Galaxy Nexus in Stores - Waiting for the GO command? Maybe Dec 11th?

[ugandanbear]

I went to the verizon store today to look at the rezound in case I want to just settle for that. I asked the verizon guy if he knew when it was coming out, and he said it was supposed to come out today but verizon is adding more apps to it. He said he wasn't sure when it was coming out, but I got the impression he knew more than he was saying. He did say, however, that he didn't think it would come out before christmas. Now I'm wondering if I should just get the rezound....

Excuse my language but:
[video=youtube;cQasv1AWTaY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQasv1AWTaY&feature=related[/video]

 

[sbenson]

I went to the verizon store today to look at the rezound in case I want to just settle for that. I asked the verizon guy if he knew when it was coming out, and he said it was supposed to come out today but verizon is adding more apps to it. He said he wasn't sure when it was coming out, but I got the impression he knew more than he was saying. He did say, however, that he didn't think it would come out before christmas. Now I'm wondering if I should just get the rezound....

Sorry, the guy was clueless. Typical Verizon rep, I would take what he said with a grain of salt. I would estimate 90% of members here in the forum know more about the release of this phone than Verizon reps.

 

[grimley]

Tom Petty said it best, "The waiting is the hardest part."

 

[gonnadie4thegov]

I think the cause for the delay was shipping. I called around to every Verizon retailer in my area and while most said they had accessories, none said they had the phone in stock yet while they all knew that the release was originally set for today. I was even calling the smaller cell phone stores hoping they got them in and would sell me one early but like I said no one had em to sell. The one place basically told me they were releasing it today as far as they knew but had none to sell yet.

If no retailers have the phone in stock now, I doubt they will get shipments in for a Sunday release.....though Id be happy with a Sunday release seeing as I'm off.

 

[captdroid]

The Gnex is not going to be available on Sunday December 11th.

 

[ilikemoneygreen]

So in other words they want to bloat it up with VZW apps? :frown:

It seems like google really conceded a lot with this device. :frown: too much imo.

 

[gonnadie4thegov]

Wow too many people are believing it to be what some rep said, don't we all know by now that they know less then us? They aren't adding new apps to it, outside of the small chance that Google Wallet may pop up and that would be included in an update, that wouldn't delay a phones release like this.

 

[bemenaker]

It seems like google really conceded a lot with this device. :frown: too much imo.

This seems like most illogical of all possible explanations. The two most plausible are, A) shipping, they didn't get them all out to stores in time, possible, but still less likely than, B) they were still having 4G issues with the firmware, and the massive LTE outage this week. Verizon just released a firmware update for the Bionic to fix 4G issues, the massive 4G outage this week was probably from an update to the 4G system, (meant to ready it for the big 4G sale this weekend). You wouldn't want to be selling all these 4G phones/tabs when their 4G software wasn't ready.

Say you have a bunch of 4G stuff ready to ship already, you have a big sale planned, and you have one device running a totally new version of Android, with no real field testing yet, ( I mean mass release test results, totally different from QA testing). (Assuming the rumor of needing to get ICS 4.1 ready for the GN to fix 4G problems), which product do you delay? Do you delay the 10-12 GB/HC devices that are ready to go, to fix one ICS device, or do you make sure all your GB/HC devices are working properly and followup with the ICS asap? They haven't really even advertised the GN yet, and everything on sale this weekend has been receiving advertising.

I want the GN as bad as anyone else here. My OG Droid is starting to falter, but let's quit jumping to conclusion based on BS speculation, and put a little bit of logic and reasoning into it. All the pieces are there, to make this the more plausible situation. Or some combination of these two.

 

[captdroid]

I agree new apps being added to the Gnex did not cause sell date delay and I doubt any are being added. Seems most likely 4G outage main reason for delay with stocking issues a secondary. Probably next week 12th-16th the Gnex will be available most likely middle to end of the week. One of my local Verizon stores (having the Gnex in stock but not for sale yet) confirmed 4G outage was one of the reasons for delay.

 

[kodiak799]

I'm giving this until next weekend, then I'm going with either the RAZR or Rezound.

 

[Jonas]

How did you guys not see this coming? Christmas hype? I think so.

 

[mrZoSo]

Just came from my local store and they said "probably Thursday". But you know how the rep thing goes,,lol

 

[chewy74]

Anyone check this out yet?

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[Arkbird]

I don't think it's today either.

 

[rubiksc00p]

I'm not seeing it coming today...

Swyped and sent through the interwebz directly to you from somewhere and some device that doesn't concern you!