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

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coach26 said:
What about us Tmo people....is the HSPA frequency band post from earlier right????? That if it doesn't have both 1700 & 2100, the 19250 can't be a tmo device...fcc says only 1700 &1900?
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I would be utterly surprised if we saw the np out and subsidized on anything other than vzw until at least January. I think the fcc report was for phones to be sold outside the united states. I could be wrong but that is my gut feeling
 
magdelaine said:
Surely you can guess?? ;) I would think he would have already if he was going to...
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Oh I have a good guess but I harbor a fool's hope of getting a straight answer. You never know until you ask. Besides, I don't think I've ever directly spoken to Stephen and thought this might be a good time to start. :)
 
Steven58 said:
1] I can solidly confirm the November third date.

2] I can solidly confirm this phone to be a game changer.

3] I am being advised to tell you guys to hang in there because you will be very happy.

Steven58
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Nice! Thanks Steven. I knew we kept you around for some reason! :D
 
From XDA user(ibous):

"The FCC does not need / can't test the 2100 Mhz band as those frequencies are used for the downlink i.e. the tower is emitting and the phone is only receiving. The
phone emits RF energy on the 1700 band since this frequency band is used for the uplink in the AWS-1 spec. The FCC is checking to make sure the RF emissions from the phone conform to regulations so they test 1700Mhz and don't care about 2100Mhz as far as the phone is concerned. mmmkay? This is not a
phone spec-sheet, it is simply the FCC test results. The phone shown on that FCC summary WILL MOST DEFINITELY support full t-mo 3G and ATT's as well. It's similar to many of the recent Nokia phones in that respect."

Also the N1 didn't show 2100 on the FCC report and it launched for TMO
 
Is the first picture in the OP an official rendering or a fan-made 'theoretical' rendering? I tried to go back and see where it was posted but I couldn't find it. Thanks!
 
Jb2db said:
Is the first picture in the OP an official rendering or a fan-made 'theoretical' rendering? I tried to go back and see where it was posted but I couldn't find it. Thanks!
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The profile part (on the left) is the official render, but upside down. The front picture is pure fantasy.
 
Steven58 said:
1] I can solidly confirm the November third date.

2] I can solidly confirm this phone to be a game changer.

3] I am being advised to tell you guys to hang in there because you will be very happy.

Steven58
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I keep hearing the phrase "game changer" and I guess I'm just not sure what that exactly means. The iphone was a "game changer".... any ideas what game changer could mean?

Thought I get a little discussion going on this sloooooooooow Saturday.
 
giomasterg said:
From XDA user(ibous):

"The FCC does not need / can't test the 2100 Mhz band as those frequencies are used for the downlink i.e. the tower is emitting and the phone is only receiving. The
phone emits RF energy on the 1700 band since this frequency band is used for the uplink in the AWS-1 spec. The FCC is checking to make sure the RF emissions from the phone conform to regulations so they test 1700Mhz and don't care about 2100Mhz as far as the phone is concerned. mmmkay? This is not a
phone spec-sheet, it is simply the FCC test results. The phone shown on that FCC summary WILL MOST DEFINITELY support full t-mo 3G and ATT's as well. It's similar to many of the recent Nokia phones in that respect."

Also the N1 didn't show 2100 on the FCC report and it launched for TMO
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Thanks for the response to my question, makes sense!
 
yeah now i'm really confused...

the Droid Prime will be a verizon-exclusive device, supporting CDMA-LTE and likely the BGR-Specs,,,


the Nexus Prime (GT-I9250) will likely be offered to T-Mobile and At&T, maybe with the GSMArena Specs...


then there has to be another device, cause if you look at the FCC-documents you'll see that the i9250 won't work for e.g. german GSM-frequencies...

so they'd have to release another GSM device for the european market, and i personally hope that it will have the same GSMarena specs + GSM-LTE


so we'd probably have 3 different devices... :/
 
RichSz said:
My guess as well. You mentioning him writing something in your profile was the key bit of information.
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Yes, but it seems like Steven has been talking to him, and possibly others, about specifics. Steve wouldn't "solidly" state such things unless it was pretty reliable.

Millinium said:
I keep hearing the phrase "game changer" and I guess I'm just not sure what that exactly means. The iphone was a "game changer".... any ideas what game changer could mean?

