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Galaxy Nexus Review

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Re: Galaxy Nexus Review

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Post by bgarbiak »

icarus_drowning wrote: post #39

Is 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.

Agree, although I have to add it has some terrible performance issues. The site, especially the front page, is hardly usable on slower PCs (netbooks, for example). I guess all these custom fonts are at fault here.

Re: Galaxy Nexus Review

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Post by alexholehouse »

nextparadigms wrote: post #12
alexholehouse wrote: post #4

Disappointed 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…

True, but personally, I have no allegiance to either Android nor iOS, although I've used the 4S a lot and really like it. Ultimately both offer a fast OS which does everything you'd expect, and both have drawbacks and advantages, but if your in neither ecosystem then things like the camera do actually become more important than you'd think (especially to the non-tech savvy demograph). [EDIT - I guess, in my original post, "so so camera" is a pretty unfair assessment...]

I'd like to try out the nexus and see if the form factor and ICS UI works with me, although it certainly looks lovely!

Re: Galaxy Nexus Review

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Post by ugh »

justinph wrote: post #40
icarus_drowning wrote: post #39

Is 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'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.

I like the content and I like all of their aesthetic decisions but I’m always a bit overwhelmed by their layout. There’s just too much screaming for attention for my taste.

The site is obviously great despite that (and certainly also impressive).

Re: Galaxy Nexus Review

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Post by jsz0 »

polshaw wrote: post #33

I 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…

single area where the 4S beats out the nexus

The review doesn't mention it but the GN has a rather weak GPU. Quite a lot slower than the iPhone 4S and actually slower than some of Samsung's other recent Android phones. If you plan to play any 3D games, especially at 720P, the GN is probably not the best choice. We'll have to wait and see what the benchmarks and real world performance are like though.

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Post by trotsky »

mikeknoop wrote: post #10
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.

What's the current rumor for ICS release to other phone/tablet models? Such as the Nexus S?

nexus s - mid december

a few other devices have announce 1Q11 or 2Q11 (mostly the latter)

Re: Galaxy Nexus Review

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Post by lurker17 »

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.

No Bloatware except Google (many apps), Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter apps.

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Post by glimcat »

ugh wrote: post #32
glimcat wrote: post #15

Complains about the camera's sensor, blames the lens. Wait, what? And what is objectively wrong with it? The big red text complains about "color reproduction" - does this guy know anything about photography? Neither camera is color-calibrated, that's what Lightroom is for.

I think he means white balance. And since both cameras don’t output raw files Lightroom won’t help you (much) with that. Besides: Consumer cameras should generally have a good automatic white balance since the vast majority of people will never bother to manually tweak. That whole sensor/lens mixup is probably an honest mistake. He was talking about software vs hardware and not really going so much into detail as tha…

RAW is good, but you can still get some benefit in crappy cellphone JPGs.

I've had to make batches of personnel photos taken with an iPhone look presentable for a web page on several occasions. A few seconds to set the white balance and normalize the orientation and scale makes a significant difference. It doesn't make it into a great photo, but nothing short of going back with an SLR is going to do that.

Also part of why I think claims about the awesomeness of the iPhone camera should be taken with a pound of salt. It's a fairly nice cell camera, but it's still a cell camera.

Re: Galaxy Nexus Review

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Post by vladikoff »

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?

From the screenshots I've seen, there is one Verizon app on this phone. However, ICS now has a feature to DISABLE system apps. More about it here: http://www.theverge.com/2011/10/20/2502299/bloatware-kill-sw...
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