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You've made a wise decision. The radios on the GN were sub-par IMHO. Signal strength numbers aside, it couldn't hold 4G when transitioning into a weak signal area. Call quality was equally poor and matched its pitiful battery life.I'm glad we have this thread, after days of not being able to decide what to do but I'm finally pulling the trigger and bringing the Nexus back next week. You guys have been able to use both devices in real day to day scenarios as opposed to just looking at the specs or playing with a demo unit.
You've made a wise decision. The radios on the GN were sub-par IMHO. Signal strength numbers aside, it couldn't hold 4G when transitioning into a weak signal area. Call quality was equally poor and matched its pitiful battery life.
The Rezound has been a pleasure to use. The GN had a lot going for it as its bootloader can be unlocked and has root now, a gorgeous screen, bloat-free UI but in the end, I wanted a phone that I'd be able to use wherever I happen to be. That wasn't happening with the GN.
The VZW rep told me that the Rezound is expected to get ICS in January, any truth to this? And has any sort of root been found for the Rezound yet, I want to remove all that bloatware if I do get the phone and is there an ETA for root?
I'm thinking about shipping my GNEX back tomorrow The phone design is awesome, screen looks good, ICS is sweet but so many drawbacks. Maybe I'm just in a bad 4G area but I get terribly slow speeds. I just pray to go that the Rezound, when I get it, has faster 4G speeds. Can someone tell me, who's been on forums a lot, is the Rezound just better in the 4G area? Has anyone been complaining of slow 4G speeds on their Rezound?
I just have a few questions about the Rezound really quick. The VZW rep told me that the Rezound is expected to get ICS in January, any truth to this? And has any sort of root been found for the Rezound yet, I want to remove all that bloatware if I do get the phone and is there an ETA for root? It root for sure going to come, is it a guarantee or 50/50? I don't mind waiting a few months for root I just want to be pretty sure about it though
Is the Rezound the type of phone for more of the "everyday" user? And the Nexus is more for the "developer or hacker" user. Just right now it seems like the Rezound has more use even with the GNEX being rooted.
Is there really a noticeable speed difference between the phones, can you actually notice it?
Potential nexus refugee here...I love the nexus feel and ics and an open/rootable platform. But this thing has issues I don't think will get fixed:
- nasty aliasing/artifacts in video playback (don't know how much this is "normal" for amoled but I watch a ton of video in a pitch black room the quality of playback annoys the crap out of me. I know LCD is basically "hiding" compression artifacts but I'm not streaming a bluray here.
- speaker volume is LOW. I can use volume+ but then the sound is distorted and sounds bad.
- amoled color variations in the screen. in my case lots of yellow hued areas
- signal level in buildings. I drop 4g entering basically any building and sometimes even 3g. unacceptable
The fact that I can temp root to remove bloatware is nice, but honestly I'm really anxious to get the rezound without s-off. Do you all think it'll eventually happen or will we be stuck? if it had s-off I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Still on the fence about returning the nexus but I'm really disappointed in the screen. samoled is supposed to have great blacks but instead I'm stuck with the crappy ghosting on the black parts of video.
Thoughts?
I hated having to return my Nexus. Detested doing so. While I love my Rezound, I'm very disappointed at the Nexus' shortcomings preventing it from achieving its potential as the stellar phone it was meant to be. These bugs truly hold it back. Loved ICS. Loved the design of the hardware and how it felt in-hand. But there's no excuse for things like the speaker volume being ridiculously low, signal dropping completely in coverage areas, and call audio quality being iffy, etc. These are basic functions in any phone that are just expected to plain work, regardless of carrier or manufacturer. Yet, these are also essential functions, without which, a phone might as well be a paperweight. Aside from the yellow tint in the Rezound's camera shots and the idiotically flush physical buttons, the phone worked and worked well. I was excited when I switched from my first Rezound to the Nexus. Sadly, I ended up relieved to be able to switch back after just a few days. I'm glad, however, that there are those not experiencing all of these issues. I hope they can be resolved. Especially when you consider the non-advanced users who will see this as a potential cool phone to switch from. The phone needs good publicity, not bad.
I remember the DROID X having similar volume issues that was fixed in one of the first OTAs. As far as signal and battery drain fixes, I have my doubts.
I had the DX and like everyone else was promised that a software update would fix the volume issue. Well, the software update came and went, but the volume issue remained the same.
A lesson I learned after owning that phone. I will never trust a company who promises to fix something with a software update. From now on, if it's something I can live with when I buy the phone then so be it. Otherwise, it's going back or I am not buying it.
S-off isn't an issue that involves the day to day operation of the phone. It's an issue you have.Hmm, good point. But by that same account, there are certainly no assurances for me that the Rezound will get S-OFF, either. So I'm gambling that I may get stuck with a device that is forever locked...hmm