Ok so I went and saw it.
The build quality was good. It was plastic but it felt firm, solid. It did not feel cheep. But I am going to wrap it in an otterbox so I could care less.
I was surprised about the screen. The in store reps let me do a side by side with a razer. The razers screen actually looked better! It was more vivid and actually looked less pixilated and more smooth. It was really confusing since I know that the nexus has on paper a better screen. Anyone know how the razor might look more vivid? I mean the nexus looked a little washed out next to it.
I was also disappointed with how the new bottom buttons. Were implemented. When playing something like netflix, the bottom buttons (home, back, and multitask) are supposed to disappear but theybdont fully. At the bottom is still a thin bar with three dots. If you select it the menu comes back. But that bottom bar with three dots takes up enough room that the actually usable screen is the same size as the razor. The nexus does not really use its advantage of a bigger screen.
If the Nexus screen looks worse than the Razr then I will be extremely disappointed. Thankfully 99% of the reviews I have read have said otherwise.
A guy I work with has a Razr and I have to say its nothing impressive at all. From the screen, to the skin, to the form factor, I find it all very disappointing. To me, the screen on the Razr looks dim and the colors over saturated. It reminds me of looking though a bright screen though window tinting. The overall user experience reminded me exactly of my wife's Droid 3, but in a thinner, lighter, bigger screened package. I find her D3 to have the same exact problem with the screen brightness; only with a nasty Pentile matrix to ruin it even further. It's way to dim under most lighting situations. I constantly find my self holding it up to a light source to make it brighter. Then it always gets too bright. I much prefer the screen on my TBolt. It may not have the best resolution or the latest, highest tech screen, but it sure seems to always look good in any light source I encounter, except of course, bright sunlight. But of course, owning a TBolt comes with its own special litany of problems....
I'm really looking forward to a great screen experience with the Nexus. I have been holding my upgrade for almost a year now waiting to take the plunge on a device that has a shot of lasting me two years.