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

[AntimonyER]

Guys, about that Prime:

ASUS Transformer Prime 32GB Tablet Bundle for Android | GameStop

Now it's showing as a release date of 11/28!

If my coordinated release idea was right, that would be very very good news

 

[TeeJ911]

Corporate story of the decade! Google acquires Motorola's Cellular division and moves to a hostile take over of Verizon. Larry Page is quoted as saying, "We have been duminitive geeks too long time to be crazy hard arsh geeks"

 

[droiiid]

My birthday is Dec. 18th...

Wondering what my chances are that I'll have a new phone by then...

My birthday was 10/26 and this phone was supposed to be my birthday present then... still waiting...sad. Just. sad...

On a side note, anyone still waiting on their Logitech Revue (my birthday present from last year) to update to give access to the market & honeycomb?

Waiting on these 2 things to be released/updated is killing me... so frustrated.

 

[muscal]

Need Help. Matt Schaub got hurt and i'm effed. Who should i start out of these:

Ryan Fitzpatrick, Carson Palmer, Vince Young, Matt Moore, Tavaris Jackson, Rex Grossman, Tim Tebow, Josh Freeman, Christian Ponder, Matt Leinart or Matt Hasselbeck/Jake Locker.

 

[rexdog1888]

I woke up to this this morning:
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The wall street journal did a review on the galaxy nexus. Come on Verizon, its obvious people want this phone.

 

[Aabye]

I went to a Verizon store today and was at the register with a Rezound, literally reaching for my credit card before changing my mind.

My Eris chose to go into another reboot fit this morning and I decided I had enough of this F'ing phone. I spent all day [at work ] re-reading reviews for the Razr/Rezound/Nexus and honestly I am beginning to lose a little bit of excitement for the Nexus. The sound issues, the questionable Samsung GPS/radio, the lack of SD card slot... the phone isn't perfect. ICS is a big selling point but the Razr/Rezound will have it eventually, and the fact I can still get new roms for my 2yr old Eris leaves me with a lot of faith in the dev community.

I prefer S-Amoled screens to the S-LCD and even though the Rezound's screen is incredibly sharp, to my perception the Razr had more vibrant colors. However the removable battery is a must so that put me towards the Rezound.

FWIW, I did run the browser benchmark on the Rezound (it's not on the chart in the first post) and it scored a 57823. I also ran the benchmark on the Razr and it scored significantly lower then that chart at about 67k, so I would bet a non-display model would fare better. While browsing on the Rezound, it did lose internet connectivity for about a minute even though the 3G appeared to be passing data around.

I asked the sales associate if I could hold them without the security locks attached to their back because it makes it impossible to truly gauge how it feels in my hand. She brought me out one of each phone to hold and the width of the Razr did make it feel awkward to hold. The Rezound was only a little wider then my Eris but noticeably longer which wasn't really an issue. I'd say I have average to slightly above average size hands (giggity).

The sales associate brought me to the register with the Rezound and I started having seconds thoughts. If I bought it, there would be 2 possible outcomes:

1. I would have to pay the $35 restocking fee to 'borrow' a phone for (hopefully at most) 2 weeks because the Nexus will come out and be every bit as spectacular as we all originally thought, or​

2. The Nexus falls short and I end up keeping the Rezound that I paid $300 in store for, that I could find online for $220 easily.​

Also influencing this decision was when the saleswoman brought out 3 cases for me to "pick from" without mentioning they cost extra (I'm no rube). When I said no thanks, she then went on to threaten that if there was any scratches to the phone I would have to pay $300 for any warranty issues that would require replacing it.

I also had to educate her on the return policy. She said 14 days, I said no actually I have till Jan. 15, she said I was wrong, then we looked it up and I was right. Between that and the misinformation I heard the sales people giving perspective customers I felt like I should get a name tag and start working there.

When I got home, I entertained (bored) my girlfriend with this story. Her response was "Just go watch that Hitler video again, that always cheers you up"... and I just want to thank this forum for giving me a place in my life where someone can say that phrase and it not be the terrible thing it sounds like.

