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I'm really digging it as well. The layout is pretty great. Whatever the CMS is, they're getting a ton of flexibility out of it. It feels like a more integrated media experience -- typography, video, photography, infographics, user comments, all pretty nicely wound.
Their CMS is actually built entirely in-house. They even have version numbers posted somewhere.
Galaxy Nexus Review
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Re: Galaxy Nexus Review
#102Is it just me, or is anyone else incredibly impressed with The Verge? Their reviews are incredibly detailed, and yet they still manage to make extremely interesting, short, and informative video reviews for many products. Add to that the fact that the site, at least to me, is absolutely gorgeous, and I think I've found my new favorite gadget site.
I must dissent on gorgeous: to me, it's a triumph of style over practicality. It looks like a magazine page (perhaps one you'd see advertising architecture, or furniture) made flesh in the browser: the pictures are too big, the headlines are too big, the text column wanders from the left side of the page to the right, and it does all of this with highly excessive CPU consumption. On Firefox it's particularly painful…
Curious, I've got none of those problems visiting the site when running Firefox on a windows 7 PC.
I wonder if it's some kind of plugin issue, Firebug is a monster consumer of resources for example.
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#103Disappointed by the camera though - 5 MPs is fine if the sensors are up to scratch, but the 4S's camera is just so outstanding ( and 8 MPs) that a so-so camera might actually swing it for me.
I don't think most people will make their decision between an iPhone 4S and a Galaxy Nexus because of a slightly better camera. Sure, it might be even a lot better, but at the end of the day, they are both far from point and shoot quality. I think most people would rather choose between them because of each one's software or even hardware. Company allegiances/principles/beliefs will go a long way in making the decisi…
Untrue. That is the one point that is currently making me swing towards the iPhone.. My current point&shoot produces worse pictures than either (in fairness, it's 3 1/2 years old). Two years of better pictures is an issue to me..
Re: Galaxy Nexus Review
#104Is it just me, or is anyone else incredibly impressed with The Verge? Their reviews are incredibly detailed, and yet they still manage to make extremely interesting, short, and informative video reviews for many products. Add to that the fact that the site, at least to me, is absolutely gorgeous, and I think I've found my new favorite gadget site.
I must dissent on gorgeous: to me, it's a triumph of style over practicality. It looks like a magazine page (perhaps one you'd see advertising architecture, or furniture) made flesh in the browser: the pictures are too big, the headlines are too big, the text column wanders from the left side of the page to the right, and it does all of this with highly excessive CPU consumption. On Firefox it's particularly painful…
100% concur here. I have an i7 w/ 8GB RAM and the site is very jerky FF7. Everytime i switch to it's tab FF hangs for at least a few seconds. The design is also very bus, way too much going on.
That said, if the content is good enough, i can deal with that. Maybe I'll just block JS for this site since i suspect that's the primary issue here.
Re: Galaxy Nexus Review
#105Is it just me, or is anyone else incredibly impressed with The Verge? Their reviews are incredibly detailed, and yet they still manage to make extremely interesting, short, and informative video reviews for many products. Add to that the fact that the site, at least to me, is absolutely gorgeous, and I think I've found my new favorite gadget site.
I must dissent on gorgeous: to me, it's a triumph of style over practicality. It looks like a magazine page (perhaps one you'd see advertising architecture, or furniture) made flesh in the browser: the pictures are too big, the headlines are too big, the text column wanders from the left side of the page to the right, and it does all of this with highly excessive CPU consumption. On Firefox it's particularly painful…
It does look and emulate a magazine page somewhat, but updated for the internet.
There are no speed issues on my laptop browser or ipad...
Re: Galaxy Nexus Review
#106I can't believe how much everything is still framed around the iphone. I think its crazy to call this phone just 'competetive' with the iphone 4S; especially the screen-- it is clearly a significant step up IMO. ICS is surely at a point where it can, currently, safely be considered to be ahead of iOS- especially in its unadulterated 'nexus' form. And whilst pentile isn't perfect, its 720p FFS. If that wasn't enough O…
This and the 4S are different enough that a comparison is hard (as someone that's contemplating either an ICS phone or a 4S soon, I'll vouch for that) - I think "competitive" is a good way to put it.
