Samsung Google Nexus S is available on Flipkart for pre-order and should be shipping in second week of April. The price of this phone is Rs. 27999. Nexus S is launched in the US few weeks earlier. To get it so soon to India does say something about Indian market.
As for the phone, it is a phone from Google which was jointly developed with Samsung. By far it is the best Android phone in the market. Google will send out the future updates immediately and a host other benefits.
Specifications
Nexus S comes with a 4 inch WVGA capacitive Super AMOLED touch screen with 480×800 pixel screen resolution. 1GHz Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) processor, 512 MB RAM and 16 GB flash memory should satisfy any power user. Nexus S is loaded with a 5 megapixel camera and a front-facing VGA camera.
Gingerbread (Android 2.3) is on-board for Nexus S, which brings near field communications to facilitate cash less payments with vendors among other things. Yes it is a 3G phone with Bluetooth, WiFi and USB connectivity. Read more here.
Google Nexus S vs HTC Incredible S
How does the two S’s fare against each other? Looks like HTC Incredible S has an edge over Google Nexus S. Incredible S has a 768 MB RAM and a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera. The cost of Incredible S is slightly less than Nexus S’s Rs. 27999. Incredible S seems to be better bet let me warn you about this. Google Nexus S will be tightly integrated with the Android market place and the updates. There is no new layer like HTC sense. From that perspective, any updates to future OS versions should be a breeze. If you are a hacker at heart, this shouldn’t really be a concern.