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

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Steven58 said:
I have to tell you. Last month I dropped my DX at Yankee Stadium. The phone was fine but I lost the function of my 32 gb sd card, due to the fall. I lost pictures, music and backups for all different types of roms for my dx. I lost my miui setup, my cm7 setup, my stock GB rooted setup and all of the sub nandroids with themes on these roms. What a hassle. I now have a new card and am pretty much ok, but I'm thinking I'd rather have an internal storage of 32 gb that won't have contacts that can scratch, like mine did.

Truth be told, between my 32 gb card and my 8 gb's internal, i'm a spoiled brat. However, I'm not worried about not having an sd.

As far as speed goes, I'll be going from a Single core, TI OMAP3630-1000, @ 1000 MHz with 512 MB RAM to this or whatever else I decide to upgrade to. It's a win-win for me.
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This happens to me on a constant basis. Did you try turning the phone off and taking the card out then re-inserting it and turning it back on? I have to do this whenever it takes a hit hard enough to slide the card just enough to knock it out of place
 
Steven58 said:
Don't forget... we're all supposed to be very pleased. This is going to be a premier phone, folks. Additionally, you'll be able to do more stuff with it, like with the FFC (I saw my son using his ffc on his D3 yesterday. It was cool.). You can probably even do nice text messages and phone calls and stuff. ;)
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Wow..this phone does texting AND phone calls? Did I awake from a coma inthe year 2050? :D
 
cereal killer said:
I'm hoping its not. Ill still purchase it but I really dislike the look of it. Profile is sweet though.

Looks like a mid tier device from the front for some reason (my opinion of course) so here's to hoping that's what it actually is.
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What exactly are you guys not liking it expecting to see from something that is mostly screen with no buttons?
 
rushmore said:
Perhaps it is the same confusion as the Droid 3..... For about a week, the spec stated "no micro sd", but really meant there was literally no microsd card in the package (you had to buy your own).
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That's my favorite case: Slot but no card, and I'll buy the speed/capacity card I want if I need it.

dmiller2007 said:
eh if no SD card translates into faster write times for taking pictures and the camera can snap pictures faster, then i'm fine with that. i don't need 32 GB of info on my phone at any one time. ever.
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Can't the Android camera store photos in internal memory regardless of whether there's an SDcard?

dmiller2007 said:
in other news, is anyone excited that this phone is probably going to have a HUGE dev community? first nexus on the biggest carrier. i see epic things in the future...
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Good point, this phone will get a looooot of developer attention. :cool:

Steven58 said:
I now have a new card and am pretty much ok, but I'm thinking I'd rather have an internal storage of 32 gb that won't have contacts that can scratch, like mine did.
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Smartphone said:
I lost my sd card data over a year ago when my card failed; I sympathize with you. I now have everything on my sd backed up separately.
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I'm sorry you guys lost data, but at least with data on an SDcard you can take it out and provide it to a recovery app or service. If the phone itself gets bricked, you may have no way to recover data from internal memory.
 
I don't know if this has been discussed already, but do we know if the prime will have a MHL port for mirroring? I believe the sg2 has one and I use it a lot on my Evo 3d so it would be nice to have
 
I am sure there are people out there that really need/want a SD card slot, but I for one don't quite understand it.

If the phone has sufficient built in memory, what are you putting on your phone at any one time that needs that much space? Suppose the built in memory is 32gb, and out of those 32gb, suppose you only can use 28gb. I can't imagine storing 28gb on my phone.

Especially with all of the cool cloud services, such as Google Music. Although I have music on my phone, I don't really need music on my phone because I could just put the files into my Google Music account and stream them. I believe there is an off-line mode if you, say for example, are going on an airplane where you won't have service. You can download the songs to your phone before take-off, and listen to them offline.

Even if I wanted to put a ton of movies on my phone, is it really that difficult to only put a few on my phone, watch them, then delete them from the sd card and put different movies on when I am done with the old ones?

Is this a hassle? Sure, although it is a very simple and straightforward task, I can see someone making that argument. I guess it all comes down to how you use your phone.

For me, personally, 32gb will be more than enough. I still have the stock SD card that came with my Droid 1, and I haven't even come close to filling that thing up.

I just thought I would share this because there are a lot of negative posts about no sd card.
 
