What kind of battery pack do you need for THAT to offset what the op states? Seems the point is the combo of data caps, data coverage and cloud storage dependency are not a very good recipe for a lot of consumers at this point in time, unless hanging at the house when using it. In which case, buying a Flyer for $300 or a similar device is more practical and better than a phone. Even better display and lower cost.
Interesting, since only about 14.7gb is free to begin with, so only 1.7gb taken for ICS allocation, firmware and stock apps? Seems low, but good none the less.
The 10gb statement also accounts for the operational floor of HC and ICS. If anyone has noticed, you can not install or update most apps if less than about 1gb remaining. Low storage error pops up, since shared space.
I'm not sure if you're implying that we won't see the SGN in November. . .but I think that most large corporations (and law firms) are run by aholes anyway. They almost have to be, if they're going to make any large amount of money.
But I think the ambiguous "later this year" has more to do with not wanting to take any thunder away from the RAZR than anything else. Like I said previously, they're not going to give preferential treatment to the SGN over their own branded Droid. Giving any sort of a release date for the SGN before they do with the RAZR would be tantamount to preferential treatment.
I'm still going to stick with what was said at the Nexus unveiling in HK. Shipping to the U.S. in November.
Good Morning All! So who's taking off work on 11/10? (Holding my hand high in the air)
Battery pack and one heck of a long ethernet cable, plus a powered hub/switch every 100m.
Well, there are hotspots out there. I guess my point is that you can come up with a strategy where you can offload certain things at home, or from select locations. I think cloud music is fine over 3G. Pulling down movies, not so much, without 4G or wi-fi. Don't get me wrong. I WANT the 32gb version and will be a bit disappointed in 16gb considering there's no removable storage. But to be honest, I only have 16gb microSD (2 of them) but have never had to swap them out for any reason. I still want 32gb, especially now that I would consider upgrading my .mp4 rips from 480p to 720p. Would have been ecstatic with 32gb built-in AND removable storage. Oh well.
Firmware and stock apps don't take up anywhere near that kind of space. You'll see the exact amount when source and some dumps come out, but for comparison, GB plus stock apps is around 140-150MB. Since Google has gone on record stating that ICS should run on any phone capable of running GB, 1.7GB isn't happening. Most phones running GB today have a cap of 256MB or lower for firmware (which includes the stock apps).
14.896GB is the actual "available" storage in a 16GB drive. Remember, there are two user available partitions on the device, the "internal" and the "mountable" storage. If you're saying that there is roughly 14.7GB available to the user, then that means about 200MB formatted for firmware and included apps, which makes sense. It would also mean nearly 1.5GB of "internal" storage" to go with that 13+GB of user available storage in the mountable partition. I'll know for sure when I get my hands on one, but one thing I'm certain of, whomever fed you that 10GB line (and 24GB for the 32GB version) is spreading FUD and therefore doing more harm than good.
the 10gb free space was shown in a photo on p3droid's twitter
the 10gb free space was shown in a photo on p3droid's twitter
@P3Droid updates are coming direct from Google... that was one of the "must haves" now if we sell 45 million of them we may need vzw to help
Yeah but who knows what is installed on those test phones. It could have been the camera tester, and so had multi-GBs of pics on it or something.
Or was a false rumor the entire time /\
I agree with this. They want to let RAZR have the limelight for now...and that is fine. I do think they wanted to put off any announcement until later to give the RAZR more time on the stage alone, and that the only reason the press release came out was because of the Twitter/Email stuff. If it had been planned on their part they would have added a release date. IMO.I guess I should have specified that I was basing my expectations on that rumor of next tuesday being true. I personally believe they were going to wait until after the pre-order date for the RAZR. so a WEEK from Tuesday could be believable. But lately Verizon has taken to putting out the announcement only a day or two before release, and letting the rumor and leak mill run wild before that. Announcement on 11/1, Pre-order date 11/3, release 11/10. That is my opinion of their original plan.
The more videos I watch of the Razr in action, the more I'm considering it. NFC has a lot of potential with the wife and I though. It might just come to battery life. I'll have to wait for reviews of both. All of my music is almost done uploading to the Google cloud (12,781 down, 6,233 to go), so storage space isn't an issue. 4G is great in Atlanta, so either phone will be a snappy, awesome experience coming from an OG Droid. We'll probably wait until all 3 phones are out to try them all. It may even be that we opt for the Rezound with the extended battery. Definitely preliminarily leaning towards Galnex.
something we all knew to most likely be the case, with this being a nexus and all, but BMX just tweeted this...
interesting he makes sure to state it was one of googles "must haves", but it shows vzw agrees to this long ago
. . . .If it had been planned on their part they would have added a release date. IMO.
The razr does look nice but the thing making me lean towards the nexus is updates straight from google and not having to wait months after the update is out. If the razr got updates close to when the nexus did I may consider it but until then i will stick with nexus.
Agreed. I like the .mkv container myself, and those are huge. I'm really hoping for 32 Gigs.
Does anyone know whether the 1080p on the video recording is the only setting, or can you downgrade it to 720p?
I'm not sure why they decided to go for the max resolution, since I believe most TV owners have 720p instead of the higher res, although I could be wrong (I'm basing my assumption on the fact that tv shows in HD are at 720p, and that played a huge role in my decision to go with that resolution).
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