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

[Steven58]

Who would have EVER thought we would know NOTHING official by Thanksgiving. Huh. Oh well.

 

[Smartphone]

Exactly... By the time we see the nexus, in June or July, we'll be up to 125k posts anyway.

I'm still waiting for the Nexus One that Verizon promised me two years ago.

 

[X24]

Who would have EVER thought we would know NOTHING official by Thanksgiving. Huh. Oh well.

We know something. We know it won't be here this week

 

[EarlyMon]

A lot of people have been posting scores (consistently) in the 30-50 range, depending on the area obliviously.


I get 5 up and 10-16 down on crapcast cable

Just saying -

By the way, I can now report that my 3G speeds have doubled on Sprint, using the Speedtest app.

It completely disagrees with Open Signal Maps and Speakeasy - Speed Test (both of which agree with each other) and is ridiculous in claiming that I now have service that is easily double that of my actual local tower rate.

I'd urge a cross-check with Speakeasy or http://speedtest.net against your Speedtest app before trusting results.

I found that after a recent app update. I could be wrong for you guys, but I'd check.

PS - Like megapixels on a camera, speed is only one metric - you want to care about latency - a lot.

 

[pcj]

Not that it hasn't been officially settled. Here is the Black Friday email I just received from Verizon.

Got it too. Thanks Verizon, that's exactly why I signed up for Galaxy Nexus updates.

 

[Ninja Monkey]

MIUI always was laggy as heck on my OG Droid. Every build, froyo and gingerbread. Always with the lag. Every other ROM i've ran has been fine.

No lag on my DX. MIUI ICS is buttery smooth. The DX is more powerful than the Droid though.

 

[nj02vette]

That's not info, it is your guess. I was told last Wednesday that the release was end of November but Samsung and Google ready and it should have been out with the GSM release. NDAs got in the way of being to specific but there was a "software" problem holding the Verizon version back though like I said, Samsung and Google were ready.

My guess is that the reason the GSM version came out on the 17th and not earlier was because of Google/Samsung.

In all fairness, that's a guess as well.

But it is fact that the LTE model hadn't been finalized by the date of the HK announcement. If it was, they could have specified an exact thickness.

 

[lennyk1313]

Days go by and no real news as expected. I have been throwing around some wild ideas on what my next step will be if SGN is not out on VZW by December 8? I am just really tired of my iPhone 4 to be honest with you, and RZR and Rezounds are not the players at all. I am considering switching to ATT and getting a Nokia N9. This is just one sexy phone! Granted, I do know that Meego is unfortunately probably not going to get much (if any) attention since they are pushing Windows mobile (Mango) now, but Nokia did promise the support for Meego for years. Well I guess I will have to wait it out till December 8. There is still lots of time to change my mind.

 

[chankyu92]

Did I miss anything? I haven't been on the forum since last night

 

[jbdan]

Did I miss anything? I haven't been on the forum since last night

Nothing about a firm release date. As was noted though this thread is gaining on a potential record at AF and your part of it!

 

[zerocool79346]

Did I miss anything? I haven't been on the forum since last night

Nope haha.

 

[chankyu92]

Nothing about a firm release date. As was noted though this thread is gaining on a potential record at AF and your part of it!

Awesome! Haha a good news is always a good news

 

[BabyBlues]

Did I miss anything? I haven't been on the forum since last night

Nope. SSDD

Spoiler

translation is same shit different day

You are caught up.

 

[BlueBiker]

I was counting on you to square that away!

Heh, guess I'm predictable that way. But I looked all over and couldn't find any specific laws, just generalizations like these.

I had presented that an uncredited corollary to Amdahl's Law for years (back in my Cray benchmarking days) until someone found an ACM proceeding and helped me get it right. That was well over 15 years ago and I couldn't remember it, so I just winged that as close enough (the actual law is properly considered a corollary or derivative because in practice on a parallel system, space and precision tradeoffs become the real-world tradeoffs for performance enhancements). I can see why it reminded you of Knuth, but I don't believe that's right.

And Martimus is like us, so I figured if you didn't know, I would surely get a rise out of him.

Kewl stuff, I would've enjoyed hearing that. Maybe he can pinpoint it.

BTW - you might find this interesting -

http://classes.soe.ucsc.edu/cmpe220/Winter08/paperPresentations/andrewHINT.pdf

Yes, thanks! (downloaded and saved)

Both the S3 and the OMAP 4460 were both designed with superior video / media in mind.

Just like the Intel GPU that scores low on 3D gaming benchmarks but ultra-high on HD processing, the S3 in the Rezound and the OMAP 4460 in the Nexus set aside a portion of their 1 GB ram for mapping I/O and for GPU memory.

So, seeing less than 1 GB total on either phone is perfectly normal (and correct per the design).

400MB worth?! The Nexus S used the same SGX540 chip (clocked much lower) and only had 512MB total to play with. The GNex' framebuffer fits in 4MB, so I'm not sure why it'd need 100's of MB permanently reserved for system functions. Also if the NAND is memory mapped then it'd occupy address space but wouldn't need any backing RAM, right?

I'm wondering maybe the 300-400MB is soft-allocated caches & buffers that the OS would gradually relinquish if memory pressure gets high from running apps.

 

[jbdan]

Not that it hasn't been officially settled. Here is the Black Friday email I just received from Verizon.

I do see "just a few of our deals" though

 

[Namrak]

Did I miss anything? I haven't been on the forum since last night

As BB so eloquently put it: SSDD

Edit: ninja'd

 

[brain85]

So who's ready to pick up the nexus on friday?


Oh...nevermind.

 

[chankyu92]

Nope. SSDD

Spoiler

translation is same shit different day

You are caught up.

cool

 

[jbdan]

So who's ready to pick up the nexus on friday?


Oh...nevermind.

The only thing that could get me up & out on the roads that day!

 

[TheRoosevelt]

Huh. I'm disappointed in you guys. I didn't check in for a couple days, so I was fully expecting you guys to blow past 47,904 posts. I come back and we're still almost 1k posts away :'(

veeeeery disappointed
I guess that's what happens when there's absolute radio silence from Verizon.

 

[Crashumbc]

In all fairness, that's a guess as well.

But it is fact that the LTE model hadn't been finalized by the date of the HK announcement. If it was, they could have specified an exact thickness.

No offense but there are 20 other possible explanations of why it wasn't given besides the phone not being finalized.

Its not a fact, it's a assumption. (possibly a good one but still)

 

[brain85]

Look on the bright side...there are 3 football games on tomorrow.

 

[BabyBlues]

Look on the bright side...there are 3 football games on tomorrow.

None of which I will get to see.
The parade will be on though so I will be somewhat happy.

 

[Steven58]

You can always get this now!

Gee, that was one solid phone. That was back in the day when a phone was a phone.

 

[mongstradamus]

Look on the bright side...there are 3 football games on tomorrow.

some really good matchups detroit vs green bay and balt vs niners are pretty good