Thought I get a little discussion going on this sloooooooooow Saturday.
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That's interesting.

Steven, did you use the phrase "game changer" because that's what your sources have said, or because they gave you enough specs to make you believe it's a game changer?

Only thing I can think of is maybe ICS will be borderline-revolutionary. Face-lock capabilities, something along the lines of Sivia, etc. maybe?
 
r4yN said:
yeah now i'm really confused...

the Droid Prime will be a verizon-exclusive device, supporting CDMA-LTE and likely the BGR-Specs,,,


the Nexus Prime (GT-I9250) will likely be offered to T-Mobile and At&T, maybe with the GSMArena Specs...


then there has to be another device, cause if you look at the FCC-documents you'll see that the i9250 won't work for e.g. german GSM-frequencies...

so they'd have to release another GSM device for the european market, and i personally hope that it will have the same GSMarena specs + GSM-LTE


so we'd probably have 3 different devices... :/
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Or could it also be that the Verizon version will be dual CDMA and GSM frequencies, along the lines of the GSMarena's specs, and AT&T and T-Mobile getting the watered down version?
 
Steven58 said:
1] I can solidly confirm the November third date.

2] I can solidly confirm this phone to be a game changer.

3] I am being advised to tell you guys to hang in there because you will be very happy.

Steven58
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Thanks!

I was mulling over just picking up a SGS2 and being done with it but this is giving me renewed endurance. :D
 
HanSolo said:
Steven, did you use the phrase "game changer" because that's what your sources have said, or because they gave you enough specs to make you believe it's a game changer?

Only thing I can think of is maybe ICS will be borderline-revolutionary. Face-lock capabilities, something along the lines of Sivia, etc. maybe?
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hm maybe it's a gamechanger for android devices...

as we know GPU-performance was always better on iPhone/iPad especially right now with the iPhone 4S [PowerVr SGX543MP2], and now maybe the Nexus Prime will be one of the first android devices with an equal GPU-performance (which would make me believe in the GSMArena-specs again)..

just a thought, cause i don't see how something can be a gamecharger software based, so it should be hardware-bases...

edit: or maybe because of it's huge screen...

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HanSolo said:
Or could it also be that the Verizon version will be dual CDMA and GSM frequencies, along the lines of the GSMarena's specs, and AT&T and T-Mobile getting the watered down version?
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im in love with that idea, cause i think that we (europeans + verizon-customers) will get our devices 'exclusively' some time before the other model comes to AT&T and T-Mobile... which would make sense, if you remember: T-Mobile & AT&T got some new SGS2-Models with higher specs a few weeks ago... but europe got their SGS2 (with lower specs than the new sgs2-variants) in may already [so 5 months ago] and verizon still got now highend sgs2-device... seems pretty reasonable to me :)
 
Millinium said:
I keep hearing the phrase "game changer" and I guess I'm just not sure what that exactly means. The iphone was a "game changer".... any ideas what game changer could mean?

Thought I get a little discussion going on this sloooooooooow Saturday.
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Just mho but I suspect this phone will be the first major threat to the iPhone if marketed correctly. All respect to prior android devices of course.
 
r4yN said:
hm maybe it's a gamechanger for android devices...

as we know GPU-performance was always better on iPhone/iPad especially right now with the iPhone 4S [PowerVr SGX543MP2], and now maybe the Nexus Prime will be one of the first android devices with an equal GPU-performance (which would make me believe in the GSMArena-specs again)..

just a thought, cause i don't see how something can be a gamecharger software based, so it should be hardware-bases...

edit: or maybe because of it's huge screen...
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Maybe it's a "game changer" for Verizon ~since Verizon for some reason or another hasn't really had a lot of great phones??
 
Millinium said:
I keep hearing the phrase "game changer" and I guess I'm just not sure what that exactly means. The iphone was a "game changer".... any ideas what game changer could mean?

Thought I get a little discussion going on this sloooooooooow Saturday.
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A couple of thoughts just off the top of my head, I would take it to mean a device that would cause others to play catch up...thus being ahead of the curve as they say. The other thing that came to mind was how the device was classified under the “Gamer & Entertainment Enthusiast” category for the CTIA event. I would guess this may have something to do with it being a Game changer...possibly the introduction of a new processor / GPU chip to the industry.

There's my guess:confused:
 
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