Galaxy Nexus Review by Joshua Topolsky. Mother of God....

[nraudigy2]

http://mobilesyrup.com/2011/11/19/galaxy-nexus-review-part-2-software-overview-and-final-thoughts/

- * * Overall “smoothness” can’t quite match iOS (though smoothness is highly subjective)
- * * Android Marketplace still unreliable

Here is an example the unreliable of Android Market . If you take a look at Modern Combat 2 review in the Marketplace. There are so many problems with force closes, won't load, and freezes for variety of phones because of fragmentation. By the way, there is no Modern Combat 3 for Android yet. Many people are complaining about 15 mins refund on Android because some apps take longer than 15 mins to download and they find out later that those apps don't work on their phones, but Google won't change it because the developers are happy that they are making money with 15mins refund lol

https://market.android.com/details?...1lbG9mdC5hbmRyb2lkLkFOTVAuR2xvZnRCUEhNLk1MIl0.

 

[Savor]

Much better if we have posts from people who actually OWN the Galaxy Nexus and is familiar with BOTH iOS and Android for awhile. Likely folks in the UK or ones who got the GSM model. Not just couch potato opinions. Some of the negative talk come from people who still have this misconception of Android. They need to open up to Android with a clean slate. Rethink it. We get it with all this fragmentation and smoothness talk which has been parroted for years now. If those are arguments to keep clinging onto for some, so be it. Didn't the early iPhones have flaws too? We understand your beliefs and preferences with iOS because of the better "overall experience" even if it has been the same for over 4 years. This is just the 3rd gen Nexus phone on 4th gen software vs a 5th gen iPhone and iOS. Remember when the 3rd gen iPhone in 2009 barely added a video camera? And people can't compare a midrange Android to Apple's premium phone and judge Android based on that. Go premium vs premium. It usually takes that 3rd through 5th gen when companies get it mostly right. I think Google and Samsung got it MOSTLY right here with a few flaws here and there. Far more than the iPhone 3GS did in 2009. Nothing is perfect anyway. I can't wait for the 4th and 5th Nexus before a special Blade Runner edition by the time they get to Nexus 6.

This is why I like that pic of the Woz at Googleplex. He gets it. A patron saint for all geeks at the Valley and doesn't mind trying out different things. Some people like it uniformed and some like variety. Some like that perfect marriage even it gets stale after awhile and some don't mind the imperfections and chaos because they want to fix it themselves and need that drama and excitement in their life. And some just like it all.

 

[mysterioustko]

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If you take a look at Modern Combat 2 review in the Marketplace. There are so many problems with force closes, won't load, and freezes for variety of phones because of fragmentation. By the way, there is no Modern Combat 3 for Android yet. Many people are complaining about 15 mins refund on Android because some apps take longer than 15 mins to download and they find out later that those apps don't work on their phones, but Google won't change it because the developers are happy that they are making money with 15mins refund lol

https://market.android.com/details?...1lbG9mdC5hbmRyb2lkLkFOTVAuR2xvZnRCUEhNLk1MIl0.

What does any of that have to do with the Galaxy Nexus? The post is about the galaxy nexus review...not every single phone that has the android OS installed on it..

 

[JediZenMaster]

I wouldn't buy it because it makes zero sense to spend 300 dollars on a phone that only has 16GB when you can get a 32 GB iPhone for the same price. And the phone is not attractive IMO. I love the design of the iPhones because they have been pretty elegant.

 

[kalex]

i wouldn't buy it because it makes zero sense to spend 300 dollars on a phone that only has 16gb when you can get a 32 gb iphone for the same price. And the phone is not attractive imo. I love the design of the iphones because they have been pretty elegant.

roflmao

 

[BoxerGT2.5]

They screwed up not incorporating an expansion slot. 16gb only? Seriously? The OS takes up at least 3GB, which leaves the user with less than 13GB. Add music and apps, after that your not left with much. If they think people are going to substitute google music for having physical files on their device, they're nuts. People will be burning through their data plans streaming music in their cars if you check off stream only over wifi.

 

[mysterioustko]

I wouldn't buy it because it makes zero sense to spend 300 dollars on a phone that only has 16GB when you can get a 32 GB iPhone for the same price. And the phone is not attractive IMO. I love the design of the iPhones because they have been pretty elegant.

