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Zorachus · 05-11-2011, 09:05 AM

also coming from an EVO, having a very hard time adjusting to stock vanilla Android over Sense UI from HTC on the EVO.

The E-mail client ...dialer ...contacts ...calendar ...totally blow compared to the EVO. These apps on the Nexus feels like from Android 1.5 or something from 3 years ago.

The screen on my Nexus does not seem as good as my many friends who have the T-Mobile Vibrant which is supposed to use exact same tech?

Outdoors this phone screen tougher to see than my EVO.

But I do like tgr thinner and lightweight feel to this phone. my evo felt like a heavy brick sometimes in my pocket. and the battery life is better on tgr nexus compared to evo but not night and day just a little better.

I am still on the fence on keeping this phone. need few more days to decide.

bouche123 · 05-11-2011, 10:20 PM

The Nexus S 4g is my first smart phone, but I have been learning about android since Eclair was new. I did not want to buy a smart phone until it had everything that I wanted and the first phone that did that is the Nexus S. The first thing thing that most people will notice is the screen. The Super AMOLED screen is very sharp and vivid. My battery has been holding up well under heavy use for 8 -10 hours without turning off all of wifi, bluetooth, 4g, etc. While it does not have a new dual core processor I have not seen it get laggy yet. The best part for me is the vanilla android that I can customize or keep as bare as I want without having to wait for updates. So far I have not found anything to complain about yet.

cretz42 · 05-14-2011, 12:34 AM

I got my Nexus S this afternoon and have been getting accustomed to the Android OS, having switched from a BlackBerry which I used for years. I am loving it so far and will see what my battery life is really like in the next couple of days.

kalex1114 · 05-14-2011, 02:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Zorachus

also coming from an EVO, having a very hard time adjusting to stock vanilla Android over Sense UI from HTC on the EVO.

The E-mail client ...dialer ...contacts ...calendar ...totally blow compared to the EVO. These apps on the Nexus feels like from Android 1.5 or something from 3 years ago.

The screen on my Nexus does not seem as good as my many friends who have the T-Mobile Vibrant which is supposed to use exact same tech?

Outdoors this phone screen tougher to see than my EVO.

Beauty of this phone is its a blank slate running latest and greatest from Google. For me the biggest selling point was lack of bloat. Some people do miss it though. I used Hero and then I had evo for a week and I couldn't stand the Sense crap on the phone.

With a bit of research you can replicate most of the sense stuff. There are email clients, dialers, contact apps and calendars available. You can even install HTC keyboard if u like it. I use Jorte for calendar and it works great. For email I use gmail native client and don't have any accounts that are not google.

Screen on my phone is working fine and looks just as good as it did on the evo. Battery life is definitely better than Evo

If you are into Sense UI then you might be better of using Evo and waiting for Evo 3d

cyrus101 · 05-18-2011, 05:22 PM

I'm new to the forums, but just wanted to throw in my two cents. Got the NS4G for about a week now, coming from the Epic 4G. Yes, the lack of a LED notification light is a bit annoying, but NoLED fixed that and to be honest it doesn't really bother me that much. I always turn on the phone to check my messages anyway. The phone does fly, I don't know where you guys are getting lag from. The accelarometer is fast and responsive, unlike the Epic where it sometimes took a bit for it to register. I had one screen freeze when I first installed NoLED, but once I corrected the setting, that went away. Vanilla Android is so much faster than TouchWiz or Sense and the build quality isn't as bad as all the reviews have been. It feels pretty solid in my hand. Obviously not HTC solid, but great for Samsung.

eddieras · 05-18-2011, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by MJ

I would checkout Dolphin Browser Mini or HD or Miren Browser if you are looking for a better alternative. I have used both and like them equally. Huge step up from stock.

i'm using dolphin hd and i like except everytime i exit i get a popup asking if i want to clear history and cache. i've made setting changes to not confirm on exit but i still get the pop up - any ideas?