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Let's not pester Verizon for a release date. PLEASE.

We got an announcement. It's coming. And whether this is a planned delay to give RAZR exclusivity or if they truly don't HAVE a release date due to supply issues, we simply don't know enough about the situation to make blind demands.

I don't want us to become some "Occupy Verizon", storming them with demands without understanding what's really going on.
 
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I get that. I'm just sort of over the whole need to flash ROMS. I think 4.0 will level the playing field and the NEED won't be so great. Always nice to own an open handset but the RAZR just MAY be too much for me to pass up.

I love the Nexus but I don't know if I could handle the build quality for 2 years. I own glocks, sigs and the moto droid :) There's just something about an industrial look and feel. Crazy I know but aesthetics play a real important role when I choose a handset.

Regardless, every ones happy and gets what they want. Nothing better than that. If I leave I made some good friends in these parts of the woods. I shall weep for the loss of the Nexus and some good peeps.....

CK I am with you partially on the RAZR, in that Moto is a known in phone call quality and reception. Since this is my only mode of communication I need the phone to work well. My OG droid and DroidX did that greatly. But I think I am going to have to go with the GNex because I want the unbloated and always up to date ICS software. I just hope the call quality is close to that of a moto handset...
 
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Well, it's good to learn from craziness like this I think. I have learned:

(1) When so many sources point to something, it's probably true

(2) No matter what is written about a potential release, there will be people who disagree.

(3) I will never trust anything P3Droid spouts again ..

(4) BMX is spot on again. Thanks !



I can't wait for some Ice Cream Sandwich now !!!!!
 
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Let's not pester Verizon for a release date. PLEASE.

We got an announcement. It's coming. And whether this is a planned delay to give RAZR exclusivity or if they truly don't HAVE a release date due to supply issues, we simply don't know enough about the situation to make blind demands.

I don't want us to become some "Occupy Verizon", storming them with demands without understanding what's really going on.

I agree but the fact of the matter is they announced a phone without a carrier. A carrier should have been involved at the time of release. Of course this is just my opinion...
 
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CK I am with you partially on the RAZR, in that Moto is a known in phone call quality and reception. Since this is my only mode of communication I need the phone to work well. My OG droid and DroidX did that greatly. But I think I am going to have to go with the GNex because I want the unbloated and always up to date ICS software. I just hope the call quality is close to that of a moto handset...


I can totally respect that :) it will be fine. You will enjoy it I'm sure.
 
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Figure this will keep it more reasonable until at least 11/3 though. End of year is a bit funny though. Although even Google only really said "November", which sorta suggested they were announcing a good bit early also. Wonder what AOSP date will be? That wasn't discussed at all and have been a bit curious about all this ever since Honeycomb never went there.


My guess is December and the 16gb version. The price would probably be prohibitive for the 32gb version and VZW will NOT eat the margin themselves.

Early December for a Verizonified (to some degree) 16gb Nexus at $300 for two year agreement.
 
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Figure this will keep it more reasonable until at least 11/3 though. End of year is a bit funny though. Although even Google only really said "November", which sorta suggested they were announcing a good bit early also. Wonder what AOSP date will be? That wasn't discussed at all and have been a bit curious about all this ever since Honeycomb never went there.

I agree that overall it won't be as bad as the last few days (the AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile users don't seem to be as vocally negative as the Verizon peeps). The use of "available later this year" I think is just a good way of being cautious until they have completely nailed down a release date.

I like that they decided to come out and at least say "yes, we are getting the Galaxy Nexus and it is going to be this year" for a couple reasons. One they are giving a general timeframe rather than it being completely open. They are also saying Galaxy Nexus which puts to ease some of the worry that they might rebrand it as a Droid product that might lose the nice Nexus features such as vanilla ICS, Google updates, no bloat. Of course, just like everything, there is still a chance for those to change, but it is still a positive sign so far.
 
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Let's not pester Verizon for a release date. PLEASE.

We got an announcement. It's coming. And whether this is a planned delay to give RAZR exclusivity or if they truly don't HAVE a release date due to supply issues, we simply don't know enough about the situation to make blind demands.

I don't want us to become some "Occupy Verizon", storming them with demands without understanding what's really going on.

Here, here to that. This should have been handled through the Google announcement anyhow and none of this would have happened. BUT, we all want the device to be RIGHT once it gets here, so lets not force it before it's ready.
 
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My guess is December and the 16gb version. The price would probably be prohibitive for the 32gb version and VZW will NOT eat the margin themselves.

Early December for a Verizonified (to some degree) 16gb Nexus at $300 for two year agreement.

how do you figure? the 16gb iphone is only 199 vzw bloat free, and the 32gb is 299, so why couldnt this be the same?
 
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I agree but the fact of the matter is they announced a phone without a carrier. A carrier should have been involved at the time of release. Of course this is just my opinion...

I think this is a very interesting idea.

It was an Asian event with world coverage.

On one hand, if a carrier or carriers piggybacked - and not all carrier deals in the world are done yet - that could have a been a bit unfair. I don't mean legally, just - unfair.

On the other hand, without a carrier or carriers to focus it - it seemed a bit adrift, like a piece missing.

Interesting indeed.
 
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I think this is a very interesting idea.

It was an Asian event with world coverage.

On one hand, if a carrier or carriers piggybacked - and not all carrier deals in the world are done yet - that could have a been a bit unfair. I don't mean legally, just - unfair.

On the other hand, without a carrier or carriers to focus it - it seemed a bit adrift, like a piece missing.

Interesting indeed.

Exactly. What's a phone without a carrier?
 
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Random thought on Verizon not announcing a date -

With a date, the community would be discussing who was right.

Without it, the weekend is spent with the community excited to discuss the phone's date.

I am maybe thinking that Verizon was crazy like a fox with this entire release. Could be wrong tho, I often am.
 
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how do you figure? the 16gb iphone is only 199 vzw bloat free, and the 32gb is 299, so why couldnt this be the same?


Based on current 4G phone premium pricing and they have 16gb. Charge and LG dropped in price, but are on the way out. My guess, so you are welcome to yours too :)

VZW will not price lower, just because no sd slot.

iPhone is not 4G and also does not have an sd slot ;)

iPhone 5 will probably also be premium priced (if 4G).
 
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I think this is a very interesting idea.

It was an Asian event with world coverage.

On one hand, if a carrier or carriers piggybacked - and not all carrier deals in the world are done yet - that could have a been a bit unfair. I don't mean legally, just - unfair.

On the other hand, without a carrier or carriers to focus it - it seemed a bit adrift, like a piece missing.

Interesting indeed.

I've said this a few times. And T-Mo was always a part of other Nexus launches in the past. Verizon was the T-Mo this time and it should have been handled EXACTLY the same, but with VZW instead of T-Mo. The only real big complaint in the past about Nexus is that it WAS only T-Mo at launch. I actually think this device being VZW is WHY it was so much bigger than the T-Mo ones. VZW went and messed it up a bit for whatever reason at the last minute though.
 
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Based on current 4G phone premium pricing and they have 16gb. Charge and LG dropped in price, but are on the way out. My guess, so you are welcome to yours too :)

iPhone is not 4G.

point made good sir, i had failed to take into consideration the fact that is an LTE device and the iPhone is not, hence a price difference aside from just the memory.
 
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