The Official DF Galaxy Nexus Pre-Release Thread

[labguy]

Well, I was finally okay with waiting, even stopped reading threads every few minutes. Then, out of no where a friend comes to town and says lets go to verizon. She buys a razr, knowing little to nothing about the phone. And has me teach her what little I know. I am now frustrated once again about waiting, especially after playing with such a nice phone. The phone call quality was incredible. Very fast. Ugh. I want a new phone so bad I can taste it.

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[doublea500]

Well, I was finally okay with waiting, even stopped reading threads every few minutes. Then, out of no where a friend comes to town and says lets go to verizon. She buys a razr, knowing little to nothing about the phone. And has me teach her what little I know. I am now frustrated once again about waiting, especially after playing with such a nice phone. The phone call quality was incredible. Very fast. Ugh. I want a new phone so bad I can taste it.

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my friend just got a galaxy sII and i had to teach him. im kinda the phone tech guy out of my friends. i cant possibly sink to the razr (which in my opinion is lower then the gsII). the wait is killing me. i feel your pain. we all feel your pain :happy:

 

[tgyberg]

Well, I was finally okay with waiting, even stopped reading threads every few minutes. Then, out of no where a friend comes to town and says lets go to verizon. She buys a razr, knowing little to nothing about the phone. And has me teach her what little I know. I am now frustrated once again about waiting, especially after playing with such a nice phone. The phone call quality was incredible. Very fast. Ugh. I want a new phone so bad I can taste it.

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There's always the unofficial rental program to take advantage of!

 

[MightyT01]

Originally Posted by doublea500
to be honest, i wouldnt mind if they announced a december 8th release date. i just want to know rather then keep looking for false rumors everyday.



I second this, I just want something to be announced so I can plan to be there to get this phone!​

• I'll third this. We sign up on Google and Verizon for the GNex email list and we get zilch. Not even a teaser. Even my brother-in-law who works for Verizon doesn't know shiite. Throw us a bone, at least confirm which version, 32gb or 16gb they're rollin on us.

 

[DamirD1984]

I would so dump Verizon right now, if we didn't upgrade 3 out of our 5 lines on our family plan this year... the thought of Verizon's arrogance to put Backup Assistant and My Verizon on the pure Google phone just irritates the hell out of me...
This is almost like a precursor to what Verizon might do the the SGN when it comes to updates, it would not surprise me if the Verizons SGN now will have to wait on Verizons approval for OS updates... while rest of the international versions of the SGN are ahead of us in updates...

I am not arguing that Backup Assistant and My Verizon apps, that they are useless... but that leads me to think, since it is embedded into the system file, that OS updates now would have to pass trough Verizon before it is released onto the SGN. Thus, we would be probably not receiving OS updates straight from Google. Just like the OG Droid, it was vanilla stock android OS, and only had like Amazon preinstalled, and the updates on it were not as swift either.

We, as Verizon costumers already pay a premium service each month for our phones... and pay the HIGHEST premium as well for phone upgrades as well... and they don't even have the decency to give us what we want, a "pure Google experience" phone

 

[SSHGuru]

Blah Blah Blah, everyone is responding to half baked rumors and impatience.

If the phone has bugs you don't want it yet. Just wait.

 

[zathus]

I would so dump Verizon right now, if we didn't upgrade 3 out of our 5 lines on our family plan this year... the thought of Verizon's arrogance to put Backup Assistant and My Verizon on the pure Google phone just irritates the hell out of me...
This is almost like a precursor to what Verizon might do the the SGN when it comes to updates, it would not surprise me if the Verizons SGN now will have to wait on Verizons approval for OS updates... while rest of the international versions of the SGN are ahead of us in updates...

I am not arguing that Backup Assistant and My Verizon apps, that they are useless... but that leads me to think, since it is embedded into the system file, that OS updates now would have to pass trough Verizon before it is released onto the SGN. Thus, we would be probably not receiving OS updates straight from Google. Just like the OG Droid, it was vanilla stock android OS, and only had like Amazon preinstalled, and the updates on it were not as swift either.

We, as Verizon costumers already pay a premium service each month for our phones... and pay the HIGHEST premium as well for phone upgrades as well... and they don't even have the decency to give us what we want, a "pure Google experience" phone

I second this. Just the fact they would do it bothers me

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[bigkoch125]

Well I hope by some great means the nexus shows up monday for preorders but am not going to hold my breath since verizon is clearly showing this is the red headed step child phone.

 

[SSHGuru]

What would be your second choice? The Bionic or RAZR. Only those are your choices.

 

[akhi216]

I would so dump Verizon right now, if we didn't upgrade 3 out of our 5 lines on our family plan this year... the thought of Verizon's arrogance to put Backup Assistant and My Verizon on the pure Google phone just irritates the hell out of me...
This is almost like a precursor to what Verizon might do the the SGN when it comes to updates, it would not surprise me if the Verizons SGN now will have to wait on Verizons approval for OS updates... while rest of the international versions of the SGN are ahead of us in updates...

I am not arguing that Backup Assistant and My Verizon apps, that they are useless... but that leads me to think, since it is embedded into the system file, that OS updates now would have to pass trough Verizon before it is released onto the SGN. Thus, we would be probably not receiving OS updates straight from Google. Just like the OG Droid, it was vanilla stock android OS, and only had like Amazon preinstalled, and the updates on it were not as swift either.

We, as Verizon costumers already pay a premium service each month for our phones... and pay the HIGHEST premium as well for phone upgrades as well... and they don't even have the decency to give us what we want, a "pure Google experience" phone

I second this. Just the fact they would do it bothers me

I don't plan on getting a Galaxy Nexus, but the points made are valid. Technically, the Nexus is what it was originally dubbed before Google put their foot down...the Droid Prime.



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[akhi216]

What would be your second choice? The Bionic or RAZR./QUOTE]

Or wait for a better phone with bloat since you're gonna have to wait for Verizon to approve the updates. Either that or go to D0uche Telekom (T-Mobile).

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[bigkoch125]

I don't plan on getting a Galaxy Nexus, but the points made are valid. Technically, the Nexus is what it was originally dubbed before Google put their foot down...the Droid Prime.



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Except droid prime would be loaded with much more bloat than just 2 apps.

 

[bigkoch125]

What would be your second choice? The Bionic or RAZR. Only those are your choices.

neither. I will not buy a moto until they stop encrypting their bootloaders or get rid of blur.

 

[akhi216]

Except droid prime would be loaded with much more bloat than just 2 apps.

Still have to wait for Verizon to approve updates for the "Droid Prime" so why would it matter? One would just have more to disable.

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[bigkoch125]

Still have to wait for Verizon to approve updates for the "Droid Prime" so why would it matter? Besides, I'll just have more to disable lol.

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Except updates for galaxy nexus come from google not verizon.