Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole

[RazorSharp]

Starbucks uses way too many ridiculous faux-Italian words.

 

[halon]

I got a hot chocolate once from Starbucks and it had a coffee taste to it. I threw it away. I do like lattes though.

 

[Stigy]

I got a hot chocolate once from Starbucks and it had a coffee taste to it. I threw it away. I do like lattes though.

That's strange.

I love their Peppermint hot chocolate around the holidays.

 

[halon]

I missed out on the fridge pics yesterday since I was at work. So without further delay...

That is a case of Shock Top Raspberry Wheat.

 

[AntimonyER]

I would take a fridge pic, but in mine its capri-sun, hi-c orange, and assorted gatorade flavors.

 

[Member112085]

Morning everyone. Last day here for a while. Leaving this afternoon on vacation and won't be back for 2 weeks. This will either be the most epic trip ever, or the worst trip ever, haha!

I'm extremely jealous, however, I do hope you have a fantastic time. Vacation is a double edged sword...nice to have the time away, but it's reeeeeally tough to come back to reality.

I missed out on the fridge pics yesterday since I was at work. So without further delay...

That is a case of Shock Top Raspberry Wheat.

I love the Raspberry Wheat...can't find it in anything bigger than a six pack around here though. And also and too....dude, you have NO freaking food in your fridge. Judging from that picture, I figure you to be a 24-28 year old bachelor.

 

[halon]

I love the Raspberry Wheat...can't find it in anything bigger than a six pack around here though. And also and too....dude, you have NO freaking food in your fridge. Judging from that picture, I figure you to be a 24-28 year old bachelor.

35 year old bachelor LOL

 

[RazorSharp]

So, no one get alarmed or anything, but I'm thinking of bringing the RSRSS back on a trial run. Some of these links might be rather old, I'm sifting through the months of stuff that I've missed and trying to pick out good ones for you guys, and I'll intersperse them with the most current ones. Enjoy!

Samsung-Apple feud escalates further: Samsung: "Apple wouldn’t have sold a single iPhone without stealing our tech"; patent lawsuit documents revealed ahead of trial | BGR

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: July 24, 2012 - SlashGear

How to use USB flash drives with your rooted Nexus 7 | Android Central

Google Nexus 7 Experiencing Low Light Screen Flicker | DroidDog

Nexus Q now available on Google Play Store, to ship in 3-5 days | Android Authority

Google adds 34-button scientific calculator to search results | 9to5Google

$10 Million Pebble Smartwatch Hits a Snag as First Shipment is Delayed | TheNextWeb

Gameloft unveils five new free-to-play casual games for Android | Android Central

A Google-a-Day Puzzle for July 25 | Wired.com

Awesome: Watch this: stop-motion 'Super Mario' video made with thousands of Post-it notes | The Verge

USC students building a working Holodeck worthy of Star Trek | Crave - CNET

Google’s upcoming 3D maps are stunning | Android and Me

As NFC-capable phones become more common: InstaWiFi Lets You Easily Share Your Wi-Fi Password Through NFC Or QR Codes | Android Police

Viewdini is a curator for your mobile streaming video | Android and Me

For those with Kindles or other non-Market devices: Download Android applications on your PC directly from the Android Market | Android and Me

Browsing safely with Avast! WebRep for Chrome, Firefox and IE | ChromeSpot

From today's "lolwut?" column: Dammit, Why Can't This Louis Vuitton Waffle Maker Just Be a Real Product? | Gizmodo

And finally, gaming-related stuff from here to the bottom! My Xbox Live app lands on Android | Android and Me

EA drops two massive titles onto Google Play: FIFA 12 and NBA Jam | DroidGamers

Max Payne finally launches on Android, $2.99 on Google Play | Android and Me

Final Fantasy 3 now on Android, But It Costs $16 | Joystiq

Dungeon Hunter 3 now free in Google Play Store | Android and Me

King of Fighters Released for Android, Has 20 Playable Characters | Siliconera

World of Midgard MMORPG beta for Android updated | DroidGamers

MapleStory Live Brings The Mushroom Mashing Experience To iOS And Android | Siliconera

 

[Copacetic]

Love the feeds Razor! Thanks

 

[AntimonyER]

YES! Thanks Razor!

 

[Unforgiven]

I found a few click worthy, thanks.

 

[MSUgEEk]

Loving the Pebble watch story. Small company starts up and has a dream of producing 1,000 watches....they get orders for 85,000

 

[IHateMyTreo]

Very interesting explanation of the radio issues on the VZW GN (thanks to AF user jasaero)

The Radio Performance Disparity of the Galaxy Nexus on GSM and CDMA - Mobile Central - Binary Outcast

 

[RazorSharp]

Curious to talk to the people on Jelly Bean - how has Google Now been for you now that it's had some time to learn more about you and your habits? Is it highly useful?

 

[Stigy]

Curious to talk to the people on Jelly Bean - how has Google Now been for you now that it's had some time to learn more about you and your habits? Is it highly useful?

I use it quite a decent amount to be honest with you.

From train times to quick searches I find myself using it more than typing for search results in Chrome / ICS Browser.

 

[RazorSharp]

I use it quite a decent amount to be honest with you.

