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

[EarlyMon]

The Chronicles End Badly -

Spoiler

I'm starting to think that 3vil's "thanks" are not altruistic at all.

I think he's branding us. Or marking us.

Like a dog peeing on a tree.

We belong to 3vil.

LOL, I was on a call with someone and burst out into laughter.

We are all just cattle. Consider yourself branded

rofl... I have to reply now because if I just thank you, you wont be able to tell the difference between a regular thanks and a deserved thanks


Happy Thanksgiving....

(PS - There was a limit on what I could squeeze in to the first one.)

You don't actually think that I manually thanked everybody do you?

Um, it might be a good idea if you turn the script off... Please.

I am not using a script now... This morning's thanks are all manual thanks

Nice to see one of our own get such a nice record like that!

I am not using a script now... This morning's thanks are all manual thanks

Oh no!

A wave of shock and scandal rocks the Gnex thread!

Was 3vil using Performance Enhancing Scripts?

Gapi will be launching a full-scale investigation on this. If he finds any proof of PES usage, with involvement of either 3vil or Early, you can bet I'll be prosecuting the crap out of both of them!

Steady counselor - staff had no involvement.

 

[gapi]

Moving forward we have a composite sketch.

​

 

[3vil]

I have created a Thanks and be thanked thread, in the lounge: http://androidforums.com/lounge/452366-official-thanks-thanked-thread.html#post3533246

Come and get thanked.

 

[kokiangel]

Couldn't resist 3vil.

 

[Slayer01]

Being thanked and all is great, but when it starts going out like water in a none third world nation it just loses its value.

 

[jmar]

I think it's great that 3vil took the time, automated or manually, to thank everyone and get the all-time thanks record. This thread is by far the most epic thread in the history of epic threads anywhere (IMHO). 3vil: you have my support.

OT

Anyone know how to root the Samsung Stratosphere? I have read everything I can and this is the first phone that is actually giving me a headache. Verizon put so much bloat on this phone that my wife actually asked me to root it after first telling me not to touch her new 4G baby.

 

[gapi]

Moving forward we have a composite sketch.

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Moving Forward....Submitting a request to the Moderators to perform system forensics to rule out Fraud.

 

[3vil]

Moving forward we have a composite sketch.

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agh my avatar changed ... and now you've got my avatar

 

[EarlyMon]

Being thanked and all is great, but when it starts going out like water in a non-third world nation it just loses its value.

This is a good rule.

(fixed your quote to clarify)

I think it's great that 3vil took the time, automated or manually, to thank everyone and get the all-time thanks record. This thread is by far the most epic thread in the history of epic threads anywhere (IMHO). 3vil: you have my support.

This may be the exception to the rule - this has been a thread of records.

This is getting staff attention. That's all I want to say at present.

 

[gapi]

I think it's great that 3vil took the time, automated or manually, to thank everyone and get the all-time thanks record. This thread is by far the most epic thread in the history of epic threads anywhere (IMHO). 3vil: you have my support.

I see it as a hack if indeed a script.

 

[Cam]

Totally off topic but today in Alabama is "We gonna kick your butt" day. Doesn't really matter which team you are rooting for. You still gotta say it. WAR EAGLE!

I'm definitely an Auburn fan today. Don't want a Bama rematch.

 

[Cam]

This is getting staff attention. That's all I want to say at present.

The previous play is under review.

 

[tpags]

I think it's great that 3vil took the time, automated or manually, to thank everyone and get the all-time thanks record. This thread is by far the most epic thread in the history of epic threads anywhere (IMHO). 3vil: you have my support.

OT

Anyone know how to root the Samsung Stratosphere? I have read everything I can and this is the first phone that is actually giving me a headache. Verizon put so much bloat on this phone that my wife actually asked me to root it after first telling me not to touch her new 4G baby.

root stratosphere
How to Root Samsung Stratosphere 4G On Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread - Android Discussion - Pandaapp - Forum | Free Your Mobile Life!

After looking at those directions, that is more of a reason that I can't wait to get my hands on a nexus. Although, if someone knows what their doing, it shouldn't be difficult. But it's gonna be nice to just type a couple commands and have pure freedom.

