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

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yorcadon said:
Out of curiosity, am I the only person here who is not planning on rooting the Galaxy Nexus?

Also out of curiosity, can you still get OTA updates with a rooted Nexus?

I had my DInc for well over a year before rooting it, and nothing actually changed in my daily usage of the phone, except now the OTA updates don't work.
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I'm not rooting at least not right away. i used to root to get rid of the bloat and dont need that for this phone.
 
ebe3692 said:
has this been posted yet?

Villainous Verizon | Meme Generator
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Yeah, I posted it ;)
And I made my own:
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bsems1000 said:
Okay phandroids. Whats new in the world of fhe gnex release? I last logged on around 5 pm. Any new "leaks" or unofficial news from vzw employees?
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The GNex has phone AIDS and is quarantined as to not infect the precious Razr. No word on when it will be cured. It may quietly get out on the 9th, but Verizon isn't going to tell anyone as to not scare the rest of the VZW ecosystem into a downward spiral.
 
Premium1 said:
It isn't breaking any law. Same way certain games can't be sold until a certain time. Same could be true for these devices.
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It certainly isn't. You have to keep in mind the difference between company rules and regulations versus actual laws.

When I was younger I worked at a Target, unloading the truck at 3:00am usually working until 2:00pm - 6:00pm, loading merchandise onto shelves. We would always get things early, namely movies and games. I was put in charge of the electronics department and the higher ups told me pretty much every day that there would be hell to pay if I accidentally put a movie out on the shelves before it was released, the stored was fined something like $25,000 per copy sold early.

It can violate rules and agreements, but this is quite different from violating "do not pass go, go directly to jail" laws. Someone who sells a phone early after being told not to is at risk of losing their job, but I don't think they could do much after that.
 
alee0729 said:
They could block all the IMEIs tied to Galaxy Nexus phones from registering on their towers. So you'd have a phone that was basically unable to do anything until they whitelist you.

The question is what's that worth to them.

This guy got his LTE phone today.
Business account pays off - xda-developers
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Not to mention that would be a hassle for them and really they aren't supposed to be controlling what devices are on their network in such a heavy handed way per C-Block and other rules from the FCC.

Technically you are supposed to be able to develop a device for C-Block and VZW is supposed to confirm it won't cause issues with the network and sell it however to whomever you want. Obviously doing that wouldn't qualify you to offer contract subsidy sorta things to bring device price down as VZW would obviously not be forced to cooperate with your marketing and sale of the device. Problem is they are seemingly threatening OEMs with no such cooperation if they offer ANY more open devices in such an independent way.

Google would have done such an ACTUAL FULLY OPEN Nexus ALREADY if this were the case. They may now that they own Moto and I actually have said ever since they bought Moto this is part of the reason they did. They will eventually build devices not really fully authorized by the networks and offer them for sale using Moto. Samsung and HTC would refuse to do such a device for Google as it would threaten their chances of getting any other devices through VZW.
 
OT Compooter stuff

i7 920 @ 4ghz
Foxconn Bloodrage X58
6GB DDR3 1600
EVGA nVidia GTX570
Creative Fatal!ty PCIe sound card
2 60GB Patriot Inferno SSDs in Raid 0 for OS and a few programs
1 1TB internal for everything else
1 1TB NAS for backup
Corsair HX1000w (overkill now... But used to run dual GTX285s and a watercooling loop

Sleeving kit from MurderMods, with which I sleeved every individual wire on my psu, and several sata/fan connections.

All in a CoolerMaster Storm Scout case :)

I do IT for a living and love building PCs, and then pushing them to their limits afterwards.

I also play guitar and do a lot of recording with my pc, so the i7 works out great :)
 
220com2 said:
come on verizon...i have a credit card and i will use it :D
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I've had my credit card sitting by my comp since November 10. I'm also not a current Verizon customer. So every night that passes without the Nexus, Verizon passes up about $3000 of my money over the course of 2 years. Money that I WANT to give them.

They should just take it to be honest. :-)
 
MMcCraryNJ said:
I've had my credit card sitting by my comp since November 10. I'm also not a current Verizon customer. So every night that passes without the Nexus, Verizon passes up about 3000k of my money over the course of 2 years. Money that I WANT to give them.

