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

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Any chance Verizon is hyping up the razr so much is because they're simply better off to? Strengthen the Droid brand? Possibly lose less money subsidizing a lower spec device?

Not that they've been doing it publicly but it sounds like they already started to internally. I don't see how a gingerbread (blur) device can compare to a UI overhaul like ICS in a Vanilla experience. I'm sure the razr will be great, but I think Verizon has their people a little more excited about it than necessary. I love motorola hardware but no way am I going with motorola over an open device. Not a chance.

I don't think the razr will best the prime in any category (except maybe bullet penetration protection?) .
 
HanSolo said:
I would think that the Verizon exclusivity will be short-lived. It's actually a bit ironic that the AT&T-compatible version was the first to pass through FCC.

If you have the funds and are REALLY itching to get one, I'm sure you could import one quick and it would work on AT&T. At least I think it would. :confused:
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Nope, im broke as a joke. Trust me, If i could afford the Veizon bill and have $300 to shell out for a phone Id already be over there. I have to stick with AT&T because im only paying about $60 a month with unlimited data. And because there phones are $200
 
BLD said:
I don't quite think of it that way. I think final product is getting into testers hands. It has to. You can't really have a truely valid test and for that matter valid opinion feedback if it doesn't. I think the different is the tester that the hands belong to. They are being much more thoroughly vetted to be trustworthy. Maybe they are even being paid to be testers.
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Correct, like I said the testers who leak the info are no longer getting final product.
 
dr01d3tte said:
I was seriously considering the Celox until I found out it was AT&T only. It is supposedly the SGS2+. Nice piece of hardware.
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Yeah, as long as this does hit around Thanksgiving it wont be a bad fallback phone if the prime is not showing up by the end of the year. I hear it's actually is a tad slower feeling with the snapdragons than the S2, but that may be because of larger screen or its just not done being tweaked yet. Idk... its got to be better than my iP 3G.
 
dmiller2007 said:
Why don't you just wave a juicy steak in front of a pack of hungry dogs?

With that said, Krait or bust!
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Hey, if we get the 32nm Exynos in our baby, I'll be a happy dog. WOOF WOOF! 28nm isn't that much farther a stretch to wait on it.

PLEASE don't start again on the "we're not getting THIS CPU because..." thing again because we've probably eaten up 20% of the thread on that debate. I'm just wishing here :)
 
Have you guys noticed that although the ICS software buttons are hidden on the lock screen, that screen space is NOT used. It's just blacked out:

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I hope that's not the case on web browsing and movie watching. .
 
Just ruminating on another thread about release dates I thought that it might be a real possibility that the RAZR might be released October 27. My thinking is that the original Droid announcement hit about a week before release. Anyone else know the history of announcements to release times for Moto/VZ? Bionic doesn't count since it was announced in January and released in September. :p

Wouldn't it be awesome to have the RAZR come out October 27 and the Nexus November 3?? What a week that would be.
 
BiggestManEver said:
That is the case with the Xoom.

Rather, the buttons are semi-blacked out when watching full-screen movies. The buttons are present when web-browsing (that's how you hit "back").
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Not sure I'd like that. It's basically a 4.3" screen with a gimmick.

I hope they allow you to simply tap the screen to bring up buttons. If you can do that with the Pause, Play, Rewind, Etc. buttons, I'm sure you could do it with the software buttons. During web browsing, too.

So you have an extra tap, big deal. At least you'd get a real big-screen experience.

Otherwise it's a smaller screen than the Vigor (4.5") when you really look at it. :confused:
 
magdelaine said:
Wouldn't it be awesome to have the RAZR come out October 27 and the Nexus November 3?? What a week that would be.
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I wouldn't put it past Moto to try and nip Sammy sales in the bud by beating them to market. At all. I could only hope that Samsung would flood the waves with Prime commercials about a week before the RAZR got released! :D

HINT HINT Samsung!
 
Steven58 said:
My source PM'd me and said not to sweat it. S/he was cool with the blip in communcation. I felt good about that because I was upset. Ty Source.
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Good to know. That source of yours is one cool dude!

Or dudette. . .wait a second. . .is your source Droidette?! :eek:
 
HanSolo said:
Not sure I'd like that. It's basically a 4.3" screen with a gimmick.

I hope they allow you to simply tap the screen to bring up buttons. If you can do that with the Pause, Play, Rewind, Etc. buttons, I'm sure you could do it with the software buttons. During web browsing, too.

So you have an extra tap, big deal. At least you'd get a real big-screen experience.

Otherwise it's a smaller screen than the Vigor (4.5") when you really look at it. :confused:
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I thought it would be nice for the bottom buttons to auto-hide, then just swipe the bar up into view (kind of how you swipe the notification bar down).

So we'll see what they decide on.
 
HanSolo said:
Not sure I'd like that. It's basically a 4.3" screen with a gimmick.

I hope they allow you to simply tap the screen to bring up buttons. If you can do that with the Pause, Play, Rewind, Etc. buttons, I'm sure you could do it with the software buttons. During web browsing, too.

So you have an extra tap, big deal. At least you'd get a real big-screen experience.

Otherwise it's a smaller screen than the Vigor (4.5") when you really look at it. :confused:
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That's what I've been wondering too. Hopefully Samsung/Google takes care if it but if not it shouldn't be anything the dev community can't handle
 
dmiller2007 said:
Just out of curiosity, what are advantages to software buttons opposed to physical or capacitive?
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Great question. And not one I feel we'll be able to answer until we get our hands on it.

I read somewhere that capacitive buttons were chosen over hard, physical buttons because of a lower failure rate and because it simply looked cooler to have lit-up buttons.

Software buttons may not have any failure rate at all. . .but I'd be kind of scared relying so completely on software.. .
 
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