BlueBiker said:
I'm sorry you guys lost data, but at least with data on an SDcard you can take it out and provide it to a recovery app or service. If the phone itself gets bricked, you may have no way to recover data from internal memory.
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Yeah, I've had an occasion or two where the only way I could get a necessary root file on the card was pull it out, slap it in a card reader and apply it that way. Would have been screwed otherwise.
 
Jon Nale said:
I am sure there are people out there that really need/want a SD card slot, but I for one don't quite understand it.

If the phone has sufficient built in memory, what are you putting on your phone at any one time that needs that much space? Suppose the built in memory is 32gb, and out of those 32gb, suppose you only can use 28gb. I can't imagine storing 28gb on my phone.

Especially with all of the cool cloud services, such as Google Music. Although I have music on my phone, I don't really need music on my phone because I could just put the files into my Google Music account and stream them. I believe there is an off-line mode if you, say for example, are going on an airplane where you won't have service. You can download the songs to your phone before take-off, and listen to them offline.

Even if I wanted to put a ton of movies on my phone, is it really that difficult to only put a few on my phone, watch them, then delete them from the sd card and put different movies on when I am done with the old ones?

Is this a hassle? Sure, although it is a very simple and straightforward task, I can see someone making that argument. I guess it all comes down to how you use your phone.

For me, personally, 32gb will be more than enough. I still have the stock SD card that came with my Droid 1, and I haven't even come close to filling that thing up.

I just thought I would share this because there are a lot of negative posts about no sd card.
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It's a negative for those that really need/use the space, so its not unfair for them to voice their complaints/worries.
 
RX-78-2 said:
It's a negative for those that really need/use the space, so its not unfair for them to voice their complaints/worries.
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I am not implying that there was anything wrong with them voicing their concerns. I think they should voice their concerns.

I made my comment just to balance things out. There are a lot of negative about no sd card (again, that is fine), so I thought I would write a neutral post about it.
 
Dubbin1 said:
What exactly are you guys not liking it expecting to see from something that is mostly screen with no buttons?
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Something a little more industrial looking. The early render from that artist was a work of art (no pun intended)

This design looks long and skinny. Dont like to say it but it looks girly in my opinion. Maybe in person it will look better or perhaps its not even it.
 
Jon Nale said:
I am sure there are people out there that really need/want a SD card slot, but I for one don't quite understand it.

If the phone has sufficient built in memory, what are you putting on your phone at any one time that needs that much space? Suppose the built in memory is 32gb, and out of those 32gb, suppose you only can use 28gb. I can't imagine storing 28gb on my phone.

Especially with all of the cool cloud services, such as Google Music. Although I have music on my phone, I don't really need music on my phone because I could just put the files into my Google Music account and stream them. I believe there is an off-line mode if you, say for example, are going on an airplane where you won't have service. You can download the songs to your phone before take-off, and listen to them offline.

Even if I wanted to put a ton of movies on my phone, is it really that difficult to only put a few on my phone, watch them, then delete them from the sd card and put different movies on when I am done with the old ones?

Is this a hassle? Sure, although it is a very simple and straightforward task, I can see someone making that argument. I guess it all comes down to how you use your phone.

For me, personally, 32gb will be more than enough. I still have the stock SD card that came with my Droid 1, and I haven't even come close to filling that thing up.

I just thought I would share this because there are a lot of negative posts about no sd card.
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That's the whole point. Its a pain having to switch sdcards what kind of a pain do you think it will be having to download music everytime you get on a subway, fly on a plane, work underground, even drive on a large enough bridge or drive through mountains with poor coverage. All of these things I do on a near daily basis and now the thought of having to download something before I can use it really kinda sux. I'm sorry but I can't say that I want to hear the songs I downloaded at the moment im going to be listening to them. Im one of those people that keeps everything on random.

Music is just one example of instances where not having a sdslot is going to really irritate me and i'm seriously considering vigor and even bionic now because of this
 
Google Music and other cloud services just aren't for me.

I am hard enough on phone battery life without streaming constantly. Also, there are places, believe it or not, that cell signal is abysmal. I still would like my music in these places.

I have 12gb of music in my library, which is rapidly expanding thanks to my lust for 320kbps+ and constantly adding tracks. I like to keep a few episodes of random shows on my phone to kill time or watch while I'm in bed. I usually have 1-2gb or photos and videos from my phones camera. I'm at around 20gb of media alone. Add that to several ROM's and nandroid's on hand, and 32gb seems like it'll be just enough, but an SD card would make me feel a whole lot better about it, seeing as my music collection most likely will reach 20gb+ in the next year or so.
 
