Google CEO Eric Schmidt showed off the Google Nexus S during the Web 2.0 summit, which is running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). He also announced that Gingerbread would be out in a few weeks’ time. The Nexus S is very thin, comparable to iPhone 4. There’s an odd concave profile due to it being thinner in the middle than at either end. Might be good to grab for the palm, who knows? There’s a glossy plastic bezel up front housing an AMOLED screen, a pair of discrete volume buttons on the left side, and a black plastic back which Engadget claimed to be “textured similarly to the BlackBerry Bold, though patchier,” which seemed too roughly manufactured to be anything but a prototype. That’s why it’s also plastically black. A very important note is that Gingerbread will have a very special shut down effect, as when Schmidt shows off the Nexus S to Engadget, he turns it off, and the image winked out like an old CRT TV, similar to what the video below shows.

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