*Official Galaxy Nexus Pre-Release speculation thread

kamon211 · Oct 18, 2011

any word on if VZW gets the OMAP GN, everyone else gets an upgraded exynos later this year/Q1 2012?

they did do something like this with the GSII (exynos vs tegraII)

kyler13 · Oct 18, 2011

I was starting to cool off on the hardware with the specs over the past day or so, but ICS sucked me back in. I'd love to have the latest and greatest screaming hardware, but it's all for not if the user experience isn't there. Glad to see they incorporated the ability to dismiss individual notifications, and in a much cleaner way than clicking an X or holding down to prompt an action. The "flicking away" feature is pretty damn cool! From what they previewed, I'd say Google scored with ICS. It makes some of the not-so-cutting-edge hardware aspects a non-factor. Suffice to say, I've gone from "wait and see" back to "pre-order". Excellent job, Google!

Trent Reznor · Oct 18, 2011

red66charger said:
p3droid is taking much pleasure in saying VZW customers should be a little worried. He's being a jerk about it if you ask me. *sigh*

Seriously

iSyntac · Oct 18, 2011

Okay I'm sold. ICS rocks.

GMK83 · Oct 18, 2011

Hope someone can clear up the processor when they get the hands on part

metlcat · Oct 18, 2011

Waaaaaaaaaant. Waaaaant now. Get on it, Verizon.

gapi · Oct 18, 2011

cereal killer said:
Ha...nope. I think it's pretty clear what phone i'm getting

Thanks to your suggestion to me during the Bionic period, me too.

darkestred · Oct 18, 2011

shawn218 said:
guys i missed it, how is the hardware looking? is the gpu good? is its specs impressive?

They only mentioned 1.2ghz and nothing about GPU.

Jersey Tom · Oct 18, 2011

Biggest question mark for me still is battery. How energy efficient is the S-AMOLED display? How much does that eat compared to a 4G radio? Etc etc.

Honestly way more impressed by the ICS presentation than the hardware, but yeah... looks like I'll be putting my dollar down on GNex.

Jon Nale · Oct 18, 2011

Overall, I was very impressed with ICS.

timothytaa · Oct 18, 2011

Sucks for VZW customers lol. So we know there will be an LTE and HSDPA+ version which is great news. IT will be released to TMOB!!! I'm excited

nkk · Oct 18, 2011

Intercrew said:
I have bad feelings about that new beam feature, stealing datas by reversing the function...

Unless you habitually touch your phone to other people's phones, then no. NFC chip does not have the power to broadcast over any real range.

-Nkk

rushmore · Oct 18, 2011

The_Chief said:
And all the chat people come flooding back in here, just to see we're on our way to 13,000 posts LOL

Verizon is bound to announce SOON... Samsung' webpage says Verizon, and I'm STILL believing November 3rd...

Agreed, but VZW so far has never gotten the higher end option of any Sammy device. If there is a 16gb and 32gb version, odds are they will take the 16gb version, which means about 10gb of space for apps and media.

No problem for cloud or Kindle Fire fans. Added: Sorry, the fixed battery and potential chipset deception of the Razr has me ticked off. I mean no harm

Both devices have good and bad points, but as usual, neither device covers my main wants. Oh well.

r4yN · Oct 18, 2011

darkestred said:
They only mentioned 1.2ghz and nothing about GPU.

that's why i think the GSM-version comes with the exynos 4210 (same that is already used in the SGS2) and the LTE-Version with the OMAP 4460 (which offers LTE-support)

BlueBiker · Oct 18, 2011

cusjs said:
5mp camera WTF

This is one amazing camera and will most likely smoke any existing 8MP phone camera in terms of photo quality, not to mention the zero lag!

Megapixels don't give you anything besides the ability to make large prints, which most people don't do.

jaydotelloh said:
i BELIEVE NFC is only activated when it detects another chip nearby...

How would it know there's another chip nearby if it isn't already activated? :thinking:

Ninja Monkey · Oct 18, 2011

Completely blown away by the features in ICS. A quantum leap forward for the Android OS. Wow.

coach26 · Oct 18, 2011

timothytaa said:
Sucks for VZW customers lol. So we know there will be an LTE and HSDPA+ version which is great news. IT will be released to TMOB!!! I'm excited

How do you know it will be on Tmo...did I miss something???

Trent Reznor · Oct 18, 2011

Thinking about what we just saw I think I would sum it up like this:

ICS is Awesome...

and we don't really now any more specifics about the phone hardware or release date than we did yesterday :eek:

bldgengineer · Oct 18, 2011

ALright everyone time for bed 4am comes to quick. Hopefully Rob will have a lot of our questions answered by the time I sit down at my desk with some coffee in my hand in the morning

NIGHT!

jaydotelloh · Oct 18, 2011

BlueBiker said:
This is one amazing camera and will most likely smoke any existing 8MP phone camera in terms of photo quality, not to mention the zero lag!

Megapixels don't give you anything besides the ability to make large prints, which most people don't do.

How would it know there's another chip nearby if it isn't already activated?

The same way a normal RFID tag works.. they dont really use power until introduced to a magnetic/EM field

nkk · Oct 18, 2011

BlueBiker said:
This is one amazing camera and will most likely smoke any existing 8MP phone camera in terms of photo quality, not to mention the zero lag!

Megapixels don't give you anything besides the ability to make large prints, which most people don't do.

How would it know there's another chip nearby if it isn't already activated?

Generally chips like that can have a polling detector that can power on/off the main chip. It is possible, although I do not have the knowledge to say much else.

-Nkk

gilgehmesh · Oct 18, 2011

r4yN said:
that's why i think the GSM-version comes with the exynos 4210 (same that is already used in the SGS2) and the LTE-Version with the OMAP 4460 (which offers LTE-support)

I like that idea r4yN.

timothytaa · Oct 18, 2011

coach26 said:
timothytaa said:

Sucks for VZW customers lol. So we know there will be an LTE and HSDPA+ version which is great news. IT will be released to TMOB!!! I'm excited

How do you know it will be on Tmo...did I miss something???

Click to expand...

Well the fact that the first 2 nexus devices have been released on TMOB and this one has hsdpa+ means that it must be releasing on TMOB and ATT might I add.

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coach26 · Oct 18, 2011

r4yN said:
that's why i think the GSM-version comes with the exynos 4210 (same that is already used in the SGS2) and the LTE-Version with the OMAP 4460 (which offers LTE-support)

Sounds really good to me!!!!!!!!!!!!

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