What are Your First Impessions Of The Galaxy Nexus?

[sb1831]

First Impressions after a full day.

Screen: It's nice compared to some of the devices I've used in the past. It feels a bit awkward in the hands and not nearly easy enough to use with one hand, but it's not a deal breaker.

Build Quality: This phone REALLY leaves something to be desired. The only phone I've used that feels more flimsy than this is the Charge. Battery door is terrible for a TierI device like this. All in all not the build quality i expected. I'm not expecting Moto build quality but it needs to be better than this. Overall, one of the first things I thought was "I need to get this thing in a case ASAP..." I expected more.

Battery: I'll leave this for the time being seeing as it was Day1 use in an LTE area. I wasn't disappointed so it may very well turn out to have fabulous overall battery life.

OS: ICS is nice but obviously some people are having issues. I'm not, but i have yet to really get into the device.

Development: This phone will have development and support for the foreseeable future. If you can manage to screw this phone up, you dont need to root & rom.

ISSUES: Speaker sounds a bit hollow to me when making calls. I did have a few radio issues at first, but they appear to have been resolved after i was able to update software.

OVERALL: I'm not nearly as impressed with this device as I thought I'd be. In the past, all previous Nexus devices had some WOW factor for me. Even the Xoom had Honeycomb and LTE ( not quite functioning LTE but whatever) This device has no real WOW for me. You could have taken ICS and put it in any of the other 2 recent big releases (RAZR and Rezound) and I would have been more impressed because both have better build quality IMO. All in all I'm not terribly impressed but I go through phones like a lot of people do rubbers

 

[MrKleen]

I love the phone but i dont have a decent signal. Actually if it were not for my wi-fi i wouldnt be able to use it.

Because of this i am not happy so far. If i cant resolve it i will have to go back to the Thunderbolt that was much better.

 

[Tas]

I skipped all the posts I missed and needed to say I love this F*c*I*G phone.

I love this keyboard when typing. Never used the keyboard on D1 and used virtual and got used to that. This is so much sweeter.

At least so far on a call, speaker phone sounds great.

Watching video was amazing.

Just hitting app button and swiping them away. Priceless!!!

Camera is way better than D1. I'm sure I won't have a problem dealing with it.

Every time I go to type on the app version of this site it is so ****ing slow. Wow, I just typed all of this with major delays and it all typed right. Again. I believe its the app cause it was doing this on the D1.

Did I mention I am very happy.

Yes. Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard has so much better word correction. And I mean it.

This phone rocks and rolls sweet suzie!!!!!



Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

 

[proangler]

Was gonna get extended battery but it wouldnt quite fit in case with hip clip. That sucks. But i got my hip clip case i live. Man this phone is alot lighter then my bolt.

 

[holdout]

Got mine at lunch today and really started playing with it tonight when I got home.

I agree with the other posters about the plastic cover and the Verizon security tether. They actually had a zip ty around the phone to hold the back on! Made it look really cheap! That being said I bought it anyway and the cover is not a problem, maybe feels a little cheap but Ive been carrying the OG droid for two years so I appreciate the lightness of this device.

I was also concerned about its size. The pics online made it look like a small tablet but I gotta say it feels really nice in my hand and lightweight in my jeans pocket. It is even light enough to be comfortable in my shirt pocket, just gotta be careful when I lean over or bend down!

I have had the GN crash on me several times, approximately 5 times. I think it was because I have been trying to set up widgets to apps that are not upgraded or current to ICS. Specifically Jorte widget was a real pain. Uninstalled Jorte and reinstalled and got it synced.

The speaker is way too soft, as has been stated before, hope this is a software fix. I really liked the sound and volume of the D1.

One problem that I don't like is the connecting to my MacBook. Unlike a PC, for a mac you have to download the "android file transfer" app and install on the Mac. When you connect to the USB the file xfer app opens up and you can see your files but you cant view/play the items from your phone and look at it, without moving it over to the mac. Don't know if it is different on the PC. While I was moving some of my music I would get a message saying "can;t access device storage- If your device's screen is locked, disconnect its USB cable, unlock your screen, and then reconnect the USB cable."

Haven't been able to sync up my contacts from Facebook. Any help on that one?

Although I said the speaker was weak, I will comment on the fact that through my headphones the tunes sound great. THe audio player is a real improvement over what I have been used to on the Moto. But the included headphones are not all that great. They do have the feature of the switch on the cord which is convenient, but the sound was poor for ear buds. I've got a cheap pair of Panasonics that sound much better.

Battery life seems to be good don't know how much charge was in the battery straight out of the box, but I haven't charged it except for its connections to the USB on my Mac. We'll see.

