Australian Nexus S owners have begun receiving the Android 2.3.4 update promised by Google just two weeks ago, which brings native video chat to Google’s Android operating system.
The Nexus S, available exclusively through Vodafone Australia locally, is Google’s latest “developer” phone designed in partnership with Samsung because it runs a “vanilla” — or clean — edition of Android, allowing users to experience the operating system the way Google designed it to be. There’s no overlays, no tweaks by carriers and therefore updates can be pushed almost as soon as they’re announced.
Essentially because of this the phone lives on the ground-breaking cusp of Android, and Nexus S owners can be guaranteed they’ll be seeing at least the next few major software upgrades pushed to their phones, with a very high chance that they’ll be among the first to experience newly announced features.
Therefore when the company announced two weeks ago that the Nexus S and Nexus One, Google’s first ever developer-friendly phone, would receive a minimal upgrade to Android 2.3.4, it was obvious Australian owners weren’t going to have to wait long.
Sure enough yesterday many Australian Nexus S owners began receiving the message that an Over-The-Air (OTA) update was available, promising as expected support for native video calling using the in-built Google Talk application, as well as a number of bug fixes and security fixes for both the Nexus S and Nexus One. The update is just 12MB in size.
Vodafone has also confirmed the update to Android 2.3 for HTC Desire HD on their network is “in testing” and is “hopefully not to far away” on their Twitter profile. The update was announced earlier this week.
Google’s biggest developer conference of the year starts Wednesday, with more Android upgrades expected to be announced over the course of the two-day event.
The author of this post can be contacted at brenton.currie@itechreport.com.au
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