apatkinson

At first peek of this old TV style off animation long before gingerbread was released I thought it was quirky and cool, and couldn’t wait to use it.

Anyway a long while passed until it was finally pushed to my nexus one OTA
After the first few off and ons I thought it was cool but it might get annoying as the screen turns off it catches your eye, However after a while it grew on me and i think it would be strange and boring if a phone turned off without this cool little animation.

I wanted to know how it worked, what exactly happened to the little android screen when you pressed the off button. I looked around on youtube and nothing was found, so I threw a video together, and here it is:

I got my new(old) nexus one and initial impresssions are thhst it is a lot better than the nexus one I has with 2.1. It does not have the famous android lag that occasionally stutters and blips your enjoyment of the great os. (more…)

With dual core phones coming in early 2011 and the iphone likely to follow in summer of 2011 I believe the Nexus S has missed the boat massively. Comparing it to the Nexus one it is very similar speed and has a NFC chip in it. That’s basically it. there is no point in upgrading really. I think Google should have waited and released a new phone along with the Motorola tablet that they will be releasing in possibly march. This way they could have released a phone which was a ground breaker with a dual core cpu. As I am so disappointed in the Nexus S, I have bought a second hand Nexus one for reasons i will tell you.
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