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

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I've seen 2 posts on here about phone blogs getting their Nexus demos. AC and I believe the other one was Wirefly but I don't want to hunt back to find it to make sure.

^^THIS is a good sign that the release is soon. Generally the blogs get to demo the phones before the launch day so that they can give free advertising for the carriers/manufactures and hype the phone up. I could see the 15th being the day, especially if more (like Engadget and Phonedog...etc) get their's in the next couple days.
 
Raftysworld said:
Chances of a 12/15 release are getting more and more slim. I'm betting January at this point.
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My local best buy has them. they let me hold one in hand and then crushed my dreams by taking it and locking it back up im the cabinet :mad:
 
MMcCraryNJ said:
+1, Thank you!

I'll add that I don't buy the conspiracy theories of wanting to sell more of the RAZR, not now anyway. Maybe back on 11/10 when both the RAZR and ReZound dropped. Maybe they had already decided to hold back the Nexus for a little bit to give breathing room. That was a logical conclusion.

But there was a huge effort, taking lots of manpower and money, to get the devices in stores in the beginning of last week, for sale on the 9th. All of the leaked shipping documents that I saw mentioned how the phone wasn't being shipped in the standard way, that it was being shipped as quickly as possible to all locations, and that there were special methods of stocking and inventory that all stores needed to follow. Verizon just wasted a ton of money on shipping and what was likely extra staffing across the board to achieve this. I don't believe they would have knowingly wasted there own money if they weren't serious about the 9th.

This also indicates to me that there aren't any legal issues holding things up. They wouldn't have targeted the 9th internally unless all was settled legally. Not to mention Google/Verizon wouldn't have signed the exclusivity contract and the contract to carry the phone before all legal issues were solved well ahead of time. Companies just don't sign things like that unless there are agreements in place ahead of time. Not to mention the whole Google Wallet thing is a ludicrous theory to begin with.

LTE issues. Updates were supposed to go out 2 hours after activation. No one that mentioned to snag a device early got an OTA. OTA not ready yet, however internal testers got the update the morning of the 9th. Phone delayed due to software issues still being worked out. Sounds completely plausible to me, and in fact sounds like the only plausible explanation to me.
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I agree with you. The main thing that concerns me though, is the exchange of comments/press releases about google wallet from google and vzw. Those were big time positioning statements from on high. Very legalistic in tone. There was nothing casual about them.

Maybe the google wallet issue and the google statement vs the vxw presser was not the issue last week. i hope not. But the timing of how everything went down was interesting, to say the least.
 
Steven58 said:
Okay friends, between Early and me, we must have deleted abooooout 40 posts. That's a lot of work. Love one another below this line, k? :D


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I've been trying to catch up for a while and noticed part way through that we went a page down instead of a page up. You guys have been busy. Thanks for taking out the trash! (Meant in a thanks for keeping it clean and fun way rather than getting rid of anyone or anything in particular)
 
cggorman said:
Image quality suffers noticeably on the GNex at lower brightness settings. Color banding becomes obvious on large fields of lighter color and white balance goes to hell. I think this may be a result of the pentile structure.
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At what % does it start to decline?
 
WormDoes said:
Playing devil's advocate here, but who's to say that email doesn't flood inboxes around 10:00 AM EST and those stores that have stock start unloading them to those brave enough to hit their local stores? I know, it's unlikely, but anything is possible, right? If I'm Verizon or Google I want this fiasco ironed out ASAP to get these phones sold and dollars/hype flooding in for 2 full weeks of Christmas sales
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Well from what it seems like so far, Verizon is definitely not appearing to be in rush to release this phone. In fact they seem more like they're just taking their sweet time trying to iron out "bugs" and spend an unusual amount of time on quality control. I think they're just to going to send out these e-mail as they usually do and the device will release the next day at best.

altimax98 said:
Honestly i don't think there will be anymore tangible (at least as tangible as the internet can get) leaks. Most stores have the devices, the training materials are out and the displays have arrived. Basicly I'm expecting this thing to launch at 12:01am one day and surprise at the stores at 9am. Followed by a PR release later that day or before the link goes live online. Maybe around 6pm est or later. Verizon has been made a fool since last week and they won't do it again. They will probably play the rest of the launch as close to the chest as they can. The only leaks i expect are word of mouth which will probably be correct.
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I highly doubt Verizon would want stores to be "surprised". Most of the stores I have went to explicitly said they were told by Verizon to await further communication either for release, stock info, or allowing them to sell the phone. If this happens I'm pretty sure within moments someone somewhere will put that e-mail up on the internet.
 
