Cons about the Galaxy Nexus

[nomarsgirl]

I live in a complete dead zone. I don't even try to make calls from my house. I use wifi for my data needs. Yesterday, i spent the whole day in an area with great coverage. I had 4 bars of 4G and it was rock solid. And my battery lasted all day with light usage. I got and responded to a few e-mails. Spent some time on facebook. A little web browsing. Battery lasted for 14 hours with about 3.5 hours of screen-on time. The last 10% went downhill fast when I got home to my dead zone.

And I'm on a completely stock VZW Nexus still running ICS.

the only thing that was strange was that beautiful weather widget seemed to think that I was in Brazil for several hours.

 

[Demache]

Some have had horrific luck with their GNex. I've only experienced one issue, which I'm pretty certain was the result of the carrier network, rather than my handset as leaving it sit overnight fixed the problem.

I don't have any battery complaints. The only time I really run out of battery is with an hour long GPS. I get 3-4hrs of screen time and 24hrs on the extended battery which is all I need.

External volume isn't good by any metric. That's probably my biggest gripe. Also, the antennas should have been better. Camera is adaquate, but expect to get some blurry shots.

But I wouldn't recommend this phone at this late of the game. It's almost a year old and there are better options being released. Unless the $49 price is the sole reason.

The speaker volume seems to be mostly software related however. Mine is much louder now after flashing custom ROMs (which I assume have the fix built in).

But yeah, here's hoping that Google/Samsung/whoever does fix some of the glaring flaws on the next one. Especially on the CDMA models.

 

[Tman450]

It has CONS!?!?!?!?!?!?!. You must be from Galaxy Z!

 

[snapcase]

Lousy camera. Bad battery life. Pentile display (gives some artifacts on dark screens). Extremely quiet speaker.

The lack of SD card is a double edged sword. They give you more internal memory, and you don't have to worry about shuffling apps to SD to make room on the internal storage. But what you get is all you get. Also, it uses a different file transfer method which can be troublesome at times (some file types simply never show up for transfer on either method), so you may end up resorting to using apps like Airdroid.

All cons aside though, I still like my phone. There are definite issues with it, but I don't think they add up to a bad device.

 

[Demache]

Lousy camera. Bad battery life. Pentile display (gives some artifacts on dark screens). Extremely quiet speaker.

The lack of SD card is a double edged sword. They give you more internal memory, and you don't have to worry about shuffling apps to SD to make room on the internal storage. But what you get is all you get. Also, it uses a different file transfer method which can be troublesome at times (some file types simply never show up for transfer on either method), so you may end up resorting to using apps like Airdroid.

What file types do you mean? I haven't really noticed it hiding files. Its pretty much recognized any file I've put on it.