***Official Galaxy Nexus Pre-Release speculation thread**

[The_Chief]

Good morning Gnexers!

I woke up this morning to new tweets. And the first thing I saw on my Droid this morning (after "hey - it's 36 degrees outside) was P3's tweet. I woke up VERY bummed out like almost everyone else in here. And cold.

Then I got on here and spent 30 minutes catching up. And I can say one thing:

THANK YOU STEVEN AND "LT" FOR SAVING OUR DAY!

It's gonna be a great day on the Nexus roller coaster!

Spoiler

Okay, now to P3Droid: We likely will not sell our VWZ devices in anticipation of the Nexus. We need something to use until it comes out.. which is apparently VERY soon (there's that term again). And as soon as this thing gets released, I'm un-following you. You're playing both sides of the issue... I only leave you on my Twitter now for the sheer entertainment value, as you have lost all credibility with me today.

 

[Deleted User]

Not that this has anything to do with perfromance or anything, but has anyone noticed that the screen appears to be off center in some of the pictures taken? Does anyone know why the screen might favor one side as opposed to the other?

Just a though, maybe making it easier for holding it in your right hand and using your right thumb? Sorry left handed people....what do you guys think?

 

[BabyBlues]

After spending my first 30 minutes at work catching up on last night's and this morning's posts I'm a happy camper.

Steven - I want to throw in that I look forward to your posts and info as much as everyone else and thank you for your spectacular job in keeping this monster thread a pleasant reading experience.

Webslinger283 - I am lefty but due to the nature of our mainly right handed world I know many of us are now quite able to do a lot of things with our right hand as well. It is nice when my electronics come with an option to switch things though.

 

[Deleted User]

I doubt they would offset the screen like that. There would be almost no improvement to the ergonomics because the offset is so small.

I suspect what you're seeing is either an optical illusion caused by the angle of view, a distortion caused by the camera lens, or a manufacturing defect - or some combination thereof.

 

[iowabowtech]

I just got back from an extended trip so for the first time since the onset of this thread, I missed a lot of posts from the last several days. Wanted to thank Steven and the source first off. Secondly, this statement sort of made me scratch my head:

You're not going to see anything resembling the push that RAZR is going to get with marketing, but it will be in stores.

I wonder why the lack of marketing for the Gnex? I thought it was supposed to be something big, the ipod killer, the phone to end all phones? Wouldn't that be something you'd want to advertise heavily, especially with the ICS factor in play?

 

[Millinium]

Good morning Gnexers!

I woke up this morning to new tweets. And the first thing I saw on my Droid this morning (after "hey - it's 36 degrees outside) was P3's tweet. I woke up VERY bummed out like almost everyone else in here. And cold.

Then I got on here and spent 30 minutes catching up. And I can say one thing:

THANK YOU STEVEN AND "LT" FOR SAVING OUR DAY!

It's gonna be a great day on the Nexus roller coaster!

Spoiler

Okay, now to P3Droid: We likely will not sell our VWZ devices in anticipation of the Nexus. We need something to use until it comes out.. which is apparently VERY soon (there's that term again). And as soon as this thing gets released, I'm un-following you. You're playing both sides of the issue... I only leave you on my Twitter now for the sheer entertainment value, as you have lost all credibility with me today.

Haha ~ nice tweet. Please let us know if he responds to your tweet because I'd be interested in knowing what he has to say.

 

[mfecik]

So, kinda related, kinda not related...maybe showing my ignorance as an "uber" tech person. I know that at times, my OG droid totally freezes. Like will not turn off using the on/off button, etc. On the GN, you can do a battery pull, which will fix the issue (I would hope to never really have that issue! but you have that option). With the Droid Razr, you can't do that, so how would you do a "battery pull" type action so to speak on that device?

Hope that's not too confusing to understand!

 

[schimm]

Good morning Gnexers!

I woke up this morning to new tweets. And the first thing I saw on my Droid this morning (after "hey - it's 36 degrees outside) was P3's tweet. I woke up VERY bummed out like almost everyone else in here. And cold.

Then I got on here and spent 30 minutes catching up. And I can say one thing:

THANK YOU STEVEN AND "LT" FOR SAVING OUR DAY!

It's gonna be a great day on the Nexus roller coaster!

Spoiler

Okay, now to P3Droid: We likely will not sell our VWZ devices in anticipation of the Nexus. We need something to use until it comes out.. which is apparently VERY soon (there's that term again). And as soon as this thing gets released, I'm un-following you. You're playing both sides of the issue... I only leave you on my Twitter now for the sheer entertainment value, as you have lost all credibility with me today.

I reached my fill of the baseless rumor mongering last nite....and as far as your 'hide' comments you are right on. Though I decided to 'unfollow' as my stomach and patience for this isn't so strong these days.

 

[bcltoys]

I will be going to church tonight for the first time 20 plus year's I will pray for Verizon and Google and Sammy and the Nexus.

 

[gapi]

It's Han, you damn creepy-baby face sonofabeesh!

Breath! Breeeeeeath!

 

[mfecik]

Good morning Gnexers!

I woke up this morning to new tweets. And the first thing I saw on my Droid this morning (after "hey - it's 36 degrees outside) was P3's tweet. I woke up VERY bummed out like almost everyone else in here. And cold.

Then I got on here and spent 30 minutes catching up. And I can say one thing:

THANK YOU STEVEN AND "LT" FOR SAVING OUR DAY!

It's gonna be a great day on the Nexus roller coaster!

Spoiler

Okay, now to P3Droid: We likely will not sell our VWZ devices in anticipation of the Nexus. We need something to use until it comes out.. which is apparently VERY soon (there's that term again). And as soon as this thing gets released, I'm un-following you. You're playing both sides of the issue... I only leave you on my Twitter now for the sheer entertainment value, as you have lost all credibility with me today.

