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

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xtop said:
good thing you've got 32gb to work with then huh ;)
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Xtop, again: you start shooting a bunch of 1080p video and high-resolution pics with that thing, you're gonna blow through 32GB pretty quickly. 32GB is a good STARTER for this phone, but I'd much rather have a slot that I can drop a 64GB SDXC card in.
 
EarlyMon said:
I don't know if/how this applies, but fwiw, I've got a 1750mAh battery in my 3D, and even with Sense and the way I run things, it's a champ.

Dual cores are/can be a big efficiency boost - just saying... hoping for the best here. :o
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Yes. Plus ICS might be much more efficient than running a super heavy and battery draining UI like Motoblur or Sense.
 
clb2196 said:
I have an eye-fi card for my Nikon dSLR. I copy the pics to my Tab, upload them to Picasa at full-res then delete from the Tab, and the still have them nicely in my gallery. :) I still back up the pics to my computer and back-up drives from the eye-fi card when I get to a PC, but I find Picasa very handy.

ETA: I understand not everyone has either mobile or wifi access all the time. I use Amazon Mp3 but with both that and Google Music you can choose to download music to the device too, so you have it when you don't have reception- and you can rotate through which music you download. I'm going on a cruise, for example, and don't want to pay international roaming so I will download some things. but I don't have to store *everything* in my libraries on my phone/tab that way.
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I upload to Picasa from a Win7 laptop accessing my linux server. So I have my backup on the server as well.

Having pics all in the cloud is fine since I rarely need to look at them so it is unlikely I won't have data. For music it is annoying to rotate in/out cached songs, but I'll have to deal I guess. Music files are the only real space I use on my current 32gb SD card.

I still have unlimited data so it doesn't matter from that perspective for me.
 
drhill said:
For $5 a year I have 20 extra GB on Picasa. I figured 5 bucks is worth the piece of mind for all my pics.
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Fyi, if you have a Google+ account, you get unlimited Picasa space, for free.

As it turns out, there's nothing to worry about. If you're signed up for Google+, photos up to 2048x2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes long won't count towards this free storage limit. And Google will automatically resize photos for you when you upload them to Google+, so they stay under the free size limit.

That means only photos uploaded directly to Picasa Web Albums over the 2048x2048 size will count towards the 1 GB of free storage, explains Google. And when that limit is reached, photos will be automatically resized.
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Thanks to Google Plus, Picasa Gets Unlimited Storage for Photos & Videos, Also Better Tagging
 
I REALLY hope the device is made out of some kind of metal. Just thought I'd throw that in there amid all the sd and battery chatter.
 
I want you folks to note the concern that our contact has for us. I really appreciate the tone of the information and that he/she really cared about what we thought about the specs. Thank you, Ms/Mr. Source!!! :D


The Source said:
One more thing. This is up to you if you want to share it with the guys or not. The phone I was using had a Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 clocked at 1.5 GHz. That was one of the 4 false specs on BGR (clock speed).

Some might be disappointed, so it's up to you if you want to share it. But it was really fast and had incredible graphics on gaming, at least in my opinion.


Thanks again, Steve. Great job on the forum.
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vasilator said:
I don't know about that last part. I play with my wifes Iphone 4 for 2-3 hours (games, etc) and It uses 20-30% max. I am talking not putting it down for at least 2 hours.

I only say this b/c it is the ONLY reason I am considering a move to IOS.
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What happens when you remove all the widgets and are left with only icons on the screen? I would say that's more apples to apples (haha, no pun intended) test. iOS is an app launcher vs. desktop.
 
I had no idea what to think anymore :o

Last night I was starting to lean towards GSM Arena's specs, but now I'm back to what BGR posted, even though we were told they were bogus and that we would be pleasantly surprised. Reason being that if the NP doesn't have a microSD card slot, it SHOULD (although, no guarentee...) be 32GB internal storage...and that was one of the specs from BGR's report, while GSM said 16GB.

Now, on top of that, it was said that there were four mistakes in the BGR specs. Internal storage and battery were suggested as being two, but now it seems that internal storage may not be an incorrect spec, and with the information about battery life leaking out, maybe battery isn't one either?

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Steven58 said:
I want you folks to note the concern that our contact has for us. I really appreciate the tone of the information and that he/she really cared about what we thought about the specs. Thank you, Ms/Mr. Source!!! :D
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Thanks Steve!

And thanks for not teasing us to death first! :D
 
dr01d3tte said:
People. We're getting this psyched about some details about battery life? Which I get is important but it's not like we learned anything major about the device.
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On the contrary, battery life, while a big variable, is an important part of how usable a phone is. A majority of the specs we've gotten so far are pretty esoteric. The CPU and GPU are more interesting for benchmarks and bragging rights since most current chips are fast enough to create a nice user experience. If a phone can't make it through a full day with reasonable use, then what's the point? If the worlds fastest racehorse can't make it all the way around the track then its speed is wasted.


