Hope Samsung puts an LED Flash in Nexus Two

Gizmodo reports that they spoke to their source who saw the Google Nexus Two in action. If you want to be read about what's going down on November 8, read this first. In a nutshell, Google has chosen Samsung as its successor to the Nexus brand of benchmark hardware that is certified to run Android in full capacity. The first iteration, the Nexus One, was manufactured by HTC. Anyway, so Gizmodo's tipster said it is very similar to Samsung's immensely popular Galaxy S smartphone.

First and foremost, this entire debate is contrary to what Google's own Eric Schmidt has stated, when he showed his level of satisfaction with the Nexus One and said he was not interested in making a successor. One stated reason for the upgrade is the secondary video-call camera that the Nexus Two will have, which the Nexus One did not. The presence of this hardware is essential for Android 3.0 Gingerbread's video-chat feature - that reportedly works on the same protocol as Google Talk's web-based video chat client.

What that means in English is, it should be possible for you to video-call anybody on a PC too, and not just another Android phone. That trumps Apple's FaceTime, which works only within the Apple ecosystem as of now (i.e. Mac, iPhone 4 or 4th gen iPod Touch). Another reason for the switch to the Galaxy S based hardware, other than the Super AMOLED screen that makes you feel like you're on acid every time you look at it - its Hummingbird chip has three times the graphics processing power of the Snapdragon that powers the Nexus One.

But one thing that we absolutely missed on the original Galaxy S was the LED flash. Let's pray to all our Gods that Google puts that damn bulb in the Nexus Two this time.

Via : techtree

Nexus Two allegedly spotted in the wild. But is Google really readying a new phone?

This morning, Gizmodo – the same tech blog that published photographs of the iPhone 4, long before the it shelves – released a report on what it said was the latest Google handset. The Samsung-built phone, which Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan identified as the "Nexus Two," will apparently ship with a forward-facing camera and a 4-inch AMOLED screen similar to the one on the Samsung Galaxy series.

A couple of hours later, analyst Sascha Segan took to PC Mag to refute the Gizmodo rumor: Google is readying a replacement for the Nexus One, Segan confirmed. But after calling around to his "own set of shadowy, unnamed sources," Segan learned the phone "may not be called Nexus Two," and it may not be revealed by Google for quite some time.

"Excitement about the 'Nexus Two' comes in part from geeks who hope the phone will ship with 'stock Android,' which is Google's default build with no carrier or manufacturer extensions," Segan wrote. "An added frisson comes from the speculative idea that it will be the first phone with the next version of Android, known as Gingerbread."

The first Google phone, the Nexus One, was built by HTC, and released in January. The phone received a warm reception from critics, but Google reportedly sold only 135,000 Nexus One handsets in the first 74 days the phone was available – not enough to qualify it for iPhone-foil status. In May, Google began offering the Nexus One – which was previously available exclusively online – in selected retail outlets, in an attempt to gin up interest in the phone.

Via : csmonitor