Attention Samsung and Carriers

[infernalman7]

OP may have misunderstood a few things about the specs and the rollout dates of the Galaxy Nexus.

(1) Galaxy Nexus isn't made to be a superphone for a flagship phone. It's a REFERENT phone for developers and manufacturers. It's the phone that sets a new standard that Google wants others to implement. These include: soft keys, 720p native resolution, front camera, etc. This phone isn't made to compete with the top range phones already existed in the market. That's manufacturer's job, not Google (nor Samsung who happens to be selected the manufacturer of this device)

(2) US release date: different carriers around the world use different technology and frequencies. But what happened is that the majority of Asian and European carriers are using the standardized GSM technology on standard GSM frequencies. (850/900/2100 HSPA). Some of the countries even have laws regarding mobile devices sold must be SIM unlocked to encourage price wars and competitions in both device markets and carrier mobile plans.

Unfortunately (or not) there are a few countries that use a different mobile technology and business strategy. These countries are: Japan, Korea, China and the US. These countries all happen to have amazing CDMA coverage ... and the nature of the CDMA technology requires carriers and devices to be paired manually (unlike GSM technology with exchangable SIM cards). Therefore carriers have come up with "contract" based phones to ensure that their air-time charges remain rigid and churning doesn't happen too often.

Moreover, all of these CDMA countries are now starting to deploy LTE--a technology that phone manufacturers are struggling to keep up and many of the GSM-HSPA based carriers do not see the technology to be that much advantageous to them yet due to the cost involved upgrading.

This is why LTE-enabled model of the Galaxy Nexus may arrive in the US a little later than the rest of the markets that will get the HSPA-based models.

 

[ultravisitor]

As I said, I love the galaxy Nexus, it's just not all I hoped it would be. I think if people were more honest they would concur that some of the points in my list of 10 were disappointments to them as well, even if it will not prevent them from buying the phone.

You want honesty? Here:

Please, speak for yourself and only for yourself. I'm not disappointed by any of the Galaxy Nexus specs because it's an awesome upgrade from my Droid X. Furthermore, I understand that the point of getting a Nexus device is not to have the most cutting edge hardware; getting a Nexus is all about the software experience.

People who are hardware spec whores might do better to look elsewhere. A Nexus isn't for them. However, I'm sure they'll find plenty of things to complain about with other phones, too -- especially when they realize how long they have to wait to for their non-Nexus phone to get the latest Android version update.

 

[anon(512898)]

1. Yes I was hoping there would be an sd card slot, buts since there is a 32GB sku available I don't really care. I prefer internal memory to an sd card because it is much faster, although It would be nice to have 32GB internal and a 32GB sd I am sure that very few people would actually need that much storage.

2. It does have a 1.5GHz dual core, but it is underclocked for battery/thermal reasons, If you root it should overclock much better than other cpus on the market seeing as it is the only one actually rated for 1.5GHz.

3. I am glad they have the onscreen buttons, it gives us extra space when we need it, like video, but keeps the phone the same size as a 4.3" phone. If they gave us 4.65" of usable space all the time, the phone would be huge and I would probably pass on it. I was actually hoping it would be a 4.3" screen in a phone the same size of as the nexus s but I can deal with something the size of a droid x/evo.

4. I haven't cared about rgbg pentile since I learned how the beautiful screen on the nexus one worked.

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I forgot to address point 5
5. Gorilla glass is chemically hardened glass, physics state that this helps prevent scratching but increases the risk of shattering. The real reason the gs2 survived the drop test and the iphone did not was that the gs2 has a plastic bezel to absorb the shock of the impact on the edges, the iphone uses a metal frame which does not do a good job of absorbing the shock.
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6. I was expecting an advanced 5mp camera and that's what I got, no disappointment here. Plus the pictures taken with it look great.

7. It will take months for ics to appear on the "superior" sgs2 and by then us nexus owners will be talking about the j release.

8. All high end LTE devices on verizon have been $300, that is just how verizon is doing their pricing now, I'm sure it will be $200 on other carriers if they choose to subsidize it.

9. True, but that hasn't been much of a problem for any previous android release.

10. There are not many phones that have bigger batteries than 1750mAh, even the razor with it's touted great battery life only has 1780mAh (they round up in the press release). I am sure that 30mAh less will mean this has terrible battery life.