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

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BlueBiker said:
If the loss is significant, couldn't they just spec larger gauge connectors or even use some of the 2-3 square inches of the battery's bottom for broad contacts?

Maybe this is a dumb question, it's late and I'm tired. :confused:
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I'm pretty sure this is a minimal loss but have no data on that. It's not like you are losing significant battery life.
 
mongstradamus said:
is it consensus that ics and the nexus prime will be announced and shown the same day. I am just wondering because I want to see if ICS is worth the hype and wait , if so then will wait for nexus prime , if not then probably will pick up an galaxy s2, since i dont think np will hit any other carriers other then vzw this year.
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I think same date, yes.
 
UBRocked said:
Sorry :(

I was left thinking that there should be another phone as the only high end device was the Atrix 2. Maybe there is some hope???
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I thought i remember reading that google said they would have ics devices on all carriers before end of the year, that looks to be false. Oh well here is to hoping that cm team will be able to get an port of ics for the rest of us lol. If it werent for cm 7.1 i still would be running froyo on my captivate haha.
 
EarlyMon said:
The longer they take to put ICS into the AOSP code repository, the longer it will take for the rest of us to get updates, either by maker, carrier or CM.
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is google planning on making ics open source ? I think i recall that honeycomb was never open source, so only an few manufacturers were able to make honeycomb tablets.
 
mongstradamus said:
is google planning on making ics open source ? I think i recall that honeycomb was never open source, so only an few manufacturers were able to make honeycomb tablets.
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That's a popular misunderstanding.

Google came out and withheld Honeycomb at first for what they felt was good cause. The story got complicated but pieces hit, in compliance with open source license -

Bits o’ Honey Hit AOSP, But Not Exactly How You’d Want It

My understanding was that as of the 3.2 release, they stated that the full release would be withheld until ICS.

I personally expect the logjam to break, but we have to see.

PS - this is poorly worded. Please see clarification below before responding. Thanks for the catch UBR!
 
EarlyMon said:
That's a popular misunderstanding.

Google came out and withheld Honeycomb at first for what they felt was good cause. The story got complicated but pieces hit, in compliance with open source license -

Bits o’ Honey Hit AOSP, But Not Exactly How You’d Want It

My understanding was that as of the 3.2 release, they stated that the full release would be withheld until ICS.

I personally expect the logjam to break, but we have to see.
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I always thought that they did this to NOT have the market flooded with subpar 3.0+ tablets. It's already heavily flooded and the last thing we need are really cheap, entry level Android tablets. Just a thought.
 
Can you believe we would have seen ICS and the official Nexus Prime tomorrow!!?? Samsung and Google better get their things straight because if we don't hear anything tomorrow (from CTIA or elsewhere) they're going to have a mutiny on their hands! Yes sir, I'm talking to you Samsung/Google if I don't see anything tomorrow you better watch you back. :D
 
UBRocked said:
I always thought that they did this to NOT have the market flooded with subpar 3.0+ tablets. It's already heavily flooded and the last thing we need are really cheap, entry level Android tablets. Just a thought.
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Sorry, yes - and to keep bad ports to phones.

When I said popular misunderstanding, I was referring to open source legalities.

Bad wording, late at night, many apologies for the confusion. :)
 
Namrak said:
Cam you believe we would have seen ICS and the official Nexus Prime tomorrow!!?? Samsung and Google better get their things straight because if we don't hear anything tomorrow (from CTIA or elsewhere) they're going to have a mutiny on their hands! Yes sir, I'm talking to you Samsung/Google if I don't see anything tomorrow you better watch you back. :D
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I dont think they are going to announce anything officially. only thing i see they could announce is when they will be showing off the np and ics
 
Namrak said:
Can you believe we would have seen ICS and the official Nexus Prime tomorrow!!?? Samsung and Google better get their things straight because if we don't hear anything tomorrow (from CTIA or elsewhere) they're going to have a mutiny on their hands! Yes sir, I'm talking to you Samsung/Google if I don't see anything tomorrow you better watch you back. :D
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Yeah... I really wished Jobs hadn't died. It would hsve made everyone happy... icon of tech industry keep on humming and we also would have gotten the detail on ICS and Prime. I guess we'll just have to wait. I still wished Jobs hadn't died... he was way too young and still had lots of ideas.

About the Qualcomm Krait... it does sound like a nice chip... with the exception of the GPU. Also nice is that the radios are integrated into the SoC. They almost seem to have a monpoly on radio chips. I did hear that Sammy is supposed to work with some Japanese companies to start designing and producing radio chips so they wouldn't be so dependent on Qualcomm. Krait will probably be the dominant SoC in the middle of next year unti the A15 based SoC start churning out from the likes of TI, nVidia and Samsung in the second half of 2012. Next should be just as exciting and interesting as this year. I'm sure we'll back here next Octobet wonderingwhat the next Nexus phone is going to be like.
 
Ok, first off, new technology interests me but at the same time I don't know a lot about it. I really need to educate myself. That being said, I'm curious, if people really don't like the "skins" that manufacturers put on the phones. Is it really that hard to wipe your phone and load a "Vanilla" version of Android OS onto it? Like lets say you could wipe and reload a pc with Windows? Aren't new smart phones like mini computers? What are the limitations that are keeping people from getting the Android OS straight from Google and loading it on their phones? Are they really that different from a computer now a days?
 
ASC, you're on the right track, but here's the deal.

The skin, or top-level UI, is called a launcher. You can easily replace it with choices from the Market.

However - the makers' UIs come with apps and widgets in addition to the launcher.

And you can't get the Google launcher from the Market, and even replacing things, you're stuck with the original stuff in the background sucking up storage.

To access the Google UI and/or free that storage, you need administrator access to the that microcomputer that is your phone.

Out of the box, the only one with admin access (we call it root) is your carrier - it's how they can do updates over the air. Same thing to wipe and reinstall the whole OS.

To gain root access voids your warranty on most (not all) carriers and definitely requires know-how that intimidates many.

And that burden, just to control your UI and limited storage, is the issue.

Hope this helps!
 
EarlyMon said:
ASC, you're on the right track, but here's the deal.

The skin, or top-level UI, is called a launcher. You can easily replace it with choices from the Market.

However - the makers' UIs come with apps and widgets in addition to the launcher.

And you can't get the Google launcher from the Market, and even replacing things, you're stuck with the original stuff in the background sucking up storage.

To access the Google UI and/or free that storage, you need administrator access to the that microcomputer that is your phone.

Out of the box, the only one with admin access (we call it root) is your carrier - it's how they can do updates over the air.

To gain root access voids your warranty on most (not all) carriers and definitely requires know-how that intimates many.

And that burden, just to control your UI and limited storage, is the issue.

Hope this helps!
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a question:

if i get a nexus device (probably n_____ p_____), i'll get stock android... what if i want to try a launcher, can i get back to stock android after using a launcher like Go Launcher Ex?

because i don't want to lose stock android...
 
Thanks for you're answer EarlyMon!

Second Question:

How do Cell Phone Carriers/Manufactures get away with locking down "OUR" phones. And getting away with "voided warranties" if we want to make changes to "OUR" phones, when we can essentially do all of that with our PC's with out a problem?
 
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