Official Samsung Galaxy Nexus (I9250) Thread

[Vulk]

And, this is why the Nexus is the right choice: http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/13/28...roid-4-0-video

Samsung ruins everything with TouchWiz

[JimboBob]

And, this is why the Nexus is the right choice: http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/13/28...roid-4-0-video

Samsung ruins everything with TouchWiz

haha, that is sad!

[diegoa]

I heard the Nexus has a Notifcation LED which you can change its color of different types of notifications? This is a very nice feature for me tbh

[Glue]

I heard the Nexus has a Notifcation LED which you can change its color of different types of notifications? This is a very nice feature for me tbh

Yip thats correct.
White for sms or whatsapp and red for missed call..

[JimboBob]

I have to say, SMSing on the Galaxy Nexus is brilliant! Not sure if it's the phone or the keyboard but it's fast and easy!

[satanboy]

this phone has no radio

[ryan411]

Yesterday I went to the iStore in Vodacom World to buy a friend an iPhone case. While I was there, decided to stop buy the Samsung store and check out the Galaxy Nexus.

I only had the opportunity to play with it for five minutes or so. But in my impressions in that brief time were: yes, this is the real deal. I have literally never in my life seen such a nice mobile device before.

The screen is huge, crisp and beautiful. The glass surface is great to the touch. The absence of a huge manufacturer logo on the front makes the phone look much classier and more refined than the SGS2. The phone is much thinner than I expected; it feels only marginally thicker than the RAZR. I was expecting the build quality to be a disappointment, but honestly, even though the phone is made out of plastic, it still feels solid and expensive to me. (I still prefer the feel of metal, but I also understand that there are significant disadvantages in terms of antenna performance and so on to going that route.) And Ice Cream Sandwhich is a beautiful OS. I've tried out ICS builds on my current phone, but I was still unprepared for how good it is when running on proper hardware, optimised for speed and smoothness, and displayed on the GNex's wonderful screen.

There are lots of well-respected tech reviewers (eg. Chris Ziegler at The Verge) who say that this is the best smartphone ever made. I'm inclined to believe them.

Though he did say that it's not perfect, but that said, we may never see a "perfect" phone.

http://blog.zieglerc.net/post/134106...y-nexus-be-the
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Some commenters have pointed out that my long list of complaints (I dock the screen, camera, and battery life, among other things) is at odds with my assessment that it’s the best smartphone I’ve ever used.

It’s a fair question. How can that be?

I think it’s a testament to the fact that we’re a long way from “the perfect smartphone.” In fact, I don’t actually believe we’ll ever get there, since our expectations keep moving. If you had debuted the Galaxy Nexus in 2008, it’d be considered a perfect 10, for instance — but today, our official review scores it “a mere” 8.6. This time next year, it could be a 7.5. Who knows? Everything is perceived in the context of current technology, of the competition, and of how heavily we’ve come to rely on our mobile devices.
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[Tsepz_011]

And, this is why the Nexus is the right choice: http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/13/28...roid-4-0-video

Samsung ruins everything with TouchWiz

Dont know what they on about as Roboto is found in it, its the default font.
The Settings menu is the ICS one, and if you want the stock ICS look then a simple install of Nova or Apex launcher is all you need, plus the GS2 absolutely ****s all over GNexus in almost everything when running ICS, so imagine the GS3 I say wait Wait WAIT!

[Vulk]

So everyone, I bought my Galaxy Nexus yesterday!

It's such an awesome phone. Beautiful screen, stock ICS is wonderful, and there are massive improvements to almost all the system apps. Face unlock isn't a gimmick at all; provided you "improve" it a few times, it works across in a wide variety of conditions, is extremely fast and genuinely useful.

However, there's just one problem. I'm pretty sure I got a faulty unit

Any app that uses a native view (as opposed to a web view) and uses images from an online source wouldn't load the images. As a result, the Android Market ends up looking like this:



I encountered the same problem on apps like Boid and Foursquare: text would load, but images would not.

I was only able to find two other people on the whole internet who have encountered the same problem, and both of them were running custom ROMs:

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/18843-rel...ost__p__511369
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1424380

Neither of those pages offered any solutions. I tried accessing the internet from different cellular towers. Then I tried doing a factory reset, but the problem persisted.

So, today I took my phone back to Vodacom today and reported it as an out-of-the-box fault. They took the phone in, but they said that they first need to send it in to their technicians to confirm that there really is a problem. So now I have to wait an extra before I get my GNex back. And worst of all, I have this terrible suspicion that their technicians won't understand what the problem is, and they'll just say the phone is fine and send it back to me. And then I'll have to fight with them and send it back in again. Sigh.

I don't suppose anyone here has encountered the same problem?

[ryan411]

@Vulk, sorry to hear that, seriously blows!! Hope u come right soon. Hopefully this issue is not the norm!

p.s. Your image in your post doesn't load.

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Any app that uses a native view (as opposed to a web view) and uses images from an online source wouldn't load the images. As a result, the Android Market ends up looking like this:


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[Vulk]

Probably because I linked to xda. I duplicated the image on Dropbox; should work now.

[zakdoc89]

@Vulk Have you tried using wifi....
I found a similair problem with my galaxy tab 3g... I eventually found it was actually the sim card... Parental control was active, and somehow the images on most sites refuse to load... Android market included...

Noted with a NOTE

[Vulk]

@Vulk Have you tried using wifi....
I found a similair problem with my galaxy tab 3g... I eventually found it was actually the sim card... Parental control was active, and somehow the images on most sites refuse to load... Android market included...

Noted with a NOTE

Ugh, I wish I'd thought to try it through wifi before handing my phone in. On the other hand, I've used this exact same sim card on two different Android phones (running multiple custom ROMs between them) and I've never had this problem before, so I'm doubtful that the sim card is the problem. But I should have thought to check.

[JimboBob]

I don't suppose anyone here has encountered the same problem?

Mine has the same issue....but i;m sure the images have loaded before! I tried now on 3G and they're not loading, i might have seen them when i was on WIFI but i'm not sure.

[powermzii]

Mine has the same issue....but i;m sure the images have loaded before! I tried now on 3G and they're not loading, i might have seen them when i was on WIFI but i'm not sure.

Had a similar problem on my SGS2 and resolved it by completely deleting the APNs and re-loading them. Are you on Vodacom? I reloaded them and all my images in applications incl the market started working again