[From Kyle Wiens] The Nexus S is supposed to be the next flagship Android phone. Yet, having looked at both the outside and inside of this device, we're just a tad underwhelmed. We feel the phone's curved glass is more of a gimmick than anything else, although it does feel very nice when pressed up against the user's face. Our teardown reveals that only the glass itself is curved, but that the LCD and touchscreen are just as flat as any phone's. Although Google/Samsung technically doesn't lie on their site -- they clearly mention a curved glass panel, not curved LCD -- we still find their "Contour Display" name a bit misleading. We gave the Nexus S a repairability score of 7 out of 10, with main niggles being that you need to use a heat gun to separate the display from its frame, and that you have to replace both LCD and glass should just one of them fail (they're fused together). On the bright side, the battery is easily swappable, and you don't need much aside from a #00 Phillips screwdriver and plastic opening tools to disassemble the rest of the phone.
The teardown after the jump.
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