*Official Galaxy Nexus Pre-Release speculation thread

RadYOacTiVe · Oct 26, 2011

Droid Life is showing a verizon banner that says "exclusively from...Verizon"

Verizon Confirms Galaxy Nexus Exclusive Deal - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

xs301 · Oct 26, 2011

nj02vette said:
I asked this question before and hardly got any responses.

So what phone has Verizon passed on in the past that you really wanted?

We all know the SGSII, but they passed to get the GNex. But I hear this from many people, and am just curious, s I don't really see it. No other phone on any carrier has been appealing to me at all.

The Nexus One. It was supposed to go to Verizon, but Verizon backed out.

Rightontime · Oct 26, 2011

VZW exclusive

. Still hoping i can get the phone unsubsidized through best buy or something on the same day.

iDon't · Oct 26, 2011

So I've signed up on Google's, Samsung's, and now Verizon's website for the Galaxy Nexus. Who do you think will be the first (and the last) to send info on a release date/pre-order info? First one gets a tip of the hat, the last gets a wag of the finger. It's a race!

"It's a Race! I hope I win..." Rowan Atkinson, Rat Race HD. - YouTube

brain85 · Oct 26, 2011

so....does anyone know if you can remove the google search bar at the top of the nexus?

hgray · Oct 26, 2011

brain85 said:
so....does anyone know if you can remove the google search bar at the top of the nexus?

Seems like it replaces the hardware search button. Two clicks to search now?

mongstradamus · Oct 26, 2011

RadYOacTiVe said:
Droid Life is showing a verizon banner that says "exclusively from...Verizon"

Verizon Confirms Galaxy Nexus Exclusive Deal - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

That is good news for vzw people. Will they announce how long exclusivity will last?

redraider1 · Oct 26, 2011

brain85 said:
so....does anyone know if you can remove the google search bar at the top of the nexus?

I assume it is just a widget like on other phones and simply hold and drag would remove it?

Ytram · Oct 26, 2011

Rightontime said:
VZW exclusive . Still hoping i can get the phone unsubsidized through best buy or something on the same day.

Just because it's a Verizon exclusive doesn't mean you can only buy it at Verizon stores. It's just the only US carrier that you can use the phone on.

Now there might still be some kind of exclusivity deal for retail distribution, but we will probably find that out later. As it is we've seen rumors of the SGN being in the Cellebrite systems at Best Buy and Radio Shack

Steven58 · Oct 26, 2011

Another good day for Nexites. Another good day.

Ninja Monkey · Oct 26, 2011

Signed up. Now give me a pre-order and release date!

Interestingman · Oct 26, 2011

iDon't said:
So I've signed up on Google's, Samsung's, and now Verizon's website for the Galaxy Nexus. Who do you think will be the first (and the last) to send info on a release date/pre-order info? First one gets a tip of the hat, the last gets a wag of the finger. It's a race!

"It's a Race! I hope I win..." Rowan Atkinson, Rat Race HD. - YouTube

I've signed up for all of these also. I'm hoping Google or Samsung are quicker to release info than Verizon. I got an email 20 minutes ago telling me the Razr would be available via pre-order tomorrow. The press release from VZW came out about 14 hours ago.

brain85 · Oct 26, 2011

redraider1 said:
I assume it is just a widget like on other phones and simply hold and drag would remove it?

Negative. They tried to do it in videos and it wouldn't work.

SiXiam · Oct 26, 2011

Ninja Monkey said:
Signed up. Now give me a pre-order and release date!

Awaits slickdeals preorder thread!

nj02vette · Oct 26, 2011

Lucky Armpit said:
Question... the article that was posted a few pages back about the comparison between the screens of the Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4s... should I be concerned that the pictures of the Galaxy Nexus screen were green?

Only the first picture appeared greenish (and also off on the iPhone). The other pictures I see white.

I wouldn't worry about anything unless you see it in person and dislike it. The white balance on the camera taking pics, the temp of the camera flash, and even your own monitors color can affect how pics look.

