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Galaxy Nexus Review

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Re: Galaxy Nexus Review

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Post by cryptoz »

dman wrote: post #17
cryptoz wrote: post #7

For anyone with the Galaxy Nexus here, I'd like to point you in the direction of the pressureNET ( https://market.android.com/details?id=ca.cumulonimbus.barome... ) as you are in a new group of Android users that have barometers! I'm the author of this app, and we're building a crowd-sourced network of live-updating Android barometers in hopes that we can improve short-term weather prediction. The app is open source…

Not in good taste.

So, I was nervous of that but decided to post anyway. I think HN seems okay with this post (it currently has 9 points, for full disclosure) but if this type of post isn't welcome here, I will take it down. I'm not profiting off this and the project is entirely open source, so I felt okay about it. Does HN want it deleted?

Re: Galaxy Nexus Review

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Post by nextparadigms »

matheusalmeida wrote: post #8
juliano_q wrote: post #2

Quite impressive. 10 for performance and software (iPhone 4S received 8 and 9). The device seems to be very good, but ICS is the star here. I am eagerly waiting to receive the update at my Nexus S.

Am I the only one who thinks that a 10/10 is... let's say, hard to believe ? What does that mean? In terms of software, it doesn't have bugs, it's completeley optimized and you have days of battery life and tons of available memory ? Is the integration of all functionalities perfect ? You don't need task managers to kill faulty apps ? Anyhow, we are in a free world where everyone can make reviews and I'm glad we are…

Perhaps some more/better features, better e-mail and Calendar apps, better Maps/Navigation...etc. iOS still feels like a MVP when compared to Android. It may work excellent with the features it does have, but that doesn't mean it isn't more limited.

Re: Galaxy Nexus Review

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Post by bryanlarsen »

cryptoz wrote: post #21
dman wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not in good taste.

So, I was nervous of that but decided to post anyway. I think HN seems okay with this post (it currently has 9 points, for full disclosure) but if this type of post isn't welcome here, I will take it down. I'm not profiting off this and the project is entirely open source, so I felt okay about it. Does HN want it deleted?

In my opinion, it was dman's post that was in poor taste. Hacker news is and should be about people showing off their hacks. Additionally his post adds no content -- a simple click on the downvote button provides all the information and feedback required.

Re: Galaxy Nexus Review

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Post by blinkingled »

I obviously don't have an actual ICS device to test but - a) The emulator that came with v4.0 platform is more usable due to reasons I am not fully sure of. Previously where I would be spooked out by the thought of launching the browser and loading actual sites - it was much more pleasant this time around. Emulator boot up time for ICS AVD was also much faster. b) The browser has made some forward progress as far as HTML5 is concerned - 2.3 got 177 score on html5test.com - ICS one gets 230. Not sure why the tag support and WebM support are still missing - may be just an emulator thing.

[Edit] Boot time improvement are due to SSD - The AVD manager chose my home directory on SSD to create the AVD file - my older ones were on standard HDD. But still the in-emulator navigation is somewhat better. May be improved drawing performance.

Re: Galaxy Nexus Review

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Post by jbredeche »

joebadmo wrote: post #16
jbredeche wrote: post #14

I might missed an announcement here - but will Verizon load their bloatware onto ICS, or has Google managed to get them to ship a clean Android installation on these phones?

Generally these Google flagship devices have little to no bloatware (depending on what you consider bloatware), and one of the more interesting parts of the ICS announcement was that you can easily disable apps (which stops from running and removes them from home/app screens but not from the device) pretty easily from system settings.

Nice. As far as I know, this is the first time that Verizon has one of the flagship devices - so didn't know if they were to give this phone the same bloatware treatment as my Droid X.

Re: Galaxy Nexus Review

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Post by nextparadigms »

awolf wrote: post #13

While I find Topolsky's ultimate conclusion of a 10/10 a bit hard to believe given the plastic case a mediocre camera sensor, I was impressed with the review. It was very detailed without being excessively long and it was presented in an easy-to-follow manner. Look forward to seeing more from The Verge.

The overall score is 8.6/10, not 10/10. They gave it 10/10 on software and performance, which has nothing to do with the plastic case and the camera sensor. FYI the for the camera it got a 7/10.

Re: Galaxy Nexus Review

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Post by joebadmo »

jbredeche wrote: post #25
joebadmo wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Generally these Google flagship devices have little to no bloatware (depending on what you consider bloatware), and one of the more interesting parts of the ICS announcement was that you can easily disable apps (which stops from running and removes them from home/app screens but not from the device) pretty easily from system settings.

Nice. As far as I know, this is the first time that Verizon has one of the flagship devices - so didn't know if they were to give this phone the same bloatware treatment as my Droid X.

Well, the original Droid was kind of an almost-flagship. It was marketed in conjunction with Google, and it had an unlocked bootloader, unlike subsequent Verizon Motorola Droids. It also wasn't skinned with MotoBlur.

I've owned both the original Droid and the Droid X, and the original one definitely had less crapware, and the vanilla OS was nice, as was the much easier modding.

I've actually really liked Motorola hardware, and I like the more angular, more dinstinctive industrial design of the Motorola devices better than Samsung devices, but I have to admit that I'm drooling over this phone. ICS looks amazing, and seems to address almost every complaint I've had about Android so far.

Re: Galaxy Nexus Review

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Post by dman »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #23
cryptoz wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, I was nervous of that but decided to post anyway. I think HN seems okay with this post (it currently has 9 points, for full disclosure) but if this type of post isn't welcome here, I will take it down. I'm not profiting off this and the project is entirely open source, so I felt okay about it. Does HN want it deleted?

In my opinion, it was dman's post that was in poor taste. Hacker news is and should be about people showing off their hacks. Additionally his post adds no content -- a simple click on the downvote button provides all the information and feedback required.

I only kept my post brief to be polite. While I agree that Hacker News is the place to show off hacks hijacking threads is not the way to do it. If parent poster has a hack that is worth showing on HN he should submit it as a news item and if there is intrinsic merit the post will attract an audience. Posting self promotional information on threads that are tangentially related is in poor taste in my opinion. Its a slippery slope - if every iphone post here attracted comments by all of us who were building an iphone app then HN would be the worse for it.

Re: Galaxy Nexus Review

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Post by [deleted] »

eavc wrote: post #11
matheusalmeida wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Am I the only one who thinks that a 10/10 is... let's say, hard to believe ? What does that mean? In terms of software, it doesn't have bugs, it's completeley optimized and you have days of battery life and tons of available memory ? Is the integration of all functionalities perfect ? You don't need task managers to kill faulty apps ? Anyhow, we are in a free world where everyone can make reviews and I'm glad we are…

You're not the only one hung up on it, no. But I don't see anything strange about a 10/10 score. It doesn't imply perfection, only relative excellence. This is how it's always been with game reviews, for instance. A video game released in 1996 gets a 10/10 because it's better than other games yet seen. The same game released today would get panned. It doesn't imply any claim to absolute perfection.

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