Samsung Google Nexus S: Full Review Revealed

On the 6th of December 2010, Google announced to the world their newest handset to take on the might of the Nokias and Apples in the smartphone sector. It is called the Nexus S and it is a much improved version of their original flagship model, the Nexus One. Originally the Nexus One was manufactured by the Taiwanese company HTC but for this new release, Samsung have taken over the reigns and it was officially released for sale on the 16th December in America and 22nd December in the U.K. What has made this model, and the previous One model so special is that although there are a plethora of phones on the market that support the Android operating system, none of them are made by the company that actually designed the OS and none were designed and built to be solely run using this platform.
Moving on from the innovative promotional and sales mistake that was the Nexus One, the Samsung Google Nexus S will be available through a number of outlets and on a variety of service providers depending on which country you live in. The other big news is that the Nexus S showcases Google’s newest incarnation of its highly rated operating system, Android version 2.3, also known as Gingerbread.
Googles Nexus S is a great phone to look at, particularly with features such as its enlarged chin, smooth glossy black finish and the unique Contour Display which is basically a concave curved screen. Some may choose to pick faults with the robustness of the build materials as the casing does feel a little thin, but co-currently that also saves a little weight, which helps with such a wide and tall handset.
Internally the Nexus S comes with the once famed Hummingbird 1Ghz central processing unit, coupled with 512MB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage that is unfortunately not expandable. This specification results in a super fast smartphone with applications loading and performing functions in lighting speed, and barely any conflicts. On top of this there is a gyroscope, a digital compass and an accelerometer inside the device, plus the standard Bluetooth, WiFi and a five megapixel camera.
To summarize, the Samsung Google Nexus S is a vast improvement over the already relatively successful Nexus One. The new operating system that is incorporated into this handset has some very exiting new features whilst also managing to address many of the problems that plagued the Nexus One. At the moment it may seem that there is always a new Android based smart phone released that is better than the last but the Nexus S is something that stands out from the crowd.

source. http://24hournewsdesk.com/mobiletechnology/samsung-google-nexus-s-full-review-revealed/232954/

Winter birdwatching in the Big Apple

“Is that the murder scene?” the woman beside me asked in hushed tones.

The snowy landscape couldn’t have looked more pristine. “It was just like something out of CSI,” she and I were told. “We found blood and bones.”

A killing in the New York Botanical Garden? The victim was a cooper’s hawk, and the assailant a great-horned owl. They had clashed fatally on this spot about three years ago, leaving feathers and a gory mess, a battle that Debbie Becker, the garden naturalist addressing us, had just reconstructed.
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This anecdote formed part of my introduction to New York winter bird-watching, a pastime as warmly rewarding (despite such potential predatory dramas) as the atmosphere is cold. Bird-watching in spring often resembles hide-and-seek amid the greenery. But viewing birds among leafless branches is like watching your favourite actors perform soliloquies on a bare stage. And there’s nothing like glimpsing a male cardinal or blue jay against the snow.

The season also brings visiting species. “Wintertime is owl time,” Ms. Becker said. “The ground up north is frozen, and they can’t see or hear their prey, so they come south to feed.” Ducks, like the hooded merganser, appear because New York waterways don’t usually freeze. And while you’ve probably never thought of Queens as a tundra, New York City Audubon recently sponsored a trip to Floyd Bennett Field and Fort Tilden there, searching for arctic birds – snow buntings and snowy owls among them – that come to these areas in winter, when they resemble tundras.

Organizations like Audubon and the Urban Park Rangers offer winter birding throughout the city, including Central Park, where an owl watch is scheduled for Feb. 26. This month I sampled bird walks in three boroughs – all free – beginning with the botanical garden.

There we watched ourselves. A resident male red-tailed hawk, known affectionately as Junior to local birders, seemed to follow us, showing up regularly on branches overhead. While his presence usually causes great consternation among other birds, he did not appear to be hunting. As I watched through binoculars, he glared imperiously, then preened. All he needed was theme music: Carly Simon’s You’re So Vain.

Ms. Becker led us to yew trees, where we looked for saw-whet owls. Members of a small and elusive species, they proved, well, elusive. But Ms. Becker knew exactly where great-horned owls had built a nest in a tree hollow; the male was on an adjacent trunk, keeping watch.

The black-capped chickadees, however, were positively cuddly, gathering like children at an ice cream truck. We placed crushed peanuts in our palms, and the plump little birds lighted on us just long enough to seize their prizes. Cardinals, juncos, jays, nuthatches, tufted titmice and rusty blackbirds – the blackbirds were unusual here, possibly driven astray by storms – also arrived for treats, though none came as close. This felt shamefully easy.

But if the garden was practically a petting zoo, Inwood Hill Park in upper Manhattan was purgatory. The Urban Park Rangers have been holding watches there this month – the last is this Sunday – for the season’s biggest prize: bald eagles.

“The cold winter months is when they fly down the East Coast,” said Sarah Aucoin, director of the rangers, who had met with a half-dozen of us at 8 a.m. at the Inwood Hill Nature Center. “The Hudson River is a great flyway to see them, because they’re fishing.” Eagles had nested in the park for several years, but none had returned in recent winters. They always pass through, though, during migration.

Renso Vidal, a ranger, cheerfully informed us that the fastest way to the Dyckman ball fields, on the riverbank, entailed a 40-minute hike. He didn’t say most of it was uphill, over sheer ice. Within 15 minutes I was unzipping my parka and ripping off my scarf, while praying I didn’t break my neck. (Winter birding requires layers, not to mention sturdy boots.)

Ms.Aucoin told us to look for the white heads of mature eagles and for their flight patterns. You could rule out birds flapping energetically. “Eagles don’t have to work that hard,” she said. “They soar.” The rangers spotted a pair swooping around a cell tower on the New Jersey bank, and another birder saw one on our side. But the closest I came was the impressive-looking skull – three times the size of a red-tailed’s – in the nature centre. I was told, however, that this was the only outing on which not everyone had seen an eagle.

I had no such frustration at the Audubon Center in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, which offers “Introduction to Bird-Watching” every Saturday.

We saw more than 20 species, including a hairy woodpecker and a downy woodpecker working the same tree. “Seeing the two of them in one day is pretty damned good,” said Michele Dreger, the Audubon volunteer leading the walk.

A sharp-eyed birder spied a brown creeper, a tiny bird that inches along tree trunks, eating bugs. “They’ll go all the way up the tree and then go down and start up another,” Ms. Dreger said. “Sometimes if you can’t see the bird clearly, the behaviour will tell you what it is.”

For beginners seeking guaranteed rewards the park has an area of feeders supplied by the Brooklyn Bird Club. It drew goldfinches, white-throated sparrows, pine siskins (a type of finch), cardinals, juncos and a male red-winged blackbird, which Dreger said she considered “my first bird of spring.”

Spring? I was just starting to look forward to the rest of winter.

source. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/winter-birdwatching-in-the-big-apple/article1915214/

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