Verizon Galaxy Nexus (Prime) Waiting Room

[roberte1342]

What's the word on the streets regarding a notification LED?

This will also be a deal breaker for me. Unless they provide an option to light up a 8x8 segment of LEDs on that SAMOLED screen to emulate one. Is this even possible? I know with LCD the whole screen and backlight needs energized to even light one subpixel. Is it similar to OLED? There is no backlight, but I'm assuming a lot of silicon logic/drivers may need to be awake making an unneeded burden on the battery. Perhaps Sammy could dedicate a portion of the screen to function as a basic LED when not in use. Or the could save the trouble and put the damn $0.05 LED in the bezel like everyone else.

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[sndplace]

LED flash will be cool but is it really that much of a big deal? The phone is either in your pocket or on the side somewhere so its not like its going to burn a whole in your pocket to let you know you got some kind of notification. Unless for looking at your phone waiting for a light to blink you wont really notice it. IMO anyway. Its good thing to have on the phone and not that expensive but not a deal breaker for me.

 

[goldkear]

Here's what I'd like to see: enough different radios packed into a svelte device that you can buy it from Google and activate it on virtually any carrier. How's that for open? Of course that's never going to happen, so I'd be happy with Verizon lte.

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[goldkear]

Fascinate and continuum, maybe he meant the galaxy tab?

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[Googlett]

In whatever shape/form it comes, I'll have it. I'm sure my Nexus One won't mind!

By the way, anyone got an invite for me @ G+
adecrown@googlemail.com - Thanks.

 

[goldkear]

Very well could be! And it won't land on AT&T(mo) as a DROID, HD or otherwise. DROID is a Verizon thing. But the focus group documents also claim a Super AMOLED screen which screams Samsung. Regarding the Prime, I was thinking about this today (yes, the hamster was turning extra fast in his wheel this morning): What if the Prime is the SGSII? This might help explain the delay for the phone in the US, at least on Verizon. How much repackaging would they have to do? Bigger screen, but that's about it. If rumors are true, how would Samsung benefit by having two LTE handsets, one vanilla android, one Verizon'd up, coming out within a couple months of eachother? I'm no marketing major, but why compete with yourself? I don't know. My DInc2 is treating me well, and what I once thought was just my holdout phone while I waited for the Bionic looks like it might just carry me through the holidays so I can see these other phones!

Bryan

As far as the DROID branding goes, that's the exact kind of marketing someone else mentioned that Google needs to do, I know so many arrogant people who refer to their non-droid branded android devices as droids. I swiftly correct them since Verizon had to license that name from lucasfilm and thus only attach it to their best phones.

Now as far as Sammy goes, they aren't competing with themselves, its called populating the market, if one person. I'm no marketing expert either, but it seems simple: the more product you have on the market the more you sell. If someone Chooses a nexus prime and another chooses a sgsII, they don't care because they are selling phones either way.

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PS. Sorry for the tripple post lol.

 

[El Jefe]

LED flash will be cool but is it really that much of a big deal? The phone is either in your pocket or on the side somewhere so its not like its going to burn a whole in your pocket to let you know you got some kind of notification. Unless for looking at your phone waiting for a light to blink you wont really notice it. IMO anyway. Its good thing to have on the phone and not that expensive but not a deal breaker for me.

Maybe you don't understand what we are talking about. We are talking about LED notifications, not flash. All phone manufacturers, except Samsung, put a little LED light for notifications usually up by the receiver & ambient light sensor (because there is available room already) that will blink when you have an unread notification in the pull down bar (e-mail, text, voicemail, or missed call). You can even assign a different color blink for each different notificatiotextpe. So if you don't hear your text sound, you don't have to turn on your screen to see if you missed anything.

Lack of a notification light is unfortunately a deal breaker for me because having one ensures I can respond to messages quicker & sometimes I need to for work.

It just seems stupid that Samsung leaves them out.

 

[Mooem]

For me at least, lack of notification is not that big of a deal. I'm so used to turning on my screen by habit regardless if my notification light is going off or not. Granted, it would certainly be nice to have.

Also, even though it's not a blinking notification light, there is an app for OLED screens that gives you different notifications on a turn off screen.
‪NoLED App Review by TotallydubbedHD‬‏ - YouTube

 

[JTEastwood]

In whatever shape/form it comes, I'll have it. I'm sure my Nexus One won't mind!

By the way, anyone got an invite for me @ G+
adecrown@googlemail.com - Thanks.

invited...

 

[JTEastwood]

invited...

Want this, need this!!! Glad I havent blown my upgrade yet.... Come on big red!

 

[tehsusenoh]

Here's what I'd like to see: enough different radios packed into a svelte device that you can buy it from Google and activate it on virtually any carrier. How's that for open? Of course that's never going to happen, so I'd be happy with Verizon lte.