Reborn58 said:
I am so friggen jealous of every one of the very few people who have gotten a GNex early. I am finally off work tomorrow, I am going to make a few quick efforts to get a BB to "add a sku" and sell me one...
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Its not going to work for you. Even if you do print out that receipt as proof. I tried that and realised that no Best Buy is actively going to screw their store out of the commission Verizon pays to the store by making up a sku, since the on box sku doesn't ring up. Making up a sku (as they did with all 9999s means the store doesn't get paid properly).

However I still hope for the best. The more slip through the better.
 
Visited 6 different stores today (BB/RS/corporate...)

Mostly I got exactly the same info as everyone else. I had a couple people tell me they didn't know when it was coming, some said next week (the guy at the corp store) and a couple said the 15th, although at least one was a guy at radio shack just looking up what it said on Phone Arena. Take away message is to not assume they're looking up official info in their system just because they're typing away on the computer!

I couldn't get anyone to admit they had stock, and no one seemed like they were lying, but maybe I am gullible. I only had one person try to sell me the RAZR instead. He first asked why THAT phone when I asked about the Nexus. I said I wanted "pure" android and I wanted to be able to tinker with it. He told me that rooting the phone will void your warranty. Then he told me that his boss said that Motorola phones are the easiest ones he has ever rooted.
Instead of scoffing, I just told him that I wanted to do a side-by-side comparison. He also tried to frighten me into thinking that the double data might end tomorrow, because they had a BOGO deal for the stratosphere or something that ends tomorrow. It didn't make any sense so I didn't worry about it.

As far as reasons for the delay, I heard one or two say it was because of the LTE outage. They told me verizon's 4G network is down across the country...

The guy pushing the RAZR (at a verizon retail store) told me that it's because of Apple suing Samsung. That Apple is trying to block the sale of "all samsung products" and that the nexus "might be pulled before it ever gets sent out." When I told him that it was already out everywhere else in the world, he said "yeah exactly but not here." I smiled and said thank you and backed away slowly... haha

Not trying to rain on anyone's parade, just sharing my story since the Apple lawsuit was one I hadn't heard before. I also think it's the least likely possible reason for the delay. I think we would know about it by now if it was Apple's fault.

Oh also, didn't find any good boots at Macy's but I did find a red peacoat that I thought might do the trick, and for just the same price as a Nexus! In the end, I figured that I would seriously regret it a month from now while I was still waiting like 10 minutes for an AF page to load on my VM intercept!
 
Well, Jody has finished "Moving The Bed". We are shutting down. This client is a glutton for punishment and more money than anyone I know. I guess he is working on keeping most of it eh?:D
 
I am beginning to get more curious about the possibility of software issues. Since there are a few LTE units now "in the wild", it has been confirmed that the Verizon LTE version is using a Samsung build of ICS and not the stock Google version found on the unlocked GSM versions.

That may be only so the two known apps (My Verizon and Backup Assistant) could be integrated and no big deal. The source for that is the XDA developers forum.

They are trying to determine if reflashing the LTE version to the pure vanilla Google build (to allow for direct updates from Google) is 100% compatible with the LTE hardware. Not that it makes any big diference at this point.

But it might explain how the LTE version could be suffering from issues the unlocked GSM versions are not. I thought the addition of the 2 VZW apps to not be a big deal for me personally. If however, there are other items that are going to make getting updates indirectly impossible, that would be a real bummer.

Being the first to get ICS updates was a major factor in wanting the GN so badly. Hopefully, they'll get it sorted though.
 
This will illustrate how far gone I am:
While watching Breaking Dawn I had a couple observations.
I could hear a lot of us, especially OTD, saying "who the hell came up with the idea to make them sparkle". I saw the wedding being officiated by Steven. NightAngel79 and CaptainRon were at the airport.
And I couldn't help but look at the cell phones and wonder which ones they were. Pretty sure either LG or HTC though.
 
gapi said:
Well, Jody has finished "Moving The Bed". We are shutting down. This client is a glutton for punishment and more money than anyone I know. I guess he is working on keeping most of it eh?:D
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Are you talking about taking a snap shot of the big bang theory?;)
 
soy.lor.n said:
Visited 6 different stores today (BB/RS/corporate...)

That Apple is trying to block the sale of "all samsung products" and that the nexus "might be pulled before it ever gets sent out."!
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Maybe someone with a law background can help out here...isn't the Nexus line technically a Google phone...only manufactured by a 3rd party, Samsung...would this fall into a "Samsung Product"...would it fall under the same scrutiny as Samsung devices or is it a seperate entity?
 
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