Im judging by the nexus prime video running ICS, there is too much bezel there, almost as if the prime was originally designed with physical buttons in mind. I really really like some of the CG/photoshop phones showing on this thread, and I wish google/samsung would have went in this nearly no bezel, atleast limit it to the top area
I agree. I'm not like some on here who think that the phone on the video was not the Nexus. The camera and sensor are placed on a location different than any other phone with a similar form factor, so it's something we haven't seen before. I don't believe that they'd be testing the phone without all the final parts being together.
Having said that, did we honestly think that it would look exactly how we wanted it to look? That's impossible, because we all want different things. I always had a feeling that it would look like a bigger Nexus S. Underwhelming? Yes. But at least it doesn't look like a box.
Who is running the show? Is it Samsung, Verizon or Google? Someone has to step up to the plate and do something. Apple has orders for 1,000,000 IP4s in the last 24 hours. We need to take the offensive. Mr. Jobs is gone. RIP. Move on.
This is what troubles me. Verizon, Samsung, and Google aren't stupid. They know that any new iPhone would sell like crazy, immediately. Verizon won't be too upset, since they're getting a nice slice of that pie, but the fact that Google and Verizon decided NOT to announce this thing
before the iPhone announcement has put doubt in my mind as to what we can expect.
October 11 was going to be the announcement, right? Why couldn't it have been, say, October 3, the day before the iPhone event? Jobs was still alive then, so it had nothing to do with that. The only reason that comes to mind is because they believed that the iPhone event would trump and overshadow the Prime announcement, and kill all buzz. This makes me think that perhaps the Prime is not the "game changer" that we were thinking it was going to be. It may end up being just on par, or even inferior, to the Vigor (yes, yes, except for battery, blah blah blah).
Guys, I'm getting worried that with all this processor speculation, etc., we're hyping up this phone to epic proportions, and all we're doing is setting ourselves up for severe disappointment.
Whenever this thing is released, and we all flock to Verizon or Best Buy or wherever, and we put up a thread called "So I got my Nexus!", I'm worried it will be filled with posts consisting of "This is it? I waited all this time for this?"
It's mind numbing that they hit 1 million pre-orders for the 4s. Really, they could scale back the specs of the iPhone 5 to something worse than the 4s and it would probably sell 2 million in pre-orders. The thing that bugs me about Apple is that these things are premium priced and in a poor economy, you KNOW that some people are plunging deeper into debt or skipping payments they should be making just to have an iPhone. With all the bailouts, whether you like it or not, each and every one of us is helping to overstuff the mattresses at Apple headquarters. It's irresponsible and really no different than paying $3.50/gallon at the pump when oil prices are where they were when we were paying under $2/gallon.
It's all about brand loyalty. Apple knows that iSheep will lap up anything they put in front of them, even if it's crap (although I was very surprised at the posts I've read here on how the GPU in the iPhone is the best anywhere around. . . maybe the iPhone 4S isn't such a crappy phone after all. . .?). And, it's all about money. These tech companies, like the oil companies, will charge whatever they want because they know we will pay it. The government won't step in and protect you from anything because they'll be branded as "socialists", and they also wouldn't be able to reap all the huge tax incomes from idiots buying what they can't afford.
It's up to the consumer. If you need to pay your rent this month and you instead blow it on a phone, you deserve to be evicted. Yes, this is a terrible economy, but unfortunately we live in a world of idiots who want everything
NOW, without having to work and save for it. They want things to be like when they were kids and their stupid parents couldn't say no.
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