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

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I work at Macy's until Midnight tonight. The corporate store is just a few stores down from us. I will stop in before they close and ask if there are any changes for tomorrow. Either way, I will report back as soon as I get home or on my break (battery life pending). This could all change at the drop of a hat tomorrow morning, but I PRAY that this thing drops tomorrow. I am ready for my Nexus. We WILL be the next big thing to Apple's iPhone!!
 
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Good morning Nexicans :D
I'm about to order a TPU case, and sorry if this was asked 83000 times but which one do you think looks (or will look) the best with the Verizon LTE model? Glossy or Matte (and Black or Smoke?)? Thanks for your opinions :) I'm just really indecisive :p

i ordered a matte smoke cover. i am not a big fan of glossy phone covers as they tend to show scratches and other imperfections more than their matte counterparts. i went with smoke because someone mentioned it was slightly transparent and i think that's fairly rad.
 
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Just got back from my corporate store and it was a no go on the soft launch. I am slightly worried because she said they haven't actually received stock in yet, but were expecting it today by 7:00 pm. I tended to beleive her because she acutally brought out all the acces. and showed them to me and told me they have had them for over a month. She checked her system while I was checking out the acces. and said there was no news of a delay and she felt very confident that it will be released tomorrow. She took my name and number and said she will call when they get their stock in and even said she would tell me how many they got in. She seemed pretty sincere so I want to beleive her, just a little worried about the no stock yet. 11 hours and 5 minutes til we get our precious.
 
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Just got back from my corporate store and it was a no go on the soft launch. I am slightly worried because she said they haven't actually received stock in yet, but were expecting it today by 7:00 pm. I tended to beleive her because she acutally brought out all the acces. and showed them to me and told me they have had them for over a month. She checked her system while I was checking out the acces. and said there was no news of a delay and she felt very confident that it will be released tomorrow. She took my name and number and said she will call when they get their stock in and even said she would tell me how many they got in. She seemed pretty sincere so I want to beleive her, just a little worried about the no stock yet. 11 hours and 5 minutes til we get our precious.

Out of curiosity, did they have any docks?
 
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Just got back from my corporate store and it was a no go on the soft launch. I am slightly worried because she said they haven't actually received stock in yet, but were expecting it today by 7:00 pm. I tended to beleive her because she acutally brought out all the acces. and showed them to me and told me they have had them for over a month. She checked her system while I was checking out the acces. and said there was no news of a delay and she felt very confident that it will be released tomorrow. She took my name and number and said she will call when they get their stock in and even said she would tell me how many they got in. She seemed pretty sincere so I want to beleive her, just a little worried about the no stock yet. 11 hours and 5 minutes til we get our precious.

If she's expecting it by 7pm, that's a good sign. I'm sure a lot of stores will be getting final shipments today for sale tomorrow.

Cheetara once told me that some stores get stock the morning of!
 
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One would imagine, but the iPhone 4 had major issues with producing the white version. I don't know the manufacturing process but I think it had to do with front and back pieces not matching up.

I'm very familiar with the process I am a mechanical engineer and plastic injection molding is my specialty. If the parts were both made at the same manufacturer, most likely they either order a pre-mixed batch of the color ( say GE plastics which was actually bought out by an Arabic company named Sabic they would mix it before packaging it and selling it). or they are mixing it in the factory themselves but either case the parts should be the same color. There are some injection parameters that could change the part slightly such as flow marks, which are usually caused by fillers added to plastic.....if you have a poly carbonate and add fiber glass to i to stiffen it up you can see lines from the plastic flowing into the mold. My guess is they are using some type of PC/ABS blend for improved drop test. Anyway im way off on a tangent but a company like apple uses top notch suppliers and this should have been a no brainer....I have visited a die caster in China and plastic injection molder that make parts for apple and they should have been able to do this no problem. The die caster made all of the power and volume buttons for the iphone and Ipad I believe, they wouldn't say who it was for BUT he gave me the wink wink nod nod and let me look at the parts and that's obviously what it was for.
 
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At opening this morning, I went to a corporate VZW store in MoCo Maryland (just outside DC) and asked the manager about the GNex.

Me: So can I get a GNex yet?

Manager: We just don't know when it will be out... but I'm still hoping for end of the year. We just had a meeting last night and we still don't know. You know as much as I do.

Options:
1. He is not following along with corporate communications and honestly doesn't know about the release even though everyone else does.
2. He is intentionally hiding the ball.
3. The phone has been pushed back again.

is this the store in rockville?
 
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Come on lucky 15!

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I work at Macy's until Midnight tonight. The corporate store is just a few stores down from us. I will stop in before they close and ask if there are any changes for tomorrow. Either way, I will report back as soon as I get home or on my break (battery life pending). This could all change at the drop of a hat tomorrow morning, but I PRAY that this thing drops tomorrow. I am ready for my Nexus. We WILL be the next big thing to Apple's iPhone!!
Definitely let us know... 34th St is the one I'm planning on going to and all the NYC corp stores are all grumpy about sharing info.
 
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