 

[kokiangel]

LSU has been great this year. Have to say.

 

[CeeJayII]

Not necessarily. Remember other phones like SGS2, Rezound, Razr have heavy UI skin on top of stock android. So having ICS and UI skin might result in slower performance than Gnex.

They already have skins on them, are only running one core, and still aren't far behind. I would think have both cores in use would at least pull them even with the nexus. Im not impressed by all of these speed tests, do they even take single vs dual core into consideration?

 

[Slayer01]

This is a good rule.

(fixed your quote to clarify)



This may be the exception to the rule - this has been a thread of records.

This is getting staff attention. That's all I want to say at present.

"Thanks", for the correction.

 

[EarlyMon]

Based on what is known about the Droid 4 at this point - is anyone tempted by it?

Other than the physical keyboard, I don't know what is special about it. I haven't used my OG's keyboard since the first week I had the phone, so I don't see any reason to be excited. Thoughts?

While most of us have fully transitioned to typing on glass, not everyone has. My wife has a slider (Evo Shift) and uses hers about 50/50 glass/keyboard.

Can't say I blame her - in landscape mode, a slider gives more real estate overall compared to a glass-only device.

I think it's great that Android makers don't force just one way of doing things on people - choice is what it's all about.

 

[th0r615]

my thank ratio is RUINED thanks to you! I was averaging almost 6 thanks per post... not its like 3 something!

 

[tdub88]

Being thanked and all is great, but when it starts going out like water in a none third world nation it just loses its value.

Oh, the irony...........

 

[Sandroidfan]

They already have skins on them, are only running one core, and still aren't far behind. I would think have both cores in use would at least pull them even with the nexus. Im not impressed by all of these speed tests, do they even take single vs dual core into consideration?

Gingerbread supports multi-core already though not as complete as ICS.
Some old benchmarks like quadrant, linpack don't support multi-core well and also not optimized for ICS. That's why Gnex doesn't get good scores on those. But Gnex does well on Antutu, Browsermarks. Once razr, rezound get updated to ICS, we can do more meaningful benchmarks, taking OS difference out of equation.

 

[wellred]

Hi all,

3UK had it on their site originally down as being released 25th but now it says 29th. I was in there today and they had a dummy so maybe they had stock but it was rammed in there so I didn't check.

Anyone know if it's out yet on 3UK?

Thanks

 

[orlando bull]

15 minute ICS hands on video. Just something to kill the time...

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheGadgetprince#p/a/u/1/d1eJugkF0cUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1eJugkF0cU

 

[HanSolo]

Ah never mind.

I just decided I don't care anymore.

Where's my frakking Nexus!!??

 

[EarlyMon]

They already have skins on them, are only running one core, and still aren't far behind. I would think have both cores in use would at least pull them even with the nexus. Im not impressed by all of these speed tests, do they even take single vs dual core into consideration?

Some fail miserably - Quadrant completely misbehaves on dual cores and no attention should be given to any Quadrant results at this point for this class of phones.

Some recognize that perhaps their previous benchmarks weren't adequate - Nenamark came up with Nenamark2 to not give a false indication of 3D fps for dual cores.

Others seem to give some fair representation of what seems to be going on with capability increases.

But all of them are being abused by giving the impression that processors are in a horse race and somehow you can declare a winner.

Despite folklore to the contrary, depending upon your use case, the A9 Cortex processors at 1.2 GHz and S3 at 1.5 GHz add up as either equivalent or beating each other.

Coming from the direction of total phones and their UIs - now you've got it.

Good benchmarks ought to relate to something, and with our various uses, differences in system software stacks and the new dual core phones having so much horsepower, if you're looking at it from the perspective of the user experience, things tend to operate so smoothly and run so fast and so well that the better synthetic benchmarks do show some things but probably don't show as much as we might hope.

Like everything else, benchmarks continue to improve and refine, so perhaps one day that will change.

 

[EarlyMon]

Please take the Living Social ponzi scheme over here -

http://androidforums.com/samsung-ga...50-dollar-coupon-hopefully-can-used-gnex.html

Thank you.