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

[DarbagDarbag]

its not like its an official ics update or something (for the razr)


calm down people

 

[truelove79]

how is it game over? It's a crappy device.

qft

 

[spaceynyc]

Not actual ICS. This is moto we're talking about.

but it's gonna get the real thing at some point soon, this is just the beginning.

 

[HanSolo]

We're blowing up over 1 Rumor. Take a step back from the ledge until we hear a little more confirmation on the matter.

I'm starting to think that it's the other way around. I think it's ridiculous to get excited over any release date, Love Tunnel and Cheetara confirming or not confirming.

Verizon owns the jail cell.

Three Amigos 'Gonna Make It' P2.mov - YouTube

 

[akellar]

game over.

The End.

Really? There are dozens of phones that have ICS ports at this point. None are official and all have issues. I'm not sure why this impacts your decision on the Nexus.

 

[AntimonyER]

Off-Topic - Potty Training

Spoiler

You tried bribes? My neice was apparently the same way. She knew what to do but she wouldn't do it. They tried making her sit on the potty on a regular basis until she would go, but she never would. The second she came off the potty she went. They eventually told her that every time she used the potty she got a treat or ____(insert bribe here). A couple of weeks of that and she was good to go.

Off-Topic - Potty Training

Spoiler

Yep, trust me, we have done everything... its come down to just being a waiting game now...And she is a candy FREAK, I still can't believe what we can get her to eat if we bribe her with candy... she turns into a goat for a chance to get some.

 

[CinLou]

For now just enjoy more 10cent apps from Google -- even though some are repeats.

Day 8 of Google

 

[spaceynyc]

i'm not saying i'm gonna go get the RAZR, i'm just saying this is ridiculous how these phones are getting the ICS before we even get our Nexus.. and yes I know its not the real thing but it's only a matter of time.

 

[BabyBlues]

its not like its an official ics update or something (for the razr)


calm down people

+ infinity

 

[Deleted User]

Off-Topic - Potty Training

Spoiler

You tried bribes? My neice was apparently the same way. She knew what to do but she wouldn't do it. They tried making her sit on the potty on a regular basis until she would go, but she never would. The second she came off the potty she went. They eventually told her that every time she used the potty she got a treat or ____(insert bribe here). A couple of weeks of that and she was good to go.

Spoiler

Bribes work!! I bribed my son with hot wheel cars. I told him every day that he did not have an accident I would give him a hot wheel car. We started with M&M's to go in the potty. Once he mastered that we moved onto the hot wheels. With doing the underwear thing and bribes, my son was potty trained in 3 weeks.

 

[spaceynyc]

Really? There are dozens of phones that have ICS ports at this point. None are official and all have issues. I'm not sure why this impacts your decision on the Nexus.

Who said I wasn't getting the Nexus? lol. jesus.

 

[akellar]

I hope and pray we FINALLY get our GNex!

Fixed it for you.

 

[CinLou]

+ infinity

beautiful avatar BB!

 

[Stigy]

I hope and pray these great 10cent promotions are one when we FINALLY get our GNex!

If Thursday is the date, then Day 10 of the 10cent apps would be Galaxy Nexus release date.

WOAH conspiracy theory?!

 

[The_Chief]

I'm sorry, but I don't believe for a second that Nexus is going to be outdated for a LONG time.

• Few apps are optimized for dual core... how many are optimized for quad?
• Processor speed is almost equivalent. I don't know how I'll ever fill 1 GB of RAM, let alone 2 GB. Anything I don't use is just static potential sitting there.
• Bloatware.
• Updates through Verizon, not Google directly.

Sorry, but even with quad phones being introduced at CES next month, it'll be summer before we see one on the market. A year before a truly EPIC device like a Nexus Quad shows up.

So Nexus it is!

 

[flyinggerbil]

but it's gonna get the real thing at some point soon, this is just the beginning.

it's still a crappy device. i got my rent-a-razr a few weeks ago and hate it. there is more bezel than screen. it's also too light, if that makes any sense.

if the unicorn of phones doesn't hurry up and come out i'll be forced to call my og back into service to avoid falling outside my extended return period/preserve my upgrade/loyalty credits.