I have to disagree with you here. Since android started making things cloud based, I haven't come close to using up my entire 16gb card. Most of my pics and video is in the cloud so storage isn't an issue for me. As for the design I find the galaxy nexus to be quite attractive, mainly due to the fact that the front is all one nice black panel with no buttons at all on it. On the other hand, I don't really find the iphone 4/4s to be very attractive at all, I'm not too keen on the design (of course this is just my opinion), and it's uncomfortable to hold. For a company that supposedly is great at design, they definitely failed at ergonomics.

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They screwed up not incorporating an expansion slot. 16gb only? Seriously? The OS takes up at least 3GB, which leaves the user with less than 13GB. Add music and apps, after that your not left with much. If they think people are going to substitute google music for having physical files on their device, they're nuts. People will be burning through their data plans streaming music in their cars if you check off stream only over wifi.

You do realize that the average person doesn't have 10 gigs worth of music, and they the average person doesn't even attempt to load 10 gigs worth of music into their phones. Even for phones that have expansion slots, the average person doesn't put a 32gb card in it, because the average person has no need for that much storage...why do you think it's so hard to find a 32gb chip in the store? People don't buy them much. There is only a small niche market that does. As for the cloud, believe it or not people will stream from the cloud if it's made simple. If all they have to do is copy their music to the cloud, then yes they may do that. Will most people do it? Probably not. But that same nich demographic that I mentioned earlier will. And as someone who streams from the cloud and from Pandora on a regular basis, no it doesn't burn through your data. You're not going to be streaming every single day all day long.

 

[nraudigy2]

What does any of that have to do with the Galaxy Nexus? The post is about the galaxy nexus review...not every single phone that has the android OS installed on it..

"Android Marketplace still unreliable"

I was just talking about the unreliable Android Marketplace as the review said.

 

[fr4c]

You do realize that the average person doesn't have 10 gigs worth of music, and they the average person doesn't even attempt to load 10 gigs worth of music into their phones. Even for phones that have expansion slots, the average person doesn't put a 32gb card in it, because the average person has no need for that much storage...why do you think it's so hard to find a 32gb chip in the store? People don't buy them much. There is only a small niche market that does. As for the cloud, believe it or not people will stream from the cloud if it's made simple. If all they have to do is copy their music to the cloud, then yes they may do that. Will most people do it? Probably not. But that same nich demographic that I mentioned earlier will. And as someone who streams from the cloud and from Pandora on a regular basis, no it doesn't burn through your data. You're not going to be streaming every single day all day long.

You do realize that you're talking about the Galaxy Nexus right? Most of the Nexus users are not your "average person", and to justify the 16GB by saying you can instead opt to use the so called cloud does not make any sense when the cost to increase the capacity to 32GB as default will only cost Samsung a few dollars.

If I get a Galaxy Nexus, I want to fit at least 10GB of music which is not a lot if you're talking about high quality lossless rips, not 128kbps Napster crap. As a Nexus phone, I'm going to want to root and have the ability to store ROMs on the storage, another 1GB or so there. Pictures? Movies? You see where I'm going with this?

Just because you don't see the need of more than 16GB, doesn't mean the rest of us users should fall into this "average user group". We are the 1%.

 

[BoxerGT2.5]

I have to disagree with you here. Since android started making things cloud based, I haven't come close to using up my entire 16gb card. Most of my pics and video is in the cloud so storage isn't an issue for me. As for the design I find the galaxy nexus to be quite attractive, mainly due to the fact that the front is all one nice black panel with no buttons at all on it. On the other hand, I don't really find the iphone 4/4s to be very attractive at all, I'm not too keen on the design (of course this is just my opinion), and it's uncomfortable to hold. For a company that supposedly is great at design, they definitely failed at ergonomics.

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You do realize that the average person doesn't have 10 gigs worth of music, and they the average person doesn't even attempt to load 10 gigs worth of music into their phones. Even for phones that have expansion slots, the average person doesn't put a 32gb card in it, because the average person has no need for that much storage...why do you think it's so hard to find a 32gb chip in the store? People don't buy them much. There is only a small niche market that does. As for the cloud, believe it or not people will stream from the cloud if it's made simple. If all they have to do is copy their music to the cloud, then yes they may do that. Will most people do it? Probably not. But that same nich demographic that I mentioned earlier will. And as someone who streams from the cloud and from Pandora on a regular basis, no it doesn't burn through your data. You're not going to be streaming every single day all day long.

