VZW Galaxy Nexus in NYC Samsung Store

[kath00]

Sorry to hear about the camera! I hate all the Moto cameras for the same reason. My Droid X camera was the pits. I got the Bionic and it was just as bad. Tried the Razr in the Verizon store and saw the same exact washed out, blurry pix that I have gotten with my DX for 2+ years already. Absolutely no improvement by the developers of Moto in the last 2 years as far as camera technology. Very disappointing.

I was hoping to see a bigger leap in quality with the GNex. While I still carry and P&S and my Canon 7D most everywhere, it's really helpful to have a good camera on your phone. Funny how you most need it in a restaurant or other dark setting, where these phones just suck at taking decent pix.

I have 2 third party software I have played with and while they help, junk in equals junk out no matter what processing goes on in between.

Outdoor pix are of course fab on most of these cameras now. Natural light is a piece of cake. It's the indoors that are so lousy!

Katherine

 

[jerrod6]

Did you try the various scene mode settings to see if they made picture quality difference? I have a few of these on my OG Droid(daylight, cloudy, florescent...Macro,steady photo...etc) and the settings seem to make a bit of difference

 

[1Brite1]

I am just wondering those who actually were able to purchase one, how much are they with/without contract? And did they have two models one with 16GB the other with 32GB? Thanks! Negri Electronics has one for $643.50 shipping Friday and am wondering if I should order from them? Or will Verizon be more/less?
Also, if I buy outright, how does Verizon handle your account as far as billing etc? Am I locked into a 2 year agreement still, or is it month to month? I do have 3 phones but was thinking of buying this outright. Both the Verizon Corporate Store and call center give me different information as usual. Never know who to believe until I ask for them to send me their answer also via email. Thanks and have a great day! I know we all can't wait for our new toy!

 

[iastonish]

What's the address of the Samsung store?

 

[JoJoCal19]

I am just wondering those who actually were able to purchase one, how much are they with/without contract? And did they have two models one with 16GB the other with 32GB? Thanks! Negri Electronics has one for $643.50 shipping Friday and am wondering if I should order from them? Or will Verizon be more/less?
Also, if I buy outright, how does Verizon handle your account as far as billing etc? Am I locked into a 2 year agreement still, or is it month to month? I do have 3 phones but was thinking of buying this outright. Both the Verizon Corporate Store and call center give me different information as usual. Never know who to believe until I ask for them to send me their answer also via email. Thanks and have a great day! I know we all can't wait for our new toy!

If you buy outright then Verizon doesn't change anything if you are already using a smartphone and have a data plan. You can log into MyVerizon and activate the phone. I believe you can also call *228 and hit one of the options to activate a new phone.

 

[Terrigno]

Anyone going to get it retail? I just got in Verizon 2 months ago and am trying to figure out a way to get it for the upgrade price without adding another line for this phone. Ive done this way to many times. Android Addicted lol

 

[Terrigno]

Sorry to hear about the camera! I hate all the Moto cameras for the same reason. My Droid X camera was the pits. I got the Bionic and it was just as bad. Tried the Razr in the Verizon store and saw the same exact washed out, blurry pix that I have gotten with my DX for 2+ years already. Absolutely no improvement by the developers of Moto in the last 2 years as far as camera technology. Very disappointing.

I was hoping to see a bigger leap in quality with the GNex. While I still carry and P&S and my Canon 7D most everywhere, it's really helpful to have a good camera on your phone. Funny how you most need it in a restaurant or other dark setting, where these phones just suck at taking decent pix.

I have 2 third party software I have played with and while they help, junk in equals junk out no matter what processing goes on in between.

Outdoor pix are of course fab on most of these cameras now. Natural light is a piece of cake. It's the indoors that are so lousy!

Katherine

I agree with you on that and I was thinking about this last night. Why would they release a Galaxy Nexus if its supposed to be the 'Big Dog" of Android phones, when it has less hardware settings? 5MP camera, No External SD? They probably have a contract with other phone makers to not include the higher settings. Of something of that nature. Because if this phone came out with everything and had everything the best there was to offer, it would make no compitetion for the other carriers and namebrand devices. Like my Charge has an 8MP camera. Most do. Why wouldnt they put that on the Nexus? Or an External SD card slot? I feel its all competetion and they have to stay in the races. They wont let one phone come out with the best of everything to blow out all the others.

 

[rootbrain]

Damn I should go to the store but wtf the tmail app is making me wonder

Hey look at it again or read some comments. That's NOT the Tmail app. That is the TMobile MALL app. someone prolly put it there as a joke

 

[rootbrain]

I agree with you on that and I was thinking about this last night. Why would they release a Galaxy Nexus if its supposed to be the 'Big Dog" of Android phones, when it has less hardware settings? 5MP camera, No External SD? They probably have a contract with other phone makers to not include the higher settings. Of something of that nature. Because if this phone came out with everything and had everything the best there was to offer, it would make no compitetion for the other carriers and namebrand devices. Like my Charge has an 8MP camera. Most do. Why wouldnt they put that on the Nexus? Or an External SD card slot? I feel its all competetion and they have to stay in the races. They wont let one phone come out with the best of everything to blow out all the others.

