White Nexus S confirmed to be ‘coming soon’ to Vodafone

We heard last month when we got our first glimpse of a white Nexus S that it might be headed to Vodafone, and that’s now finally been confirmed by Vodafone itself. Details are still pretty light beyond that, but Vodafone says that the phone is “coming soon,” and that it will be the only carrier to offer the phone in white — in the UK, at least.

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White Nexus S confirmed to be ‘coming soon’ to Vodafone originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Android in-app purchases hands-on (video)

Today Google announced that Android in-app purchases are coming to the platform and we were able to get a demo by Paul Sebastien of Disney. He showed us how to buy a track pack (Far East Movement, for those who care) in Tap Tap Revenge 4 over 3G on a Nexus S, and using a fake credit card! It’s interesting to note that the in-app purchase UI matches the look and feel of the new Android Market and developers can implement the functionality in a few simple steps. In-app purchases should start rolling out in various Android apps this spring. In the meantime, take a look at our video after the break.

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Android in-app purchases hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Stanford researchers demo social NFC applications on the Nexus S

To hear most mobile companies tell it these days, you’d think that NFC (or near field communications) is only for mobile payments. That’s not the case at all, of course, and a group of researchers at Stanford’s MobiSocial lab have now thrown a few new ideas of their own onto the table after getting a pair of Nexus S phones to play with. After first making a few tweaks to overcome some of Gingerbread’s limitations — it only uses NFC for reading tags — they were able to develop a few social-minded applications that make use of the P2P functionality possible with NFC. That includes one example that lets you share photos simply by pressing two phones together, and a second that lets two phones share an application — collaborative whiteboard, in this case. Unfortunately, those aforementioned tweaks to Android mean you can try out the apps yourself just yet, but the researchers are hopeful that similar applications will eventually be supported by Android and other platforms. Head on past the break to check them out on video.

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Stanford researchers demo social NFC applications on the Nexus S originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nexus S coming in a new AT&T flavor?

Up in Canada, Mobilicity’s CEO made an odd comment recently that Bell, Telus, and Rogers will all be getting the Nexus S around the same time that his carrier does in March. Why is that odd? Well, as it stands, no variant of the Nexus S supports the 850 / 1900MHz WCDMA that would be necessary to run (at high speed, anyway) on those three networks. Circle back around to the Bluetooth SIG, where PocketNow has discovered an entry for a GT-i9020A; you might recall that the European version of the device is the i9020, while T-Mobile’s AWS-compatible build is the i9020T, with “T” ostensibly standing for “T-Mobile.” By extension, it’s definitely conceivable that the “A” here is for “AT&T” — which, again, would line up with the Mobilicity exec’s verbiage. If this is true, it’s theoretically possible that we could see AT&T and its similarly-equipped Canadian cousins get their own Nexus S as soon as five-odd weeks from now. Like the Nexus One before it, we’ve got a hard time picturing AT&T officially subsidizing this thing — but hey, an unlocked full-price version is a solid start, we’d say.

Nexus S coming in a new AT&T flavor? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nexus S emerges in white attire, but it only covers its rear

Staying true to its Galaxy S forefather, the Nexus S has shown up with a new white shell, which, just as with the Galaxy S, only extends to its rear portions, leaving the front end a familiar shade of noir. Just what’s keeping manufacturers from blanching their phones’ visage, we don’t know, but at least it’s looking like there’ll be some variation in the Nexus S’ palette. We did notice a “Silver Black” Nexus S sprouting up in European retailers’ listings a couple of weeks ago, which this could well be — it all depends on how loosely these companies define the word “silver.” There’s no knowledge on when or where this chromatically altered S will be on sale, but you’ll know more as soon as we do.

Update: First picture from the wilderness of the white back is now embedded after the break. The Next Web suggests Vodafone may be the European carrier for this particular version of the handset.

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Nexus S emerges in white attire, but it only covers its rear originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nexus S OTA 2.3.2 update rolling out now, your SMS relations will thank you

Embarrassing SMS misdirect bug on your Android device? Nexus S owners should start checking their phones now for an over-the-air update that’s supposed to fix the problem. It’s being rolled out gradually, so just be patient if it’s not there yet. How will we know the problem’s gone for good? We’ll just assume so until we find out otherwise, in some unfortunate manner.

