The iOS notifications are much cleaner and easier to use...not nearly identical.
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Galaxy Nexus vs. iPhone 4S
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The iOS notifications are much cleaner and easier to use...not nearly identical.
Was on my way to picking the galaxy nexus......but before buying, I played with the demo........it's a nice looking phone.....sexy as hell.....fast......nice screen......but the phone is HUGE! LOL
after testing the phone, I walked out the store empty handed
I couldn't get over the size of the phone.....that is my only con. Then I looked at my 4S and the screen appeared small to me
4-4.3 should be the max size of a phone.....4.6 is going tablet status.
Debating on buying a samsung galaxy s II now hmmmm
Are you insane? The Galaxy S2 is even bigger than the Nexus and butt ugly too.
The Nexus is the only Android phone I like. DON'T make the mistake to buy something else.
That is correct, however what you have to keep in mind is that the phone has no physical buttons on the front. Everything is on the screen so the size of the phone is roughly the same as a lot of 4.3" screen phones. The GNex is slightly longer than the GS2..just barely longer.
I've never touched a Galaxy S2, but I played with a Nexus at Verizon Friday and I thought it was pretty nice. It didn't feel too big at all and I really liked the screen size. I have smaller hands so I didn't know how comfortable it would be using a larger phone but it was fine. As you said if it had physical buttons it might be too big.
Yeah if they had of done physical buttons that would have made it way too large IMO. I love the on-screen buttons though. For one, it makes them easy to see in sunlight (as opposed to backlit capacitive keys). It also adds very good versatility. For example, when I use the netflix app the buttons disappear and I get to view the movie or show using all of the screen. That is a really nice feature.
I watched some youtube videos and I liked the way they played on the entire screen. I'm a long way from an upgrade, but the Nexus is nice enough to make me consider going back to android when it is time.
I cant believe battery life is still an argument iphone users make. Battery life on iphone 4s sucks.
Yeah there are a lot of little things on it that IMO combine to help make it the best phone on the market right now. For example, the browser is very nice, but when you enable quick controls, it really sets it apart and puts it on it's own level.
I've found that the only guys making the same ole same ole arguments are the guys who really don't have knowledge of other devices. They say "android" and include every phone that has the android OS on it. I always say if you're going to compare a phone then compare a phone to a phone, not a phone to every phone with that OS..that makes no sense. The nexus S had good battery life, the GNex has good battery life also. But you still get people making the same arguments, and often times their arguments aren't even relevant anymore but they don't know it because they don't really know anything about the device that they are disparaging...they just repeat something they heard.
I haven't tried the Gnex yet, which is odd for me because I have owned every phone known to man, but I always come back to my iPhone. The Android OS is nice and ICS looks like an improvement, but IOS is still way ahead of the curve here. I think the biggest joke about Android is how many different phones are on the market and how many of those run different versions of the OS. This just seems like an abortion of OS distribution.
At the end of the day my iPhone 4s is a beast, and nothing else even comes close.
At the end of the day my iPhone 4s is a beast, and nothing else even comes close.
Google Music is a decent alternative. You have to upload your own music, but at least it's free
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I'd beg to differ...I can easily get through a day of heavy use and on light use the phone easily goes over 24 hours. Sounds like you don't actually have any 1st hand knowledge and are repeating something you heard.
The data speaks for itself:
"This test involves continuous web surfing over 4G with the screen brightness at 40 percent. GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Auto Sync are all turned off."
First of all, that "data" as you call it is horribly flawed. They state that wifi is one of the things turned off. That being said, there is no constant. Signal strength between devices will not be equal and whichever device receives a stronger signal will have a significant advantage. Then to say continuous web surfing is a very ambiguous term. What is that? Does each phone go to the same site for the same amount of time? Going to engadget.com takes a lot more processing power than going to craigslist. Going to a site that has flash content takes more power than one that doesn't. That graph you put up means absolutely nothing. I however have the best data, and that's real world day to day usage and as I said, I can easily get through a day with heavy usage and more easily over 24 hours on light usage.
Oh christ. Stop being an apologist for your new phone's meager battery life.
At the end of the day, LTE phones drain their batteries faster and of the LTE phones the Galaxy Nexus ranks toward the bottom in battery life. It doesn't take a PhD in physics to understand why the Galaxy Nexus would have horrible battery life.
Per Gizmodo's review: "It's well known that LTE can put a real hurting on phone longevity and that appears to be the case here as well, our Nexus struggling to hold on to a charge in day-to-day use with all antennas firing. We've as of yet had very limited time with the thing, but in our 24 hours of intensive testing we had to reach for the charger multiple times. Using Google Navigation with LTE enabled? The battery drained so fast our in-car charger couldn't keep up, leaving us unsure of which exit to take off the 101."
Per MSNBC's review: "The Galaxy Nexus for Verizon delivered even less endurance than the HTC Thunderbolt, the first 4G LTE phone from the carrier that established a reputation for short battery life. Because 4G LTE radios use more power, the phones that use them tend to last significantly shorter than the smartphone average. But as you can see some Verizon phones at least last longer than the 5-hour mark."
PCMag was a bit more upbeat albeit still on the mark: "The Nexus has decent but not excellent battery life, with 5 hours and 58 minutes of talk time in our tests. While that's fine, and the phone will probably last a day in normal use, the Droid RAZR lasted much longer with 8 hours and 42 minutes"
You can pay $50 to have a much larger capacity battery to overcome the short battery life. You can turn off LTE. But then why go through the trouble to pay for the LTE version of the phone?
I am glad that in the iPhone forum on a MacRumors site I have to deal with Android sycophants. I would've bought this phone if it weren't for the fact I need a mobile phone on top of the features. Needing to plug your phone in every 10-12 hours is not mobile.
By almost $100.
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So in other words, he is right, you have no first hand knowledge
Why would I buy a phone if the reviews confirm that it continues the tradition of poor LTE battery life?
Well gee, maybe you might want to try it for yourself? I mean you can look at that chart and go by that the average smartphone goes longer than a Galaxy Nexus if you want but what phones are those other smartphones? Is the iPhone included in that? Because if it is....it doesnt even have 4G so sorry,.....bad comparison. Are they phones with smaller screens and just arent as powerful? Who really knows what the average smartphone is there.
I myself dont even have my 3G turned on all day since i work in an area where it isnt strong and goes in and put so why have it on and waste the battery trying to find a signal?
You have to know how to use your device to your advantage and as the saying goes, ...your mileage may vary and i work with people that have a iP4S and they complain that their battery life isnt that good so i dont know what to tell you. Just keep reading things and dont try it for yourself....just continue to be misinformed.
Hey genius, I don't have the LTE version. I have the gsm version....so umm yeah...No kidding LTE phones have poor battery life..tell me something I don't know.. And THAT is why I don't have the LTE version. So again, my battery life is just fine... genius...
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As for that chart he posted, there's plenty wrong with it. I stated a couple issues with it a few posts back. The data it displays is completely and severely flawed. How can you make a chart of data with no constant? That's a pretty piss poor job of drawing up statistics.