My goodness! What would it take to make me trade in my N1?
Definitely not the Nexus S. I am SO disappointed with that phone. Yes, the fact that it has a nice chunk of onboard storage space is nice, but why remove MicroSD functionality? WHY??
Samsung themselves have done themselves a disservice, I think. The internals of the phone are nice enough, but I hate the look and feel - I felt the same about the Galaxy S which I wanted to recommend to friends but couldn't bring myself to just because it felt so cheap in my hand. Certainly didn't match up to the N1's build quality.
My wishlist:
-Must be dev phone - Vanilla Android only for me!
-Minimum spec-setter - my N1 set the bar for hardware in Android phones. The NS did not.
-Dual-core OR separate GPU - I don't think dual-core is essential, and I imagine it sucks up battery juice like nothing else (although new Snapdragon dual-core would be tempting!), but I think to unleash the potential of gaming on Android, a dedicated GPU should be minimum spec.
-Front-facing camera. More of a "would be nice" feature, I think - I can't see myself using it on any kind of regular basis, especially not using UK networks! I'll stick with Skype on my laptop for now.
-More internal memory for storage. Whilst we now have official apps2SD, I still have a TON of apps that don't have that feature enabled. With the market getting more and more biiiiig apps, I find myself having to uninstall apps to free up room so I can download a new app, move the new app to my SD card and then reinstall everything I uninstalled - PROPER hassle.
So, I don't think my wishlist is unreasonable. In fact, I completely expected the Nexus S to be able to deliver these, but alas....
So, when I bought my phone and shelled out