Lastly i only have one bar on my reception that concerns me. My D1 always had stronger signal than that, so I hope this doesn't send me back to the store.

ICS is butter compared to whatever i had on the D1- Froyo? 2.2.3 i think.

 

[lazarus2297]

I will give my first impressions and this all with the background of having the Razr for like 5 days and then the rezound for almost a month..

they tout the camera being fast and that it is... the issue I have is quality doesn't seem to be to grea..t my wife's iPhone 4 (not S) still takes better pictures.. and so did the Rezound for that matter.. most of my pictures even after waiting to focus have not been very sharp and they get grainy fast when you pinch zoom on the pictures.. So for me camera is a semi-Fail..

Screen is almost exactly like the razr at high brightness it is nice, but if i kept it that way i would assume the battery would die very quickly, that being said the colors get more muted when the screen brightness goes down.. something that didn't happen with the Rezound. So for screen i won't say Fail but falls short of the Rezound screen IMHO

Software.. now this is where it really shines. ICS is pretty nice (although i don't like FB contacts not syncing w/o another FB type app..) Some mentioned the google search bar at the top.. I also don't like it and if you disable google search yeah the bar goes away but you can't use that space for other apps so it's just a awkward open space on the home screen kinda weird.. but i just leave the google search there for now..

Speaker volume for calls and music/speakerphone is pretty bad.. but supposedly not a hard fix so not a major issue..

Signal quality..(wifi and 3G/4G) mine seems noticeably worse than my Rezound and razr and wife's iPhone.. so that's not promising

Overall I am not "blown away" with the device I like "vanilla" ICS so that is my main reason for going with this phone, I know the Razr and Rezound, etc.. will get ICS but I was worried what the Blur, and Sense versions of ICS would look like.. Hopefully battery life will improve and maybe some of the other issues can be worked out via software but it seems that if it went through all the vzw/google testing and still made it to market with "bugs" like the low speaker volume.. then maybe samsung/google/vzw don't see them as bugs.. therefore future software updates won't have those issues targeted.. time will tell..

It is a good looking phone though and feels well built, Tomorrow will be a more normal day as I got mine right after 9am EST and was at work so I couldn't just let the battery totally die and recharge like I would normally do. I had to make several charging breaks to make it through then had my kids school christmas play, which by the way the camera totally failed me at horrible low light pics and crazy over flashed subjects.. YUCK..

So my first impression isn't one of uber satisfaction, mabye it will grow on me... well it kinda has to as today was the end of my return period.. :blink:

 

[proangler]

How do wr change the click options fir the main page?

 

[big al]

tell her its a "shopping tool" to save money

 

[lazarus2297]

How do wr change the click options fir the main page?

What??

 

[OneTenderRebel]

I thought we were going to be able to resize widgets natively with ICS? Wasn't that something they mentioned back at the Nexus event??

 

[lazarus2297]

I thought i would add one more post (hopefully not as long winded :biggrin: ) about the things I like as i re-read my post it sounds pretty negative lol..

First off the I LOVE the keyboard i can text really fast with it and even faster when i use both hands..

Some may not like the location of the charge port but I love charge port on the bottom.. i would rather have the headset on the top as that has been the standard for as long as i can remember but not an issue at all..

I really like ICS so far and I love no BLOATWARE i already disabled verizon videos, and backup assistant.. I use the my verizon app so I don't consider that bloatware it saves me time when paying and i like knowing how much of my unlimited data I have used :biggrin:..

that's enough for now... it's charging now so i have to find something else to do until bed time..:frown:

 

[1FZFE]

Overall I like the UI and the screen size is a plus coming from my D1. I am sad to say I must be one of the unfortunate individuals that might not be able to tolerate a pentile screen. In the store with the brightness jacked all of the way up its a pretty good display with decent color saturation and awesome blacks. At dimmer settings the display starts to look like trash in my opinion. The whites turn greyish tan and there appears to be a lot of "noise" in the display. My D1 looks better than this at the dimmest settings. Maybe there is something wrong with my display, or AMOLED is not for me? The more I use it the less I notice this, but its still annoying.

 

[jntdroid]

I thought we were going to be able to resize widgets natively with ICS? Wasn't that something they mentioned back at the Nexus event??

you can, most anyway

 

[alboboy10]

Takes getting used to...but way better than any other phones I even owned.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using DroidForums

 

[newparadigm]

Update: mounting MTP on linux is a pain in the ass. Still can't get it to automount. Have to mount via mtpfs manually.

C'mon Google, it's a linux kernel. Can't you use something supported in the GNU userspace?