GNex 5 Months In Review

[breynolds007]

I'm an Android OG and I've had this phone for a little over 5 months. I

 

[jbdan]

Thanks for sharing your experience on the GN! I'm sure a lot of people feel the same way.

 

[quiksilver169]

Your phone reboots once or twice a week? I've had two GNex's (Whistler accident) and neither had a reboot problem.

I do get the browser force close sometimes, annoying, but not too bothered by it and should be fixed soon. Also, after cycling through airplane mode and trying to use BT in my Audi it won't connect unless I reboot, another common problem.

 

[Karuk]

Agreed.

 

[jhonb]

"Answering phone calls-Recently, I’ve had a couple of times where I can’t answer an incoming call because the keyboard opens and blocks the option to answer. It doesn’t lock up, everything works after the call, just a minor annoyance."

This happened to me yesterday, I thought I hit a wrong button or something. The person that called, called me right back and said they got an recorded error message????

 

[NJSmoke]

I just recently found out why most high end phones are so big. Wired just did a piece on how the Iphone will be getting bigger in the near future. And it is because the LTE 4G antenna and chipset is large and you will have to also get a large battery to feed the chipset.

I will assume that we won't see high end phones get smarter until 4G is every where and they can stop putting CDMA chips and antennas in it. Or LTE advances.

 

[Demache]

I just recently found out why most high end phones are so big. Wired just did a piece on how the Iphone will be getting bigger in the near future. And it is because the LTE 4G antenna and chipset is large and you will have to also get a large battery to feed the chipset.

I will assume that we won't see high end phones get smarter until 4G is every where and they can stop putting CDMA chips and antennas in it. Or LTE advances.

I think part of the energy drain from 4G comes from the fact your powering two different radios. The still needs to maintain a CDMA connection for voice (even when you're not in a call) and LTE for data. Granted, the radio isn't the BIGGEST battery drain on the Nexus (that award goes to the screen), but pair up the radio drain with the screen, you've got a juice guzzler. Once we get Voice over LTE though, I'm sure it will help at the very least marginally.

 

[MachDelta]

"Answering phone calls-Recently, I

 

[NJSmoke]

That reminds me, the one problem I don't think the update is going to be able to address is that their is a problem with the phone sensing 2 fingers. Like in certain games.

 

[AntimonyER]

I get a reboot every time from Wifi Tether, but other than that, no reboot problems for me. Excellent review, captures my thoughts exactly.

 

[JamesSJ]

I am concerned that the poor signal strength and dropped calls is a hardware problem.

I wish it had the battery capacity of the RAZR Maxx.

Otherwise, fantastic device and OS.

 

[breadnatty08]

The only thing I

 

[Watson111505]

Great review ..I agree with you. Only thing is the reception issue which eventually will be fixed with an update hopefully. Hope BigRed can figure out this update process to make it less painfull. Wishfull thinking I guess.

 

[kinfolk248]

well my nexus has be lovely up until lately call quality has be hit or miss, i even flashed the new radios still hit or miss smh...smh...

 

[breynolds007]

Are you talking about T9 dialers? There are lots of 3rd party dialer apps in the market, Dialer One is a great one.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwOSwia3oubWVrLkRpYWxlck9uZSJd

That might work...if a phone number I don't have saved calls me, I'd like to be able to start typing the # in the dialer and it show the #'s history (If its been called/received before). It seems the stock dialer only searches your contacts.

 

[breadnatty08]

That might work...if a phone number I don't have saved calls me, I'd like to be able to start typing the # in the dialer and it show the #'s history (If its been called/received before). It seems the stock dialer only searches your contacts.

That's exactly how it works. Give it a shot, it's free anyway.