I'm just about done setting up my 3rd Galaxy Nexus. I have to say, I'm more than a little disappointed in what seems to be poor quality control. This 3rd phone (my 2nd replacement) didn't ask me to activate it. I wiped it just to make sure, but it still didn't ask me upon initial bootup. I manually added my Google account and it restored all of my contacts but I had to go out and manually download all of my apps. And why aren't all of my apps listed on the Market? I find it strange that one replacement phone went through the normal activation process and auto-downloaded every single contact, app, (even my wallpaper and owner information) but this one didn't. Not a big deal, but strange.
Also, the brightness on this phone seems a lot dimmer than on my original phone. I downloaded an app to correct this (haven't played with it yet) but again, why are the three phones different?
Are there that many differences in manufacturing? Is Samsung and/or Verizon quality control that bad? I understand that none of these issues that prevented me from using the phone. But it's the principle of the thing... if you make 100,000 of something, I expect them to be as close to identical as possible.
All of my "stats" such as the baseband, etc., are all identical to the other two phones. The only advantage I've noticed is that this phone boots
a lot faster than the other two. Not like the others booted slowly, but this one boots in what seems to be several seconds quicker. I'll let you all know about my one-way audio issues. Honestly, I don't want to get another phone (I don't like the Razr Maxx), but I need a phone that operates, well, like a phone. If someone like Google or Verizon would just acknowledge that yes, there's a problem and we're going to fix it with a software update, I'd live with the problem. But the fact that no one has stepped forward and admitted there's an issue concerns me that it won't ever get officially fixed.
So don't mind me while I complain, piss/moan, kvetch, whine, etc., about what's becoming a love/hate relationship with my Nexus.