A few hours after buying my Nexus I get an email from 'Android Team', which for some reason I thought was from here. Nope. It's from THE Android Team, welcoming me to my new Galaxy Nexus. There's a couple of videos you can watch to get started. Pretty cool. The email said it was sent to me because I signed into my Google account on a Galaxy Nexus. Big brother is definitely watching.
Anyway, I thought we could use this thread to talk about our GN's once we finally had them in our hands, compare notes, etc..
So, from my perspective, here's some observations:
- The phone is amazing! It feels great in the hand. Solid. Does not feel cheap.
- Screen is really, really nice. Colors pop. Easy to view in daylight.
- The Verizon screen protector sux. Won't stay on in parts. Affects screen quality. I have one on order from Amazon that I'm replacing it with.
- LTE is fast! Wow! Over 25mbps download, 5mbps up. Coming from Sprint and AT&T there's no comparison.
- Call quality is great. Drove around NYC in places where my calls would have been dropped. Not one dropped call. Even in the tunnels.
- Ringtone volume really is low. Phone does not recognize my ringtones I bluetoothed to it. Had to use Ringtone Maker, import the ringtone, export the ringtone as is, then the phone sees it. Probably because it has to be in a certain directory.
- Speaker volume is really low.
- ICS is great. The OS is fast. I'm on 4.0.1.
- Face Unlock rocks....after you set it up properly. Set it up the first time it barely worked. Set it up again now it works almost 100% of the time. The trick is to hold the phone with the same hand at the same angle each time.
- The battery blows! Within 15 minutes of being unplugged I went from 100% to 87%, and hadn't even used the phone. I am on LTE all the time, though.
- I signed up to Google Music Beta and when I logged into my gmail account all my music appeared on my phone in almost an instant. Very cool. But man, that uses data.
- When I was setting up an account a Google Wallet screen appeared asking me to set up my credit card info to pay for services using my phone. I began to input data then suddenly the screen went away and now I can't get it to come back. Google Wallet is NOT installed. If anyone can send me a link to the .apk I would be much obliged.
I'm interested to hear others thoughts on their experiences.
Anyway, I thought we could use this thread to talk about our GN's once we finally had them in our hands, compare notes, etc..
So, from my perspective, here's some observations:
- The phone is amazing! It feels great in the hand. Solid. Does not feel cheap.
- Screen is really, really nice. Colors pop. Easy to view in daylight.
- The Verizon screen protector sux. Won't stay on in parts. Affects screen quality. I have one on order from Amazon that I'm replacing it with.
- LTE is fast! Wow! Over 25mbps download, 5mbps up. Coming from Sprint and AT&T there's no comparison.
- Call quality is great. Drove around NYC in places where my calls would have been dropped. Not one dropped call. Even in the tunnels.
- Ringtone volume really is low. Phone does not recognize my ringtones I bluetoothed to it. Had to use Ringtone Maker, import the ringtone, export the ringtone as is, then the phone sees it. Probably because it has to be in a certain directory.
- Speaker volume is really low.
- ICS is great. The OS is fast. I'm on 4.0.1.
- Face Unlock rocks....after you set it up properly. Set it up the first time it barely worked. Set it up again now it works almost 100% of the time. The trick is to hold the phone with the same hand at the same angle each time.
- The battery blows! Within 15 minutes of being unplugged I went from 100% to 87%, and hadn't even used the phone. I am on LTE all the time, though.
- I signed up to Google Music Beta and when I logged into my gmail account all my music appeared on my phone in almost an instant. Very cool. But man, that uses data.
- When I was setting up an account a Google Wallet screen appeared asking me to set up my credit card info to pay for services using my phone. I began to input data then suddenly the screen went away and now I can't get it to come back. Google Wallet is NOT installed. If anyone can send me a link to the .apk I would be much obliged.
I'm interested to hear others thoughts on their experiences.