I've been reading on testers blogs that the new Nexus has a TERRIBLE camera. HORRIBLE lag on screen animations such as landscape to regular. Poor build quality that feels pretty cheap to the hand as it's all plastic. Non gorilla glass plus much much more.
You may be picking the better phone to root. At least I (we) picked one with better specs and one that has better build quality. And I don't even want to hear about your pretty true HD display. Talk to me about it when your car keys crack the thing in your pocket.
To be honest. ICS isn't all that great anyways.
Another honest opinion from a RAZR user. I had my OG Droid since day 1. I was proud to have a fully unlocked phone to root and such. Then I got the RAZR. I see no reason what so ever to root. It's BLAZING fast. "Blur" works well and actually looks good for once. I'm happy to stay stock this time.
Another thing that bugs me.. We are Android. Take all your negative bashing towards a nice phone and aim it at Apple or something. Bias as that may sound as I trashed the Nexus. I'm just throwing counter points to your otherwise moot argument.
Heres my responses:
1. My GNex's camera absolutely destroys my old Droid X, and looked great compared to a family members iPhone 4S. Not quite as good as the 4S, but it's right there.
2. Lag? Where....? Who says there is lag? Seriously? This phone is just as smooth as any other on the market. I have mine clocked down to 1100 mHz and it's still smooth as butter. I get around 20-23 hours of battery life. It isn't the brand gorilla glass (the screen), but it's still reinforced glass by another company.
3. Specs? GNex: 4460 TiOMAP Razr: 4430 TiOMAP Build quality? The Nexus is a 3 piece phone: Chassis(metal), frame(metal), glass, LCD, and digitizer are all one piece. The backplate and battery cover are the other 2. The only plastic on the phone is the outside frame, battery cover, and cover for the chipset. It has NFC, which turns out is great because you get a free 10 bucks.
4. ICS is amazing. The ability to load up the exact image of your last used application, click it, and have it load without any lag right where you left off is crazy awesome. ICS will never look good on the Razr or the Rezound or any phone for that matter. ICS needs to be on a flat color slate, no buttons. Android 4.0 is unlike iOS in so many ways, yet different from Android 2.3 in a lot of ways as well. Sometimes I just play around with the animations in the launcher just to see how futuristic it is.
5.Your Razr is a great phone, and I think it's sad that developers aren't here because of that. You purchased the wrong phone if you liked rooting and hacking. If you wanted a thin phone that has the classic DROID look with some pretty high end technology, then the Razr is for you. If you want a phone that's on the bleeding edge with a decent camera and a deep developing community, than the Nexus is for you.
PS: My Droid X was my favorite phone ever, even more than my OG Droid. But now that I have my Nexus, I can tell you that it's nice to have a phone that doesn't bend. My X would twist and creak and bend all the time, but now with my supposed "****ty Samsung built phone" it's going to be worse... but this phone is a rock. The sturdiest phone I've ever had in my life.
PPS: Don't try and say the Nexus is outdated compared to the Razr in specs wise. It has a newer generation processor, higher DPI and resolution and larger screen than the Razr. It has NFC. Removable battery. Fastboot, unlocked bootloader, and direct Google updates. It does not have an SD card, other than that it's even.
