Submission + - Nexus S Phone Floats to Edge of Space (newscientist.com)
reillymj writes: A bunch of Google engineers and grad students gathered in California's Central Valley to to launch the Nexus S phone to the edge of space using weather balloons. While up there, the phones ran Google Map, SkyMaps, and a bunch of other apps, to see how the phones would fare in a freezing cold, near vacuum. The stunt was just for fun — the latest in a recent fad of launching DIY smartphone 'stratellites' — but one of the Nexus S product managers hinted that big G is talking with a European space contractor about building small "commodity" satellites around the phone's core processing unit.