Is anyone else dissapointed with the specs?

[vicw926a4]

...How many people actually print the pictures from their phones and if they do, how many print them at 8.5 by 11.3 or larger?

I'm not sure how many actually do, but you can put me on your list. I've printed bunches from my DX at 4x6", and one, from at 11x19" on a canvas print, and I'm thrilled with the results.

I am attracted, though, by the advantage of rapid shooting at 5 mp. on the GN, along with all of its other pluses, as long as camera quality is really good.

 

[sneakking]

Would have really liked a Nexus, but I think I'm going to wait for the Padfone which was just said to come in February with quad-core and a tablet dock.

If the Nexus came with 1.5ghz (I know the 4460 is rated for 1.5ghz and I can clock it to that, but rooting is too bothersome because I can't update with it) and a competitive GPU, I'd get it, but that not being the case and it being rather cheap and ugly make me lean towards waiting. Also, megapixels do matter. The 5 MP pics don't look anything special, and I like to zoom around my pictures. I'd rather have more MP than a quick shutter.

isn't the padfone rumored to come with a 5MP camera and no flash?

 

[crzycrkr]

I order the jury to discount this ad hominem argument. But since we're in that realm of things, I must declare that I chuckle more when people buy things from a cycle just before it comes to its end, and its superior arrives to slay it. Utopia isn't rumored, it's Kal-El, and all this talk of software optimization is shenanigans in my oh so intuitive opinion; it's just a frail way to try and justify the purchase of a product which pales in the bright blinding light of the rising sun.

No offense, but your opinion is flat out wrong. Nexus S performance proves your low opinion of software optimization is off base. It has weathered the "blinding light" of the rising dual cores just fine. Not only are you wrong, but you're awefully over dramatic

 

[anon(512898)]

Is this really getting resurrected? You'd think that by now everyone who is underwhelmed would have moved on to greener pastures and not need to continue complaining about this...

 

[Poopai]

No offense, but your opinion is flat out wrong. Nexus S performance proves your low opinion of software optimization is off base. It has weathered the "blinding light" of the rising dual cores just fine. Not only are you wrong, but you're awefully over dramatic

Well we have conflicting sources then don't we, as I know several people who have had a Nexus S and have since moved on to more dualed pastures, and they have had the opposite opinion, which makes me wonder where you've garnered yours.

 

[Adrynalyne]

Opinions are like aholes....


Everyone has one and they all stink.

So stop fighting.

 

[crzycrkr]

Well we have conflicting sources then don't we, as I know several people who have had a Nexus S and have since moved on to more dualed pastures, and they have had the opposite opinion, which makes me wonder where you've garnered yours.

Well then I think the people you know are more enamored by specs than reality. Its widely known that the NS keeps up with dual cores in every day tasks. Every time I hand mine to someone with the next new big dual core, they're always surprised by how fast my old phone is. My source is my experience with many dual cores and the fact that i keep coming back to the Nexus because they have nothing on it yet. Specs and benchmarks mean nothing in real life. The Nexus is the only Android phone with a solid 1+ year top of the line life span.

 

[FishPharm]

See your talking physical media to a company with lots of cloud storage for you to use. Sounds like you need video camera

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From what I heard the cloud storage is a bit of a pain to use. I do admit though that I don't know much about it so I'm willing to try. I would think that popping in an SD card would be pretty fast. I do have a video camera and a really nice SLR but who wants to lug those around everywhere. I just think it makes sense to include an option to use external media....especially with HD video. It's not a deal breaker for me but as a response to the subject of this thread it was a bit of a disappointment.

 

[Ricky Babalu]

From what I heard the cloud storage is a bit of a pain to use. I do admit though that I don't know much about it so I'm willing to try. I would think that popping in an SD card would be pretty fast. I do have a video camera and a really nice SLR but who wants to lug those around everywhere. I just think it makes sense to include an option to use external media....especially with HD video. It's not a deal breaker for me but as a response to the subject of this thread it was a bit of a disappointment.

FishPharm - Have you seen this option? Another member here turned me on to this as a solution to more storage.


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[FishPharm]

Thanks man, this seems like a great option!

 

[Poopai]

Well then I think the people you know are more enamored by specs than reality. Its widely known that the NS keeps up with dual cores in every day tasks. Every time I hand mine to someone with the next new big dual core, they're always surprised by how fast my old phone is. My source is my experience with many dual cores and the fact that i keep coming back to the Nexus because they have nothing on it yet. Specs and benchmarks mean nothing in real life. The Nexus is the only Android phone with a solid 1+ year top of the line life span.

Yes, and my OG Droid "keeps up" with the Nexus S and will also keep up with the Galaxy Nexus. Shenanigans. Specs and benchmarks ARE what matter because there is hardly a day to day difference in anything else.

