Depends what your development strategy is, but the Nexus S is the most powerful phone running Android out there, running a version of Android that no other consumer phone is running.
It is so bleeding edge it is barely even a "consumer" edition phone. Therefore, I don't really see it as a good candidate for building + testing apps on if you want something reflective of your target user.
From personal experience, Android phones are never that much of a "long-term" investment. Your phone will be pretty common place within 2-3 months, and will be far exceeded by better phones in around six months :)
The biggest difference between Nexus S and Galaxy S is that Google is responsible for updating the software on the Nexus, and Samsung and the carriers are responsible for updating the software on the Galaxy. This is a massive difference, IMO, and swamps the minor differences, like NFC and the curved screen.
You are of course right in 99% of the comparisons, but that curved screen + Gingerbread make me completely overlook that they're otherwise the exact same hardware.
No, there's more differences: the Nexus S has the NFC hardware, and has no microSD slot, just double the onboard flash memory (16GB) the Galaxy S has (8GB) .
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I have just ordered the new Nexus S for development work but the Samsung Galaxy S looks the part as well.
Depends what your development strategy is, but the Nexus S is the most powerful phone running Android out there, running a version of Android that no other consumer phone is running.
It is so bleeding edge it is barely even a "consumer" edition phone. Therefore, I don't really see it as a good candidate for building + testing apps on if you want something reflective of your target user.
It's more of a long term investment
From personal experience, Android phones are never that much of a "long-term" investment. Your phone will be pretty common place within 2-3 months, and will be far exceeded by better phones in around six months :)
I'm pretty sure the Nexus S -is- a Galaxy S.
Nexus S, Vibrant, etc are all just the individual versions of the Galaxy S class of phones.
The biggest difference between Nexus S and Galaxy S is that Google is responsible for updating the software on the Nexus, and Samsung and the carriers are responsible for updating the software on the Galaxy. This is a massive difference, IMO, and swamps the minor differences, like NFC and the curved screen.
Is there a price difference?
All the different Galaxy S phones have slightly different features and prices.
You are of course right in 99% of the comparisons, but that curved screen + Gingerbread make me completely overlook that they're otherwise the exact same hardware.
does the Galaxy S have NFC hardware in it?
No, there's more differences: the Nexus S has the NFC hardware, and has no microSD slot, just double the onboard flash memory (16GB) the Galaxy S has (8GB) .
??? 8gb? Mate my galaxy s had got 16gb AND an 8gb microsd card in it
How/where did you order it?