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When launched in early 2009, the Samsung i8910 HD (a.k.a. Omnia HD in some markets) had eye-watering specifications, certainly ahead of anything else in the Symbian world and, arguably, ahead of anything in the world in general. Bit by bit the wider market is embracing the same technology though, with Google's new Nexus One offering an almost identical specification and form factor. Which can only mean one thing: - time to get them both in-house, photographed and tested, head to head.
Nexus One on the left, obviously. Note the differences in default OLED screen brightness. Both devices have 'Auto-brightness' turned on, i.e. the light sensor is intelligently managing brightness in order to conserve battery life. The Nexus One's setting is tuned down quite a bit, I'm guessing the Google engineers were a bit worried about power. See below for a brighter side by side shot...