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The good: The Samsung Nexus S offers a brilliant display, decent call quality and has enough to keep you busy. The operating system Gingerbread offers improved usability and value Android is a welcome change for AT & T.
The bad: The Samsung Nexus S is quite fragile, and lacks a memory card slot and LED notifications. AT & T has added any new features, and data rates were low.
The bottom line: The Samsung Nexus Gingerbread OS S brings much-needed stock of AT & T Android However, eight months after its original debut, the headset feels underpowered and behind the smartphone curve.
Review:
Editor's Note: Since AT & T Samsung Nexus S is almost identical to T-Mobile Nexus S, which will focus primarily on differences in performance for this review. For a complete analysis CNET Nexus S series, including the design and features, see our review of the terminal T-Mobile.
Eight months after it originally went on sale with T-Mobile, the Samsung Nexus S is doing the rounds of carrier to land at AT & T. You will find some differences with their counterparts in the T-Mobile or Sprint, which is a good thing and bad. On the positive side, we continue to appreciate ... Expand full review
Editor's Note: Since AT & T Samsung Nexus S is almost identical to T-Mobile Nexus S, which will focus primarily on differences in performance for this review. For a complete analysis CNET Nexus S series, including the design and features, see our review of the terminal T-Mobile.
Eight months after it originally went on sale with T-Mobile, the Samsung Nexus S is doing the rounds of carrier to land at AT & T. You will find some differences with their counterparts in the T-Mobile or Sprint, which is a good thing and bad. On the positive side, we appreciate the sleek design, bright screen, and the standard version of gingerbread (Android 2. 3), but we are disappointed that AT & T does not offer anything new. We support HSPA + (at least Sprint's 4G phones) and the phone still lacks the LED notification and a slot for memory card. In a vacuum may be right, but compared with the latest devices from AT & T as the HTC Android and 4G Inspire Inspire Samsung 4G, S Nexus not quite to the height.
Design
As part of a set of identical triplets, Nexus AT & TS is different from his brothers. You see the same adjustment profile (4.88 inches by 2.48 inches wide by 0.43 inches deep, 4. 55 oz) with the "contour" design intended to fit the curve of the head. But again, the phone feels very fragile in the hand.
The 4-inch AMOLED screen is super sensitive and less bright, with 16.7 million colors and resolution of 800x480 pixels. You can customize the home screen five at will and adjust the brightness and backlight time. You will also find the same external controls, virtual keyboard and virtual keyboard.
In fact, the stock Gingerbread OS remains one of the main attractions of the phone (see the review of T-Mobile for a full analysis of gingerbread). In particular, as the cut and paste better menu Using the battery, and new features voice input. Moreover, the Android values and the lack of bloatware carrier will appeal to purists.
Features
The feature set is respectable, but we want the Samsung gave us more improvements on the Nexus One and AT & T at least made a little effort to distinguish their Nexus S of the other versions.
Inside you'll find an NFC chip, a 5 megapixel camera, a VGA front handle, access to Google applications, Bluetooth 2.1 (with A2DP), Wi-Fi (802.11 b / g / n), PC synchronization, GPS , USB mass storage, 16 GB of internal memory, messaging and email, full web browser, personal organizer, immobilization USB, and an access point Wi-Fi. As mentioned, however, you have to do without a card slot for external memory and LED notifications.
Performance
We tested the quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) Samsung Nexus S San Francisco world with AT & T service. For the most part, call quality was admirable and detected little static or comments. Voices are not always a natural sound (see below), but we could hear our callers clearly and our friends could not understand some problems. Like his brothers, the volume of S & T AT Nexus was a little lower than we want. There was a problem in most places, but we have had hearing problems in busy public spaces.