Siri and the tight integration with Apple TV (specifically, the ability to mirror) are way ahead of their Android equivalents. The countless docks and accessories for the iPhone also give you a lot of options.
The camera looks to be a worthwhile advantage for the 4S - the motion-stabilized video in particular really stand out and make video actually worth watching/sharing.
People dismiss this as pedantic, but iOS's app advantage is still worth noting. GarageBand and iMovie are easily the most sophisticated mobile apps I've seen yet - Android equivalents (there really isn't one for GarageBand) aren't in the ballpark. If you're bored, $.99 will get you a great game optimized for the newest hardware like Scribblenauts or Shadowgun - Android looks to be at least a year behind. There always seems to be an Instagram/Orchestra/Oink with no Android equivalent.
But how do you weigh that against a larger screen that looks far better for reading and video? Similarly, this makes Android's already far superior Maps more useful. And I could see ICS's live voice transcription being just as much of an advantage as Siri. These are arguably more common use-cases than the Apple advantages I just listed.
All this to say that I wish it were an easy choice which were superior.
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#107No USB Mass Storage support on the Galaxy Nexus. Well, for us Linux (and Mac) users that's some bad news.
Really ? That's your dealbreaker ? MTP has been supported for long time on Linux… Just tried it on gnome and kde, no problem.
BTW, MTP has great advantages from an engineering PoV: you don't have to use a crappy FAT filesystem on your eMMC. You don't have to give full control over an essential piece of storage to another OS, so you can continue accessing data/apps installed on the storage.
Re: Galaxy Nexus Review
#108I can't believe how much everything is still framed around the iphone. I think its crazy to call this phone just 'competetive' with the iphone 4S; especially the screen-- it is clearly a significant step up IMO. ICS is surely at a point where it can, currently, safely be considered to be ahead of iOS- especially in its unadulterated 'nexus' form. And whilst pentile isn't perfect, its 720p FFS. If that wasn't enough O…
Pentile is great engineering. Given the choice I'd have a pentile display with the same number of sub-pixels over the alternative any day. If it was the same number of pixels , I'd maybe swing the other way but generally pentile has been a victim of the fanboy wars because (so far at least) Apple hasn't used it. Though I believe it was rumoured (and frankly would have made engineering sense) for them to use it when t…
Pentile may be great engineering but the colors it shows are not true, and it has significant banding across solid colors. As an interface designer, it makes my eyes bleed and my graphics look sub-standard.
Re: Galaxy Nexus Review
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Pentile is great engineering. Given the choice I'd have a pentile display with the same number of sub-pixels over the alternative any day. If it was the same number of pixels , I'd maybe swing the other way but generally pentile has been a victim of the fanboy wars because (so far at least) Apple hasn't used it. Though I believe it was rumoured (and frankly would have made engineering sense) for them to use it when t…
Pentile may be great engineering but the colors it shows are not true, and it has significant banding across solid colors. As an interface designer, it makes my eyes bleed and my graphics look sub-standard.
Are you talking AMOLED or pentile? AMOLED has a distinctive color-cast at low brightness and a color gamut that exceeds the standard which can make it look cartoony, but so do other screens e.g. the iPhones 3 and 4 which have too small a range and can look washed out as a result. The banding sounds like an AMOLED problem too (unless you mean the "stippling" type effect you can see if the pixels are big enough).
But neither of your complaints appears to be related to pentile vs RGB stripe. If you're talking about low pixel density then it's the same Mac OS vs Windows text rendering debate. There's not enough pixels so which kind of ugly do you prefer (or are you used to)? Some people like the hand wrangled pixels, other just let it fall where it lands. Things designed for one system will look worse on the other and especially bad to people who prefer the other look.
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#110No USB Mass Storage support on the Galaxy Nexus. Well, for us Linux (and Mac) users that's some bad news.
There's Android File Transfer for Mac users, which supports MTP. Not sure there's anything at all for Linux users. This issue has turned the phone from must-have to never-want for me - it's unbelievably handy to essentially have a 32GB USB hard disk in my pocket wherever I go. Are there any actual advantages to MTP or PTP for end users?
Apps like SSHDroid and SMBDroid can make your phone act as a file server on WiFi.
MTP allows the storage to be accessed by the phone and computer at the same time.