 

[MSUgEEk]

Off-Topic - Potty Training

Spoiler

Yep, trust me, we have done everything... its come down to just being a waiting game now...And she is a candy FREAK, I still can't believe what we can get her to eat if we bribe her with candy... she turns into a goat for a chance to get some.

Spoiler

Yikes. Good luck. She'll get it eventually.

 

[Slide83]

See, now you are being too optimistic... OTD, and Cincy both had it in their hand and activated, and you see how that turned out... Should be 100% when you walk out of the store with it.

Even then it's not 100%. Remember SamMax?

 

[Androidcurious]

You realize all these dates are just rumors right? Until we hear from verizon the 15th holds no more water than any other date. My confidence in the 15th has fallen from 2% to 1%. When Verizon announces a date, it'll go up to 50%. When I have it in my hand and activated, only then will it be 100%.

Bingo. I'm sorry to come across as too cynical but if this week comes and goes without a release, maybe instead of constantly assuming VZW is "screwing with us," people should question whether these "sources" actually know anything. I got excited about the 15th for a few minutes, then realized we don't have a single concrete piece of evidence actually pointing to the 15th.

And I still maintain that the deeper we go into the month, the less sense it makes for VZW to release the phone, unless they're legitimately tryingto bury the device which I don't buy.

 

[VTHockey11]

For me it's this week or bust.

At this point, it will be a very short lived flagship phone. Practically outdated by the time it finally shows up!

Quad core is just around the corner. I waited this l long, I can wait a bit longer. My phone is fine.

I wanted the latest, greatest most shiney new toy. This one is starting to feel a bit tarnished.

The problem I have with this argument is that you don't buy a Nexus phone for the latest and greatest in hardware. It's a flagship device, meaning that it is the best-optimized to run Android 4.0, it will be Vanilla Android, and will receive updates directly from Google.

I have no doubt that despite having worse specs than, for instance, the Droid Razr, the Galaxy Nexus will run much, much smoother.

Furthermore, if you don't get the Nexus, whatever Quad Core phone you buy in the next few months won't have Vanilla Android. It will have something like HTC Sense or MotoBlur (or whatever it's called now) on top of it, which, to me, is a major detriment.

The reason you get a Nexus is to have a wide-open, fully-optimized phone that is Google's flagship device. I hate to make a comparison to the iPhone, but it's the Android equivalent to Apple's iPhone, one phone on which to run Android as best as it can be run. The iPhone doesn't have nearly the specs of many Android phones but it runs much smoother than any of them and that's because it's a phone made by the developer of the software that is meant to be a flagship (except in Apple's case there are only flagships).

To each his own, but my personal opinion is that the Nexus isn't about specs as much as it is about getting the best, most open, most fully optimized phone Google/Android has to offer.

 

[HanSolo]

game over.

The End.

Not quite yet.

The touchscreen is one of the only things working so far and requires two fingers instead of one.

Weird.

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[bdub]

Just another "FWIW" post. Went into my local corporate yesterday. 4 employees, 1 manager. Right away I mentioned that I was lookin for info on the Nexus and the manager chimed in after everybody immediately stared at him haha. He said "well, we don't have a an official release date, we can take your name and number, BUT, if I was looking for a Nexus I would probably be here Thursday morning at 9 a.m.... Then he let me violate a demo unit for a minute. Thing felt great, coming from my OG. They were doing an OTA update at first and in my haste I didn't check the version afterwards, so I don't know if it was the initial OTA or something new.

Needless to say, at this point i'm taking Thursday morning off.

 

[TKEnzy]

So, I vented of my phone problems of this morning on Facebook, and this was posted in response in my comments by a buddy of mine:

Verizon doesn't even know when it's coming out. There are 4G issues. Stick with the razr. The nexus isn't that great. Just has ics first.

How many paragraphs do I write in response?

 

[ShanMan14]

If you're reading this you might suffer from:

battered Verizon Galaxy Nexus syndrome

n.

A pattern of symptoms exhibited due to lack of PR, release dates and information such as fear and a perceived inability to escape following the epic Android Forums, "***Official Galaxy Nexus Pre-Release thread***" and inability to achieve Nexus Nerdgasm; appearing in techno-nerds, geeks and mobile freaks who are mentally abused over an extended period by Verizon Wireless.

 

[johnnybirdman]

Rumor/reason for latest delay???... CSR's giving away too many $100 credits.. they expire 12/31.