Google Pushes Gingerbread To Nexus One, Improves NFC Support On Nexus S

Nexus One owners, the surprisingly long wait is (almost) over: today Google has begun pushing out the latest version of Android, codenamed Gingerbread, to Nexus One devices. The rollout will likely take a few days, but you should be expecting an Over The Air update very soon.

And there's more good news: Nexus S owners are getting an OTA update as well, which includes fixes for some annoying bugs (including a random reboot issue) and additional support for Near Field Communication. The update for Nexus S owners also includes a big change to the way Facebook syncing works (in short, it doesn't)�?�see this post for more on this aggressive move by Google.

The improvements to NFC for the Nexus S are especially interesting because they give a taste of Google's future plans for the technology. The new functionality is best demonstrated by additions to the Tags application, which ships on the Nexus S.

Until now Tags has allowed users to tap their phone on NFC tags at various venues to read information off of them (unfortunately these aren't very commonplace yet�?�I have yet to actually use the feature in a real-world situation).

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