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

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Called a bunch of Radioshack stores this morning and they are all giving me a date of Friday. The Verizon Wireless stores that did give me info told me that I might want to be there Thursday morning (this is two stores) so take this all with lots of grains of salt, but still.


Radio shack has been mostly out of the loop for me.

-Guy told me that if I want the new Nexus Prime, its next month.
-They have the "old" Verizon Nexus in stock though
-Get to store, guy cant figure out how to activate it calls boss and gets yelled at
-Boss says its on sell the 15th
-VZW rep that assists Radio Shack says 15th is the date


I will get it when I get it.
 
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Been trying to refrain from OT football, but since the mods aren't complaining here goes.

Tebow is an awful QB but he's a winner and he's exciting. He will get better as we witnessed yesterday late in the 4th Q. As for his receivers, they dropped at least 4 other (besides end zone), very catchable balls that would have extended a drive or given them big gains. They need to work on that for next week's shootout. Tebow needs to read the receivers a little better too but that will come.

The Broncos were a lackluster team with Orton, everyone (fans/players) wanted to see Tebow given a shot and now they have it and now they are winning. It was an amazing comeback last night, the stadium was electric. Bears fans were hanging their heads.

Tebow is a leader and a winner. It's what he does. There have been several great players at the QB position over the history of the NFL that weren't necessarily considered great QBs. Brett Favre comes to mind. Stats aren't the best but he was a winner. Tebow will get better in time throwing the ball, but his subpar throwing will not stop him from winning until then. Amazing to see what he can do with a team. It's evident that his teammates are energized by him.
 
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I don't know I am just thinking that Corning would have charged a pretty penny to make the glass for the Nexus since it's rather large and curved.

I wish the Nexus was made from aluminum or carbon fiber.
Samsung Confirmed that Gorilla Glass wasnt used with the GNex. Then some of the android sites put up a post of Corning announcing a new product: Lotus Glass. Its able to be curved, the image showed an engineer holding a piece. But then talk died down and I dont think Samsung confirmed or Denied using it. So its possible its just another Corning product.

Also I have seen a few people comment that Gorilla glass is just a product name for [insert type of glass scientific name] anyone can use its possible that Samsung just went with another vendor but since they did it cant be called gorilla glass but is the same type of glass.
 
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I think we all agree that the next scheduled date for the Galaxy Nexus is Thursday. But last Friday was also a scheduled date for release, and guess what... we're still in the pre-release thread. So will we still be here this Thursday and Friday?


I think this Thursday for sure. I remember pyedpiper (sp) and BritishTurbo saying last week was unlikely and that the week of the 12 was the release date in stone even if it meant releasing with ota updates needed
 
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What did your source say last Monday??

i have two sources currently, one that i talked about last week said the 9th....we know how that turned out.

the other source that I mentioned today has been giving me "i dont know" until this morning when they said come in thursday.


this goes along with both verizon stores i've called that have said the release date is the 15th.


but, like always, nothing is official, just adding my lil pieces of info for anyone to take.
 
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Radio shack has been mostly out of the loop for me.

-Guy told me that if I want the new Nexus Prime, its next month.
-They have the "old" Verizon Nexus in stock though
-Get to store, guy cant figure out how to activate it calls boss and gets yelled at
-Boss says its on sell the 15th
-VZW rep that assists Radio Shack says 15th is the date


I will get it when I get it.

This reminds me of something we have taught our children.

"You get what you get, and you don't pitch a fit"...
 
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Semi-off topic, question about Verizon's online sales practices:

Does anyone know how returns/exchanges work with online purchases? I'll be a new subscriber opening up a family account with two lines, one GNex for me, and a featurephone for my mom.

I'd like to know that if for whatever reason there is something wrong with either of our phones, or if she would like to return/exchange for a different model, if I can just take them to any Verizon corporate store and swap them out, or do I NEED to ship the product back to them?

I ask this because T-Mobile has a policy where if you buy anything online and something is wrong with it, you NEED to ship it back to them, wait till they verify the contents, and then ship out a replacement. They operate the online and "walk-in" stores independently.

I've always just gone in to a corporate store. The "Authorized Resellers" won't do anything for you unless you buy it from them, but have no issues w/ the corporate stores dealing with the issue. The last one I remember was when the speaker went ou ton my Dinc. He didn't even test it, just got on his computer and ordered me a replacement.
 
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We haven't heard from Steven's source in a while or Han's sister...a new week, time to start texting :)

Han doesn't have a sister does he? ;)

Tomorrow morning will be the key IMO. Wed. morning was when the reports started flooding in to DL that it was no longer the 9th (Friday). So stands to reason IF there has been some sort of official word that the 15th is the current target date, if/when it gets slipped again, the word will go out then.

I concur
 
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So is it still true that the TP is still on track for the 19th?

If so, my decision is very difficult, indeed.

I just spent $400 on snowboarding and ski gear. There's no way I'll be able to get both now.

Get anything good? Still waiting on my new setup this year - and for more than one trail to open around me. Not one mountain. One trail.
 
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Anybody find a velcro size case to fit this thing yet.

I've used aftermarket, plastic cases, snap in, but the top flap style just works for me when I crawl all over and around equipment, etc.

All the ones I've found are now too short, to fit this hog.

It doesn't have to be exactly like this, just something similar.

Flea market velcro job is fine, as long as it holds the phone.
 

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OT - football

What the heck, I'll put my 2 cents in here. I really hope that Denver beats New England this weekend since it could help the Steelers in the standings at the end of the year and also because I HATE New England. Of all the teams Tebow has beaten are any of them the same caliber as the Patriots, no, not in my opinion. Tebow has been able to come back at the end of the games to barely beat crappier teams, not sure he'll be able to comeback against the Patriots. Just my 2 cents though.
 
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I think this Thursday for sure. I remember pyedpiper (sp) and BritishTurbo saying last week was unlikely and that the week of the 12 was the release date in stone even if it meant releasing with ota updates needed

my source mentioned week of the 12th quite a while ago, right around black Friday. I remember we all swore she was wrong.....i wish she was :-(, ....well actually now i wish she's right, but back then, we wished she was wrong lol.
 
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what's the likelihood that I can get my customer loyalty discount (due on 12/29) bumped up a couple weeks?

I spoke to someone on live chat, and said that's not possible. However, i read over here that some people were able to get it bumped up.

Do not ask the live chat people about stuff like that, they are clueless and most are ignorant and have no power at all. Call Customer Service and plead your case to them (you gotta be persuasive!) and I'm sure they will move your date up for you!
 
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OT Bears:

Bears should be hanging Marion Barber.

And Mike Martz should have death by firing squad.
I felt badly for Barber. But how do you call a running play to the outside? As for the fumble in OT, he was prob trying too hard in order to make up for the lapse in regulation. It really boiled down to, he stays in bounds and they almost certainly win the game with no timeouts remaining for Denver.
 
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OT Question

I am considering getting the Transformer Prime in addition to the Nexus. If we do get it, I will want to use it between multiple family members. Has anybody here found a good way (3rd party app maybe) to share a tablet between multiple people with different Google/Facebook/Twitter accounts?

Why not just create a separate Gmail account for the TP? Use ausimityfamily@gmail.com or something similar, then use it like you would a regular computer - if you want to log into facebook/Twitter or anything like that, you just have to log in for that session. At least with the separate email account you can all download things specifically for the TP without risking someone getting into an email account or fragmenting where the apps were downloaded to.
 
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