The weird part? She hasn't seen the Hitler/Gnex video...
(jk)

Well I hope my rambling gave those of you bored at work like I was something to read. If not,

TL;DR version: Verizon sales people are idiots, and if your considering getting a phone now and don't care about the double data promotion, you may as well just wait for the Nexus to be released even if you end up getting something else.

Thanks, you have just lived this experience so I don't have too. I was going to go look at the Rezound again this evening... but I'll pass.

 

[crt134]

It's the arms being stretched out! Phases nailed it, I see why he said it now. Lol.
At least let us see there is a child in your hands.

Haha yeah my little cousin is in my hands. I didn't realize it looked so weird when I originally put it up. I need to change this

 

[EllieN]

Hans, anything from yo sis?

 

[Martimus]

While this is true, the only true way to make progress is to cut the cord. We wouldn't have the progress we had as far as we did with HTML5 content without that move.

People by the nature avoid the hard route. the only way to make them take the hard road is to force it.

Now with Adobe stopping flash development for mobile, it's the extra push the industry needs.

I'm sorry but, in my opinion, this is not quite correct! If we look at how Jobs approached the Flash issue on the iPhone, he essentially stated that the iPhone would never support Flash thereby insuring that iPhone owners, from day one, would never be able to access the millions of flash sites on the Internet (on their handsets). There was no transition period and no opportunity for business to get on-board with the idea. Jobs attempted to set the direction of the industry by brute force.

What Jobs presumably did not take into consideration was that by cutting the "cord" in this way he placed millions of businesses with e-commerce sites in immediate jeopardy of losing revenue. While this would be a boon for both corporate and independent web developers, it forced businesses to incur huge costs to immediately re-develop their e-commerce sites to accommodate for HTML5... if they wanted to provide equal access to the millions of iPhone users. And we can all be assured that these additional costs were paid for by us in the form of higher prices...

The businesses who opted to not change... or simply could not afford to change... got to deal with lost revenue because a myopic billionaire believed that he was following the right path and everyone else was wrong.

 

[statepenn03]

Did anyone ever follow up with Samsung to confirm the Business Insider story about the Galaxy Nexus?

 

[shawn487]

I have never in my life seen such blatant begging for thanks.

Spoiler

Tap thanks if you want the Nexus.

Quick Hans said that if you click his thanks he would buy each person who thanked him a Galaxy Nexus go back up and thank him for your free Galaxy Nexus

 

[EarlyMon]

DON'T TAP THANKS if you think these thinly veiled thank padding schemes are fooling anyone.

 

[nexus15]

I have a friend with a Nexus S, flashed his phone to ICS already...

*ICS is incredibly beautiful. Awesome. I see why a lot of people love it.

*The questionable samsung gps/radio is not an issue on those phones. I know it is on my vibrant. You can find the story that this is my next (now the verge) did on the skyhook/samsung/google fiasco. Thats why those original SGS I devices dont have working GPS. Its totally fixed and just think: Google is the mother of android and wouldn't bless a device a nexus unless everything worked up to snuff.

 

[JLevin]

Sitting at work with in a similar situation as blastbeats. I have the Droid Eris and can't take this phone anymore. Without using the phone it's down to 27% by the end of the day (Off the charger from 7AM - 4PM). Making a phone call is painful because there is such a long delay from the time I type in the phone number to the time it registers it on the screen and don't even get me started on the lag between the time you push send and the time the call actually starts.

Anywho, I want the GNex but need a new phone ASAP. I'm really starting to cave into the idea of renting an R phone and then paying the restocking fee in a few weeks. Someone talk me off the ledge.

 

[AntimonyER]

Did anyone ever follow up with Samsung to confirm the Business Insider story about the Galaxy Nexus?

I read a couple articles about it where they tried, and got nowhere.

 

[HanSolo]

Need Help. Matt Schaub got hurt and i'm effed. Who should i start out of these:

Ryan Fitzpatrick, Carson Palmer, Vince Young, Matt Moore, Tavaris Jackson, Rex Grossman, Tim Tebow, Josh Freeman, Christian Ponder, Matt Leinart or Matt Hasselbeck/Jake Locker.

Ick. Palmer.

Hans, anything from yo sis?

Not yet.

