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Do you really want to know?
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Five points if you get the reference

Se7en. Love that movie.

EDIT: Geez, I'm slow. OK, I confess...I was actually working. I won't let it happen again, I promise.
 
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Hi Skryre and welcome to the controlled insanity! :)

Rooting is a personal decision that all depends on what YOU want the phone to do that it can't do for you right now.

I am personally not "renting" an R-phone because I have no faith in Verizon to release Nexus before the "rental" period ends... sticking me with it for 2 years.

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COULD NOT AGREE MORE!!!! Also with three little ones around the house that love electronics toys, I don't trust it getting scratched or something. I don't want to have to pay for accessories to protect it. I wish they would open up the preorder so I could lock in the double data and wait patiently. grrrrrrrrrrr
 
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Nexus has never been about being a sustained hardware powerhouse. If that is what you are looking for, you will be disappointed.

Would you say either the Razr or Rezound are? Neither of them exactly blow the GNex out of the water, spec wise. Does Verizon currently have a "sustained hardware powerhouse"?

I ask, because I think that's what I want. I am getting a little impatient waiting for the GNex/Unicorn.
 
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Part of me is starting to wonder if bugs are in fact the reason for Verizon not making an announcement.

This XDA thread (that others have been posting) has me worried: Honest review from a critical nerd (me) - xda-developers

I know this is the UK Nexus, but if you go to page 13, the person who did the initial review wrote:

Phone has gone to permanent sleep about 3 times in 2 and a half days now. Requires a battery pull to get it back on.

That seems like a pretty big issue to me. I don't know how wide spread this is (I haven't seen anyone else talking about it), but I could see Verizon demanding this get fixed before the Nexus is released.
 
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Given the way things are going we'll smash the Dinc. thread easily. Not that I consider that a good thing. Mostly because a fair part of this thread's size is due to VZW jerking us around. (yes I blame them mostly)


They jerked the Incredible folks around too.
 
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Would you say either the Razr or Rezound are? Neither of them exactly blow the GNex out of the water, spec wise. Does Verizon currently have a "sustained hardware powerhouse"?

I ask, because I think that's what I want. I am getting a little impatient waiting for the GNex/Unicorn.

Honestly I don't believe there is such a thing on any carrier or in any phone.

The way I look at it since I'm a rooter (each will vary) it is the possible future developement for the phone and imo the GN will be among the tops.

We're all getting impatient, well most I can't speak for eveyone, breath deep :p
 
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Good morning, Han. Forgive me: I've been out of the loop for the weekend. Does your sister still stand behind you getting the device this week? Thanks for any updates!

As far as the latest info from her, yes. But she said that she will ask around at work today and let me know during her lunch hour. I'll post her text/call as soon as I get it.
 
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