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

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HanSolo said:
So guys, my friends and family have staged a bit of an intervention. The deal is, I get an iPhone 4S, and my wife lets me get the TP.

Uh oh. . . .

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What's a TP?
 
X24 said:
Eh, if the 4S was an actual upgrade over the 4, that deal wouldn't seem to bad at all. But I don't think I can get to a smaller screen.... and the reduced functionality (although it is a better user experience imho).
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what? the 4s isnt an upgrade? how? because its not a new number?

hans, don't do it
 
Well, seeing as how the TP might very well be out before the SGN, I'll take a look at it. If it makes me pee my pants, I may stick with the Dinc2 if I ask Verizon nicely and just wait.

I don't know why I can't have everything immediately. Is that so unreasonable?
 
mongstradamus said:
Transformer prime
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Lol. I was thinking a Touchpad. ;)

Not worth it IMHO. I looked at a 4S the other day. No way I could live with that tiny screen. Tablets are kind of useless to me. I use my laptop at home and my phone on the go. Where does that leave me time to use a tablet? I picked up a Touchpad during the fire sale and I use it now and then but I wouldn't pay more than $100-$150 for a tablet. I'd rather spend the money on a top notch phone.
 
HanSolo said:
Well, seeing as how the TP might very well be out before the SGN, I'll take a look at it. If it makes me pee my pants, I may stick with the Dinc2 if I ask Verizon nicely and just wait.

I don't know why I can't have everything immediately. Is that so unreasonable?
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Han my man I think I speak for everyone here and say you deserve both the TP and GN. We got your back buddy ;)
 
Dubbin1 said:
Han my man I think I speak for everyone here and say you deserve both the TP and GN. We got your back buddy ;)
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The wives say if I cancel my ski trip in January, I can have both. The husbands immediately began a chorus of "Nooooo!".
 
shawn218 said:
what? the 4s isnt an upgrade? how? because its not a new number?

hans, don't do it
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I just don't see it adding anything new to the mix. Performance was never lacking on the 4, the camera is nice, but again not a huge advantage over the 4. What really stands out and grabs your attention? Siri? Puhlease =P

The 4S is a fantastic phone, but it's just barely any more fantastic than the 4, which I obviously didn't fall in love with since I never bought it ;)

Next year might be a little different story for me and Apple products. Depending on what they end up doing with it, I may pick up a new Macbook (pro or air depending on what happens) and honestly we'll see what features the next Iphone brings. I'm expecting big things.

Until then, Gnex is the only thing I long for.
 
This is slightly disappointing from Engadget's review:

We're just going to come right out and say it. The five megapixel autofocus camera on the Galaxy Nexus is underwhelming, and to be clear, we're not referring to the specs, but to the actual pictures. In the year since the introduction of the Nexus S, we've witnessed significant improvements in camera performance, first with Samsung's Galaxy S II, then with HTC's myTouch 4G Slide, and more recently, with Apple's iPhone 4S. Each of these handsets combines an eight megapixel backside-illuminated sensor with a fast wide-angle autofocus lens, and takes wonderful shots. It's not clear why Google passed on using Samsung's flagship camera module, but it's a real shame. While the Galaxy Nexus shooter is extremely fast and introduces plenty of new features, it provides little (if any) improvement in picture quality over the Nexus S.
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I don't see any possibility of matching or exceeding the Incredible thread today. Tomorrow, yes, but not today.
 
HanSolo said:
This is slightly disappointing from Engadget's review:
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yeah. i can't remember where i saw it, but there was a thread either on here or macrumors comparing the galaxy nexus camera to the iphone 4s, the sgsII and the Vivid I think?

The Nexus' camera was clearly worse than both the iphone 4s and hte sgsII.

It was washed out, and not as focused as either of them.

However, other pics I've seen look great. So I am not sure what is going on.
 
HanSolo said:
This is slightly disappointing from Engadget's review:
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See, and that camera they quote in the myTouch 4G slide? Same as in the rezound. I have small kids and basically the only way I get pictures is with my phone, never have a dedicated camera with me. Camera quality is important to me, I know some people don't care, they always carry a DSLR, etc. Hmm...
 
I feel that the camera has been a letdown from all the reviews. Wish they would have used the SII camera but I think they were were trying to achieve the 0 shutter lag thing locked down first. Although the 4s is able to achieve this with a good lens.

I do feel the build quality could have been more motorola like but maybe we'll get that next year. We will certainly get this with all the other manufacturers in 2012 competing with the nexus.

The only thing I dont like on ICS is the lack of Search button. I can live without the menu key as they have implemented it in all the apps that need it. The problem is alot of times(IE: in contacts, in the imdb app, etc) in apps or different parts of the OS, Im in a certain screen and I want to search for something. I immediately go to the search button and the top turns into a search for that particular app or screen.

Hope they add that back in and make the bottom back to 4 buttons.

Which part did you feel was disappointing?
 
eddie33081 said:
I feel that the camera has been a letdown from all the reviews. Wish they would have used the SII camera but I think they were were trying to achieve the 0 shutter lag thing locked down first. Although the 4s is able to achieve this with a good lens.

I do feel the build quality could have been more motorola like but maybe we'll get that next year. We will certainly get this with all the other manufacturers in 2012 competing with the nexus.

The only thing I dont like on ICS is the lack of Search button. I can live without the menu key as they have implemented it in all the apps that need it. The problem is alot of times(IE: in contacts, in the imdb app, etc) in apps or different parts of the OS, Im in a certain screen and I want to search for something. I immediately go to the search button and the top turns into a search for that particular app or screen.

Hope they add that back in and make the bottom back to 4 buttons.

Which part did you feel was disappointing?
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Particularly the camera quality. Everything else seems to be great.

As far as the dedicated search button, someone posted on here yesterday or the day before that devs have figured out a way to add it in already.

That's what's great about the Nexus. Any software issues that aren't well liked will be easily tweaked by the dev community.
 
novemberwhiskey said:
yeah. i can't remember where i saw it, but there was a thread either on here or macrumors comparing the galaxy nexus camera to the iphone 4s, the sgsII and the Vivid I think?

The Nexus' camera was clearly worse than both the iphone 4s and hte sgsII.

It was washed out, and not as focused as either of them.

However, other pics I've seen look great. So I am not sure what is going on.
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Someone on this thread had a link GN vs SG2 with camera pictures. The GN had the better pictures. If some can post that link again, I believe it was last week. I'm on the phandroid app mobile. Thanks
 
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