The new NFC features the NS gets allow it to turn the phone itself into a NFC broadcaster, whereas before it could only read. This way you can stick a URL or contact info for yourself in your phone and easily exchange it with other Nexus S devices. You can also program in NFC stickers from your NS phone too, by long-tapping.
Both phones will get this update over the air starting now, but may take a few weeks to finish rolling out. It also fixes the reboot issue people have been reporting.
[Are people seeing this here in AU? -ed]
Chris
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 3:42 PMMelbourne, AU: Just checked Nexus S, not seeing this yet.. my phone at 2.3.2 is “currently up to date”
Gdog23
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 4:27 PMYou may want to try and force the update check
*#*#CHECKIN#*#*
Gumby
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 4:42 PMSydney: ran checkin on N1. Still no sign of the Patch :(
Chris
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 5:00 PMCute, never heard of that one. last time I think I downloaded the upgrade for my Nexus One and manually upgraded because it was taking days fot it to be released
CHECKIN did not work however, all I get is “checkin succeeded”, still no 2.3.3
I guess it is being slowly trickled out, not unusual.