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

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samsays said:
FWIW Salesperson at Costco thinks they will be selling them tomorrow. She could easily not have the latest info though. She didn't know if they had received inventory yet as she "only works part time."
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Precisely the response I got too. She was 'not allowed' to check stock until tomorrow. Weird.
 
MMcCraryNJ said:
The more I think about it, the more it makes sense to me that the network issues the last two days are the only cause of the delay.

Think about it. In the beginning of the week there was a mad rush by Verizon to get stores stocked up and caught up. If you noticed, on all of the leaked documents that were detailing shipping/inventory/storage prep, it mentioned that the phones were being shipped to stores by a special process, employees had to inventory them in a different way, everything about the way they got the phones into stores was done in a rush as opposed to normal.

My gut is telling me that they want this phone out just as quick as we want to buy it. Every weekend that goes by is another holiday sales weekend missed. And when the network issues and SIM authentication issues started coming up, they, in an emergency like response, killed the Friday launch. I'm assuming that in the areas where 4G was down, they wouldn't even be able to activate it on the network, or they would have to give you a brand new 4G phone saying "Well, 4G doesn't work...but enjoy it!"

Network is back up this morning. 24 hours of testing/waiting to make sure everything is fixed could put us at tomorrow still, but more realistically they will wait the weekend out to make sure things are straightened out.

No other scenario makes any sense to me. Lack of GW support makes no sense (see my previous post). The phone is obviously ready for prime time as it's been shipped and the OTA everyone is getting upon booting up is final. Employees have been trained. Everything is set to go. EXCEPT for their own 4G network...
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I'm thinking this to, considering the original 9 Dec doc indicated that 4.1 would be OTA'd within 2 hours of activation, that could be a lot of bandwidth spent on the OTA, and on 3g that would suck.
 
woodraskam said:
Someone YELL to get this information avalanche started, I can feel the thread's momentum swinging back to Full Scoptimism.
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just had to "lol" at the avatar - love the optimism!

my family took a trip to Rocky Point, Mexico a few months back, and we were playing Uno. we wondered if down there they call it "One"?? :D
 
My Verizon rep still hasn't called to cancel our appointment tomorrow and I know they have them in stock. I wouldn't be surprised if he can't/wont sell it to me when I get there, but since I've seemingly known more about the release than they have the whole time I'm certainly not going to inform him that Verizon delayed it again. I really think half the stores are going to be selling them tomorrow and half wont. Definitely going to be a huge mess, particularly as people swarm the stores that are selling them.
 
So I called up my local Verizon store and asked about the Galaxy Nexus, but got the story about how the date got changed. Desperately I called the closest authorized retailer, hoping that I'd get one that slipped through the cracks. When I asked about when it would come out, the lady said she thought the Galaxy Nexus was a Sprint phone and they had the Droid Charge, which was much better. I told her I'd think about it and hung up.

So anyone in the Fayetteville, Ar area hoping to get one early, you're out of luck.
 
Gravytrain said:
So what's the news this am? Does it look like we'll have our paws on nexus tomorrow??
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Full launch? probably not in my opinion...

soft launch? better then the full launch odds (still probably less then 50-50 IMO)

Some lucky few getting sold them? I'd bet a paycheck on it :)

They're in at least some stores and probably most stores by the end of today. some CSR will forget/not have heard/not care and will SELL one to someone one.

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that my bold prediction for the day!
 
Btw it doesn't take 24hrs to see if a network is stable. Oh and my rep called me from his cell in the parking lot last night telling me to just come in Friday morning something else I didn't understand and then hung up
 
A note regarding "customer loyalty" and/or "3G to 4G" upgrade discounts: I contacted *611 to see if anything was available. Turns out, these aren't offered in my area. However, they were able to offer $9.99 off my unlimited data plan on both lines for 12 months when I upgrade. So that's ~$20 for 12 months, or $240.....not too bad, I thought.

Just wanted to share.

Oh, and of course I told them I wanted the Nexus, but they offered no information as to when it will be available.
 
Android24 said:
So I called up my local Verizon store and asked about the Galaxy Nexus, but got the story about how the date got changed. Desperately I called the closest authorized retailer, hoping that I'd get one that slipped through the cracks. When I asked about when it would come out, the lady said she thought the Galaxy Nexus was a Sprint phone and they had the Droid Charge, which was much better. I told her I'd think about it and hung up.

So anyone in the Fayetteville, Ar area hoping to get one early, you're out of luck.
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Welcome to the madness!
 
SamMax said:
Probably told them "all calls will be recorded today so here is what you say"...Because everyone that calls is pretty much getting the same lines word for word.
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I know the Centurylink & Sprint use a customer service phone monitoring system that can learn what customers are asking about.

It makes sort of "buzz words" list based on all the calls it records over the day theoretically so that if certain things are repeated over and over they can address those areas of information.

Would be interesting if Verizon uses the same system. If so I wonder if "Galaxy Nexus" has made it into the hot list haha.
 
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