 

[shawn487]

On best buy site to now!
Asus - Transformer Prime TF201 Tablet with 32GB Memory - Champagne - TF201-B1-CG

Asus - Transformer Prime TF201 Tablet with 32GB Memory - Gray - TF201-B1-GR

 

[jruther2]

I still wonder about the "All other provisions" part. I also thought this has been set in stone for a while now. What we've experienced in this thread is varying responses as to "activated" or "non-activated" to "gifting" etc...

It's all so blurry still to me

THE POINT of my post here = You can activate the phone now and will have until January 15 to return it. Given the point at the top, feel free not to read the story.


Sorry I'm late in replying to this. Some things at work had to be done before everyone leaves for the holiday.


I am neither condoning nor criticizing the proposed

 

[AntimonyER]

Sounded better in my head.

By the way, you sure are thanking a lot of people today.... You lose another bet?

 

[nashfh]

Need Help. Matt Schaub got hurt and i'm effed. Who should i start out of these:

Ryan Fitzpatrick, Carson Palmer, Vince Young, Matt Moore, Tavaris Jackson, Rex Grossman, Tim Tebow, Josh Freeman, Christian Ponder, Matt Leinart or Matt Hasselbeck/Jake Locker.

Matt Moore is playing really well this month replacing Chad Henne. Start him.

 

[jamor]

If you call they'll over ride it and let you upgrade early

i called and checked, you have to go into a store or call though...

Thanks for the tip!!

 

[Aabye]

Galaxy Nexus and the Thanksgiving Blues...

About two months ago, my father-in-law came to me looking for smartphone advice. He is a financial planner, and wanted a phone that offered all the bells and whistles and was easy/intuitive to learn. I offered him a fair assessment of both the strength and weaknesses of iOS and Android. But I tried to push him toward Android, specifically the Rezound (Vigor at the time) and the GN (or NP, whatever it was). He was very interested in both of these phones. He wanted to know what I was getting, and I said that I was waiting for the pure Google experience. He was very very interested, but needed a phone asap, and decided to go for the fruit phone.

Failure on my part, I know.

Fast forward to today, when I just received the following text:

"Can't wait to see you guys tomorrow, and can't wait to play with that google phone you got"

... sigh...

 

[Highwayman]

So this guy at work loves movies, wants his kids to love the same movies he does, but doesn't want to expose them to excessive profanity, violence, etc. So what he does is he buys his favorite movies, and then "scrubs" them, removing the really bad language, excessive violence, etc.

Anyway, he just comes in and says "Just scrubbed 'Goodfellas' last night."

I said "What's the point?"

Was there any dialog left when he was done?

 

[EarlyMon]

I'm sorry but, in my opinion, this is not quite correct! If we look at how Jobs approached the Flash issue on the iPhone, he essentially stated that the iPhone would never support Flash thereby insuring that iPhone owners, from day one, would never be able to access the millions of flash sites on the Internet (on their handsets). There was no transition period and no opportunity for business to get on-board with the idea. Jobs attempted to set the direction of the industry by brute force.

What Jobs presumably did not take into consideration was that by cutting the "cord" in this way he placed millions of businesses with e-commerce sites in immediate jeopardy of losing revenue. While this would be a boon for both corporate and independent web developers, it forced businesses to incur huge costs to immediately re-develop their e-commerce sites to accommodate for HTML5... if they wanted to provide equal access to the millions of iPhone users. And we can all be assured that these additional costs were paid for by us in the form of higher prices...

The businesses who opted to not change... or simply could not afford to change... got to deal with lost revenue because a myopic billionaire believed that he was following the right path and everyone else was wrong.

Exactly.

And it drove the once-free Skyfire browser on Android, good for playing Flash on non-Flash capable phones, into a pay-only model for Flash video.

Because iPhone users loved paying for that app when it hit iOS.

And make no mistake - a good many iOS paid apps are simply giving people access to their Flash websites on iOS. Ask a flight attendant how they check things from their home PC (free Flash browsing) and how they were forced to do it on their iPhones (and what they all paid for the privilege.

 

[snowquest]

I'm glad it's not just me.

On my OG Droid, this means it's time for a reboot!