Since when was the Nexus line aimed at the "average person"? They've been aimed at the geekiest mother ****ers on the face of the earth. Soccer moms are not getting hot for the galaxy nexus, not like they do an iPhone.

 

[mysterioustko]

You do realize that you're talking about the Galaxy Nexus right? Most of the Nexus users are not your "average person", and to justify the 16GB by saying you can instead opt to use the so called cloud does not make any sense when the cost to increase the capacity to 32GB as default will only cost Samsung a few dollars.

If I get a Galaxy Nexus, I want to fit at least 10GB of music which is not a lot if you're talking about high quality lossless rips, not 128kbps Napster crap. As a Nexus phone, I'm going to want to root and have the ability to store ROMs on the storage, another 1GB or so there. Pictures? Movies? You see where I'm going with this?

Just because you don't see the need of more than 16GB, doesn't mean the rest of us users should fall into this "average user group". We are the 1%.

I don't think you're following me. If you so chose to, you can put 10 gigs of music in the cloud..if you so chose to. As for storing pics and movies...cloud again. I love using the cloud, because it's not locked to a device, it's on every device I have that has an internet connection. If I want to make something localized then I can. I have no need for my entire music collection to be localized to my device, it just isn't necessary. As for storing roms, the average aosp based rom isn't even 100mb, and there's no reason you would have 10 different roms saved on your phone at a time, that just makes no sense at all. If they had the 32gb option available I'm sure there are some that would like it, but the fact remains the vast majority of the people couldn't careless. Heck even most of the geek crowd don't keep a 32gb chip in their phone. It's about to be 2012 man, don't run from the cloud, localized storage is becoming less an less needed. I have so much stuff in the cloud now, that I never even worry about my local storage. Anything I want, be it movies, music, pictures, etc. are all in the cloud. I say all that to say, not that 32gb is simply not needed (though for most people it isn't), but that there are other/better options available than just large local storage.

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Since when was the Nexus line aimed at the "average person"? They've been aimed at the geekiest mother ****ers on the face of the earth. Soccer moms are not getting hot for the galaxy nexus, not like they do an iPhone.

Since the galaxy nexus when they started running commercials for it.......the nexus line isn't the same anymore. It isn't just for the tech community anymore.

 

[Sensamic]

Tintín game storage:

iOS = 1.8GB

Android = 22MB


Nova 2:

iOS = Almost 2GB

Android = Less than 10MB


I think storage is not an issue on Android. On iPhone you need 32GB mínimum for apps and then some space for videos and music. On Android you can store the same apps than iOS in less than 1GB.

Why the difference? Apple should do something about it.

 

[nraudigy2]

Tintín game storage:

iOS = 1.8GB

Android = 22MB


Nova 2:

iOS = Almost 2GB

Android = Less than 10MB


I think storage is not an issue on Android. On iPhone you need 32GB mínimum for apps and then some space for videos and music. On Android you can store the same apps than iOS in less than 1GB.

Why the difference? Apple should do something about it.

Nova 2 is about 580MB on iOS.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/n.o.v.a.-2-near-orbit-vanguard/id400901088?mt=8

You can't run Nova 2 with 10MB and Tintin with 22MB. Don't kid yourself.
High size could also mean that they designed them for high resolution displays like Retina to look better.

My 16GB Galaxy S2 only has 11.5GB usable internal memory. Gameloft games have very big size and they download contents straight to internal memory only, not microsd.

 

[beg_ne]

Tintín game storage:

iOS = 1.8GB

Android = 22MB


Nova 2:

iOS = Almost 2GB

Android = Less than 10MB


I think storage is not an issue on Android. On iPhone you need 32GB mínimum for apps and then some space for videos and music. On Android you can store the same apps than iOS in less than 1GB.

Why the difference? Apple should do something about it.

You seriously think Android has some magical way to store 1-2GB worth of game content in a handful of MB? You obviously weren't checking in the right spot to find where the content is stored. 10 and 22MB is just the executable size.

 

[nraudigy2]

You seriously think Android has some magical way to store 1-2GB worth of game content in a handful of MB? You obviously weren't checking in the right spot to find where the content is stored. 10 and 22MB is just the executable size.

Maybe they will make Infinity Blade for Android with 10MB lol. Everything will be pixilated.

 

[neko girl]

A long page like engadget takes me several flicks to get to the bottom using an iphone as opposed to the 1 or 2 flicks it would take on an android phone.

