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

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I just called Verizon to see what BS I could get out of them myself so I fed them the most attractive story I could think of to lure them into tellin me when the release date is. I told them I'm currently with AT&T out of contract, dropped my phone and broke it, and I am looking around at the Galaxy SII and really like it but noticed they didn't have the SII but were supposedly getting the Nexus. I asked him when they would be getting it.

"I do not know when the release date is, but I would guess some time this month, probably towards the end of the month."
 
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Keep in mind, that's just an article and not an official spec sheet. Not unusual for an article to miss a detail like that.

I'd pretty much guarantee that's it would be SAMOLED+.

The reason old phones didn't use SAMOLED+ was because Samsung didn't have the capability to print subpixels at that resolution. Once they refined thier process, pretty much everything coming off the line is SAMOLED+ now. Can you think of a recently released phone using an AMOLDED display that doesn't use the + version? I find it highly unlikely we'll se qHD screens in anything but RGB configurations from here out.

GNex is in the same boat. Samsung can't print HD screens with 3 subpixels at that resolution. So we're stuck with pentile.

The qHD SAMOLED on Razr is pentile screen. It's already confirmed by reviewers. To my knowledge SGSII is the only phone that got SAMOLED+.
 
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ok here are the chat sessions


Edit: i agree that chat reps probably arent the best source!
 

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ok here are the chat sessions


Edit: i agree that chat reps probably arent the best source!

Deep manly voice: "He-lo my name is Peg-Gy. How can I help u?"
Customer: "When is the GN coming out"
Deep manly voice: "Let me check on that" - Goes to the bathroom - "There seems to be a block in the release at the toilet end... I mean Samsungs end"
 
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Being an optimist here, but I still think we still might here something official from Verizon tomorrow. The last real MAP document I saw had the date listed as 11/10 for Nexus, and that document also included the late October bump for the RAZR. I remember that document came out quite a few days before the RAZR pre-order was announced, and low-and-behold it turned out to be true.

Unless they changed it on the MAP and nobody leaked out the updated copy. My most optimistic guess would be announced tomorrow for pre-order or release on 17th/21. If we don't hear anything today or tomorrow, I would expect the earliest we'll get to hear anything is Monday/Tuesday.

Soon guys, I know we can all do it!
 
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