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Google Nexus S – Preview

With Android numbers skyrocketing in every major network, Google has announced its second phone Nexus S this time manufactured by Samsung. The phone (GSM) will be sold unlocked  and can be used it with any network. The phone will be sold through Bestbuy with either a TMobile Contract or unlocked. The phone is expected to be sold at $550 unlocked or 149$ with a new or upgrade  2 year contract.

Nexus S looks promising, with Samsung as its manufacturer and a impressive hardware Resume to bolster the new Android Gingerbread OS (Android 2.3).  Nexus S runs on the 1 GHz 1GHz Cortex A8 ( HummingBird ) Processor with 16GB iNAND memory inbuilt. It has Gorgeous 4 inch AMOLED screen,  The camera is 5 MP with autofocus and flash, with 720p Video capture capable.

As you would expect has a full array of Google Products, and can act as a WiFi Hotspot allowing upto 5 devices to connect to it freely. Nexus S comes with Google Maps 5.0 Beta boasting 3D maps. Also the Nexus S supports Near Field Communication (NFC).

The phone also has 6.7 hours talktime on 3G and 14 hours on 2G. There is certainly lots of excitement about the Nexus S,  unlike Nexus One which failed to take off like other Android phones, this can be a big boost to Google in the hardware space ahead of its Chrome OS launch.

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Blackberry sales slumps @ Verizon Wireless

Blackberry sales have slumped at Verizon Wireless as huge percent of  Verizon’s smart phone sales are the phones with Android OS and the rest are the phones with Palm OS.

Analysts have found that this is due to the failure of Curve 3G which is a slim phone with Wi-Fi, 2 mega pixel camera, GPS, external media keys, optical trackpad, and etc to replace its older Curve 8530 version. Also Blackberry is facing a low sales level in its Tour/Bold series.

And as for this season most of the buyers are awaiting for iPhone and 4G LTE phones.

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Google Zeitgeist – Search trends for 2010

Google Zeitgeist is a good  indicator of the popular trends, whos hot and whos not of tech and entertainment world.

Apple iPad tops the world’s search for products , closely followed iPhone 4. Nokia’s 5530 comes third followed by HTC EVO 4G and Nokia N900.

Chatroulette a site for a dynamic chat , matching partners by facial features was the surprise search term to top the Global fastest rising searches followed by iPad.  Justin Bieber tops the entertainment hot list followed by Shakira and Eminem, netflix is also seen on the rise with Blockbuster going down the drain. Lady Gaga finds fifth spot in the Global hot list.

In India  Nokia , Samsung , Airtel , Micromax , Dell followed by Maruti. Apple occupies 8th in the list of top brand. Aruna shields , Sonakshi sinha , Zarine khan form the hot list (Popular people)  followed by Zarine Khan and Lalit Modi (???). Kites was No1 followed by Endhiran and Debang in movies,  Facebook has seen a steady rise in the websites ,  But irctc was the top searched site.

In US Justin Bieber was No1 followed by Kesha , Wiz Khalifa and Nick Minaj. IPad , Chatroulette and iPhone occupy top spots in the top rising searches.