On a side note, CEO WhatsHisFace doesn't like SD cards so it may not have a slot for them is foolish and arrogant on his part if true. I can think of several reasons why "Get Google Music" is the height of arrogance. That attitude worked so well with Netflix CEO saying to afford the price increase we should cut out a cup of coffee. Netflix stock reflects how people think of that. But I realize we were told conflicting things on this front today so nothing is concrete.
 
My biggest problem with NOT having an SD card slot is why the hell not have one. Why limit the device. Now, if it had some huge battery in it & for GREAT BUILD QUALITY and durability, they made it to where you couldn't open this thing up like an iphone, i understand no sd card slot....but if your going to sacrifice durability and build quality and allow the back to open easily, and replace the battery, why not put a slot for an SD card??????? Maybe I'm not understanding something, but it just doesn't make sense???
 
coach26 said:
My biggest problem with NOT having an SD card slot is why the hell not have one. Why limit the device. Now, if it had some huge battery in it & for GREAT BUILD QUALITY and durability, they made it to where you couldn't open this thing up like an iphone, i understand no sd card slot....but if your going to sacrifice durability and build quality and allow the back to open easily, and replace the battery, why not put a slot for an SD card??????? Maybe I'm not understanding something, but it just doesn't make sense???
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Repeating my opinion because it's easily missed and makes sense -

EarlyMon said:
It's support economics. Lose the SD connector, lose the separate-package SD add-on, lose customer complaints about why you can't hot-swap an SD card in an Android, lose iPhone comparison complaints, and then sell it as a feature rather than the shortcoming it truly is.

Oh, well, it is what it is.
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EarlyMon said:
Excellent, thanks Steven! :)

Now - where's the game-changing part? :confused: And who is it changing the game for? :confused:

Inquiring minds are inquiring!
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Agreed. So it's a Galaxy S II with a better screen, LTE, and ICS?

That's okay...but I'm not seeing where "SOMETHING BIG IS COMING". There's more to the story right? They were just talking about the screen?

It cost $49.99? That would be BIG

It too has Siri? I kid...I kid :D
 
schimm said:
What happens when you remove all the widgets and are left with only icons on the screen? I would say that's more apples to apples (haha, no pun intended) test. iOS is an app launcher vs. desktop.
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Yes, but if you take away the widgets (which I have 3) IMO you take away the main things I prefer over IOS. But I am just sick of the battery life of my phone lately and just venting mostly. And to be honest I am enviouls of my wifes one year old Iphones battery life.

I also am frustrated that that the Incredible didn't receive the latest GB update. IMO if you buy a phone at launch you should be entilted to every software upgrade untill the 2 year contract is up.

If you buy an Iphone at launch you receive the updates for about two years and that is fair.
 
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[first i wanted to post my opinion, but then i noticed its way to long and also full of insults, so i decided to leave it out...]


short version:

-> i'm disappointed 'cause the 'leaks' assume that the NP will only come with the OMAP 4460 and not the exynos 4212... :(

the GPU is already 2 years old, and i don't want to have a GPU that other smartphones were able to have 2 years ago... yeah with the right kernel you can overclock your GPU... so if you overclock your SGX540 from ~200MHz to 380MHz you'll have exactly the same model that is used in the omap 4460... (i don't know if i'd run smooth, but it's theoretically possible)

nevertheless i'll wait for the official specs, if the NP comes with the exynos 4212 i'll be a happy customer, but with the OMAP 4460 i can't imagine buying it...


i know you guys say things like you don't really care about its gaming performance, you just want ICS, but i don't... i want to play complex 3D-games on my smartphone, especially on the beautiful 720p screen...


moreover: no sd-card-slot? are you kidding me?

now when the first microSDCX-cards are avaiable with storage of 64gig (2gb theoretically possible), which are working with many devices like the SGS2...

no comment on that...

(yeah i know that they want to fix that with cloud, google music and all this stuff... but you need a permanent internet connection for that... here in germany you only get about 1GB/month @ 7,2MB/s and only 260kbit/s for everything after the 1GB... we don't have unlimited contracts or something...)
 
UBRocked said:
Agreed. So it's a Galaxy S II with a better screen, LTE, and ICS?

That's okay...but I'm not seeing where "SOMETHING BIG IS COMING". There's more to the story right? They were just talking about the screen?

It cost $49.99? That would be BIG

It too has Siri? I kid...I kid :D
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I don't know. Considering I was salivating for the SGSII and wanted to hurt everyone in black and red when I heard VZ passed on it, this is good enough for me.

We basically are getting the best selling device in the world, with an HD screen, and a whole new beautiful OS to play with.

Also, given that OMAP4460 hasn't been used in a phone yet, it might surprise us with speed, battery life, etc.

I'm excited.
 
hopefully we can finally put to rest the cpu nonsense :p:D edit: i see it's not going anywhere lol

curious. how many of you are going to stay stock, and how many of you are going to install cyanogenmod 9?

i'll be taking cm9 :cool:
 
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