Google Nexus runs on Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. The features will indeed blow your mind. They’re integrating Google+ into the Android OS (or at least that’s what it looks like in the video) and will be getting Hangouts and Messenger built into the OS – Android’s answer to the iPhone’s iMessage and FaceTime. I’m curious to see if face-unlock will be a practical way to unlock the phone. If it takes too long to detect my face then it may not be ideal. The rest a frivolous features.
The real question is will the battery last? I’m currently using a rooted HTC Desire running on the lightweight Oxygen ROM and the battery is pathetic (it was worse before root, on HTC Sense). Say what you like about the iPhone, but they’ve taken drastic steps to improve its battery life and given that they have tight software and hardware integration they are bound to have a better battery-to-performance ratio than Android.
I have till June next year to decide on sticking with Android or switching to the iPhone.
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You can watch a hands-on video of the unlock function. Right now it looks pretty smooth and fast, and the dev team has actually had to “slow down the process” as the software was too fast to make folks believe that any security at all was involved. [Apparently.] Yes, I do agree battery life on Android devices is a sore point here. It’s better to wait and see what Google does with the OS first, before making any hasty decisions.