14 DAY TRIAL // A few days ago, Mountain View-based Internet giant Google officially announced the availability of a new software update for each of its two Google phones, namely the Nexus One and the Nexus S.
At the time, the software update was pushed into the wild over the air (OTA) for all users, but it seems that the actual files are already available for a manual download.
For those who might have not learned the news, the OS flavor that Google made available for its Nexus devices was Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread.
Initially, the Google said that the OTA upgrade would take for a few weeks to complete on all mobile phones out there, and the availability of these files over the web would certainly make a lot of users happy.
Previously, the Nexus One was running under the Android 2.2 Froyo platform release, which was delivered to its sometime in summer last year. The mobile phone arrived on shelves in January 2010 with Android 2.1 on board.
Nexus One users would benefit from a wide range of enhancements with the availability of the new OS version, including performance improvements, new features, and more.
As for Nexus S devices, the new software update was meant mainly at providing improved NFC (Near Field Communication) capabilities, but it also came with a load of fixes for some of the various issues the device landed on shelves with.
The smartphone was released on shelves last year with the Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS version on board, which brought the said NFC feature into the mix.
However, the handset was able only to read NFC tags at the time, and the new 2.3.3 OS upgrade is meant to enable writing of such tags as well.
The download links to the aforementioned files were brought to the spotlight by the guys over at XDA-Developers, and those interested in learning more info on them should head to this thread on the XDA-Developers forum for that.