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

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jimbo1mcm said:
If this is going to be such a great phone, where is the advertising program? I might not be in the mainstream, but I can't remember any tv ads that it is coming. Whose job is it to promote it, VZW, or Samsung or Google? What a clusterfu.. Whoever said it was a niche phone might be right. If it isn't promoted correctly, it won't sell.
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I think we will see more advertising closer to the release date. At least I hope so.
 
jimbo1mcm said:
If this is going to be such a great phone, where is the advertising program? I might not be in the mainstream, but I can't remember any tv ads that it is coming. Whose job is it to promote it, VZW, or Samsung or Google? What a clusterfu.. Whoever said it was a niche phone might be right. If it isn't promoted correctly, it won't sell.
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Maybe you saw the "Something BIG is Coming" advertisement from Samsung...?
 
OfTheDamned said:
LG Revolution 2, Droid 4, and then there is the whole Galaxy Nexus/ Nexus Prime/ Droid Prime being different phones concept and that is just Verizon. Remember that there is also At&t, T-Mobile, Sprint and every other carrier on the face of the planet from Cananda, UK, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, Africa, Antarctica, etc. Who knows what else could be coming that nobody has bothered to notice yet.
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Panda just hinted we VZW peeps are getting ahead of ourselves thinking these other devices will be ours also.
 
I have a leather wallet no need for a google wallet and I don't even know what a google wallet is.But if it's full a money that they are giving away i'm in.
 
Random statistics - Since Eclair to Froyo, last year, the fastest that anyone updated a non-Nexus phone was six weeks after commitment of source to the AOSP code repository. If I checked correctly, the Nexus S launched Dec 6 and the Gingerbread SDK was available the same day - but the Gingerbread release to the AOSP was on Dec 17, 2010.

So - not a lot of time to beat the end of the year.

Also - and I mean no disrespect to those in the know - but I gotta ask this:

Is it just me or did both the ideas that the Nexus would hit all makers and that the Wallet was an issue hit the blogosphere first (especially here) then get those famous tweets later?

I don't use twitter a lot, so I don't know and can't check right now. I do know we were discussing Nexus on several phones early today while we kinda noodling around waiting for news... so - you know.

And a small PS - Sense 3.5 does not preclude ICS as a foundation, don't know if that was covered already.
 
vandyman said:
I do not think that Verizon wants Google to remove apps off the phone.
I think its the other way around. Verizon wants stuff add (Bloat)

If Verizon wanted stuff removed, Google would just release the apps as an add on. (download).




^^^^^OPINION^^^^^
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That was my opinion when I said that VZ was using this issue as leverage...not that they could take a position to isolate them from NFC but use the issue to gain some negotiating advantage they had been lacking during the original negotiations with Google.
 
yawdapaah said:
I'll wager a substantial amount that a lot of people in the forum influence a large number of people. As an "unofficial" IT guy in my office, I'm the go to person for phone tech. Just pushed a dedicated iPhone buyer to the SGS2 (and he's loving it btw).

Us 1% ers are the mindshare the OEM's need to win.
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You can't really believe this. The iPhone probably sold 4 million devices this week. We most certainly are not the folks the OEMs will or should cater to.
 
jimbo1mcm said:
If this is going to be such a great phone, where is the advertising program? I might not be in the mainstream, but I can't remember any tv ads that it is coming. Whose job is it to promote it, VZW, or Samsung or Google? What a clusterfu.. Whoever said it was a niche phone might be right. If it isn't promoted correctly, it won't sell.
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Give it some time. It's not even officially announced yet though we are pretty sure it will launch on 10/27 or 11/3. I don't think NP will get lackluster marketing like Nexus One and S. Verizon might not like to give it marketing push but Google/Samsung will do I think.
 