Perhaps you should buy an original iPhone off Ebay if specs and benchmarks aren't what matter to you. You'll save a lot of money.

 

[Adrynalyne]

Ok, tone it down folks.


Not gonna ask it again.


Be civil or move on.

 

[TheDave]

Back to the OP and his question.

Im not disappointed. The HD screen is beautiful, ICS is what an OS should be, and the 1.2 OMAP4460 is the best out there in overall performance right now, IMHO.

Plus I can get JellyBean and not deal with bloatware...*shivers*

 

[reflekt2099]

there will always be "a better phone" on the horizon that will probably be coming out in 3-6 months (the trashy bionic took almost an entire year to be released...lol). if you have that kind of mentality, you're just gonna be stuck with your old phone and waiting forever; stuck in a vicious cycle.

look at a phone and see if it fits your needs and what you'll be using it for, for today and for the next 2 years. for me, i feel like the galaxy nexus is as future proof as i need it to be.

it'll have a processor optimized to run an OS, ICS, with zero lag. it'll have a 1280x720 HD high resolution screen that phones coming in the future will only start to utilize. it'll be one of the first phones with NFC, which is becoming an evolutionary piece of technology that developers are finding clever ways of implementing.

and of course, one of the biggest selling points is that the galaxy nexus is a Google Nexus device, which means my phone will always be one of the first to get updates and run the latest software released from Google. i won't have to wait months...and months...and months just to run froyo or gingerbread. no bloat. no skins running on top of vanilla android 4.0 ICS to slow my user experience down. just a straight and silky smooth google experience. the way Google wants their phone to run. with the freedom (since it's a samsung phone, and not a motorola or htc phone with locked bootloaders) to most likely be a part of a huge developer environment with the option to root and utilize even more optimized kernels and custom ROMS.

my only real concern is the battery life. but that's a concern with any phone that comes out. i'm interested to see if the phone can get some good battery life, with the processor it has, the huge beautiful screen the phone is powering, and 4G LTE.

 

[Poopai]

there will always be "a better phone" on the horizon that will probably be coming out in 3-6 months (the trashy bionic took almost an entire year to be released...lol). if you have that kind of mentality, you're just gonna be stuck with your old phone and waiting forever; stuck in a vicious cycle.

This really isn't the case. There's more of a yearly cycle, with small incremental upgrades in between that usually aren't worth waiting for.

 

[reflekt2099]

This really isn't the case. There's more of a yearly cycle, with small incremental upgrades in between that usually aren't worth waiting for.

not true. there's an almost yearly cycle for the iPhone. but it's completely the opposite for android phones. there's a new android phone with improved specs coming out practically monthly (or what i said, every 3-6 months)

 

[ShinyTop]

Actually iPhone is on two years with incremental on the off years.

 

[Poopai]

not true. there's an almost yearly cycle for the iPhone. but it's completely the opposite for android phones. there's a new android phone with improved specs coming out practically monthly (or what i said, every 3-6 months)

No, in 3-6 months it will go from 1ghz to 1.2ghz with improvement in no other areas, which isn't worth waiting for. Yearly, across most releasing phones around the same time, the processing speed will double, ram will increase, screen res will increase (screen res came a bit early in this case, but it's a general trend), and camera MP will increase.

 

[reflekt2099]

Actually iPhone is on two years with incremental on the off years.

really? hmm...I don't see how there's "two years with incremental on and off years" for the iPhone.

iPhone - 2007
iPhone 3G - June 9, 2008
iPhone 3GS - June 8, 2009
iPhone 4 - June 7, 2010
iPhone 4S - October 14, 2011

like I said, the iPhone has an almost yearly cycle.

 

[reflekt2099]

No, in 3-6 months it will go from 1ghz to 1.2ghz with improvement in no other areas, which isn't worth waiting for. Yearly, across most releasing phones around the same time, the processing speed will double, ram will increase, screen res will increase (screen res came a bit early in this case, but it's a general trend), and camera MP will increase.

you're missing the point. what i'm saying is that android phones get released every time you glance at a weekly best buy ad. and a lot of people on these forums freak out about the latest phone that's going to get released and can't decide what to get. but by the time it gets a few weeks before the phone they wanted gets released, they ponder whether to wait for that next phone on the horizon because somehow the phone they originally wanted seems outdated "spec wise".

what i'm saying is that the galaxy nexus is that future proof type of phone that you can live with for a long period of time and not worry too much about the quad-cores, the tegra 3's, etc. isn't that the point of this thread? being dissapointed about the specs of the galaxy nexus? and i'm saying that i'm not dissapointed. i'm happy with it, and just as happy as i was when i first heard about the phone.