Nexus S Teardown

Nearly one year after the release of the Nexus One, Google, in partnership with Samsung, has released its second official phone the Nexus S. It has some fancy gimmicks - whoops - features such as a curved display and 2.3 Gingerbread. "That's great and everything, but we wanted to see what makes this baby tick", the guys from iFixit shout. The Nexus S is a variation of the Samsung Galaxy S, sporting more or less the same hardware specifications as its brethren. Notable changes to the Galaxy S include NFC (Near Field Communication) support and a Super AMOLED Contour Display. © iFixit / Tech Specs: - 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 Hummingbird Multimedia Applications Processor based on the ARMv7 architecture. - 16 GB internal storage capacity - 512 MB total RAM - 5 MP rear-facing camera and a VGA (640x480) front-facing camera. - Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Big players on the motherboard include: - Skyworks SKY77529 Tx Front-End Module for Dual-Band GSM / GPRS / EDGE - SanDisk SDIN4C2 16GB MLC NAND flash. - Samsung KB100D00WM-A453 memory package and S5PC110A01 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird Processor. - Infineon 8824 XG616 X-Gold baseband processor - Wolfson Microelectronics WM8994 ultra-low power audio codec. - Hidden underneath an EMI cover is the Broadcom Wi-Fi chip. (The chip reads: BCM4329GKUBG TE1043 P21) "That's great and everything, but we wanted to see way more." Well have a look here at iFixit.