Using a Sprint Galaxy Nexus for a few days now after longtime EVO 4G...
I like it overall due to the consistent look and feel of major applications like gmail, mail, calendar, contacts, etc. I love the larger photos for contacts and the modern look of the phone application when calls come in or during a call. The screen is so clear and text appears great like reading the calendar in month view.
Things I don't like:
- Browser bookmarks aren't customizable in list order or list type (i.e. alphabetical, most visited, list of bookmark name, small icons, large icons, etc). They aren't that easy to quickly recognize the way it is set up now.
- The SMS text entry box is too small for a screen this large. The box on my EVO 4G stock SMS or using Handcent SMS is much easier to edit text while you're writing a long text or at least see all that you have written without scrolling in the box.
- The keyboard is certainly good and great predictive text. But, I don't like that you can't hit a button on the keyboard like with HTC and make the keyboard go away. This is so handy I used it all the time to go back and look at what I was responding to (email or text) when writing a long email or text response. In general with ICS, I feel like you can't see as much of the message you are responding to when writing responses.
- The email shading in a message isn't as intuitive. The email reply area should look more distinct from the subject line. It doesn't "look" like an email compose area. Maybe it's just me.
- When writing an email from the email (not Gmail) app, you can't switch accounts to have an email you are writing go out from your other account. It asks you to default to one or the other and it's hard to send a photo from your gallery, for example, out to different people from each of your email accounts. This is super easy in HTC Sense and not so in ICS. I used to do that all the time and now it's not so easy.
Not sure if this or the EVO LTE with Sense 4 over ICS > stock ICS for me. I'm thinking yes. I would like the have a Nexus for direct early updates from El Goog, though.
:-\