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

[Sushibagel]

I want my Gnex!!!!!!

Okay I'm done for a bit see you guys later.

 

[Slug]

I'm trying to figure out how you guys do those multi-quotes.

For each post you wish to quote, select the green + button to the right of "Quote". It will turn orange to indicate it's active. Once you've selected all posts, use the "Quote" button and all will appear in your reply.

If you want them to appear in the order posted, use the "Quote" button on the first in the series - that usually works but occasionally vB goes into a funk and reverses the order anyway.

 

[IndecisiveElle]

I have been having the same problem lately. It's been acting up since the last update.

I just started using it a few days ago. Its definitely better than the built in Sammy keyboard but it's not great for me yet. Maybe I just have unpredictable speech and text patterns. I am too special to be turned into data!

I'm definitely going to use it on. MY Gnex and my moms Rezound.

 

[Sketchr]

Thanks. Does anyone know where the TB camera stands as far as picture quality goes? I don't mean to beat a dead horse but if the TB's was considered middle of the road, I think I will be happy with the SGN's camera.

TB has a pretty good camera overall.

 

[vespadaddy]

Actually the new Rez and old Thunderbolt both use a Qualcomm MDM9600 LTE radio, but for whatever reason the Rez radio is reported to be muuuuuch more reliable, able to hold an LTE signal under poor conditions, and less of a battery hog.



Android itself has always supported multi-core, but the native browser hasn't been coded to exploit them until ICS and I think the latest update to Gingerbread. ICS for the first time leverages the graphics hardware for user interface acceleration. For both of those reasons, yes -- older phones will get a nice performance boost when upgraded to ICS (assuming they have some minimal amount of RAM available: OG Droid disqualified).



Possible but I don't see why. Hasn't stopped fruit phones from shipping.



Well said. Of course, Rezound's Adreno 220 totally destroys GNex PowerVR SGX540, cuz as we all know the 540 is like 2yrs old and can't move many pixels around. Don't thank me Early, just trying to spread some chip wisdom around.



Short answer: It was a clever hack, it made me laugh, and now I'm asking 3vil to please execute a reverse script to remove all of his thanks from this thread.

Really, if someone wants to mess with their own user login to do something creative, then go for it! But I didn't ask for all of these Thankses, I didn't earn them, and it renders the whole mechanism useless. It really shouldn't be up to any one person to decide for themself that some forum feature is to be made irrelevant for every other forum participant.

3vil, if you want to be clever about it, you could have some mercy heuristic where your script declines to remove someone's thanks if that would leave them at zero. Actually, the best idea is probably to remove your thanks from every post where nobody else thanked the same post. You do that and no harm no foul. Deal?

So really, it's just the right to display unregulated chest puffery that has been compromised? This 'ThanksGate 2011-2012' ('cause who knows when VZW will actually release this beast), reminds me a lot of how Minnesota motorcycle forums get testy when the snow flies.
Please please please don't take away my unwarranted 'thankses'! How would I ever get enough to order the super-secret decoder ring!? lol.

 

[scottg96]

Who thinks we'll hit 1000 pages before launch?

 

[EarlyMon]

Maybe someone can clarify this for me. ICS is the first android firmware to allow use of both cores, correct? The rezound and S2 aren't very far behind the nexus in speed from what I've read, even though they are on gingerbread. Does that mean when they are able to use both cores, on ICS, they'll potentially be faster than the nexus?

Incorrect. Either that, or someone forget to tell my own GS2 as it happily runs both cores when required. I believe Android 4.0 is the first version to properly utilise the full capabilities of multi-core processors, however.

Exactly.

Picture evidence here for an HTC running Gingerbread -

androidforums.com/htc-evo-3d/381826-dual-cores-anyone-taking-advantage-them.html

There are two basic ways of easily doing general purpose symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) for a dual core system.

Gingerbread used the one way, ICS is using the second way and it features improved task management - important on a multitasking OS.

Spoiler

I've written on both before the dual cores hit, if anyone cares, ping me and I'll look up the old post link(s).

Android (Linux) is a preemptive multitasking OS and for ICS, Google improved task management at the kernel level and I'm excited about it.

Google actually fed this change back into the Linux kernel open source project and I may be mistaken, but I was under the impression that this was the first significant feedback/change from Android to the Linux kernel and is being accepted as a welcome path there. (If someone knows better, please correct me, otherwise, I'll go back and check this later if I remember to.)

I expect the Rezound and GSG2 to improve with the ICS kernel.

As to whether they'll become faster than the Nexus, we'll see.

I expect all that will happen is that the playing field will level a bit more, with lovers of each phone citing synthetic benchmarks in various areas or other web sites to declare their favorite "won" the speed test.

Spoiler

And I predict that I'll continue to claim that the Exynos and OMAP4 at 1.2 GHz are overall equivalent to the S3 at 1.5 GHz for most uses to soothe the waters and because it's true, even though many don't believe this.

Sense, Blur, Wiz and pure ICS will continue to be healthily debated but there comes a point on an ultra-high performance dual core superphone where the perceivable determining speed factor is really the individual user's configuration and mix of apps.

 

[mongstradamus]

I just started using it a few days ago. Its definitely better than the built in Sammy keyboard but it's not great for me yet. Maybe I just have unpredictable speech and text patterns. I am too special to be turned into data!

I'm definitely going to use it on. MY Gnex and my moms Rezound.

