14 DAY TRIAL // If you were wondering just how well would the new Google phone play along with other mobile operating systems than the Android platform it was released on shelves with, you can now have a look at it running under MeeGo and Ubuntu, and performing pretty well.
Apparently, Google meant it when it said that the new device came to the market with a series of features that would make it easily to root it and install various custom softwares on it.
Thus, some enthusiasts took the high-end mobile phone and loaded new platforms on it, so as to see how it all goes.
In the video that can be seen embedded below (via Engadget), you will have the possibility to see the Nexus S running under MeeGo. Specific info on the high-end Android handset playing along with Ubuntu can be found on this thread on xda-developers.
The MeeGo platform is not in its final stages, but the OS can be easily installed on Nexus S, without the need to flash the smartphone. Apparently the same method was successfully used for putting Ubuntu on the Google phone.
Of course, these ports are meant only to test the phone's capabilities at the moment, though this does not exclude the possibility that more polished versions would be released for the Nexus S in the future.
Until more info on this emerges, one might want to have a look at the said video embedded below, to see the superphone, as Google calls the latest high-end smartphones based on its Android platform, running under MeeGo.
The Nexus S was launched in late 2010 with Google's new Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system on board, and was manufactured by South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung.
No wireless carrier has exclusivity on this mobile phone, though the device would offer support only for some operators around the world, such as the T-Mobile network in the United States.