Things I like about the Galaxy Nexus

[Hosehead]

Finally a non-whining thread....

Thanks to the OP and all who contributed to this one. It is refreshing...

 

[dsignori]

I like:

- The new contacts (people) app

- The new reject-with-text dialer (love it on my Touch Wiz Fascinate now, glad it is coming to ICS stock).

- The fast camera (hopefully the quality is good as well), and the photo-within-video shot capability.

- WiFi direct, if it works well

- Just about everything I saw about ICS looks awesome (except the virtual buttons, I'll reserve judgement on that until I have it in hand).

 

[BRIVERS73]

ICS & Display...

 

[joelp228#AC]

Nfc is nice but, not a deal-breaker for me. I'm actually a little leery of having my credit card info on my phone but, if someone is going to steal it, they may have access to that through my Google account anyway. I like NFC because it seems real futuristic but, there are risks involved as with anything else.

I wonder if there is a way to remote wipe the phone if it's stolen, like Apple has.

You should check out the app SeekDroid. It's a great app with many cool features that lets you track and swipe your phone from a computer if it is ever stolen.

 

[qnet]

I like:

- The new contacts (people) app

- The new reject-with-text dialer (love it on my Touch Wiz Fascinate now, glad it is coming to ICS stock).

- The fast camera (hopefully the quality is good as well), and the photo-within-video shot capability.

- WiFi direct, if it works well

- Just about everything I saw about ICS looks awesome (except the virtual buttons, I'll reserve judgement on that until I have it in hand).

Yeah, those are some nice features also. You all are reminding of stuff I had forgotten.

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[hyperdude]

To settle most questions on how the "Visual Voicemail" in ICS works:
Android 4.0 Platform | Android Developers

Voicemail Provider

The new Voicemail Provider allows applications to add voicemails to the device, in order to present all the user's voicemails in a single visual presentation. For instance, it?s possible that a user has multiple voicemail sources, such as one from the phone?s service provider and others from VoIP or other alternative voice services. These apps can use the Voicemail Provider APIs to add their voicemails to the device. The built-in Phone application then presents all voicemails to the user in a unified presentation. Although the system?s Phone application is the only application that can read all the voicemails, each application that provides voicemails can read those that it has added to the system (but cannot read voicemails from other services).

Because the APIs currently do not allow third-party apps to read all the voicemails from the system, the only third-party apps that should use the voicemail APIs are those that have voicemail to deliver to the user.

The VoicemailContract class defines the content provider for the Voicemail Provder. The subclasses VoicemailContract.Voicemails and VoicemailContract.Status provide tables in which apps can insert voicemail data for storage on the device. For an example of a voicemail provider app, see the Voicemail Provider Demo.

So, apps which can deliver voicemail (e.g. Google Voice, VZW's Visual VM...) can have their messages read by the Phone app. Which means that Verizon could make their Visual VM app work with ICS. And Google Voice will (or at least should hopefully) work with it right off the bat.

What I like about the Galaxy Nexus:
- Pure Android 4.0 (this will be my second smartphone, upgrading from my OG Droid - the only previous pure Android on Verizon)
- Display
- NFC and its capabilities
- Pogo-Pin for charging
- 4G LTE
- All the stuff that's coming in ICS (which isn't specific to the GN, but still )

 

[pmugghc]

Here is a greek video which shows how a video uses the whole screen, incl button area:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJcZH4eO7W8

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