From train times to quick searches I find myself using it more than typing for search results in Chrome / ICS Browser.

From my understanding of the Google I/O footage, it's supposed to be an advanced prediction/news feed-esque information center. Does it have the information that you need available right away, or does it require searching (however minimal)? How do you access it from the home screen, is it an app?

 

[breadnatty08]

Loving the Pebble watch story. Small company starts up and has a dream of producing 1,000 watches....they get orders for 85,000

Latest update is still really vague. I'm not a color chooser but orange?
Alright. I'm fine with just getting the white one when it's ready (that was my choice when I signed up).

 

[MSUgEEk]

Curious to talk to the people on Jelly Bean - how has Google Now been for you now that it's had some time to learn more about you and your habits? Is it highly useful?

Google Now is absolutely amazing. I love it. After I enabled my web search history, it started learning my habits and is now bringing up very useful cards (driving time to home, work, church...not very useful in a small town, but in larger cities it would be very useful...but it's still handy), brings up the latest game scores for the Atlanta Braves and their next game, weather for work, home, and current location, etc.

From my understanding of the Google I/O footage, it's supposed to be an advanced prediction/news feed-esque information center. Does it have the information that you need available right away, or does it require searching (however minimal)? How do you access it from the home screen, is it an app?

From the lock screen, instead of to the right for unlock and left for camera, you unlock up and it takes you to Google Now. Or, when unlocked and doing things in the phone, you press the home soft key and swipe up for Google Now.

The specific goal for it is to learn your patterns and what you are interested in. For example, it noticed I had a massage appointment Saturday at 10:00 AM. So on my cards when I woke up Saturday it showed that appointment and gave me an estimated driving time with a map to click for navigation to get there.

It also notified me what time I needed to leave to make it by 10:00. After only one voice search of "what was the score to the Braves game?", Google Now started adding cards for the last Braves game score and the next one's date and start time.

Whenever I visit a new place that it doesn't recognize, it detects it and asks me if I'm interested in keeping up with this new place for traffic times from different locations. If you say yes, it adds it to memory and tries to learn when you visit that place and bring it up at the appropriate time with estimated travel time from wherever you are.

If you don't want a card, you swipe it away and I assume it won't bring it up again...maybe unless you start searching for it alot again.

 

[AntimonyER]

Yeah, I use it for checking traffic on my way home from work, and for Braves scores. Also the swipe up is nice, since you can just say "google" to bring up voice search, then do just about anything from there (call, text, set alarm, set appt, search internet, etc.) via voice, the only action you need to do is turn the phone on and swipe up, then its all voice from there... great for in the car while driving, minimal distraction.

 

[ajdroidx]

Very interesting explanation of the radio issues on the VZW GN (thanks to AF user jasaero)

The Radio Performance Disparity of the Galaxy Nexus on GSM and CDMA - Mobile Central - Binary Outcast

Love this part:

The bridge between CDMA2000 and LTE is rather brittle and is prone to failure, because LTE wasn't designed to be bridged with CDMA2000 like that. It was intended to be installed alongside GSM and WCDMA networks, and it handles it a lot better with those networks. So when something goes wrong in the rather terribly buggy CDMA system, the whole phone can and usually does fail. If Verizon Wireless had upgraded the CDMA2000 system to UMTS HSPA+ like most other CDMA2000 carriers across the globe, it would have avoided dealing with this problem.

This page confirms my previous thoughts on this whole ordeal.... I wonder if the S3 has the same chip. If so, well...

 

[AntimonyER]

I can confirm the S3 is not much better if at all than the GNex. That is the first article that has said that CDMA and LTE are not fully compatible... Would explain why Verizon is on such a fast schedule to complete the transition...

 

[ajdroidx]

I can confirm the S3 is not much better if at all than the GNex. That is the first article that has said that CDMA and LTE are not fully compatible... Would explain why Verizon is on such a fast schedule to complete the transition...

Ugh. That explains so much.
[conspiracy theory]
Wonder if verizon knows this and just wants to push the iphone and droids
[/conspiracy theory] :hmmmm:

 

[The_Chief]

Curious to talk to the people on Jelly Bean - how has Google Now been for you now that it's had some time to learn more about you and your habits? Is it highly useful?

My son had an oral surgery this morning at 10 and Google Now actually alerted me, advising me to leave at 9:35 since it would take appx. 25 minutes to get there. That was very clever. I can imagine that people with lots of appointments in lots of places would find this indispensable.

 

[CaptainRon]

My concern about Google Now is battery drain. Those of you that use it don't see that as a big deal?

 

[ajdroidx]

I was looking at picking up an SSD and some additional ram for my MBP and thought I would look at some CPUs for the desktop. I checked out a i7 3.5ghz beast with a turbo boost of 3.9ghz and wanted to make sure my motherboard would accept the new CPU. It will not GRRR!!!

So, if I want to update, I got to replace the mobo, the ram and the CPU. Might as well replace the video card while I am at it too. So much for that idea for now. I really did not feel like pulling the motherboard out of the case. Its a real pain. As well as an all day job to re-install everything.

Guess I will just rely on the mac upgrade for now before updating to mountain lion.