Rezound vs Galaxy Nexus

[dpham00]

Well, 50% difference at home for me is 5-7 down and 1-3 up. Its a huge difference.

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1-3 is very low for LTE.

 

[Droid800]

No kidding. Sometimes it will hover at .9.

 

[tourboy]

Really depends on your area as to whether Verizon or AT&T or something else would work best. It is kind of odd how much the Nexus was delayed and delayed and now issues are starting to surface.

I got a Nexus, but had a Rezound previously, and now I'm reconsidering. The signal is much weaker at my house, and its very off-putting. I've even considering hopping over to AT&T and the LG Nitro, because I'm in an LTE market and their coverage is pretty good here.

 

[Dovahkiin]

Where do you guys live?
I'm about 40 minutes away from Basking Ridge (Verizon HQ.) Assuming they began their 4G LTE rollout starting from home, I should have excellent coverage, which I do.

I got 29MB/s on my first test, and my lowest speed test was 21MB/s at home.
When you do your speed test, remember to pick a server that is close to you. Sometimes the distance in miles next to the server will be incorrect. Just ignore that and pick the actual city closest to you.
(This is assuming you use Speedtest.net App)

 

[tourboy]

Northern VA, just outside of DC, and you?

Where do you guys live?
I'm about 40 minutes away from Basking Ridge (Verizon HQ.) Assuming they began their 4G LTE rollout starting from home, I should have excellent coverage, which I do.

I got 29MB/s on my first test, and my lowest speed test was 21MB/s at home.
When you do your speed test, remember to pick a server that is close to you. Sometimes the distance in miles next to the server will be incorrect. Just ignore that and pick the actual city closest to you.
(This is assuming you use Speedtest.net App)

 

[Droid800]

Where do you guys live?
I'm about 40 minutes away from Basking Ridge (Verizon HQ.) Assuming they began their 4G LTE rollout starting from home, I should have excellent coverage, which I do.

I got 29MB/s on my first test, and my lowest speed test was 21MB/s at home.
When you do your speed test, remember to pick a server that is close to you. Sometimes the distance in miles next to the server will be incorrect. Just ignore that and pick the actual city closest to you.
(This is assuming you use Speedtest.net App)

I live in suburban chicago, which has a substantial 4G footprint. It also, unfortunately, has some pretty strict laws about where towers go, which leads to congestion.

 

[tourboy]

Sorry to hear, so far my 4G has been solid.

I live in suburban chicago, which has a substantial 4G footprint. It also, unfortunately, has some pretty strict laws about where towers go, which leads to congestion.

 

[Joelist]

I have to admit I think Google made a mistake by choosing Samsung to make the Nexus for ICS. That is because the Samsung phones, while having good screens, suffer from poor build quality and Samsung's obsession with thin and light making them use plastic, which contributes to the "cheap" feel of the phones.

I currently have a TBolt and it works beautifully. I like the build quality and the LTE speed (currently getting 29 down) and Sense is a fantastic Android implementation. I have smooth transitions and such even though Gingerbread is not hardware accelerated and the TB has only a single core CPU.

When the time comes to upgrade I likely am staying in the HTC family because of the great build quality and also the well thought out modifications they do to Android (for example Sense includes real ActiveSync baked in). The Rezound sounds like another high quality phone in the HTC line.

 

[tony bag o donuts]

Where do you guys live?
I'm about 40 minutes away from Basking Ridge (Verizon HQ.) Assuming they began their 4G LTE rollout starting from home, I should have excellent coverage, which I do.

I got 29MB/s on my first test, and my lowest speed test was 21MB/s at home.
When you do your speed test, remember to pick a server that is close to you. Sometimes the distance in miles next to the server will be incorrect. Just ignore that and pick the actual city closest to you.
(This is assuming you use Speedtest.net App)

I used to live down the mountain from them.
I know live 45min west of them in Easton, PA

 

[VidJunky]

Well not to fan the flames, OK just a little I guess. Anyway, I went to the VZ store tonight and looked at the GN, not to trade, just to see. I had in previous posts heard about the back falling off and things the store had done to keep it on but this was probably one of the worst set ups of those posted. At our store the back had obviously fallen off in the past, honestly it wasn't on that good even now, as two of the tabs were unseated, and the back appeared warped. To keep the back on they had used some kind of stickers. The were two black ovals that ran along both sides of the cover to hold it on. If this wasn't enough to turn you off, the fact that the outer edges were peeling up and the adhesive side of the stickers were showing. Both were dirty looking and had small pieces of debris stuck to them. They could at least change them as needed or daily, I mean $.03 stickers are bad enough on your Flagship $700 phone, the least you could do is keep them fresh. While I was there I looked at 4.0 and didn't see anything that was impressive. I did a quadrant test on theirs and mine just because someone had already loaded it on the GN. The GN got 1401 my Zound got 2241. I actually started the GN test before I had even unlocked my phone and they finished at the same time. I was totally impressed... by my Rezound.