+1 on this. I'm getting the Rezound because of these 2 reasons. SD support and 8MP camera. ICS will come to the Rezound soon anyway and the Nexus doesn't have anything else to offer besides that.

EDIT: But I'll HDMI out the Rezound to my AWSOME Samsung HDTV, lols.

 

[D1andOnlyOmen]

I agree with you on that and I was thinking about this last night. Why would they release a Galaxy Nexus if its supposed to be the 'Big Dog" of Android phones, when it has less hardware settings? 5MP camera, No External SD? They probably have a contract with other phone makers to not include the higher settings. Of something of that nature. Because if this phone came out with everything and had everything the best there was to offer, it would make no compitetion for the other carriers and namebrand devices. Like my Charge has an 8MP camera. Most do. Why wouldnt they put that on the Nexus? Or an External SD card slot? I feel its all competetion and they have to stay in the races. They wont let one phone come out with the best of everything to blow out all the others.

I've seen a lot of people comment about the lack of an SD slot being a big negative and at first I thought that the same thing. But the more I've thought about it, the more I don't really see it as that big of a deal. I have a Bionic right now that I'll be exchanging for the Nexus. Of course the Bionic has the same overall capacity (16GB internal, 16GB SD card) and I have yet to make much of a dent in that. Apps are relatively small for the most part, all my music is on Google Music (stored in the cloud), I have all the pics I take sync to my Google+/Picasa page/site/account whatever (again, stored in the cloud) and even though I have several digital copies of movies from my DVD collection, I haven't gotten but one of them onto my laptop in digital format yet. But I would anticipate that once I get more up to speed with that stuff, I'll have an option to store them in the cloud before too much longer. Plus with all the other streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, etc...) for video content and 4G LTE speeds becoming more widespread making streaming much more tolerable, how much actual storage space will we really need on our phones themselves?!? There may be a point in the not too distant future where 32GB capacity on a device such as this might be seen as complete overkill.....

But that's just my observation.

 

[Premium1]

@droid_life Droid Life
Hah of course they did. RT @toonzdiggler: @droid_life they removed the nexus from the Samsung store at Columbus circle!! Fml.

Uh oh, guess vzw is tired of people pestering them about a release lol.

 

[MRGQ]

If you buy outright then Verizon doesn't change anything if you are already using a smartphone and have a data plan. You can log into MyVerizon and activate the phone. I believe you can also call *228 and hit one of the options to activate a new phone.

one thing you missed (or maybe i missed what kind of phone he has??...)but if you have a 3g phone now, you cant just buy and activate the phone on My Verizon website...you have to go to the Verizon store and get a 4G sim card (unless you already have another 4G phone from Verizon).

for me I would have to go tot he store and get a 4G sim card since im ridding on 3G still

 

[Premium1]

one thing you missed (or maybe i missed what kind of phone he has??...)but if you have a 3g phone now, you cant just buy and activate the phone on My Verizon website...you have to go to the Verizon store and get a 4G sim card (unless you already have another 4G phone from Verizon).

for me I would have to go tot he store and get a 4G sim card since im ridding on 3G still

When you buy the phone vzw sends a sim card with the phone.

 

[MRGQ]

^you sir are correct!

 

[taadow1030]

I've seen a lot of people comment about the lack of an SD slot being a big negative and at first I thought that the same thing. But the more I've thought about it, the more I don't really see it as that big of a deal. I have a Bionic right now that I'll be exchanging for the Nexus. Of course the Bionic has the same overall capacity (16GB internal, 16GB SD card) and I have yet to make much of a dent in that. Apps are relatively small for the most part, all my music is on Google Music (stored in the cloud), I have all the pics I take sync to my Google+/Picasa page/site/account whatever (again, stored in the cloud) and even though I have several digital copies of movies from my DVD collection, I haven't gotten but one of them onto my laptop in digital format yet. But I would anticipate that once I get more up to speed with that stuff, I'll have an option to store them in the cloud before too much longer. Plus with all the other streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, etc...) for video content and 4G LTE speeds becoming more widespread making streaming much more tolerable, how much actual storage space will we really need on our phones themselves?!? There may be a point in the not too distant future where 32GB capacity on a device such as this might be seen as complete overkill.....

But that's just my observation.

For rooted users, two words: Boot Manager. It allows you to run up to five Custom Roms on the same phone via the Sd card. ICS is cool, but you might want to have the ability to boot and run other Roms on the fly.

 

[Stang68]

So now that the device is gone from the Samsung store, do we know if the employees there have Nexus devices? I heard they do so I may still head down there.

 

[dadsterflip]

I wonder why they took it off?

 

[Premium1]

I wonder why they took it off?

Because verizon is not going to allow someone to steal their thunder and have it displayed before it is in verizon stores.

 

[Stang68]

I wonder why they took it off?

Because the blogs went crazy, Verizon saw and made an angry call to the store saying the phone isn't out yet.

 

[Premium1]

From phandroid forums:
I just called the Samsung Store at Columbus Circle NYC, They confirmed that the phone was pulled off the display this morning, by request. I asked who requested this? He stammered, I said was it Verizon? He said Uuuuuuuuhhhhhhh I am not allowed to give that info, but you know the answer,I said thank you. I know its a CSR?.....Take it FWIW,I am not gonna interogate anyone when I am off duty.