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Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole

@Treo:

I really don't care about the Developer Edition, really I don't. It would allow me to put a custom recovery and a ROM on this gorgeous and highly functional phone, giving me what I've had since December 2009: stock vanilla Android. Yayyy.

The Note 3 with Apex Launcher Pro replacing the TouchWiz launcher perfects this device for me right now. Would I like to remove the bloatware? Sure: but with 96 GB of storage and 3 GB of RAM, I'm not hurting for room and it really hasn't bothered me.

No, I'm pretty happy with it right now. Developer Edition can come and go as far as I'm concerned :)

Got & wrapped the Darling Bride's present yesterday: the Note 10.1 2014! So she's going to freak out on her birthday... and we can replace the Viewsonic gTablet, which is one of the 0.1% of Android devices still using Honeycomb :p
 
Standing on line last night from 11 to 2 AM was totally worth it - the new Pokemon game looks awesome in 3D. Gonna be playing this for quite a while.
 
nj02vette said:
After spending weeks looking for Linux drivers, I can't say I share your sentiment. That was a while ago, and haven't revisited it, so perhaps the driver landscape for Linux is quite different now.

While working in Linux for Android phone development makes perfect sense, there's tons of windows programs that don't have alternatives.
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I know your background, we've talked before, so your claim about USB drivers is really surprising.

I've never had a case of Linux requiring USB device drivers.

They're not part of the *nix architecture.

Are you referring to display drivers or something?

And while there may be tons of Windows only programs, the percentage of Windows apps without a viable alternative for personal users isn't that great.

In fact, my company built most everything in Linux and then did final builds and deployed on Windows, and ours was a case of Windows availability only for one line.

But for everyday personal use, and definitely because adb and fastboot never need USB drivers, Linux isn't a bad alternative at all for home users.

Unless you're chained to Windows gaming.
 
EarlyMon said:
I know your background, we've talked before, so your claim about USB drivers is really surprising.

I've never had a case of Linux requiring USB device drivers.

They're not part of the *nix architecture.

Are you referring to display drivers or something?

And while there may be tons of Windows only programs, the percentage of Windows apps without a viable alternative for personal users isn't that great.

In fact, my company built most everything in Linux and then did final builds and deployed on Windows, and ours was a case of Windows availability only for one line.

But for everyday personal use, and definitely because adb and fastboot never need USB drivers, Linux isn't a bad alternative at all for home users.

Unless you're chained to Windows gaming.
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Never had an issue with USB drivers, for either platform, but my experience there is limited. But yes, display drivers, printers, peripherals (non USB), and even some basic chipset drivers were problematic.

Typical home use, we are getting to an era where it doesn't matter which OS your using. Web browser is almost anyone needs to surf, email, etc.

But I'm not typical. ;). I run Pro/E and multiple other CAD and CFD tools from home. Running virtualized is a huge performance hit, so native Windows for me. Besides, never had a problem with windows. Except windows 8 which has a nightmare GUI for desktop.
 
The_Chief said:
Got & wrapped the Darling Bride's present yesterday: the Note 10.1 2014! So she's going to freak out on her birthday... and we can replace the Viewsonic gTablet, which is one of the 0.1% of Android devices still using Honeycomb :p
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Chief, she is going to love it. I don't know which I enjoy the most, the little Note or the big one!

BTW: Best Buy has a good Belkin case made especially for it.
 
Another good one of Pittsburgh.

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nj02vette said:
What's with the giant rubber ducky?
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A Dutch artist named Florentijn Hofman calls it his global bathtub art piece. Versions of it have been in France, Australia, Japan, Brazil and five other countries since 2007 and its first appearance in the United States is Pittsburgh.
Been there since I think September?
 
Just noticed that if hold volume down on the G2 it goes to the Camera. If you hold volume up it goes to Notebook.
 
I would imagine it'd take a rooted setting to change the actions of the buttons. I know most ROMs could do this with my S3. Development is pretty sluggish right now, but hopefully it picks up.
 
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