Sign-up page for the Samsung GALAXY Nexus gives you choice of seven carriers

8. remixfa posted on 20 Oct 2011, 07:06 2

now, just make sure its being sold IN store, and im going to be ecstatic.

Apple is probably pissed. Most stores will cozy the prime right up beside the i4s so people can make a comparison. Other than apple crazed customers, who would choose the i4s at presumably the same price??

10. ayephoner posted on 20 Oct 2011, 07:14 0

did you guys read the article?

it sounds like very little has been determined.

and remix, dont be so dramatic. the 4s offers plenty in comparison.

12. remixfa posted on 20 Oct 2011, 08:02 5

like?

put a 4s beside a nexus prime, and pretend you are talking to a person who has little idea of the difference. how would u convince them that apple is the better buy without hiding facts, using half truths, or lying?
Siri? Explain to them how its different than google voice commands. It has sarchastic answers? most people wont care.

I sell these things for a living and even if i wasnt a fan of android i would have a hard time coming up with selling points against the nexus other than "its an iphone".

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15. ayephoner posted on 20 Oct 2011, 08:15 1

lag, speed (i guess yet to be seen on the nexus), battery life, stability, apps offered

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18. scvzw2 posted on 20 Oct 2011, 10:09 2

Lag is gettin old this is vanilla Android so it won't have lag.. and as for speed LTE vs 3g?.... Sure about that.. Android is a stable OS and as for apps there is plenty in the market that caters to everyone.... Battery life that's to be determined but from what I hear the I4S is having its own battery issues.... Like remixfa said hiding facts and using half truths...

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19. remixfa posted on 20 Oct 2011, 10:26 4

lag?
the nexus that was shown at the conference was running PRE RELEASE software and was LAG FREE. it only gets better from there

Speed? yea, your 800mhz processor is faster than the omap 1200mhz.. oh wait.. its not.. lol

battery life? The i4s as worse battery life than the SGS2, Razr and presumably the Nexus since it will be the first that is dual core enhanced.

stability? yea, i havent seen a force close since android 2.1.. eons ago. ICS only increases stability by being the same OS on phones and tablets like iOS, setting minimum standards, and reducing a manufacturers ability to customize the phone.

apps offered? like what? a better game from Epic that has an average play life of a week to a month?? I'll take those upgraded google apps that I use every day, like 3D turn by turn google maps. 90% of apps that are on one OS is on the other.


me thinks you need to update your "facts".

as a sales rep, i can tell you for a fact that people care more about the advanced navigation, integration, and larger screens on Android than they do about the latest game from Epic. I dont even remember the last time someone asked me about what kind of high end games came on the phone.

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22. ayephoner posted on 20 Oct 2011, 11:32 0

http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/18/galaxy-nexus-android-ice-cream-sandwich-pictures-video-hands-on/

"As to overall performance, we saw a good deal of stutter in the Galaxy Nexus before us. Taps were not always recognized and there were occasional delays in performing an instruction"

from someone that used the galaxy nexus.

speed: see the benchmark article. processing power is not everything.

stability: my X restarted twice yesterday and needed a battery pull (on 2.2)

battery life: they each beat eachother (iphone and sgs ii) on stand by and usage, but arent we comparing the 4s and the nexus?

apps: twice as many on ios

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27. remixfa posted on 20 Oct 2011, 20:31 1

the one on screen didnt have that issue, and thats what im going by.. what I saw.. and again it was prerelease. unlike iOS which was out in the wild for testing for a month before its "official" release.. which blew any steam it might have had.. noone has had access to ICS until after the event.

stability - you bought a droidX, mistake #1. You didnt buy a high end samsung or HTC. My 1.3 year old Vibrant runs flawlessly, underclocked, smooth, and without force closing a thing. I also get between a day and 1.5 days with normal (decently heavy) usage.

According to PA when they did the SGS2 review it lasted even longer than the posted time. THEY said it was the longest lasting phone they have ever had. Concidering the i4s has a smaller posted time than the i4, that doesnt bode well.

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29. Thump3rDX17 posted on 21 Oct 2011, 00:41 1

FYI the only thing that was wrong with the Droid X was software. it was still one of the most powerful handsets out there. it just needed it's final build of Gingerbread to become as smooth as butter.

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30. ayephoner posted on 21 Oct 2011, 06:23 0

again it was pre release???

