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Lovely.

The pics floating around are of my Nexus S and ZTE Blade (Orange SanFransisco). It's totally ruined the look for me and a shame that my £99 handset now (to me at least) seems to have a better screen.

A changelog would be nice with each update Google (or even better, user colour settings!) :)

I was just going to say, would love to be able to adjust the color temperature myself!

After reading that, I can't help but remain undecided... is Google at fault here or Samsung? It sounds like Google is trying to compensate for problems in Samsung's display?

And is it just me, or does EVERY Samsung Android phone have one major problem or another? With the track record they have exhibited since the Moment, I don't even bother looking at Samsung devices anymore when their new phones or tablets come out.

Of course, HTC has had their fair share of faults-per-device. I'm getting real close to playing hockey with my EVO. :/

As much as I love Android, I am still waiting for a consistent hardware manufacturer that makes solid hardware with no (or very minimal) customizations. I guess that's the other side of the sword with an open platform.

The Nexus S is built by Samsung for Google, and Google is the one doing the software for it.

I know, but the reason that Google gave for making this decision sounded a lot like a "polite" way of saying that the screen in the Nexus S sucks at handling dark colors when the brightness is turned down. Or am I reading too much into their statement?

It's not a reasonable way to do it, but CyanogenMod (available for Nexus S) has temperature options, in case you're interested.

Well this is ironic. I just sent in my Nexus S two days ago to Samsung because of the screen being a bit yellow. Now I'll know that my screen never had the "problem" since Google decided to make the screen yellow-ish anyway. Doh!

CyanogenMod 7 on the EVO 4g works great as far as color temp options, not to mention Red, green, salmon (night vision) options. Just wondering if you have any navigation issues on the Nexus S with it.

yeah. I understand your concern and realistically there won't be consistency for a very long time, if ever. I went from Samsung Fascinate to an HTC Incredible on verizon and finally onto Sprint's network w/ the EVO. I prefer sprint in my area and that's mostly the reason for change.. One detail I noticed right away about Samsung is their bad layer over Android. I would have thought the Nexus S would be free of that and be the ideal candidate for the Android platform, but form what you're saying it isn't so. this is smelling like microsoft and the numerous hardware manufactures...