Good Grief People!

I'm out of it in REAL LIFE for 4 hours and you guys blew through 8000!

Well, it got done in 29.5 hours, so nkk: go ahead and update the chart!

That's WITH a miserably slow news day and, right at the peak of excitement, apparently VZW hit the AF kill switch for an hour (glad I wasn't here for that - WHEW!). So I can safely project 12,000 posts by the time we get to the announcement... Steven58, what have you wrought here?

Anyway, back to the Prime: I'm a little bummed that there will be no SDcard slot, but I guess if it comes with 32GB onboard I'll feel a little better about the whole thing.

Anything else I missed? :confused:
 
nj02vette said:
While less bezel may look awesome, try holding it without hitting the touchscreen. I'd rather have a useful phone than a pretty phone anyday.
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Eh I have no dog in this fight. Just saying that's probably a dislike for some. Personally I was sold after I saw "vanilla ICS on Verizon receiving updates from Google". I don't need to see anything else or care what it looks like.
 
Jon Nale said:
I am not implying that there was anything wrong with them voicing their concerns. I think they should voice their concerns.

I made my comment just to balance things out. There are a lot of negative about no sd card (again, that is fine), so I thought I would write a neutral post about it.
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I'm sure you weren't implying that it was wrong of them to voice their concerns(sorry if my previous post came out that way).
You do make some good points about deleting movies(I plan on putting one or two movies just in case I get stuck somewhere/or I get bored).I guess we'll have to be a bit more cautious about storage.

The one thing that worries me a bit is the backing up issue, but maybe the cloud could help there?
 
First of all, the NP should be a great device, but not for me without the sd card. My Droid 3 has 12gb usable internal storage and 30gb usable on the sd card. I have no speed issues with a lot of media and game roms. That should be about 17gb more storage than the NP, since about 4.5gb of the usable space on the NPs 30gb usable will be taken up by ICS firmware, stock apps, data allocation and about the last 1gb will not be usable (just like HC).

I clearly stated most people will be fine with the NP and its storage, but I keep MP3s, movies,pictures, PSX roms, Oid roms and MAME roms on my D3 and use it as an all-in-one.

There are probably only one out of every ten folks that are media hounds like me.

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Also, 64gb microsdxc cards work on most newer devices (formatted to fat32 for most, unless ext3 support). I will get one of those when the price drops (a "few" months).
 
bldgengineer said:
That's the whole point. Its a pain having to switch sdcards what kind of a pain do you think it will be having to download music everytime you get on a subway, fly on a plane, work underground, even drive on a large enough bridge or drive through mountains with poor coverage. All of these things I do on a near daily basis and now the thought of having to download something before I can use it really kinda sux. I'm sorry but I can't say that I want to hear the songs I downloaded at the moment im going to be listening to them. Im one of those people that keeps everything on random.

Music is just one example of instances where not having a sdslot is going to really irritate me and i'm seriously considering vigor and even bionic now because of this
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If you really need your entire music collection on your phone, then I totally agree with you. You probably do need an SD card.

I currently have several GB of music on my phone, and the rest in the cloud. Between the two, I usually don't have a problem.
 
rushmore said:
Well then. My enthusiasm for this device just went to zero, if true. I could hold on to hope that the nav bar can be hidden, but no micro sd slot is absolute and IMO pure silly.

This aint' no iPhone or Windows Phone. Android devices "need" to have a micro sd.

I hope that "no micro sd card slot" is incorrect. If not, my D3 beats it for storage, since 12gb internal is usable for media and I have a $43 32gb micro sd that works fine (and is hot swappable).

Added: Please keep in mind 32gb in a device is not really 32gb:

30gb usable

At least 2gb will go to ICS data allocation space

About 1.5gb for the firmware package and stock apps

There is a floor of about 1gb, where you can not add anything, since apps will not install (similar constraint on HC too).

Seems like a lot of space for most (and is), but rubes like me that have Playstation, N64, all the Oids, Tiger MAME, MAME4droid, Amiga, videos and MP3s- no microsd slot does not cut it.

I use my Droid 3 as my travel all-in one buddy :) Well, the Flyer now as well.
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Well, the Nexus S got along just fine sans MicroSD slot
 
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