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Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole

svt_gEEk said:
You had me interested until I went and checked out the reviews and saw comparisons of all the ones I am looking at. Galaxy tab 7 plus has nearly twice the battery life as the Iconia and Thrive 7"ers
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I decided on the Thrive for a few of reasons:

1) full size ports. I use these very often - much more so than I thought I would. They may or may not be important to you, but after having them, and seeing how handy they are (I have even charged Nessie via the USB port...lol) and how often I use them, I really won't replace my Thrive unless I can get another tablet with these ports. I hope manufacturers see that not everyone wants the thinnest tablet available.

2) Updates! Sammy is notorious for taking forever to issue updates because of their skin. Toshiba on the other hand has been extremely fast in sending out their updates. I was one of their beta testers (I signed up after I got my Thrive) and I was impressed how aggressive they were with their updates. I would not have gotten my Nexus if the updates would be coming from Samsung.

3) The Thrive has a replaceable battery. In a couple of years, I do want some value left in my Thrive, and if the battery is shot, it loses most of its value. The battery life has been excellent, so I've not needed to carry one, but some people that are heavy users carry a replaceable battery, and swap it out as needed. Nice to have that option.

Someone mentioned keyboards. I do use my Thrive at times for typing documents. When I do, I pair it with this keyboard:

Amazon.com: Logitech Tablet Keyboard for iPad (Keyboard-and-Stand Combo) (920-003241): Electronics

It comes with a nice case which makes it easy to carry in my bag, along with my Thrive, and doubles as a stand if needed.

Certainly, to each his own, but I'd at least recommend giving the Thrive a really close look, especially the 10". I don't know much about the Thrive 7", but I LOVE the size of the screen I have, especially for movies, pics, surfing and games!
 
lovebyte21 said:
Yeah, my 3+ yr old laptop I bought from HP is a refurb and I've never had any problems with it.
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i'm a big fan of refurbs. my DSLR and lenses, tents, and some other electronics have been refurbed directly from their manufacturer. as long as it comes with a warranty and explanation/list of what they fixed/replaced... i'd take it all refurb.
 
Battery stats today :D

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NCTurner said:
I decided on the Thrive for a few of reasons:

1) full size ports. I use these very often - much more so than I thought I would. They may or may not be important to you, but after having them, and seeing how handy they are (I have even charged Nessie via the USB port...lol) and how often I use them, I really won't replace my Thrive unless I can get another tablet with these ports. I hope manufacturers see that not everyone wants the thinnest tablet available.
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This saved my ass when I went up to MN for my grandma's funeral. I used up too much of my phone battery on the plane, and needed it for nav for my two hour drive to my uncle's house. Was about to panic till I remembered I could charge from the usb port on my Iconia.
 
G.Armour said:
All I want to know is, is this phone worth it, or not?
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For me, yes. A definite yes! Depends on what you are looking for out of a phone. Do you mind if updates are slow coming out? Do you want pure google experience or do you prefer the UI of Samsung (Touchwiz), HTC (Sense), Motorola (Blur), etc... If you want the fastest updates and you would rather run pure Android with only modifications you want, then yes! If you don't care about that stuff, the ReZound is a great phone. Picked one up for my wife this weekend after they dropped to $199.
 
G.Armour said:
All I want to know is, is this phone worth it, or not?
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simple question... IMO not so simple answer. what is "worth it" in your mind? signal, battery, OS, dev community?

i definitely think so, but if you're looking for something specific that this phone will do... you may be easily disappointed and happier with something else.

judging from the fact that you have been riding the moto train, and presuming you've had good experiences with signal, that's the one thing i've noticed a difference coming from the OG. that aside, i wouldn't go with the razr or rezound. too much goodness coming outta the dev community.
 
NCTurner said:
I decided on the Thrive for a few of reasons:

1) full size ports. I use these very often - much more so than I thought I would. They may or may not be important to you, but after having them, and seeing how handy they are (I have even charged Nessie via the USB port...lol) and how often I use them, I really won't replace my Thrive unless I can get another tablet with these ports. I hope manufacturers see that not everyone wants the thinnest tablet available.

2) Updates! Sammy is notorious for taking forever to issue updates because of their skin. Toshiba on the other hand has been extremely fast in sending out their updates. I was one of their beta testers (I signed up after I got my Thrive) and I was impressed how aggressive they were with their updates. I would not have gotten my Nexus if the updates would be coming from Samsung.

3) The Thrive has a replaceable battery. In a couple of years, I do want some value left in my Thrive, and if the battery is shot, it loses most of its value. The battery life has been excellent, so I've not needed to carry one, but some people that are heavy users carry a replaceable battery, and swap it out as needed. Nice to have that option.

