Those of you who bought into last year’s Nexus dream should have had an exciting day of tinkering yesterday, thanks to Google launching an update that takes the Samsung-made Nexus S to Android 4.0.3.

Given that the Nexus S comes with capacitive touch buttons, you can completely get away from the Ice Cream Sandwich version’s on-screen software buttons, freeing up a little more screen space on the ancient (in smartphone years) 4″ Nexus S screen.

If you’re all confused by the new widgets and menus the update brings, there’s a simplistic guide to the many exciting differences between 2.3 and 4.0 on Google’s Nexus S help site. [Google]