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

[AntimonyER]

I'm sorry I don't buy into the "Verizon hates us, those liars! woe is me" stuff.

I don't buy it either. Verizon doesn't hate us. They have a reason they feel is worthy of delaying the launch, whatever it is. But it IS a delay. Even Verizon employees are admitting it is delayed. The store manager I spoke to admitted it was delayed. Verizon didn't release a press announcement with a date. But corporate DID give the go ahead for employees to tell customers the 9th. At that point, a press release doesn't change the fact that the 9th was made publically known to be the release date by Verizon. So when they pulled it back (with letters to managers announcing a DELAY), they delayed the launch, officially.

 

[Steven58]

What brand? I ordered a Toshiba on Cyber Monday that has similar specs. Its on backorder though.

hp...I prefer sony, but it was back ordered to 2/15...can't wait.

 

[woodraskam]

I have not bought a phone in an actual Verizon store in a while. Is this going to be $399 out of pocket and a mail in rebate?

no rebate for my rezound, I believe rebates are usually only for their feature phones that they get free or close to free.

 

[AntimonyER]

I have not bought a phone in an actual Verizon store in a while. Is this going to be $399 out of pocket and a mail in rebate?

No more rebates at Verizon. The price is the price.

 

[Laxstar785]

I love this thread....where else can you get nexus related covert audio recordings and photos of UPS stalkings?

I forgot about the ups and fed ex pictures those were hilarious!!!!!!!!

 

[trav473]

Off Topic

Just drowsing the interwebs and went to check out mydroidworld.com to see how active that forum was and noticed that they post their basic forum stats there on the home page of the site....... This thread alone has 2/3 the TOTAL number of posts in their entire forum..... Just found that kinda funny!!

 

[Grandmadroid]

My TPU cover arrived today. I walked around all day at work pulling it out of my pocket and "talking" to VZW reps. Great fun. And I'm going to wait tomorrow, for you east coasters to let me know if I should head down the street to pick up the phone that will go into this fine case. Standing by....Think I might even lay out a special outfit....and a hat....definitely a hat.

 

[SolidOrange]

so where did the rumor of.....oh nm

i would have answered this one of the first 3 times you posted, but i figured i would have been ninja'd by now.


it was posted in a few "i went to a verizon store and..." stories earlier in the day. pretty sure it was never anything more than that.

 

[AntimonyER]

Also "It's made of kevlar, so you can basically throw it anywhere and it wont break."

Tell him if he proves it to you via demonstration in the store, you will buy it

 

[gapi]

So - is the general consensus that I leave this avatar up?

Only if you Kiss & Tell.....

 

[AntimonyER]

hp...I prefer sony, but it was back ordered to 2/15...can't wait.

I have been faithful to Toshiba, but I am thinking about switching next time...

 

[Premium1]

I have not bought a phone in an actual Verizon store in a while. Is this going to be $399 out of pocket and a mail in rebate?

No still $299 in stores.

 

[woodraskam]

Tell him if he proves it to you via demonstration in the store, you will buy it

I like that, but I would negotiate it so I could throw it. Get a little of my VZW frustration out.

 

[red46123]

Perhaps, the 4G outage was because of the LTE radio in the Nexus. Now, they have to fix the problem since they had more then a couple testing and the problem came to light.

 

[sarxsvt]

Who has NOT been able to get their local VZW store to show off their Demo Galaxy Nexus??

Verizon store has consistently told me that they have no information, no stock, and that there will be no appointments or reservations. When it _is_ for sale it will be first come first serve.

Resellers range from "Oh that phone? Yeah I don't know. Its like the Thunderbolt though who knows when it might come out. You should buy this nice Razr ..." To "We have it, I'll take your number and call you when we can sell it?" <- Reseller wouldn't let me see one.