Someone mentioned keyboards. I do use my Thrive at times for typing documents. When I do, I pair it with this keyboard:

Amazon.com: Logitech Tablet Keyboard for iPad (Keyboard-and-Stand Combo) (920-003241): Electronics

It comes with a nice case which makes it easy to carry in my bag, along with my Thrive, and doubles as a stand if needed.
Certainly, to each his own, but I'd at least recommend giving the Thrive a really close look, especially the 10". I don't know much about the Thrive 7", but I LOVE the size of the screen I have, especially for movies, pics, surfing and games!
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Hid your response to save some screen space. The size I'm looking at is 7" and the Thrive doesn't have a removable battery or full size ports on the 7". Mini-USB and micro HDMI. You can get an adapter for the Sammy that adds a full size USB. I'll admit the Thrive was looking good with all that until I found out it wasn't the case with the 7" and even less so when I saw the review saying it wasn't a solid feel and the battery only lasted about 4 hours as opposed to 8 on the Sammy.
 
eddieruko said:
i definitely think so, but if you're looking for something specific that this phone will do... you may be easily disappointed and happier with something else.

judging from the fact that you have been riding the moto train, and presuming you've had good experiences with signal, that's the one thing i've noticed a difference coming from the OG. that aside, i wouldn't go with the razr or rezound. too much goodness coming outta the dev community.
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I came from an OG Droid as well and have found the signal to be the same with my Nexus. I work in a horrible environment for cell phones and I can do the same exact things with my Nexus as I could with my OG....wait 10 minutes to get 1 bar of 3g signal and then do all my syncing with facebook, twitter, etc... for reading when the signal goes out inevitably within 3-4 minutes.

I have noticed absolutely no signal difference coming from the OG to the Nexus, just a difference in how it is reported. My Moto would lie to me telling me I had 5 bars and then I'd place a call and it would never go through, pull up a web page and it would say signal timeout, etc. When the Nexus has signal, I know I can do whatever I need while it displays I have any amount of signal.

I do agree about the dev community for the Nexus though, they are all aboard with this phone. Not so much with the HTC or the Moto.

I will say this, if you get anything besides the Nexus, get the Rezound and you won't be disappointed.
 
svt_gEEk said:
I came from an OG Droid as well and have found the signal to be the same with my Nexus. I work in a horrible environment for cell phones and I can do the same exact things with my Nexus as I could with my OG....wait 10 minutes to get 1 bar of 3g signal and then do all my syncing with facebook, twitter, etc... for reading when the signal goes out inevitably within 3-4 minutes.

I have noticed absolutely no signal difference coming from the OG to the Nexus, just a difference in how it is reported. My Moto would lie to me telling me I had 5 bars and then I'd place a call and it would never go through, pull up a web page and it would say signal timeout, etc. When the Nexus has signal, I know I can do whatever I need while it displays I have any amount of signal.
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signal at my desk with OG: -93dBm
signal at my desk with Nexus: -120dBm

i have another guy across the aisle with and OG right now getting -93dBm too.

that said, it hasn't kept me from checking/sending email, twitter, facebook, etc. takes some patience as you can imagine, but if i really need to do something, i walk towards the windows and i can pick up 4G on a clear day.

i typically cringe when i see comments that can negatively skew curious folks. but from my observations, there is a noticeable difference in cell signal. it appears some may not - that's good to see.

EDIT: i will also add that at home... i get far superior 4G than i ever did with 3G on my OG. IMO the GNex is definitely worth it.
 
svt_gEEk said:
Battery stats today :D

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That is really nice I must say, and very little wifi mostly on mobile network. That graph line being very level for 5'ish hours is the kind of sleep/idle battery we should be getting. This makes 1.6.6 look very good here thx for posting this.
 
amid all of the rumors and speculation about the launch of gnex and vzw's favor with the razr... this is the first connection i've seen btwn Google stock and Moto's 4Q performance.

Investors have been uneasy about Google's plans to buy Motorola, a deal the companies expect to close early this year. CEO Larry Page has never fully detailed his long-term strategy for the asset other than saying it will be run as a separate company. Analysts say the company fears alienating Samsung and other Motorola rivals that helped its Android platform become the world's foremost mobile-software system.
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maybe, just maybe, it was google all along pushing the Razr.

Full Article: Google's mobility plans cloud strong Q4 | Reuters
 
jbdan said:
That is really nice I must say, and very little wifi mostly on mobile network. That graph line being very level for 5'ish hours is the kind of sleep/idle battery we should be getting. This makes 1.6.6 look very good here thx for posting this.
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I should state, in bold, that I turn CELLULAR DATA OFF (as well as wifi, etc) when I get to work and then turn it on again when I need it. Otherwise I'd be around 50%​
 
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