May 12, 2011 By

Google Nexus S for less than £320

This is one of the best specification smartphones on the market and you can now pick it up for £320!

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This fantastic smartphone, manufactured by Samsung is Google branded and is as pure Android as it can be.

The difference?  This version has an S-LCD display instead of an AMOLED screen and this leaves a price difference of £118 when you include VAT.  AMOLED is usually argued to be slightly better, but when you are talking about £118 that is a big difference!

Key features of the Nexus S

  • Google Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
  • Quad-Band GSM/GPRS
  • Tri-Band 3G/HSPA
  • WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
  • 4.0″ WVGA S-LCD Capacitive Screen
  • 16GB on board memory
  • 5 Megapixel rear facing camera
  • Front facing VGA camera for video calls
  • 1500mAh battery

For more information or to order yours CLICK HERE

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March 22, 2011 By

Google Nexus S Price Drop

Have you been thinking of getting a SIM Free Google Nexus S?  Thought the price was a little high?

Just a quick note to say our price has today dropped to £359 + VAT per unit as opposed to £383 + VAT.  It is not the biggest saving, but a saving none the less. 

The units are in stock and available for immediate dispatch. For more information, CLICK HERE.

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March 17, 2011 By

Web browsing of uppermost importance to you on your smartphone? Better avoid iPhone then

Android's Browser Is Way Faster Than Safari on the iPhone

This news comes courtesy of Gizmodo and it may come as a bit of a painful read to Apple/iPhone fanboys.

After a massive 45,000 tests, Blaze Software conclude that the Android web browser came out as loading web pages on an average of 1.1 seconds faster than Safari on the iPhone.

Android was too consistently faster than the iPhone beating the iPhone 84% of the time on the speed at which it loaded a page.

This test was completed using an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.3 and a Google Nexus S with Android 2.3 and performed over WiFi.

For more details check out the Blaze blog.

Source: Gizmodo via Shen Ye

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February 21, 2011 By

Google Nexus S Unboxed

We have been selling the SIM FREE Google Nexus S for some time now, and Matt at www.tracyandmatt.co.uk has now undertaken one of his famous unboxing videos.

You can take a look below.

For more information on the Google Nexus S click HERE.

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February 21, 2011 By

Smartphones making way for the Superphone?

imageAn article last week at IOLscitech highlighted how the smartphone is the way forward.  No longer is a mobile phone enough, the smartphone is the future.

Key points of the article include:

More smartphones were sold than computers in the last quarter for the first time ever

Mobile makers shipped more than 100 million smartphones in Q4

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt told delegates at the conference on Tuesday: “Smartphones surpassed PC sales last week. PCs are not catching up. Smartphones are the future of games, productivity, apps, everything we think about. You have the phone (as) the new PC, if you will.

Interesting it was, but all I could think about was the idea that with the smartphone becoming more common, a new era of phone is upon us, the Superphone.

Now this class of phone has been commented on before, and I was first introduced to it in a meeting with HTC about 12 months ago, but now I see it it actually becoming true rather than just a marketing imitative.

The more technically aware consumers no longer want a smartphone because now even your mum has one, you want or need the Superphone that can do things a smartphone can’t.

What makes a phone a superphone and not a smartphone?

For me (and having done a dissertation on smartphones) the Superphone is a device that has a technology that is at the cutting edge, in its infancy and not anywhere near being adopted by all.

To date I think the following could be within this category:

  • Google Nexus S – Due to it’s NFC abilities
  • LG Optimus 2x – With it’s dual core processor
  • Samsung Galaxy S II i9100 – With its dual core processor and NFC
  • Motorola Atrix

What are your thoughts?

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