STOP TALKING OUT OF THE SIDE OF YOUR MOUTH!!!

it was pre release and running lag free one second, the next second its running with lag because it was pre release.

i got a droid X used. got a good deal on it and picked it due to the bench mark scores. i have seen HTCs and samsungs crash just as easily. i do think they are making improvements, but iphones still crash much less than androids.

fine, i'll concede sgsii's battery life. again, arent we comparing the galaxy nexus and the 4s?

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23. Thump3rDX17 posted on 20 Oct 2011, 14:20 3

ignorance. all of that has been resolved with current handsets even more so with an Android 4.0 device.

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24. ayephoner posted on 20 Oct 2011, 15:14 0

way to respond to post 15 without scrolling down to post 22. take your Ritalin and read whats already been posted.

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26. Thump3rDX17 posted on 20 Oct 2011, 19:57 2

does it really matter? i don't have the patience to read everything then go back through and respond to things i wanted to respond to. if i see something i want to respond to i'm going to respond to it.

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28. fanboys_r_zombies posted on 20 Oct 2011, 21:17 2

the zombies are just looking for their apple brains, they get lost from time to time...what has happen is Google isn't doing things the apple way so it confuses the zombies iphone zombies don't understand an open development platform they can't grasp the fact some people like their gadgets and tech to work a certain way and to defend this they use nasty zombieisms like "fragmentation" ..... please help me out by spreading the good word fanboy's are dead we now have Zombies on our hands

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9. remixfa posted on 20 Oct 2011, 07:09 2

they both have their ups and downs

SGS2 has better processor, touchwiz4 (i think thats a +), and proven performance/reliability/battery life, and depending on which sgs2, a slightly bigger "usable" screen.

Nexus has ICS, instant direct from google updates, 720p screen, and all the new things that ICS can do.

The camera on the nexus isnt worse.. megapixel means nothing.. nothing what so ever.. its a number. the prime has a better camera set up, more features, and presumably a bigger aperature. It may actually be the better camera. We wont know until we get some real reviews on it though.
samsung has a reputation for.. extended.. updates, so the sgs2 may or may not see ICS sometime soon.

both phones are made from samsung, so the build is probably going to be the same.. which is excellent.

11. roldefol posted on 20 Oct 2011, 07:38 1

For me at least, it's the screen. Oh, the screen.

I've played with the Droid Charge enough times to know WVGA Super AMOLED+ is not enough for me. Reviews talk up its vividness and lack of PenTile, but who cares when it's stuck at a 2009 resolution? HD Super AMOLED sold me on the Nexus.

13. remixfa posted on 20 Oct 2011, 08:04 1

lol.. i stare at an SGS2.. its a beautiful screen. but yea, higher resolution is always appreciated.

And what's even better is that 720p is ICS's NATIVE resolution. Bodes well for how common that screen resolution is going to become :)

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14. roldefol posted on 20 Oct 2011, 08:15 0

Hmm... what does this mean for the Galaxy Tabs and XOOM 1280x800 screens? If the native resolution of ICS is 1280x720, and ICS is eventually intended to replace Honeycomb, what will they do with the extra 80 lines? Or will ICS be tweaked for tablets (as the nav bar on the Nexus is clearly set up for a phone, not a landscape tablet).

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20. remixfa posted on 20 Oct 2011, 10:31 1

im sure there will still be allowed to be multiple resolutions. If they are backwards supporting phones, they would have to support older resolutions as well.

It probably means nothing really.. if they drop it down, would we really notice? for more than 10 minutes at least?

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17. Forsaken77 posted on 20 Oct 2011, 09:39 0

Even the i1, when it came out with its' seriously outdated OS and lackluster specs, was $350 on Boost Mobile. I guess that's why pre-paids usually go with older equipment... cause it's more affordable than a hi-end phone. Maybe this phone will come cross-compatible? Like it'll work for AT&T and Metro-PCS? That would be sick!!! Be able to have 2 different carriers on 1 phone simultaneously.

25. roldefol posted on 20 Oct 2011, 19:51 1

Based on what we saw in Hong Kong, it will only be available in GSM/HSPA+ and CDMA/LTE, so if it comes to Sprint it will have to wait until their LTE network is up and running. Sorry, Sprint folks.

I think the seven carriers thing will let you know if and when the Nexus is coming to each carrier... even if the answer is "not for a long time".