If lack of ICS makes my phone second best, I'll take second best all day over that pos phone I saw today. Just my opinion.

 

[mrmoe110]

I didn't come here to troll but......if you can look at ICS on the thin, futuristic-looking Nexus and look at SenseUI on one of HTC bricks and still pick the HTC, more power to ya. Personally, I can't use Sense for more than a day or two without flashing an AOSP ROM. On the other hand, the Nexus is the first Android I've had that I don't have the desire to use a 3rd party launcher. I don't even feel a need to root it.

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[VidJunky]

I didn't come here to troll but......if you can look at ICS on the thin, futuristic-looking Nexus and look at SenseUI on one of HTC bricks and still pick the HTC, more power to ya. Personally, I can't use Sense for more than a day or two without flashing an AOSP ROM. On the other hand, the Nexus is the first Android I've had that I don't have the desire to use a 3rd party launcher. I don't even feel a need to root it.

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I disagree with you on so many levels. So many levels. Although it's good that you're happy with your purchase.

 

[Droid800]

Well not to fan the flames, OK just a little I guess. Anyway, I went to the VZ store tonight and looked at the GN, not to trade, just to see. I had in previous posts heard about the back falling off and things the store had done to keep it on but this was probably one of the worst set ups of those posted. At our store the back had obviously fallen off in the past, honestly it wasn't on that good even now, as two of the tabs were unseated, and the back appeared warped. To keep the back on they had used some kind of stickers. The were two black ovals that ran along both sides of the cover to hold it on. If this wasn't enough to turn you off, the fact that the outer edges were peeling up and the adhesive side of the stickers were showing. Both were dirty looking and had small pieces of debris stuck to them. They could at least change them as needed or daily, I mean $.03 stickers are bad enough on your Flagship $700 phone, the least you could do is keep them fresh. While I was there I looked at 4.0 and didn't see anything that was impressive. I did a quadrant test on theirs and mine just because someone had already loaded it on the GN. The GN got 1401 my Zound got 2241. I actually started the GN test before I had even unlocked my phone and they finished at the same time. I was totally impressed... by my Rezound.

If lack of ICS makes my phone second best, I'll take second best all day over that pos phone I saw today. Just my opinion.

Eh you're too harsh. I own a nexus and had a rezound, and the nexus is a better handset in most areas. If you're judging it based on stickers because the Verizon displays weren't built for phones with this type of battery cover, then you wouldn't have liked it if it was on a pedestal of gold and platinum. There are some legitimate issues with the nexus; what you posted are not any of them.


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[Droid800]

Sorry to hear, so far my 4G has been solid.

Speeds are fine on most every device except the nexus. Ping times are never more than 50 ms.


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[VidJunky]

Eh you're too harsh. I own a nexus and had a rezound, and the nexus is a better handset in most areas. If you're judging it based on stickers because the Verizon displays weren't built for phones with this type of battery cover, then you wouldn't have liked it if it was on a pedestal of gold and platinum. There are some legitimate issues with the nexus; what you posted are not any of them.


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Granted we've been hearing about radio issues, app compatibility issues, picture quality issues, and so on, but not having owned one I can't speak to those issues. Having walked into a store and picking up a very light, broken phone, that wasn't as fast as my phone I can comment on. Really though I was more in disbelief at the way the phone was being displayed. Also following some of the threads at this forum it's difficult for me to understand the draw for this unit unless it's all a matter of mind over matter? If GN owners tell themselves that they waited on the best phone to release now that they have it they're willing to over look all the flaws? So be it. Yeah, you can root easily, and you have the most up to date OS. So what if GN owners can't get apps to work, reliable signal and 4G, and decent photos. It only cost $300. Complain about my phones thickness all you want, even my small battery, but it works as described, right out of the box, without 3 updates in the first week, no one can say they walked into store after store and saw them broken on the shelf. With the GN being Vanilla GN owners will get all the updates first, but while they're rooting for something better, waiting for fixes and updates, Rezound owners will be out there doing... Hey maybe HTC will kill sense in the upgrade to 4.0, then who has the better device?