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That would be awesome, but you have to realize how many different radios they would have to cram in.

• WiFi
• GSM
• CDMA
• WiMax
• Verizon-banded LTE
• AT&T-banded LTE
• Any other LTE radios

 

[Korama12]

That would be awesome, but you have to realize how many different radios they would have to cram in.

• WiFi
• GSM
• CDMA
• WiMax
• Verizon-banded LTE
• AT&T-banded LTE
• Any other LTE radios

Well it is a 4.6" phone...

 

[cmorty72#AC]

Well it is a 4.6" phone...

^This!^

 

[trailblazen]

Well it is a 4.6" phone...

its a 4.3" formfactor with no physical buttons with the glass pushed out. LOL.

 

[tehsusenoh]

its a 4.3" formfactor with no physical buttons with the glass pushed out. LOL.

^ This.

I'll be interested to see how the buttons are designed. My opinion on the Honeycomb buttons is that they don't look so nice. I like how the capacitive buttons look on other devices.

 

[bplewis24]

For me at least, lack of notification is not that big of a deal. I'm so used to turning on my screen by habit regardless if my notification light is going off or not. Granted, it would certainly be nice to have.

I've grown so used to it that it's almost an essential part of my phone interaction now. Here is my typical usage:

I put my phone on silent while I'm at work and it sits nearby me where I can see it out of the corner of my eye. The LED notification is essentially the only way for me to know that I've received something, and it works like this:

Light-red blink: K-9 Hotmail received
Blue blink: Facebook alert received
Light-blue blink: Handcent Text Message received
Red blink: Phone call missed
Green blink: Gmail or Google+ alert received

What I like about this setup is that, when I'm at home and missed an alert, I can tell what it was just by the color of the light. It's similar to having different ringtone/alert sounds for different apps. I don't care much about Facebook and hotmail, so when I see those alerts I can ignore it if something more pressing is at hand. But a missed call or a text message makes me want to check immediately.

Brandon

 

[trailblazen]

I've grown so used to it that it's almost an essential part of my phone interaction now. Here is my typical usage:

I put my phone on silent while I'm at work and it sits nearby me where I can see it out of the corner of my eye. The LED notification is essentially the only way for me to know that I've received something, and it works like this:

Light-red blink: K-9 Hotmail received
Blue blink: Facebook alert received
Light-blue blink: Handcent Text Message received
Red blink: Phone call missed
Green blink: Gmail or Google+ alert received

What I like about this setup is that, when I'm at home and missed an alert, I can tell what it was just by the color of the light. It's similar to having different ringtone/alert sounds for different apps. I don't care much about Facebook and hotmail, so when I see those alerts I can ignore it if something more pressing is at hand. But a missed call or a text message makes me want to check immediately.

Brandon

^This is what I am used to with my blackberry Storm 2 is the notifications and I want my next phone to carry those. Was not a fan of not having it the week I was using the Charge before I took it back for more reasons than just this. I work in cubicle city so can't have the ringer going off all the time. I like the notification LED while I am at my desk.

 

[TuxDotKing]

^This is what I am used to with my blackberry Storm 2 is the notifications and I want my next phone to carry those. Was not a fan of not having it the week I was using the Charge before I took it back for more reasons than just this. I work in cubicle city so can't have the ringer going off all the time. I like the notification LED while I am at my desk.

Aye, you can always install NoLED from the market. Problem solved.

I will be getting this phone on launch day just like I did for the Nexus S. Period.

 

[kvs678]

This will also be a deal breaker for me. Unless they provide an option to light up a 8x8 segment of LEDs on that SAMOLED screen to emulate one. Is this even possible? I know with LCD the whole screen and backlight needs energized to even light one subpixel. Is it similar to OLED? There is no backlight, but I'm assuming a lot of silicon logic/drivers may need to be awake making an unneeded burden on the battery. Perhaps Sammy could dedicate a portion of the screen to function as a basic LED when not in use. Or the could save the trouble and put the damn $0.05 LED in the bezel like everyone else.

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Yes, I believe something similar exists. Devs on the XDA forums have developed something like this for the Galaxy S phones. It's called "NoLed" if I recall correctly.
It lights up a few pixels on the screen just as you described.

Edit: Oops, the above poster beat me to it.

 

[MasterGiraffe]

I understand that it is only using small sections of the screen at once, but how much would something like NoLED hurt battery life? I would assume that it would be only a tiny amount used, but definitely more then having your screen completely off.

Also, does anyone actually truly believe that the prime is going to come out that soon? That seems almost impossible to me. I can't imagine that they are that far along in the process and they only have four months to finish everything? Maybe I am just overly skeptical due to all of the rumored release dates being off by months recently.