No Verizon branding on the Galaxy Nexus?

[Spacemaker24]

I don't mind a VZW logo. So what if people know that I am willing to pay a premium for the best coverage and fastest speeds out there?

 

[dlh]

True story. Verizon couldnt just let us have this one.

Ill be first in line to order a Gsm battery door if they fit properly

Brilliant idea! Count me in on that too.

 

[theduder]

If the NFC stuff is built into the GN battery door like the previous model, you are going to pay a high price for such a swap.

The NFC back for the Nexus S is $50 USD and up depending on the source.

 

[STC09]

I don't mind a VZW logo. So what if people know that I am willing to pay a premium for the best coverage and fastest speeds out there?

No one's trying to stop you. Never understood the need to look like something from Nascar myself, but to each his own.

 

[kvlt]

I don't mind a VZW logo. So what if people know that I am willing to pay a premium for the best coverage and fastest speeds out there?

See the thing is: I dont really care what others think. I would hate to think we live in a world where people judge one another by cell service providers haha. Its more aesthetic preference. Its not like i wont buy this phone because it has a logo, thatd be silly. I just simply dont care for the fact that Verizon is having their way with this device. I understand why they would feel the need, i just dont like it. As far as ive seen from the leaked Samsung webstore listing, the battery door should only be 10 bucks considering the Nfc chip is built into the battery. So hey, if the Gsm battery door is only 10 bucks? Ill have my ideal device with ideal aesthetics.

 

[Premium1]

If the NFC stuff is built into the GN battery door like the previous model, you are going to pay a high price for such a swap.

The NFC back for the Nexus S is $50 USD and up depending on the source.

Supposedly the nfc is built into the battery, so the battery door would not need to be the special nfc one.

 

[ultravisitor]

Typically Nexus phones have no carrier branding or bloat. That's kind of the point.

Sent from my SGS II

I know, but...so? It's not like we're going to be able to take the phone and use it on any network anyway. The phone will still work. To me, getting annoyed at the word Verizon being printed on the battery door is just petty nonsense.

 

[Scout_313]

I really couldn't care less if they put the Verizon logo on the phone so long as the updates come straight from Google.

 

[theduder]

Supposedly the nfc is built into the battery, so the battery door would not need to be the special nfc one.

Ugh. Really???

That sounds like an unworkable solution. That means if I swapped batteries my Google Wallet would have a different chip/identity to contend with. Also, it would jack up the cost of new batteries by at least $20.

Are you sure it's not the battery door like previous implementations?

 

[radgatt]

I don't care either way because when I get the phone I am putting a case on it.

 

[Droid800]

Typically Nexus phones have no carrier branding or bloat. That's kind of the point.

Sent from my SGS II

Excuse me, but no it isn't. Prior to the Sprint Nexus S, there hasn't BEEN a carrier sanctioned Nexus device that was sold in their stores and marketed on their dime. The situation we're in with the Galaxy Nexus is entirely new.

The point of the Nexus has never been 'no carrier branding', its been a pure Google SOFTWARE experience, with no skin and no meddling with Android as Google conceived of it. Even with a Verizon logo on the battery door, and two Verizon apps already installed, the Galaxy Nexus STILL adheres to that mission.

 

[theduder]

Excuse me, but no it isn't. Prior to the Sprint Nexus S, there hasn't BEEN a carrier sanctioned Nexus device that was sold in their stores and marketed on their dime. The situation we're in with the Galaxy Nexus is entirely new.

The point of the Nexus has never been 'no carrier branding', its been a pure Google SOFTWARE experience, with no skin and no meddling with Android as Google conceived of it. Even with a Verizon logo on the battery door, and two Verizon apps already installed, the Galaxy Nexus STILL adheres to that mission.

Still want it how Sprint did it. I have a Nexus S 4G on Sprint. No apps, no branding. The Google experience should be pure Google just as iOS is pure Apple. Oh, and Sprint sold it in their stores and marketed it on their dime.

That's the precedent that was set with Sprint and what Google needs to cram down VzW's throat. (I am switching to VzW and will only do Nexus).

It isn't that it would be the end of the world if Verizon sneaks these changes in. It's that it fundamentally changes the idea of the Nexus. Once you let carriers tart it up, it might as well be a regular Android phone.

 

[Droid800]

Still want it how Sprint did it. I have a Nexus S 4G on Sprint. No apps, no branding. The Google experience should be pure Google just as iOS is pure Apple. Oh, and Sprint sold it in their stores and marketed it on their dime.

That's the precedent that was set with Sprint and what Google needs to cram down VzW's throat. (I am switching to VzW and will only do Nexus).

It isn't that it would be the end of the world if Verizon sneaks these changes in. It's that it fundamentally changes the idea of the Nexus. Once you let carriers tart it up, it might as well be a regular Android phone.

Sprint's version was an afterthought, which is why there was no branding. What Verizon and Google are doing with the GN does not fundamentally change anything. Only people that don't actually understand the purpose of the Nexus line would think that.

 

[MetalPhoenix79]

Shouldn't Samsung take their branding off of it?

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

Nothing some acetone and a q-tip can't fix. Just make sure the cover is off the phone when you're doing it.

 

[theduder]

Sprint's version was an afterthought, which is why there was no branding. What Verizon and Google are doing with the GN does not fundamentally change anything. Only people that don't actually understand the purpose of the Nexus line would think that.

Provide evidence about it being an afterthought otherwise this is mere opinion.

I doubt people appreciate you talking down to them by saying they don't understand a product if they don't agree with you.

I use a Nexus and I definitely understand the point of the line. It's supposed to be the -Google- experience, not the Verizon experience.

 

[Droid800]

Provide evidence about it being an afterthought otherwise this is mere opinion.

I doubt people appreciate you talking down to them by saying they don't understand a product if they don't agree with you.

I use a Nexus and I definitely understand the point of the line. It's supposed to be the -Google- experience, not the Verizon experience.

Pure Android is the point.

Which it still is, even with two verizon apps on board and a verizon logo on the back.

 

[ultravisitor]

Good grief. Simply stamping the name on it does not turn the phone from having "the Google experience" to "the Verizon experience". It doesn't affect the software in any way.

And why aren't people complaining about "the Samsung experience", either?

 

[Droid800]

Good grief. Simply stamping the name on it does not turn the phone from having "the Google experience" to "the Verizon experience". It doesn't affect the software in any way.

And why aren't people complaining about "the Samsung experience", either?

Because they hate verizon and are upset that the phone isn't out yet. They've lost all sense of reason.

 

[ultravisitor]

I think it's hilarious. All these people hating Verizon, but I'm sure they'll be all too happy when they're using the phone on Verizon's LTE network and experience the data speeds. (Seriously. I was getting 28 Mbps down / 15 Mbps up at work the other day on LTE. That's probably faster than the wifi in the building.)