 

[Laramie]

Granted we've been hearing about radio issues, app compatibility issues, picture quality issues, and so on, but not having owned one I can't speak to those issues. Having walked into a store and picking up a very light, broken phone, that wasn't as fast as my phone I can comment on. Really though I was more in disbelief at the way the phone was being displayed. Also following some of the threads at this forum it's difficult for me to understand the draw for this unit unless it's all a matter of mind over matter? If GN owners tell themselves that they waited on the best phone to release now that they have it they're willing to over look all the flaws? So be it. Yeah, you can root easily, and you have the most up to date OS. So what if GN owners can't get apps to work, reliable signal and 4G, and decent photos. It only cost $300. Complain about my phones thickness all you want, even my small battery, but it works as described, right out of the box, without 3 updates in the first week, no one can say they walked into store after store and saw them broken on the shelf. With the GN being Vanilla GN owners will get all the updates first, but while they're rooting for something better, waiting for fixes and updates, Rezound owners will be out there doing... Hey maybe HTC will kill sense in the upgrade to 4.0, then who has the better device?

People seem to always think phone jumpers are biased, but if we jump to a phone and like it better, then so be it. This is just my opinion after owning both the Nexus and Rezound:

- Build quality seemed nice. I didn't notice any creaking or cheapness, but the battery cover did give me some worry in that it would eventually not want to click in place, or the clips would break or it would become mishapen when taking off because it is so thin.

- My Nexus certainly had signal issues. I can get LTE on my Rezound in places where my Nexus never would. At home, my Rezound has about -90 to -99 signal strength where my Nexus was almost always -120. Calls and SMS come in consistently on my Rezound where the Nexus I had to wander outside to find a decent enough signal.

- I don't know if I encountered any app compatibility issues, but I really only have a core of about 20 or so apps/widgets I use.

- The screen at low brightness had horrible vertical banding and this was clearly documented from others on the Nexus forum.

- The speaker was flat our horrible. People are praising the "Volume+" app as some super fix, but all it does is distort the already crappy speaker and at least for me, also cause FC issues.

- Battery life was getting better, but unless I changed how i normally used my phone, there was no way I could go from 8:00am to 10:00pm on a single charge. I have already gotten a consistent 16-20 hours per charge on my Rezound with the extended battery. If I really needed to, I bet I could get 25 to 30 hours.

- ICS is gorgeous. I'm not sold on the color scheme, but aside from that, the features are a solid step up from 2.3 and everything just looks clean and well put together. I hate sense with a passion, but with a different launcher, I can tolerate it.

There are certainly things that the Nexus does better than the Rezound, but to me, they are almost all software related. If a stock ICS had been put on the Rezound, it would be an almost perfect phone. The Nexus is an example of top notch software on sub-par hardware. Software updates might fix the signal issues, and maybe battery life, but it won't fix the screen or the speaker.

 

[Droid800]

- My Nexus certainly had signal issues. I can get LTE on my Rezound in places where my Nexus never would. At home, my Rezound has about -90 to -99 signal strength where my Nexus was almost always -120. Calls and SMS come in consistently on my Rezound where the Nexus I had to wander outside to find a decent enough signal.

I don't know how many times we have to go over this: the rezound does not show LTE signal strength ANYWHERE on the phone. The ONLY phone that does this is the Nexus. What you're seeing is either 3G or 1x, both of which will be much better than LTE.


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[pappy53]

I don't know how many times we have to go over this: the rezound does not show LTE signal strength ANYWHERE on the phone. The ONLY phone that does this is the Nexus. What you're seeing is either 3G or 1x, both of which will be much better than LTE.


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Not doubting, but where does this info come from?

 

[tony bag o donuts]

Not doubting, but where does this info come from?

I think Jerry did an article on it a month or so ago.

 

[crzycrkr]

I have to admit I think Google made a mistake by choosing Samsung to make the Nexus for ICS. That is because the Samsung phones, while having good screens, suffer from poor build quality and Samsung's obsession with thin and light making them use plastic, which contributes to the "cheap" feel of the phones.

I currently have a TBolt and it works beautifully. I like the build quality and the LTE speed (currently getting 29 down) and Sense is a fantastic Android implementation. I have smooth transitions and such even though Gingerbread is not hardware accelerated and the TB has only a single core CPU.

When the time comes to upgrade I likely am staying in the HTC family because of the great build quality and also the well thought out modifications they do to Android (for example Sense includes real ActiveSync baked in). The Rezound sounds like another high quality phone in the HTC line.

All this "poor build quality" BS about Samsung always makes me laugh. People like to complain about the plastic, but most phones out there are plastic, including most HTC phones. For all the people that talk about Samsung's "poor build quality" I don't think I've ever seen one of the complaintants having a Samsung phone. I'll happily take my "cheap, plastic, poor build quality" Nexus S that has never had a single problem and is completely solids, over my "high build quality" PLASTIC EVO4G that had a lifting screen, self cracking PLASTIC bezel, and brick like shape and feel.

Plastic does not equal poor build quality, or even a cheap feel for most. The only people that complain about cheap feel are, again, people looking for something to complain about.