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greggebhardt

greggebhardt

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My i9250 galaxy Nexus arrived today and all I can say is WOW!

My SG2 will be sitting in the drawer for now on, while I am playing with it new brother.:p
 
greggebhardt said:
Imported International, factory unlocked, unbranded!
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Good to hear it got to you promptly. I'd be interested in a comparison between the two once you've had some time with the Nexus; the "which should I get?" threads could do with some real-life data to counter the theories. :)

Anyway, if the GS2 is still in your possession you can't leave. It's in the rules. So there! :D
 
Slug said:
Good to hear it got to you promptly. I'd be interested in a comparison between the two once you've had some time with the Nexus; the "which should I get?" threads could do with some real-life data to counter the theories. :)

Anyway, if the GS2 is still in your possession you can't leave. It's in the rules. So there! :D
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I seldom part with my devices and you know I would never break rules! Thanks Slug!:)
 
greggebhardt said:
My i9250 galaxy Nexus arrived today and all I can say is WOW!

My SG2 will be sitting in the drawer for now on, while I am playing with it new brother.:p
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Hey gregg , don't leave us hanging. Tell us about the goodies in ICS and the nexus. Wondering if its really much better than the SGSII.
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I'm really jealous, I have thought about importing this one and selling the Galaxy S II, but 750 is a little steep, and I am not sure how much I would even get from the Galaxy S II now.

Congrats though man!
 
Congrats.

Silly change imo but it's your money, when the wow factor fades over the screen an ICS you will regret it.
 
Shocky said:
Congrats.

Silly change imo but it's your money, when the wow factor fades over the screen an ICS you will regret it.
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Money is not an issue. I just like the experience. I am already back to my SG2. Looks like the Nexus and I are going to part ways.
 
Not "getting", "got".... bloomin' thing went inside 4hrs! :eek:

Btw Gregg, to embed Pbase-hosted images in a post you need to "edit image" in your Gallery and copy the specific direct-link URL to the right of it. Just a fyi for future reference as I use the site myself. ;)
 
After looking back at my weekend Nexus adventure, I am not looking forward to ICS coming to my SG2. I was not that happy with it. Guess I got used to Gingerbread. ICS lacked the voice recorder I loved and it did NOT have Notes! I need these Notes that sync with Outlook. I can not live with out Outlook and I could not get the Nexus to talk to the current version of Kies. Glad I had contacts and calendar synced with Google!

Anyway the Nexus is a great phone. I loved the way you could dictate via voice and see the words pop up as you are talking instead of waiting for you to stop. This and other features were awesome!

I guess me and my Old Friend the SG2 will be hanging together for a while.
 
Hopefully when Samsung add their bits with touchwiz it will all work as you'd expect. I didn't realise real manages was a Samsung bit until I red about it not being in aosp roms
 
greggebhardt said:
Anyway the Nexus is a great phone. I loved the way you could dictate via voice and see the words pop up as you are talking instead of waiting for you to stop. This and other features were awesome!
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That's pretty cool. But if your problem was ICS, then eventually all the android phones would be using that, and where would that leave you?
 
thisnameistaken said:
I like the look of the new Nexus but I need more than 16Gb for music, so it's still GS2 for me.
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Yeah that is one of my biggest issues with the new Nexus, I don't know if I would ever need all of the 48 gigs I have now, but Android has always been about options.

I know everyone is saying the cloud, but to me that is something I will never rely on. One I have only 2 gigs of data to use, and two I don't want to have to really on data for me to use pics/music.

But I am still thinking about biting the bullet and buying one.

Decisions Decisions.
 
Yeah I think using mobile data to play music is something you wouldn't want to do every day (although I do have a fixed IP at home so an easy connection to my 2Tb NAS rather than cloud storage), and if everybody was doing it the networks would quickly start throttling y'all. :D

It also wouldn't work for most peoples' commute in terms of connectivity. Rail lines are poorly covered for long stretches, and train wifi is always massively oversubscribed even before people start trying to stream music over it.

I guess if you carry a phone and an ipod you'll be alright with 16Gb, otherwise it seems an odd bottleneck for a flagship smartphone.
 
thisnameistaken said:
Yeah I think using mobile data to play music is something you wouldn't want to do every day (although I do have a fixed IP at home so an easy connection to my 2Tb NAS rather than cloud storage), and if everybody was doing it the networks would quickly start throttling y'all. :D

It also wouldn't work for most peoples' commute in terms of connectivity. Rail lines are poorly covered for long stretches, and train wifi is always massively oversubscribed even before people start trying to stream music over it.

I guess if you carry a phone and an ipod you'll be alright with 16Gb, otherwise it seems an odd bottleneck for a flagship smartphone.
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I will never understand why Samsung would limit the internal memory AND fail to give you slot for a micro SD at the same time. I use the cloud but there are still things I want on my phone.
 
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