If you want HD resolution at this PPI in SAMOLED, that's all Samsung can manufacture now. It would be nice to get non-pentile, but I think at this resolution you won't be able to really tell.

gapi · Oct 26, 2011

Exclusivity, Foo-wee, just let me get my hands on it. I don't care who else has it.

mongstradamus · Oct 26, 2011

Steven58 said:
Another good day for Nexites. Another good day.

Technically its only an good day for vzw gn'ers lol some of us are still out in the cold with no phones really to choose from :rolleyes:

EarlyMon · Oct 26, 2011

nj02vette said:
Only the first picture appeared greenish (and also off on the iPhone). The other pictures I see white.

I wouldn't worry about anything unless you see it in person and dislike it. The white balance on the camera taking pics, the temp of the camera flash, and even your own monitors color can affect how pics look.

If you want HD resolution at this PPI in SAMOLED, that's all Samsung can manufacture now. It would be nice to get non-pentile, but I think at this resolution you won't be able to really tell.

If it helps with the question, my second opinion on your answer is - right freaking on.

So many variables.

And I was surprised - the font difference was big, but this time it's an Android with an attractive font!

PS - Accurate color is a problem with any phone. Although many find SAMOLED on the cool side (greenish blue) it's offset by performance in sunlight (brightness and contrast) and so forth.

jasaero · Oct 26, 2011

Ytram said:
Just because it's a Verizon exclusive doesn't mean you can only buy it at Verizon stores. It's just the only US carrier that you can use the phone on.

Now there might still be some kind of exclusivity deal for retail distribution, but we will probably find that out later. As it is we've seen rumors of the SGN being in the Cellebrite systems at Best Buy and Radio Shack

Yeah. Also, I doubt VZW exclusive can stop unlocked SIM free's that will make their way here for AT&T and T-Mo somehow or another if you are willing to pay full price.

booser4 · Oct 26, 2011

iowabowtech said:
Via IRC:

@jcase: the verizon phone won't have the same specs as announced...but I'm not telling you what is different.

Never know when he's jacking around or being serious but that lines up with Steven's source. I'm now leaning toward the theory that the speed was bumped up above 1.2, perhaps they got a kernel to run it in a more stable fashion.

I'm hoping the rumor that the Verizon SGN will be larger in size due to a larger battery is false. Hopefully if anything it's a larger capacity battery that remains the same size. I'm not sure at what point they have to make the battery physically larger to have more juice, but obviously it's not an exact science if Seidio can do larger capacity batteries in the same size as the originals for many phones. A fatter phone could possibly turn me away... we shall see

The processor speed being bumped would be cool, but didn't a lot of people say that the difference between 1.2 and 1.5 is basically not even noticeable?

A better GPU would be cool, since I know some people were dissapointed in that as well, but most likely not gonna happen. Lets hope whatever it is (if it's not the battery itself) that it doesn't hurt battery life significantly.

Lucky Armpit · Oct 26, 2011

Thanks for the responses everyone. Yes, there are many factors at play when it comes to photography... didn't even think about that. Glad to know it's NOT me going senile.

sox08 · Oct 26, 2011

in prepping for the galaxy nexus ill be selling my bionic and thanks to chief he informed me of swappa and I didnt know of it and it might not be that well known yet but yahoo.com should be helping that now.

How to sell your old smartphones on Shine

rushmore · Oct 26, 2011

Any info if 16gb or 32gb version?

Haelous · Oct 27, 2011

Can we be sure this was something that was changed since Verizon's announcement and not in the works for Verizon the entire time? Nobody's mentioned it yet, so i was considering the possibility of it being 64GB of storage. It's just that it's not a last minute thing. Nothing hardware would be, but I think that if I was going to make a carrier-exclusive hardware change, it would likely be that. Everyone else getting a lower-clocked CPU would be a bit weird for a development platform.

brain85 said:
so....does anyone know if you can remove the google search bar at the top of the nexus?

It's most likely the same as Honeycomb, so no.

kamon211 · Oct 27, 2011

rushmore said:
Any info if 16gb or 32gb version?

im hoping both are available at the same time, would suck to delay the 32gb version. on Verizon's website, the ip4s is 16gb/$199; 32gb/$299; 64gb/$399.

Thats why i think i will be able to snatch the 32gb sgn for $299 on 11/10/2011 (and partial optimism)

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