Easily solved by:
javascript:window.scrollTo%280%2Cdocument.body.scrollHeight%29%3b%0a

I disagree with you able to flick behavior. I find the flick behavior in iOS to be more predictable (there are better ways to get to the bottom of a long page, like a bookmarklet, such as what I've posted instead of sacrificing flick predictability).

I haven't tested ICS, so my experience is largely off a Moto Xoom.

 

[Vegastouch]

They screwed up not incorporating an expansion slot. 16gb only? Seriously? The OS takes up at least 3GB, which leaves the user with less than 13GB. Add music and apps, after that your not left with much. If they think people are going to substitute google music for having physical files on their device, they're nuts. People will be burning through their data plans streaming music in their cars if you check off stream only over wifi.

Ive read there will be a 16GB and a 32GB

I only use 5 gigs of music on my phone which is plenty. Not every file is 356. Im fine between 196 and 356. Its just music and im not using a Karman Harden system here and i donr watch movies on my phone. Sur i might load one or two if im on a flight someplace but for the most part why would i want to watch a movie on my phone? I have two 46" TV's for that.

 

[JediZenMaster]

For someone like me who has GIG's of movies or even someone that has a few movies on the Galaxy Nexus. That person would be screwed because there is no cloud storage space provided by google for videos. And i believe you can use Dropbox for that but thats a clunky solution.

Also keep in mind since unlimited data plans are pretty much gone unless your grandfathered the cloud isn't a good solution for people who do lots of streaming of music and such from their phone. Because that will use up data super quickly.

 

[TM WAZZA]

No 32GB option with no micro SD card slot would be deal breaker for me

If history repeats itself we won't see 32GB for the nexus. Where are the 32GB SGS2 phones?

 

[j4zb4]

Its fun to see how the Fandroids are now defending the omission of an expandable memory slot when they were so happily crucifying the iphone, for not having one, not long ago... Their arguments were always like "Freeeedommmm... Android has an option for expandable memory..."

 

[JediZenMaster]

Its fun to see how the Fandroids are now defending the omission of an expandable memory slot when they were so happily crucifying the iphone, for not having one, not long ago... Their arguments were always like "Freeeedommmm... Android has an option for expandable memory..."

It's because they have the cloud Or some lame excuse.

 

[miggitymac]

There are 2 models of the Galaxy Nexus...one is 16GB of storage, the other 32GB. (http://thedroidguy.com/2011/11/32gb-samsung-galaxy-nexus-for-verizon-wireless-does-exist/)

The rumours for the Galaxy Nexus have been soooooo off...I wouldn't believe anything until Samsung/Google makes an official announcement. People were saying that the UK release of the Nexus was going to be delayed pretty much right up to the time stores started selling them.

 

[miggitymac]

It's because they have the cloud Or some lame excuse.

Ha. Yea, that cloud...so lame.

That's why Apple based an OS on it. And why they could potentially lose billions of dollars from having it shut down in one country.

What a silly idea...that cloud.

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Its fun to see how the Fandroids are now defending the omission of an expandable memory slot when they were so happily crucifying the iphone, for not having one, not long ago... Their arguments were always like "Freeeedommmm... Android has an option for expandable memory..."

It's fun to see fanboys bring up their past defeats in triumph at the slightest whiff of a knock against an Android phone.

 

[JediZenMaster]

Ha. Yea, that cloud...so lame.

That's why Apple based on OS on it. And why they could potentially lose billions of dollars from having it shut down in one country.

What a silly idea...that cloud.

The difference is this though iOS actually has a true cloud based solution. Android does not so where would you upload your movies to?

Like i said there is always an excuse typical fandroid to bash apple for example of not having SD cards slots on the iPad. But yet a high percentage of android tablets were released lacking the same thing but that was acceptable.

 

[j4zb4]

It's fun to see fanboys bring up their past defeats in triumph at the slightest whiff of a knock against an Android phone.

It was never a defeat in the first place... Only Fandroids "thought" it was... Biggggggg difference buddy...

For me the memory card slot on the Android was useless as I couldn't install any apps on it... I hardly carry 2-3 GB of music and not many pics or movies... I got used to apps and keep a lot of games for my nephew... So when I switched to HTC I was quite shocked because I didn't know that this was a problem... And eventually came back to the iPhone...

Also the more the memory card is loaded the slower the phone gets... This I have noticed since the 2003 Nokia days... At the beginning when there wan't much data the phones worked like a breeze... Then slowly as data got added and the memory card started filling up the phone eventually slowed down...