Its ok The_Chief, P3 got what was coming to him...

P3Droid:
So, parents you will appreciate this - giving the baby a bath - he poops in the tub, then proceeds to vomit all over me and him...

 

[xtop]

I just got back from an extended trip so for the first time since the onset of this thread, I missed a lot of posts from the last several days. Wanted to thank Steven and the source first off. Secondly, this statement sort of made me scratch my head:

I wonder why the lack of marketing for the Gnex? I thought it was supposed to be something big, the ipod killer, the phone to end all phones? Wouldn't that be something you'd want to advertise heavily, especially with the ICS factor in play?

verizon can't sell their bloatware on the nexus, so there's no incentive for them to push the phone

 

[Steven58]

One of our own pm'd me this:

Spoke with my former colleague who works for Samsung now. He is hearing it will be released around the 10th and hadn't heard about any trouble with VZW. He will keep me informed, NDA's permitting.

He also has had the phone since July and didn't want to tell me until after the reveal... lucky bastard. He is a fan.

 

[gapi]

Did he say anything about me, Steven? Did he mention me at all, maybe about how cool my avatar is or anything like that?

Heh! Maybe you should close your eyes for a tad.

 

[iowabowtech]

verizon can't sell their bloatware on the nexus, so there's no incentive for them to push the phone

Market share? Isn't that what this was all about, to create a device and an Android OS that was to overtake all others?

 

[gapi]

So I heard there's a nexus phone coming to verizon...

*** GAPI Laughs and Scoffs***

Hans

Make it and they will come ..........Give us a button and we will push it.

Same thing.

Stevens source says its DEFINITELY coming other sources say there may be "problems"

Pick a side

I'm still a fish that will not bite. I am looking and swimming around it, but once bitten. Feeling warm but no fuzzy.

 

[The_Chief]

I wonder why the lack of marketing for the Gnex? I thought it was supposed to be something big, the ipod killer, the phone to end all phones? Wouldn't that be something you'd want to advertise heavily, especially with the ICS factor in play?

Don't count on Verizon marketing this thing AT ALL. They are too heavily invested in Motorola and the Droid brand to give any attention to a "superior" device. Motorola is Verizon's preferred manufacturer and they will get all the marketing efforts to sell the RAZR. It's up to folks like you and me to push the Nexus to the masses and make it a spectacular success.

 

[gapi]

Wow. I just don't understand what is happening. The star of the show is ICS 4.0, not the Nexus. I don't want to be a killjoy, but this phone is in the merely adequate category right now. The display is not Amoled Plus, the battery is relatively small, and the processor is old. If another manufacturer had a kickass phone with 4.0, we would be turning towards it and not Nexus. Unfortunately, it is the only game in town right now. Early adopters will be paying a price in regard to their ETF. Next summer/fall will have much, much better phones around with a maturing OS. It would have been such a coup if Samsung had delivered a world class phone right now. I don't know why they didn't.

You aint gonna rain on my parade, I'm coming from an OG Droid.

 

[Deleted User]

So, kinda related, kinda not related...maybe showing my ignorance as an "uber" tech person. I know that at times, my OG droid totally freezes. Like will not turn off using the on/off button, etc. On the GN, you can do a battery pull, which will fix the issue (I would hope to never really have that issue! but you have that option). With the Droid Razr, you can't do that, so how would you do a "battery pull" type action so to speak on that device?

Hope that's not too confusing to understand!

I suspect they have a method similar to the iPhone and most computers - if you hold down a button or a button combination long enough, it's built into the firmware to simply cut power to the device.

 

[Crashumbc]

I suspect they have a method similar to the iPhone and most computers - if you hold down a button or a button combination long enough, it's built into the firmware to simply cut power to the device.

which scares the heck out me, I have more then a few iFriends, and this "solution" has failed more than a few times, and they've been left with a unusable phone or touch...

 

[2oublethink]

Guys, I have one question:

Secondary microphone? I know that the lack of a second microphone (amongst other things) made talking on the phone in noisy environments with my Nexus S a real pain.

 

[Deleted User]

which scares the heck out me, I have more then a few iFriends, and this "solution" has failed more than a few times, and they've been left with a unusable phone or touch...

Huh. I owned two different iPhones and no matter what was wrong/locked up/whatever, I could ALWAYS force the device to shut off.

Are you sure your friends were having problems shutting it off, and it wasn't just not starting up again? I did have that issue on two separate occasions where the device wouldn't power up except in recovery mode.

 

[hgray]

which scares the heck out me, I have more then a few iFriends, and this "solution" has failed more than a few times, and they've been left with a unusable phone or touch...

I've never heard of this unless the button is broken, battery is dead and/or is not accepting power. In any of these situations, software is not the problem.
When the boards are configured to respond to a firm button in a set way it is on the hardware and no software can override that. If the device still failed to reboot or power down I would say that the problem is in the hardware, not the design of the button. Even if you ripped the battery out there would still be a problem with your hardware.

 

[xtop]

Market share? Isn't that what this was all about, to create a device and an Android OS that was to overtake all others?

that's probably google's goal, but why would verizon care?

 

[Crashumbc]

Huh. I owned two different iPhones and no matter what was wrong/locked up/whatever, I could ALWAYS force the device to shut off.

Are you sure your friends were having problems shutting it off, and it wasn't just not starting up again? I did have that issue on two separate occasions where the device wouldn't power up except in recovery mode.

A couple of them I saw, it just wouldn't shut down at all, they just let the battery run down. Now that said, this doesn't happen a lot, most of the time the firmware "trick" works to power the device down.