What's the selling point for the Prime?

[robrecht]

For me the most important selling points are:

1) 4.65" 720p screen and

2) the lack of battery draining UI on the latest version of the Android OS.

These are the selling points over the HTC Vigor, although I do like Sense as a UI. It doesn't hurt that it's dual core, but I'm not yet convinced how important that is yet. Likewise, 1.2 or 1.5 GHz is of secondary importance as is 5 MP or 8 MP camera. I wouldn't consider any supposedly competitive phone on another network either. I am concerned about the battery life on a phone with such a phone with such a large screen, but I always carry a couple of spare batteries anyway.

Thanks, Robrecht

 

[ManBearPig618]

Screen size/res. Sweet aesthetics/design. People screaming about "modest specs" need to stop it. This happens at the release of every new phone. People start whining that chips/screens/etc that haven't gone into production yet aren't in the phone and therefor it's a "mid level" device. News flash: whenever a phone comes out, there will always be whispers of the next gen components that will be used in a later wave of devices. It doesn't make the phone that's about to come out obsolete or modest.

 

[dragonsamus]

I'm buying for ice cream sandwich and the stock experience.

 

[anon(512898)]

If you want to know the best selling point of the Prime, just look at the Nexus One. It received 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 months earlier than any OEM model and at two years old is still more up to date than even the latest flagship devices from OEMs. It will probably get ice cream sandwich too unless they run into storage constraints whereas any of these other superphones and all their extra "potential" will probably get ice cream sandwich eventually and maybe the next release if they are lucky, but after that they will be abandoned while the Prime will continue to get updates

 

[ShinyTop]

The selling points have been well enumerated. But how they weigh on each of us depends on our current phone. I have an Incredible that is still serving me well but the size of the screen and a lack of crapware bloatware make this attractive. It will have to have 32 gig on board storage if it does not have an sd card port.

 

[descendency]

All of the above

+ The curved screen. It's completely awesome.

 

[Greatbape]

Main selling point to me is the design and ICS. The galaxy note is a more ideal phone to me, but I don't want to pay 1000 dollars for it. The Note pretty much has everything the nexus has and then some. It has higher resolution, bigger screen, bigger battery, faster stock cpu(based on rumored specs), stylus, and it will receive ICS. Also if the rumors about touchwiz 5 for ICS are true(less integration for faster updates) then I won't miss the main perk of having a nexus.

 

[kath00]

1) Speed: if it's anything like the Bionic, it will rock with no hiccups while moving between apps
2) Screen size
3) Hopefully a good camera
4) ICS and updates

Kath

 

[hmackenz]

ice cream sandwich and the stock experience.

Sounds like a band name.

 

[AndrewWestSide]

I'm excited that Verizon is finally getting a 1.2Ghz Dual Core, LTE, Nexus, with a 4.65" screen made by Samsung and running Ice Cream Sandwich.

Have fun waiting for 1.5Ghz, because something faster will come out after that.

 

[Rominucka]

I want it because it's made by Samsung and it will have the most awesomest of screenage

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[ottscay]

The Nexus will be one of two (or maybe three) dual core LTE phones in the U.S. It should have the best overall camera (speed, picture quality, maybe even lens quality, but not theoretical resolution) of any Android phone. It won't have any bloatware or a poor UI skin to slow it down. It will finally bring a fully multi-threaded and hardware-accelerated OS to Android (and be the only phone with it for months). It will allow Google Wallet out of the box. It will have *by far* the best screen when it ships. It will get the latest and greatest updates first for a long time. And on top of all that it has a sexy and distinctive design with (apparently) Samsung's first metal chassis.

The only thing that could be a deal breaker for me is if its LTE battery life isn't better than what we've seen so far on the Bionic. I expect to be able to make it through to the evening before I have to charge a phone, and if I can't I'll probably hold off for a phone with a chipset based on a 28nm process. But with dual cores, better GPU utilization in the UI, and a fully multi-threaded OS we should see enough efficiency gains to get us there I think.

