I can not wait to get my hands on this phone. When do you think it will see the light of day?
My guess - Early Q2
My guess - Early Q2
Predictions: When will the Sprint GNex be released?
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By mid-March 2012. IMO they are not going to sit on this phone for 6 months. It has a 12 month shelf life. Google Nexus site says "Coming Soon". "Soon" is not 6 months.
Let's not forget this will be part of Sprint's first LTE lineup.
Put your blinders on for a moment. If your a Sprint customer, there are no LTE devices out yet, (who cares if its on another carrier, as a Sprint customer your not missing out), so when this device comes out, it will be a "New to You" situation, and the shelf life starts at that point (not when it was released on Verizon or even earlier GSM globally.
This phone can come out whenever they want it to, because again, it's not part of anything on Sprint currently, and certainly won't be outdated upon its release on Sprint, since as a Sprint customer, there isn't anything else "on top" until this does release.
**Not so say very very very shortly after the whole LTE lightup occurs, that there aren't a whole slue of LTE devices in tow.
But they can sit on it for as long as they want to.
History repeats itself: Palm Pre announced January 2009, released June 2009 (nothing else like it before or even up until).
No way they can wait till June. Too many new phones will have come out by then and the GNEX will be old and stale. They announce this stuff just to keep customers on board a few more months. It sucks, but a contract with any of these guys (att, sprint, verizon, and t-mo) is a contract with the devil. And in my case, better then devil you know then the devil you don't.
No, shelf life starts when the phone is originally announced/released. In the case of the the Galaxy Nexus this would be last year October/Decemberish. You ignore that there are other carriers in the same market, so Sprint needs to compete with them and not just with their own phones, and that phone contracts aren't for life with an ETF of DEATH. If they want to get new customers and retain old ones whose contracts run up they need to offer competitive phones. As an example, let's imagine that when Apple announced they would be offering iPhones on Sprint they decided to give Sprint only the original iPhone from 2007. Sure it's the only iPhone on Sprint, sure this is the first time Sprint got an iPhone, but no one would buy it at $200 (especially since you can get newer/better ones for free/cheaper from other carriers) and no one would consider it a new device.
They need to release it fairly soon. In the fake example of the iPhone it might sort of work since some people stay with sprint because they prefer it to other carriers and they don't care how good their phone is, just how "cool" it is. But people don't buy Nexus phones because they're "cool", they buy "Droid" phones from Verizon for the "Cool". Nexus is for tech geeks, and many tech geeks are willing to buy new phones off contract at full price just to get the newest tech. If a person is willing to spend an extra $600+ just to get the newest phone, the $200ish ETF isn't going to be that big a deal to them.
What BS are you spitting about sprint getting a 2007 model iPhone? They only sell the 4 & 4S which are 2010/11 model iPhone's.
Like that crack much?
Not to mention these things SOLD like crack once they were available to Sprint customers, not sure how you consider that "no one" buying them...:-$
Sprint isn't releasing the GN until LTE is active, PERIOD. So if you think that's "soon" or in a "few" months as others are believing, then you all are in some crazy time machine that puts Feb/March smack in the "middle" of 2012...
There's no reason to even debate/speculate release dates without Sprint even divulging this information, NONE OF YOU ARE SPRINT, and can speak for them.
So sit back, relax, keep puffing with the magic dragon, and just wait for official information!
What BS are you spitting about sprint getting a 2007 model iPhone? They only sell the 4 & 4S which are 2010/11 model iPhone's.
Like that crack much?
Not to mention these things SOLD like crack once they were available to Sprint customers, not sure how you consider that "no one" buying them...:-$
Sprint isn't releasing the GN until LTE is active, PERIOD. So if you think that's "soon" or in a "few" months as others are believing, then you all are in some crazy time machine that puts Feb/March smack in the "middle" of 2012...
There's no reason to even debate/speculate release dates without Sprint even divulging this information, NONE OF YOU ARE SPRINT, and can speak for them.
So sit back, relax, keep puffing with the magic dragon, and just wait for official information!
The iPhone thing was an example to prove his point...which he clearly stated. You should probably try reading the entire post instead of just a few sentences.
lornaevo
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Too late for what? I'm missing where you are finding other LTE devices launching on Sprint that are better than what they have right now. Oh wait, they don't have any...
I'm glad you asked! Miss Information is a propaganda spreading slut! Yes, she's extremely sexy, and real 'easy' to pass around.
BUTT in the end, you get an STD.
Enjoy!O
What miss-information did I spit? I said "As an example, let's imagine" under the assumption that any rational person would understand that "imagine", in this context, means the same thing as "this didn't really happen, but for the sake of argument let's pretend it did".
I don't play pretend anymore. Sorry, but whats done is done.
Have a nice day! Smell you later!
lornaevo
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This is the world of Android. It will be to late for anyone to care about that device.
That was the whole point of my post, you are ignoring ALL the other carriers. Other carriers have LTE, other carriers have will have better phones then the Galaxy Nexus in 6 months (and other carriers will have better 4g coverage). Most people buy phones when they are getting a new contract, or when their contract is up and they can renew because then instead of pay $600-$800 they can pay $100-$300. As such there is no penalty for switching carriers, so Sprint needs to compete with the other carriers.
Let's try another analogy. There are two stores that sell juice, A and B. They both get their juice from the same company. Now, everyone knows and agrees that juice has an expiration date, correct? Let us pretend it is a week. The company makes a bunch of juice on Monday (expiration date will be the following Monday). If store A get's their shipment of juice and puts it on the shelves on Monday, that juice has a whole week left. Now if store B get's the same juice, but waits until they get a shipment of jumbo cups on Friday, that juice still has an expiration date of Monday (now only three days away instead of seven). But how many people go and buy juice on the day a store get's it in stock? Also how many people will not go across the street if they know the store is guaranteed to have the juice they want? The same thing will apply to phones.
Except for the millions of sprint customers... that don't have any better device offered.
To add to your android world, I've already stopped caring about you, so yes, agreed.
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