ilikemoneygreen
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The Official DF Galaxy Nexus Pre-Release Thread
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doublea500
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Google Wallet - a smart, virtual wallet for in-store and online shopping
now that i am first seeing google wallet, its actually really cool. The ability to pay on your phone quickly and efficiently, not having to let cashiers mess up the orders every once in a while. And unlike a credit card, if a phone gets stolen, you know it and can deactivate everything on it including wallet. The only problem with this is that many many many places do not have new "quickpay" cashiers. I worked at staples as a cashier and to be honest, the computers they used for the cashiers were soooo big that i wasnt even aware that it was a cpu. they had old cashier software on it and it lagged lol. it took like 15 seconds to load to get to the rewards card menu. every once in a while the cpus froze and had to be rebooted and from the information i know about old windows operating systems which is basically all starting from windows 2000 (ME), the boot showed that it was none of them, it was even older. so what i am trying to say is that google wallet is good, but when it comes to companies like staples, its completely useless and you would need a wallet anyways.
if this is all about google wallet, then i dont mind.
vzw shouldnt be ... and know exactly what they got into with the google phone. if google has a new application that they want to make it to the bigs, then they should put it on there own phones. Who is verizon to not allow the manufacturer (of the software) to add something to the phone when afterall, without google/android, verizon would have no chance vs at@t and the iphone. However, i believe the delay was completely unnecessary because first of all- its a easy software fix that an easy and quick to make/install patch could take care of. It also should not of happened because both google and vzw should have settled the disputes when they made the contract with them. Next time, im sure google wont give a carrier exclusivity with their phone, especially verizon.
This is not all vzw's fault. its googles and samsungs as well for not sending the message to verizon that it is a pure google experience and vzw cant put crap on it, as they minimally already did with the 2 bloatware vzw apps.
now that i am first seeing google wallet, its actually really cool. The ability to pay on your phone quickly and efficiently, not having to let cashiers mess up the orders every once in a while. And unlike a credit card, if a phone gets stolen, you know it and can deactivate everything on it including wallet. The only problem with this is that many many many places do not have new "quickpay" cashiers. I worked at staples as a cashier and to be honest, the computers they used for the cashiers were soooo big that i wasnt even aware that it was a cpu
. they had old cashier software on it and it lagged lol. it took like 15 seconds to load to get to the rewards card menu. every once in a while the cpus froze and had to be rebooted and from the information i know about old windows operating systems which is basically all starting from windows 2000 (ME), the boot showed that it was none of them, it was even older. so what i am trying to say is that google wallet is good, but when it comes to companies like staples, its completely useless and you would need a wallet anyways.if this is all about google wallet, then i dont mind.
vzw shouldnt be ... and know exactly what they got into with the google phone. if google has a new application that they want to make it to the bigs, then they should put it on there own phones. Who is verizon to not allow the manufacturer (of the software) to add something to the phone when afterall, without google/android, verizon would have no chance vs at@t and the iphone. However, i believe the delay was completely unnecessary because first of all- its a easy software fix that an easy and quick to make/install patch could take care of. It also should not of happened because both google and vzw should have settled the disputes when they made the contract with them. Next time, im sure google wont give a carrier exclusivity with their phone, especially verizon.
This is not all vzw's fault. its googles and samsungs as well for not sending the message to verizon that it is a pure google experience and vzw cant put crap on it, as they minimally already did with the 2 bloatware vzw apps.
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I was at a Best Buy close to my apartment earlier today. I almost trampled a little girl to get to a display where I thought the G-Nex was set up. But when I got there it was just the GSII...
ModestMuse
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Reading all these people getting their phones from Best Buy makes me excited! I think it really comes down to either the 13th or 15th.
I have to get mine off their website. I know we get 1-day shipping, so hopefully even if it releases the 15th, I can get it Friday, before I leave Friday night to go out East for Christmas.
I'm so excited about getting this phone and putting my OG down to rest. Dat screen :hail:
I have to get mine off their website. I know we get 1-day shipping, so hopefully even if it releases the 15th, I can get it Friday, before I leave Friday night to go out East for Christmas.
I'm so excited about getting this phone and putting my OG down to rest. Dat screen :hail:
doublea500
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hopefully it comes out the 13th! and also, tbh, i never even thought for a moment that i wouldnt have the droid 1 as my phone. its going to be weird not having it in my pocket all the time.
thats the sign!!!
Haha! Ah, that made me laugh a bit. Hope I have better luck! I'll take a picture and post it/frame it in my room if I succeed.
rubiksc00p
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Yep... I have my 3d printer ready. You guys go ahead and upload a copy if you guys do get one. 
Swyped and sent through the interwebz directly to you from somewhere and some device that doesn't concern you!
Swyped and sent through the interwebz directly to you from somewhere and some device that doesn't concern you!
Let us know.
And for the record I was not proud of it... she came out of nowhere...
Wow, page 420 at 4:20!
That must be why it's getting crazy
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ilikemoneygreen
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Have any of you guys actually kind of prepped yourselves for the new phone? Ive been using the on screen keyboard a lot and i cant say im slower with it. i can say im not doing it easily... like i do with the keyboard. I think keyboard is comfortable but i can live without it. Its going to take some time to get in the mentality.
I personally could care less about NFC and Google wallet. I would SO much rather a great camera. I don't leave home without my wallet anyway. Just as easy to swipe my card as it is to wave my phone at the registers that won't exist in my area for years. Sigh...I really hope this isn't the reason for the holdup.
With the OG, I tried the on-screen keyboard in portrait mode... but the screen is just too narrow for my thumbs. Can only manage in landscape... in which case I can't see the rest of the screen since it's taken up by the keyboard, so I always end up reverting to the physical keyboard. Hopefully it'll be easier with the Nexus' larger screen.
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