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What is a Google phone?

rjack22

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I was told my a customer rep in a Verizon store that the Galaxy Nexus was a Google phone made by Samsung. What does that mean?
 

VideoEngineerAJS

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I was told my a customer rep in a Verizon store that the Galaxy Nexus was a Google phone made by Samsung. What does that mean?

It means that Google had final say with everything in the phone however since Google didn't have phone manufacturing capabilities (prior to Motorola addition) it was made by Samsung.
 

jpprice

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Yeah to sum it up...the phone is manufactured by Samsung, but the software is all Google's.
 

Paul627g

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Last important part there is no bloatware or carrier pushed apps... Its just Pure Google, pure goodness...
 
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rickhamilton620

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Any reason this phone does not say "With Google" on back?

I've found the "with google" branding to be very sporatic among devices. At first I thought that "with google" = "Google Experience Device" but then it started showing up on stuff with sense, touchwiz, and blur.
 

anon(596177)

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Any reason this phone does not say "With Google" on back?

Because Verizon Didn't want it there. They be a pretty awesome cell phone company eh?

The GSM (global) version of this phone does have google branding on the back, where the Verizon Logo is on verizon's LTE nexus.
 

ultravisitor

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I don't care what logo is on the back -- Samsung, Verizon, Google -- so long as it's not an Apple.