What makes the Galaxy Nexus so special

[ilikemoneygreen]

The screen does serve a purpose. Unless you never watch videos or play a game.

Who needs a screen got the mind to imagine stuff.

[ThaSurgeonGeneral]

True HD means nothing on such a small screen. Its irrelevant and it only gives you bragging rights that don't mean a thing.

Sent from my DROID3

True HD isn't the bragging right, its the ppi which, on this size of a screen, truly does make a world of a difference. Will there be much of a visual difference between the two top phones? That is to be determined as the pentile matrix may still pan out to be worse then the Rezounds SLCD (Bionic, Razr though far less ppi indeed). I hope not, given its status but, we'll see... Hopefully the pentile display just needed a boost in ppi to make it the superior screen? We'll see...

I wasn't commenting on True HD anyhow...

Btw, Best Buy, Costco and Verizon (and most likely Amazon Wireless, Wirefly) will be carrying this phone initially but Radioshack and 3rd party kiosks shouldn't be more then a week behind...

My Rezound Rocks the Red n Black... Get over it... Now to get this thing rooted

[ThaSurgeonGeneral]

The screen does serve a purpose. Unless you never watch videos or play a game.

Because of this person, I won't be posting here anymore, I hope I helped you with your decision, PM me if you need anything else! I'm full of unecessary knowledge...

My Rezound Rocks the Red n Black... Get over it... Now to get this thing rooted

[Htown315]

Sorry OP I made the mistake of correcting his false statements


Once the phone comes out we can judge for ourselves if she lives up to the hype.

[ilikemoneygreen]

Because of this person, I won't be posting here anymore, I hope I helped you with your decision, PM me if you need anything else! I'm full of unecessary knowledge...

My Rezound Rocks the Red n Black... Get over it... Now to get this thing rooted

Thats allTha Surgeon Generalis supposed to do.

[droidsaiga]

Sorry OP I made the mistake of correcting his false statements


Once the phone comes out we can judge for ourselves if she lives up to the hype.

Yea I read that thread the other day, there were so many holes in his logic that is wasn't even funny... LOL

[ThaSurgeonGeneral]

Yea I read that thread the other day, there were so many holes in his logic that is wasn't even funny... LOL

Ok, I wasn't going to post but, you really need to take another look at the thread... I wasn't pushing anything I didn't know better about... The main argument was not even between HTown and I... My arguments were fact based and ONLY fact based...

I never post otherwise AND if I'm wrong, I really don't mind saying so, however, HTowns points just weren't completely true...

That is all...

That is all...

My Rezound Rocks the Red n Black... Get over it... Now to get this thing rooted

[ThaSurgeonGeneral]

Thats allTha Surgeon Generalis supposed to do.

Lol, suppose so...

My Rezound Rocks the Red n Black... Get over it... Now to get this thing rooted

[bacK_N_87]

Hd helps but imo, hd doesnt really come into play until like a 10 inch tablet or larger then a 32 inch tv. (you sit far back from a 32 inch tv so its almost same as a 10inch up close)

Agreed

Sent from my DROID3

[nleksan]

The screen is Not better, the Rezound has that title for the time being (unless we get into colors, brightness etc then u can just pick your poison).
In regards to the 4G data speeds, that claim is not true bud. My Rezound and TBolt both have gotten into the 32mbs+ range in the Sacramento and San Francisco CA area, although in between, I've only seen speeds up to about 22mbs. But unless your like me and use 7.5gb+ a month, it really won't matter.much over about 12mbs or so...
Sorry, I know, doesn't help but its the truth...
My Rezound Rocks the Red n Black... Get over it... Now to get this thing rooted

My list was simply a list of reasons why a person would want to pick the Galaxy Nexus over competing phones. I was not bashing any of the competition (well, except maybe the iPhone a wee bit hehe), I was giving a "pro's" list about the G-Nex.

The Rezound does have a fantastic screen, but I don't believe it is any better than the Nexus, nor do I necessarily believe it any worse. Thus even if both the Rezound and Nexus have identical screen quality, my statement remains correct: the Nexus has the best screen, and so does the Rezound. However, the Nexus has the advantage of being 4.65" compared to, I believe, 4.3". Not a HUGE difference, but it is enough...

The Nexus DOES have a superior chunk of hardware, I am confident in that. I am not new to the whole tech-marketing and product-development thing, and it's no different than the AMD Phenom II quad-core processors that could be unlocked to be a six-core processor: companies will "soft"-disable bits of hardware, such as turning off good cores, under-clocking, or (like Intel) eliminating a cache level. It usually starts out of "we have these two thousand six-core processors, but people are buying WAY MORE quad-core processors... so we could sit on them, or we could disable two cores, and sell it as a quad-core and make money now, without tainting our brand!". Sometimes, there are actual physical defects on the chips, but with the AMD example, 80%+ success rate for unlocking tells you that the primary reason was not chip defects. The Radeon 6850/6950 being able to be unlocked into a Radeon 6870/6970 is the same exact thing.

Thus it is with the Nexus. It shares the TI OMAP4460 with the Rezound, but I would bet $1,000,000 Internet Dollars that the Rezound has whatever chips passed the "necessary minimum" testing, while the Nexus phones all have chips that surpassed the "necessary minimum" testing by a certain percentage. Yet, they still chose to under-clock the chip from 1.5ghz to 1.2ghz, because frankly: 1.2ghz dual-core is still a hefty CPU for a PHONE!
There will be some point where the chips are unlocked via a software update to run at the full 1.5ghz, in order to keep them "up to date", and as I said before: I have NO DOUBT that the Galaxy Nexus will be the first phone to be able to run stable at over 2ghz, because they have the "most perfect" silicon in them. It's just how it is.
Flagship phone gets Flagship CPU with fewest/no defects that would hamper its potential.

Regarding 4G download speed, I cannot speak to the West Coast, as I am in the Midwest, but even in a city with over 2 million people (we've had LTE infrastructure since the testing-phases, so we're probably further-ahead than most) the Thunderbolt my friend has averages around 15Mbps downstream. Another friend's 4G card, for his MacBook Pro, gives him around 25Mbps consistently. One of the city's VZW stores I was at, the guy there told me he has seen the Nexus peak at 30Mbps downstream, just three days ago, when a manager had one out and was playing with it.


If you watch movies/TV and play games, this phone will have the screen to make them look life-like, and the hardware to keep it stutter-free while the 4G speed keeps the video from getting choppy, even at 720p while in a car constantly switching towers.

PLUS, YOU HAVE GOOGLE BEHIND YOU!