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Where Google Nexus S?
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Ockie
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April was the promised date for the Nexus S by Vodacom. Its May 2nd now & still no Nexus S. How longer are we gonna hav to wait? Vodacom plz answer
It is coming very very soon. I promise. I will post about it in the "Cellular Section" as soon as I have confirmation that it is available and what the deals are.
I ordered one online. The main reason I was disappointed in it was that there is a major problem with my phone regarding the sensitivity of the back button. It often takes several attempts to get it to detect a button press. I have the 9020T model, so this probably won't be an issue with the Vodacom variant, but I've seen many people complaining about the same problem online. I'm still running 2.3.1, because no other update has been available via the OTA updates yet (even though some people are as far along as 2.3.4). Apparently 2.3.4 fixes the back button issue, but I'm yet to see this myself. You can update manually yourself, but I'm not keen to do that.
I had a Galaxy S before and generally speaking, I actually preferred the Galaxy. The Nexus doesn't have gorilla glass, which I didn't realise before. The UI on the Galaxy looks slicker in general. The Nexus does appear to be slightly quicker (judging by frame rates in one of my own apps it's about 10% faster despite almost identical specs), although this doesn't always translate into UI responsiveness.
If the back button issue was fixed, I'd rate the two phones about on a par, but I'd think long and hard before paying extra for a Nexus.
I had a Galaxy S before and generally speaking, I actually preferred the Galaxy. The Nexus doesn't have gorilla glass, which I didn't realise before. The UI on the Galaxy looks slicker in general. The Nexus does appear to be slightly quicker (judging by frame rates in one of my own apps it's about 10% faster despite almost identical specs), although this doesn't always translate into UI responsiveness.
If the back button issue was fixed, I'd rate the two phones about on a par, but I'd think long and hard before paying extra for a Nexus.
Ockie
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To follow up my slightly Nexus-bashing post from earlier in the week, I today got an OTA update to version 2.3.4. It appears to fix the back button issue I mentioned before along with a few other minor issues. Definitely feeling happier about the phone now as the back button problem was a major pain.
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I wouldn't touch it at the moment.. Look at the Galaxy S2, around the same price, and seriously impressive specs 
HawkiesZA
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I wouldn't touch it at the moment.. Look at the Galaxy S2, around the same price, and seriously impressive specs
I agree that the S2 has great specs and the reviews are excellent, what throws it for me is that I know I'm getting support directly from El-Goog, and if that fails Cyanogen will probably be supporting it 2 years after it's outdated. I like the out-of-the-box tweakability/hackability of the Nexus S together with it being on the bleeding edge of Android. That's one of the awesome things about Android, is that we have so much choice and each person can get the phone that suits their needs :-D