Souring on the gnex

**tugcapt1#CB** · 11-19-2011, 04:40 AM

Anyone else souring on the gnex from vz? Iffy camera reviews, lagging on live wallpaper, low benchmarks (ics using alot of the resources), only 16gb on vz, battery reviews not encouraging. I wish vz got the s2, might be a better phone. Disappointed....

**tugcapt1#CB** · 11-19-2011, 04:49 AM

oh and no flash.

**Poopai** · 11-19-2011, 04:50 AM

Originally Posted by donkey2

oh and no flash.

Really? Where did you see this? I know flash is discontinued, but I thought it would still make it to the Nexus.

**philly** · 11-19-2011, 05:51 AM

no flash? wth?

**androidatic** · 11-19-2011, 05:52 AM

Now listed with only 16GB! This just isn't enough and I'm not yet ready to rely on the cloud for everything.

Sent from my Droid, the only mobile OS that matters.

**Poopai** · 11-19-2011, 05:57 AM

Originally Posted by androidatic

Now listed with only 16GB! This just isn't enough and I'm not yet ready to rely on the cloud for everything.

Especially when you don't have unlimited data.

**GMC MaXx** · 11-19-2011, 06:05 AM

No flash? Like an iPhone, right?

j/k

**0pusX** · 11-19-2011, 06:13 AM

FIxed memory, no flash..... Meet the iNexus

**ace0187420** · 11-19-2011, 06:57 AM

If it's not 32gb I'm not sure I will get it 16 gb is not enough with out expandable memory.

**Csdaytona** · 11-19-2011, 07:35 AM

Idk who's to blame for the delay but I'm not waiting any longer, getting a Razr tomorrow. If and when the Nexus comes out I'll take a look at it and decide whether to switch. But yeah, definitely starting to lose the excitement for the Nexus.

**androidatic** · 11-19-2011, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by Csdaytona

Idk who's to blame for the delay but I'm not waiting any longer, getting a Razr tomorrow. If and when the Nexus comes out I'll take a look at it and decide whether to switch. But yeah, definitely starting to lose the excitement for the Nexus.

I agree. I'm picking up the Razr today as well. The Nexus processor is a little better as is the screen. ICS is coming on the Razr soon but Moto's radios are historically better as is the build quality.

The kickers for me are the recent revelations that the GN may not have Flash and has been knocked down to 16GB. No SD card is a big deal for me. I don't want to have to stream everything because my phone's storage is maxed out.

I have been reading about the Razr battery issues and many who complained initially have set up Smart Actions properly and are getting results that are actually pretty impressive. Coming from and Incredible, I will welcome automated tasks for what I used to do manually.

And if the battery craps out on me, I'll make sure the Razr falls and breaks and I'll get a new unit under my insurance coverage.

**elvisgp** · 11-19-2011, 08:26 AM

Originally Posted by donkey2

Anyone else souring on the gnex from vz? Iffy camera reviews, lagging on live wallpaper, low benchmarks (ics using alot of the resources), only 16gb on vz, battery reviews not encouraging. I wish vz got the s2, might be a better phone. Disappointed....

If u watched the reviews, which it looks like u did, u would see that there is flash! It looks like all u did was scan the reviews for all of the cons! what happened to all of the pros? Oh yeah, and why don't u try putting a heavy live wallpaper on your phone. They lag on EVERY phone.

Sent from my amazing galaxy tab 10.1 which also eats ipads

**FredBassett** · 11-19-2011, 08:29 AM

anyone seeimg the farce that was the bionic launch being repeated with the gnex? I'm pretty surprised that the 16g is the only option, not 32 as well

**FishPharm** · 11-19-2011, 08:30 AM

Whaaat? no flash?......only 16 gig? Is this true?? wow, I may just keep the razr then. I really want a GS2....but I can't give up the unlimited data.

**FredBassett** · 11-19-2011, 08:33 AM

appears so yes

**nemov** · 11-19-2011, 08:35 AM

This thread should either be closed are merged.

**revickulous2001** · 11-19-2011, 09:02 AM

Definitely. And when even Panda seems to be forsaking the Verizon version of the phone on twitter, you know there's a problem. But even so, all of these things don't both me as much as the inclusion of Verizon's bloatware and them locking the bootloader. It's not surprise to me, though. I was suspicious from the beginning that Verizon would try this.

**stabbedintheface** · 11-19-2011, 09:07 AM

I saw Pandas tweets but I didn't see anything about them locking the boolader.

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**ejaymd11** · 11-19-2011, 09:21 AM

Yeah I've soured on Verizon period. They've been trying to run me off for sometime and well looks like they have succeeded. I pay them way to much money for this BS!! But yeah Google may have failed with this device. Apple has nothing to worry about.

**DolfanCole** · 11-19-2011, 09:26 AM

I admit I'm beginning to sour on the Nexus as well. And to think that Verizon passed on the GS2 for this. I really wanted the GS2 until I found out they passed on it. Then became very interested in the Nexus. But I may now just try the Rezound.

Te biggest thing for me though is that I don't want to feel like I'm settling for something. And getting the Rezound seems that way. But the Nexus seems to be getting that way too.

**FishPharm** · 11-19-2011, 09:32 AM

I still want the Nexus but I have to admit that I am disappointed too. I keep telling myself to wait until I get to review it before I make an opinion. But I started to get disappointed when i heard about its specs compared to other phones that are out now. It was almost like Samsung had some spare parts laying around and decided to put a phone together and figured it would sell better with ICS. I hope I'm wrong though. The biggest sale for me and pretty much everyone is ICS and it being a pure Google phone.

**nemov** · 11-19-2011, 09:35 AM

I agree about the GS2. Verizon customers got the shaft. Classic bait and switch, but Verizon had even bothered to switch.

It's almost like VZW didn't want the GS2 competing against the Bionic. Verizon is committed to bloat and the Droid brand.

**Premium1** · 11-19-2011, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by nemov

I agree about the GS2. Verizon customers got the shaft. Classic bait and switch, but Verizon had even bothered to switch.

It's almost like VZW didn't want the GS2 competing against the Bionic. Verizon is committed to bloat and the Droid brand.

The funny thing is though they would have been able to bloat the sgs2 so I dont understand why they would pass on that when the razr was a month out and going to take some sales away from the bionic.

**Stang68** · 11-19-2011, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by androidatic

Now listed with only 16GB! This just isn't enough and I'm not yet ready to rely on the cloud for everything.

Sent from my Droid, the only mobile OS that matters.

Panda confirmed on Twitter it's 32GB. End this speculation now.

**rgrmatt69** · 11-19-2011, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by donkey2

Anyone else souring on the gnex from vz? Iffy camera reviews, lagging on live wallpaper, low benchmarks (ics using alot of the resources), only 16gb on vz, battery reviews not encouraging. I wish vz got the s2, might be a better phone. Disappointed....

32gb on vzw, better benchmark scores than the s2, and a tester showed 11 hours battery from heavy usage and max screen brightness. Have you even read any of the reviews?