launched this with a dual-core processor? No, imo. Dual-core is going to be pretty sweet, but it's going to take quite some time before apps or the operating system itself to fully utilize it's capabilities. Admittedly if a dual-core, stock Android, SAMOLED-equipped(or better) phone comes out within the next year, I'll probably grab it. Am I disappointed that the NS wasn't a revolution in the way the N1 was? Yeah. I was hoping that the NS would signal the start of the next generation of cell phones, but instead it just seemed to take what some consider to be the best of this current generation and refine it into one sexy device.

TL;DR version: Best phone I've had yet thus far. Out of curiosity for the people who claim that the NS's price is keeping them from buying it, I have to ask: What are you doing with your old phone? Lol. I sold my G2 on craigslist for $300 and paid 579(after taxes) for the NS. So I only had the difference come out of my pocket.