Sushibagel said:
If hope you're it's understandable they want to make the most they can, that's what they're in business for. My worry is that the corporate stock measuring is gonna result in things that can cripple the phone.
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root!
 
yawdapaah said:
I'll wager a substantial amount that a lot of people in the forum influence a large number of people. As an "unofficial" IT guy in my office, I'm the go to person for phone tech. Just pushed a dedicated iPhone buyer to the SGS2 (and he's loving it btw).

Us 1% ers are the mindshare the OEM's need to win.
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I totally agree with this statement. I know I easily have 10 friends who come to me for what phone or computer they should buy. So we may be 1 percent but we could easily have influence over 20-30 percent or more. I think many in Verizon understand this and that is why they pay attention to forums such as ours.
 
EarlyMon said:
Is it just me or did both the ideas that the Nexus would hit all makers and that the Wallet was an issue hit the blogosphere first (especially here) then get those famous tweets later?

I don't use twitter a lot, so I don't know and can't check right now. I do know we were discussing Nexus on several phones early today while we kinda noodling around waiting for news... so - you know.
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it was mentioned by different articles earlier in the year. i remember reading about a multiple carrier/ and manufacturer launch ICS. and as far as i can tell, the NFC story originated at a website called NFCRumors. Then BMX was asked about it and confirmed it is an issue.
 
Sushibagel said:
If hope you're it's understandable they want to make the most they can, that's what they're in business for. My worry is that the corporate stock measuring is gonna result in things that can cripple the phone.
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Yep. Most likely the ones that are making this so difficult are the ones in Verizon who don't even know how to use the smartphones they sell. They're all about looking at a chart that says this is how much money we'll make if we do this or that. All of their bloat and wanting to control everything is all about making money.
 
dmiller2007 said:
it was mentioned by different articles earlier in the year. i remember reading about a multiple carrier/ and manufacturer launch ICS. and as far as i can tell, the NFC story originated at a website called NFCRumors. Then BMX was asked about it and confirmed it is an issue.
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Yep, the NFC site I saw, courtesy of a post here, and it's true then - BMX responded, didn't originate on that.

And I've seen the ICS press, but I was referring specifically to several Nexii - Moto Nexus, Sammy Nexus, HTC Nexus - possible with ICS. I'd thought that was what the tweets were saying.

But with the flowery language I admit that I'm relying on posts here to interpret correctly.

BTW - I have a record of defending BMX as a member when he was posting here on the T-Bolt, so I have no disrespect, nor dog in the fight, just trying to sort out the actual timeline and causality of posts. ;) :)
 
jimbo1mcm said:
If this is going to be such a great phone, where is the advertising program? I might not be in the mainstream, but I can't remember any tv ads that it is coming. Whose job is it to promote it, VZW, or Samsung or Google? What a clusterfu.. Whoever said it was a niche phone might be right. If it isn't promoted correctly, it won't sell.
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They can't advertise it until it's acknowledged to exist.
 
Whew, just caught up after driving home from work and cooking dinner. Google Wallet being an issue possibly now too is the latest rumor I see. I must say, thanks Steven for the calming words. Control of phone content and updates are one thing, but money talks, I could see the Isis/Google wallet thing causing a big problem. It sounds like there is the possibility of a huge mid-upper level mutiny though if the execs do something unfortunate regarding this phone. Another open letter to the execs of a phone related company anyone?
 
So what happens if they cannot come to an agreement on Google Wallet? How can we be so sure it will still launch? Answer: We can't.

I'm not going to curse out Verizon just yet but if this thing gets killed at the 11th hour this would really blow.
 
kastleberg said:
If Verizon is paying ANY attention to this thread for real, hopefully they would realize that there is a large enough following of this device that they should be concerned with keeping/getting those customers. Also, that the group is small enough that I'm sure whatever negatives they see are minimal.
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I'm lost. Are we large enough or small enough?

BLD said:
They're all about looking at a chart that says this is how much money we'll make if we do this or that. All of their bloat and wanting to control everything is all about making money.
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How many for-profit companies do you know that aren't trying to make money?
 
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