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Nexus S OTA 2.3.2 update rolling out now, your SMS relations will thank you originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nexus S comes to Canada courtesy of Mobilicity (and maybe Bell, Telus, and Rogers, too)

Canadians, you must chafe under the yoke of a Gingerbread-free existence no longer, for the Nexus S is coming to the Great White North sometime in March. According to Mobilicity CEO Dave Dobbin, the handset will be available on the company’s AWS band, but he also said that Bell, Telus, and Rogers will carry the Nexus S as well. If true, that means Samsung will be providing another model of the phone with support for WCDMA 850 / 1900 for it to work with Canada’s big three wireless providers. We can only hope that’s the case, as said model would be usable on AT&T’s network — making an awful lot of us living south of Canada quite happy. Peep the video after the break to hear the good news for yourself.

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Nexus S comes to Canada courtesy of Mobilicity (and maybe Bell, Telus, and Rogers, too) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung GT-i9023 hits FCC: a new version of the Nexus S with Android 2.4?

FCC filings have a curious tendency to launch us into far-reaching bouts of speculation, but hear us out — we think we’re onto something here. A Samsung phone with model number GT-i9023 just passed the FCC with AWS 3G — T-Mobile’s band. If the outline of the device above looks familiar, it should; it looks exactly like the Nexus S, which happens to have a suspiciously similar model number of GT-i9020.

Here’s where it gets interesting, though: German site BestBoyZ just reported a video of a Nexus S in the wild a few days ago that claimed to be running the rumored Android 2.4 release, and the baseband version in the About screen included the text “i9023.” This new model number also just very recently received both Wi-Fi Alliance and Bluetooth SIG certification, though there’s nothing particularly interesting in those filings. Oh, and one other random tidbit: a number of European retailers are listing the i9023 already as a “Black Silver” Nexus S, so it’s possible that this will simply be a new color scheme — but would that really necessitate a new FCC filing and model number? It’s also conceivable that Samsung is taking the occasion of 2.4’s release as an opportunity to tweak the Nexus S a bit — maybe add HSPA+ for T-Mobile, something to that effect — but at this point, it’s pure speculation on our part. Feel free to drop your conspiracy theories in comments, and while you’re at it, check out BestBoyZ‘s video after the break.

Note: The Vibrant 4G is a good thought, but this device seems too rounded — it matches up perfectly with the Nexus S.

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Samsung GT-i9023 hits FCC: a new version of the Nexus S with Android 2.4? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nexus S receives MeeGo and Ubuntu ports, makes our nerd senses tingle (video)

You’ve got to hand it to the Nexus S. In spite of being a souped-up smartphone, it’s still unpretentious enough to accept power from a BlackBerry microUSB cable and easy enough to hack that it’s just received not one, but two OS ports. MeeGo, in its very raw and unfinished form, has been dropped onto the phone’s internal memory without the need for any flashing, and the method has also been successfully used to install Ubuntu on the current Google flagship. There’s very little that’s actually functional about the MeeGo install at the moment, but the ball has begun rolling and there’s a resulting question that’s occupying our minds right now — will the Nexus S have a perfectly hacked copy of MeeGo before or after Nokia releases its device for the platform? Answers on a postcard.

[Thanks, Michelle and Brad]

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Nexus S receives MeeGo and Ubuntu ports, makes our nerd senses tingle (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nexus S overclocked to 1.2GHz, runs too damn fast for its Bluetooth to work

Even at its default 1GHz speed, Samsung’s Hummingbird is one of the finest mobile processor around, but are you really going to complain about getting the option to crank an extra 200 milion clock cycles out of it? Morfic over on the xda-developers forums has delivered a kernel permitting Nexus S owners to achieve just that, although he still has to fix an issue that disables the phone’s Bluetooth capabilities.Still, if you value ludicrous speed over wireless peripherals, the source link is your friend.

Nexus S overclocked to 1.2GHz, runs too damn fast for its Bluetooth to work originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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