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as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

. Here I write about many things. In the past I wrote about other things but the past is past. I write code for people to play with, I write about my life on Twitter, and I write here.

On I wrote First steps with a Nexus S, on the subject of phones, mobile, Google, and Ubuntu One.

Christmas Eve: go out with friends, drink a beer or three, walk out of the pub, slip over on ice, severely bruise leg, severely jar back, limp very slowly home.

Christmas Day morning: realise that my phone, my lovely Nexus One, isn't working, and that this is because the internal screen is smashed beyond recognition: the cracks in it look like a hundred spiderwebs all on top of one another.

No phone. No connection to the internet. This is not good.

There's only one thing for it! Go out and buy a Nexus S!

Said Nexus S is now charging for the first time. Are you supposed to use a phone while it's on its Big First Charge? I'm never sure. Anyway, while that's happening: in the box is a charger (phone charges on standard micro USB), a standard micro USB to USB lead, and a set of headphones. Interestingly, there is no manual. This is a good sign -- no-one ever reads the manual anyway. There's a transparent sticker on the back of the phone showing how to take the back cover off so you can put the battery in, which is the only thing I ever use the manual for. Good work Nexus people on saving paper.

Aside: should I be thanking Google or Samsung for this?

The headphones are a little nicer than the ones that came with my Nexus One -- they have soft ear cups, rather than the hard plastic -- but also a bit less nice in that they appear to have only one button on the wire (what's that? Play? Is there no "skip to next track"?). Doubtless I shall find out once I try using them.

The charger is rather nice; it's small, unlike most phone chargers which are massive. It's actually smaller than a standard UK plug. I am all in favour of this, I have to say.

It feels nice in my hand. Lighter than the Nexus One.

Right, the hell with this, I'm turning it on. I don't care about battery charge memory, I want to play with it.

Holy crap that started quick. I'm used to the N1's take-a-minute-to-boot thing.

Aaahhhhhh, my phone back. Hooray hooray. I shall teach it about my wifi network, Google, and Ubuntu One to get all my data back, and then we're good. Hooray.

Giacomo

I was under the impression that the Big First Charge is now a urban myth, as newer batteries don't really need it (which is why it's not mentioned in manuals anymore).

Robert

The Nexus One did not come with a manual, so I think is a Google packaging rule

Sumana Harihareswara

Link for further explanation: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2009/12/19/0

David Nielsen

You should thank Google. I just bought a Galaxy S (no Nexus S in Denmark and no cellco is intending on bringing it) and it had no such helpful hints. Also it uses a Windows only application to flash the device, the app (Samsung Kies) is notoriously buggy and has so far failed to get my phone upgraded from 2.1 to 2.2.

Regardless please do keep blogging on the device and how it works with Ubuntu.

Zach Goldberg

I am also a Nexus S owner -- have had one for a couple of weeks now. I wanted to just comment on one thing, specifically related to the comment above mine: The Nexus S does *NOT* work with Ubuntu. For that matter, it does *NOT* work with Mac OS, or Windows either. Since buying and using my Nx-S I have not had to attach it to any computer of any kind, ever. It can do everything it needs to via the cloud or just over a network. Sharing files? Bluetooth transfer or wifi scp. Firmware updates? OTA. Installing apps? Online Market. Backing up contacts/PIM data? Google cloud services. etc. etc.

And I'm going to be honest... I usually am a big fan of controlling my own data and having backups of everything on my own local storage.... but I could get used to this.

arpia49

Double clic skips the current song ;)

Enjoy your phone.

Rodney Dawes

I bet the button is multifunctional. If only you had a manual to figure out what different press sequences did with it.

They're probably the same as the iPod/iPhone remote thingy btw.

Also, your site needs some serious fixing with the whole font sizes and such. It just looks insane for me.

Eugenia

I've had the Nexus S for a few days now. Make sure you buy a case for it: it's slippery as hell. It has already fallen down in concrete twice for me. My Nexus One never slipped me.

jorge

LMK how the battery life is -- even a marginal improvement over the N1 would be welcome.

Eugenia

Jorge, I'd say that battery life is worse than in the Nexus One. For the kind of usage I do, my phone needs recharging every day, with N1 needed every 1.5 days or so.

sil

First impressions: battery life is not good. At all. More soon.

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