They should just take it to be honest. :-)
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3Mil? I wish I had that kind of money to spend on cell service. That that I would. I just wish I had it.

So, I really don't expect to see anything at all tonight from Verizon. But, I'm up for some reason so...woooo NEXUS! YEAAA! BRING IT ON!
 
I called 2 Radio Shacks this afternoon around 430ish they all said next week and they just received an email about them, Usually Shack employees are strictly paid on comission and would love nothing more than to make a sale.
 
CPU stuff...

m1scr3ant said:
Errr...2600k, my bad!!
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Ah okay, makes sense. Hella nice chip, destroys AMD's just introduced top end Bulldozer. :eek:

clearym said:
OT Computer
Core i7 860
8GB DDR3
Radeon HD4350 512MB
100GB drive for OS
3 x 1.5TB in RAID 5
25.5" monitor
All running 64-bit Ubuntu
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Nice system! Must be a delight w/that big monitor. My crowd's mostly running openSUSE and Mint lately, not sure what's going to become of Ubuntu.
 
MMcCraryNJ said:
I've had my credit card sitting by my comp since November 10. I'm also not a current Verizon customer. So every night that passes without the Nexus, Verizon passes up about 3000k of my money over the course of 2 years. Money that I WANT to give them.

They should just take it to be honest. :-)
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But the longer they wait the longer they KNOW they'll get that money from you, if you have unlimited data now you're not going anywhere, so if they can make you wait just a little longer before getting into another 2 year contract then they'll get just a little more money out of you and everyone else in the same situation... oh Verizon knows what they're doing, and what they're doing is making money. They might not be making any friends along the way but they don't care, they're laughing all the way to the bank.

Edit: And by you I'm not referring to you since you don't have Verizon but to the rest of us who do and are waiting.
 
I don't know but I just get the feeling that we will be waiting until next week. I am holding out hope that the meeting in the morning will bring good news but I have my doubts at this point....
 
alee0729 said:
They could block all the IMEIs tied to Galaxy Nexus phones from registering on their towers. So you'd have a phone that was basically unable to do anything until they whitelist you.

The question is what's that worth to them.

This guy got his LTE phone today.
Business account pays off - xda-developers
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I'm surprised more people aren't curious about this, assuming its true of course. I figured Verizon wouldn't be letting Nexi onto their network yet aside from test units. Wonder how this guy got his activated?

Assuming this is true then it might be possible that any Nexus can be activated currently which would allow retailers like Radioshack, BB, Walmart, Costco, etc to start selling these devices. Seems like it would be hard to control non-corporate stores from selling the Nexus early.

Does anyone in this thread have a business rep like this person seems to have?
 
TKEnzy said:
3Mil? I wish I had that kind of money to spend on cell service. That that I would. I just wish I had it.

So, I really don't expect to see anything at all tonight from Verizon. But, I'm up for some reason so...woooo NEXUS! YEAAA! BRING IT ON!
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Fixed, lol. See what waiting this long has me doing? I can't even count anymore. Numbers are meaningless to me.
 
MMcCraryNJ said:
I've had my credit card sitting by my comp since November 10. I'm also not a current Verizon customer. So every night that passes without the Nexus, Verizon passes up about $3000 of my money over the course of 2 years. Money that I WANT to give them.

They should just take it to be honest. :-)
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But why when they're going to get it anyways ;)
 
mobgob said:
I don't know but I just get the feeling that we will be waiting until next week. I am holding out hope that the meeting in the morning will bring good news but I have my doubts at this point....
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Same here...at this point I'm just hoping its not pushed back further than next week...
 
To everyone wondering if a device can be activated before the launch date of a phone I'm pretty confident it can.

How can tech reviewers review a device that isn't able to get on the network?
 
fantasy scenario #2: somewhere out there is a verizon store employee who truly hates his job, and has it up to here with corporate and their stupid rules. So he snaps, office-space style, and sells every freaking nexus in the store.
he then starts cleaning a fish on the register counter until the manager comes and fires him.
 
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