 

[davidb72]

The main selling point for me is that it is the sweetest, most respectful phone that will eventually (maybe) be available.

To me that means a lot...

 

[revickulous2001]

The Nexus will be one of two (or maybe three) dual core LTE phones in the U.S. It should have the best overall camera (speed, picture quality, maybe even lens quality, but not theoretical resolution) of any Android phone. It won't have any bloatware or a poor UI skin to slow it down. It will finally bring a fully multi-threaded and hardware-accelerated OS to Android (and be the only phone with it for months). It will allow Google Wallet out of the box. It will have *by far* the best screen when it ships. It will get the latest and greatest updates first for a long time. And on top of all that it has a sexy and distinctive design with (apparently) Samsung's first metal chassis.

The only thing that could be a deal breaker for me is if its LTE battery life isn't better than what we've seen so far on the Bionic. I expect to be able to make it through to the evening before I have to charge a phone, and if I can't I'll probably hold off for a phone with a chipset based on a 28nm process. But with dual cores, better GPU utilization in the UI, and a fully multi-threaded OS we should see enough efficiency gains to get us there I think.

This is one of the best responses I have seen so far on this thread. The one thing I will point out about it is that it's unlikely the Prime will have a metal chassis. Every source leaking details about the Prime right now are leaking that it is a plastic chassis colored to look like metal.

 

[ottscay]

The one thing I will point out about it is that it's unlikely the Prime will have a metal chassis. Every source leaking details about the Prime right now are leaking that it is a plastic chassis colored to look like metal.

Yeah, I've noticed that. Not sure if it's just because they are prototypes, or if the earlier rumors were just wrong. I'm not opposed to plastic for plastic's sake, so as long as the build quality feels premium I won't hate on it based on the number of protons and neutrons on the atoms in its chassis

 

[Stein357]

They had me at stock Android and LTE...

 

[jdbower]

I guess not many people here care about NFC, but that's my #1 selling point. It's apparently a similar form factor to my X which is just about right for me. The fact that it's a Nexus on VZW is nice, but realistically I don't see that much difference between CM7 on a Nexus and CM7 on a Droid X (that, of course, will never be rooted because of the eFuse let alone get a custom ROM ). LTE is another nice-to-have, but frankly 3G speeds are fine for most of what I do and there's WiFi for everything else.

Really it's NFC that looks like the killer feature to me. There are already plans for NFC door locks. An NFC reader for my PC can replace a password, and of course there's Google Wallet since my physical wallet gets left at home a lot more than my phone. NFC is still in its infancy but the idea of secure highly local authentications has an incredible amount of potential.

 

[th0r615]

Really it's NFC that looks like the killer feature to me. There are already plans for NFC door locks. An NFC reader for my PC can replace a password, and of course there's Google Wallet since my physical wallet gets left at home a lot more than my phone. NFC is still in its infancy but the idea of secure highly local authentications has an incredible amount of potential.

While I think NFC is a huge plus I don't think I would call it a killer feature. I know Google is really trying to push NFC technology with Google Wallet and those Google Maps pinpoints they passed out.. I dont think I will use it much. I don't see a ton of retailers outfitting their registers with NFC, and I dont think they will until the iPhone 5/6 comes out and really makes an NFC push. 3/4/5 years from now I think it will be big... car doors and ignition, house locks, payments, ect... but i dont think it will truly take off until Apple adopts it.

 

[ejaymd11]

I don't care if it's plastic or not. Plastic doesn't affect performance. Gimmie a plastic well built, well functioning phone any day over a metal slow, buggy phone. Plus I think plastic would hold up much better to metal.

 

[CynicX]

Pure Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, Curved glass (renderings look amazing IMO), better camera (at least better optics), 4g LTE, dual core processor, Samsung screen. Assuming the rumors are true.