To personal friend who is a reseller who _should_ have stock tomorrow according to Fedex says that they were told "12/9, then 12/12 then 12/9 again then 12/15 then ... Soon" but all by word of mouth. I asked if he ever received "official" emails and he laughed and said they didn't rate as important enough for that. Edit: Supposedly was also told that the rotating launch day was because of failed software updates. FWIW ... Which is pretty close to nothing

 

[Tuesday013]

hp...I prefer sony, but it was back ordered to 2/15...can't wait.

I don't need mine until the end if the month so I am ok with the wait.

Btw thank you so much for starting and keeping this thread up! Its the only source I trust for nexus info

 

[jasaero]

I don't buy it either. Verizon doesn't hate us. They have a reason they feel is worthy of delaying the launch, whatever it is. But it IS a delay. Even Verizon employees are admitting it is delayed. The store manager I spoke to admitted it was delayed. Verizon didn't release a press announcement with a date. But corporate DID give the go ahead for employees to tell customers the 9th. At that point, a press release doesn't change the fact that the 9th was made publically known to be the release date by Verizon. So when they pulled it back (with letters to managers announcing a DELAY), they delayed the launch, officially.

Guessing CYA where Y=Verizon.

 

[chandl90]

Tell him if he proves it to you via demonstration in the store, you will buy it

I effing kid you not, he told me he has demo-ed this in store by throwing it down the hall. "And it didnt have a single scratch or thing wrong with it!"

Holy hell they are pushing the razr hard lol

 

[AntimonyER]

Oh, and I am back. All caught up. Steven, you do know part of the fine print for your phone was you will have a quiz on this thread after it closes... you may want to go back and read the stuff you missed... Just in case

 

[bschellva]

Well I am disheartened that we are most likely not going to see our precious tomorrow, as well as by the fact that I am a Virginia Tech student and we had another incident this afternoon...ehh. The only glimmer of hope I've had lately is that I get to graduate in 8 days AND I pulled the trick off that got me unlimited data yesterday. Wait, I guess those two things are more than "glimmers"

CONGRATULATIONS on graduating! Its always good to be a Hokie (except when we play Clemson).

 

[woodraskam]

I don't need mine until the end if the month so I am ok with the wait.

Btw thank you so much for starting and keeping this thread up! Its the only source I trust for nexus info

You have a bad judgement of things to trust.

 

[AntimonyER]

I like that, but I would negotiate it so I could throw it. Get a little of my VZW frustration out.

Yeah, plus the employee will probably throw it at something soft... You gotta chuck it at some glass or something

Post #2222, FUN!

 

[jasaero]

Verizon store has consistently told me that they have no information, no stock, and that there will be no appointments or reservations. When it _is_ for sale it will be first come first serve.

Resellers range from "Oh that phone? Yeah I don't know. Its like the Thunderbolt though who knows when it might come out. You should buy this nice Razr ..." To "We have it, I'll take your number and call you when we can sell it?" <- Reseller wouldn't let me see one.

To personal friend who is a reseller who _should_ have stock tomorrow according to Fedex says that they were told "12/9, then 12/12 then 12/9 again then 12/15 then ... Soon" but all by word of mouth. I asked if he ever received "official" emails and he laughed and said they didn't rate as important enough for that. Edit: Supposedly was also told that the rotating launch day was because of failed software updates. FWIW ... Which is pretty close to nothing

Yeah. I was a bit surprised when the rep volunteered to show me his demo phone. He was as excited about the phone as us though and may not have been following whatever rules about showing the Demos off that might be out there.

 

[Tuesday013]

You have a bad judgement of things to trust.

Why?

 

[altimax98]

This doesn't even make sense. The Xyboard and Nexus aren't even in the same category. That's like saying Apple is delaying releasing a new iPhone because a new iPad is coming out. They don't compete with each other.

They dont have to compete to steal sales from eachother. Its not in a companies best interest to launch two flagship like devices on the same day. Verizon stands better to push the DROID brand then to push a separate device entirely.

Also is it any wonder why the iPad and iPhone are on two different release schedules? They know not to launch two high profile, high expense devices on the same day