I have been trying swiftkey on both my touchpad and captivate starting to get better at it. I used swype mostly before

 

[EarlyMon]

Well said. Of course, Rezound's Adreno 220 totally destroys GNex PowerVR SGX540, cuz as we all know the 540 is like 2yrs old and can't move many pixels around. Don't thank me Early, just trying to spread some chip wisdom around.

LOL

But you sparked an interesting memory. For a number of synthetic benchmarks, my Evo 3D is going to show superior performance to the Rezound.

Just like the iP3gs outperforming the iP4 - when you have few pixels to move around, you finish the benchmark faster.

(And no, I don't think the Adreno beats the SGX - srsly, you're crackin' me up.)

Short answer: It was a clever hack, it made me laugh, and now I'm asking 3vil to please execute a reverse script to remove all of his thanks from this thread.

NO!

Seriously - please - no more scripting against the site.

The entire matter is under review, please give us time - haste makes waste.

Cheers, thanks!

 

[garbageduck]

There was a video on youtube that somebody posted in this thread where the reviewer showed a dock that utilized the pins.

link?

 

[tluley51]

Who thinks we'll hit 1000 pages before launch?

1000 pages is 50,000 posts...So heck yeah we will. No doubt in my mind. I bet we reach that before we even get an official announcement. I'm voting about 55K posts before this thread is done...

 

[pcj]

Uh oh, Early's using the red text again...

 

[BlueBiker]

GO BLUE!!!!!

Thank you Ringhale, I appreciate that. Best wishes to you also!

Depends on who the female is, and my husband would know which ones I wouldn't appreciate him helping. I'm actually sending him out with my best friend tonight...her husband is working, and I'm sick, so they're going out together. LOL

Just don't make the mistake of asking him "Honey, if you were going to date one of my friends, which one would it be?" Trust me, that won't work out well.

I laughed when i read that... I then i looked around me and realized I'm in a half empty condo alone with a glass of wine having just been served my final divorce papers... I think im inside a lifetime movie! All that's left is finding out my bf isn't at the office right now and is off with my best friend.

{{{ }}}

 

[The_Chief]

Does anyone here remember about what post # we were at when that YouTube animation was posted about Verizon not selling Nexus until 5 million RAZRs were sold? For the life of me I can find it anywhere.... TIA

I'm guessing 63,000+ posts by the time we shutter this thing

NVM, I found it

 

[EarlyMon]

Uh oh, Early's using the red text again...

Had to - too important.

 

[3vil]

link?

wow, I can't believe I found it.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus - Which? first look review - YouTube
go to 1:05 and you will see the landscape dock!

 

[CinLou]

On the website its the plus sign in the post. You click it and then when you're ready you hit quote on the last one you did.
On the app its a matter of manually quoting and then copying, then backing out and quoting the next one you want and then pasting your previous copy.
Did that make sense?

Yes it did...you explained it very well...thanks BB!!

 

[tluley51]

Does anyone here remember about what post # we were at when that YouTube animation was posted about Verizon not selling Nexus until 5 million RAZRs were sold? For the life of me I can find it anywhere.... TIA

I'm guessing 63,000+ posts by the time we shutter this thing

Now that I look back, your right...We should DEFINITELY pass 60K posts...Just looked back about 12 days, which is what we are now till the 8th, and we posted about 20K posts since then...Crazy

 

[EarlyMon]

Is the unlock method for the GSM Nexus gonna be the same for the Verizon Nexus. I have already downloaded the files needed and am very excited to turn this phone into mine when it arrives.

The traditional unlock for any Nexus has always been the simple command

• fastboot oem unlock

Hope that helps!

 

[SuperTongue]

wow, I can't believe I found it.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus - Which? first look review - YouTube
go to 1:05 and you will see the landscape dock!

Ah, thanks. Sucks that there's nothing actually announced about it though... Really would like to grab a desktop dock as well as a car dock that supports the pins rather than micro USB.

 

[scottg96]

Now that I look back, your right...We should DEFINITELY pass 60K posts...Just looked back about 12 days, which is what we are now till the 8th, and we posted about 20K posts since then...Crazy

And you know the place will EXPLODE if/when Verizon makes an announcement/pre-orders

 

[rg98356]

Does anyone here remember about what post # we were at when that YouTube animation was posted about Verizon not selling Nexus until 5 million RAZRs were sold? For the life of me I can find it anywhere.... TIA

I'm guessing 63,000+ posts by the time we shutter this thing

NVM, I found it

VZW Boardroom - YouTube

 

[tluley51]

And you know the place will EXPLODE if/when Verizon makes an announcement/pre-orders

Exactly...It's weird to look back on this thread, and over half of the posts have been within the last 3-4 weeks, and this thread has been up since when...August? It's crazy how much posting goes on in here...When an announcement gets made, there will be thousands of posts shooting off in a short period of time. I can see it going over 70k no problem.

 

[jamesoja]

As far as the camera situation goes, I know all of this stuff can be relative, so I'm wondering if we are splitting hairs or do we think it is a legitimate problem? Like, is it going to be on par with my TB camera, which I'm really pleased with or are we concerned that it will be a step in the wrong direction? Thanks.

This is my BIGGEST concern. I do not expect my phone to be my DSLR, however I do appreciate a solid performing point and shoot. The iPhone excels here and with 2 kids under 3, there are tons of photos going back and forth for my wife and other family members. No phone I have used comes close to the image quality produced with the 4s and as much as I try to downplay camera quality for all the other great features of the Nexus, it is truly one of the top deciding factors for me. If the Nexus is not better then the Droid Pro, I will be forced to jump ship.

 

[BabyBlues]

I'm almost thinking of going home sick the day an announcement is made so I can keep up with the thread.