First of all, I’m a tormented soul because I absolutely LOVE my Galaxy Nexus! I moved from a Droid X, which I also enjoyed, but the camera was and remains crap. Even the Nexus blows my Droid X away with picture quality and the Nexus even gives my wife’s iPhone 4 a run for it’s money! Again, it’s not hard to please me in that category given my past experience, ANYTHING was an improvement (for the record, Moto did seem to fix things with the RAZR… it also takes some good pics).

Functionally I am in love with this phone! ICS is a huge step in the right direction and the multitasking still blows me away. I do a lot with Google Apps for work and am fully Gmail integrated so it made sense for me to stick with Android. I’ve also managed to retain semi-decent battery life, but do have spare batteries on hand. Something I was used to with the Droid X.BUT, I am plagued by dropped calls and it is pretty embarrassing when… say, interviewing a new hire, or talking to the boss, or a customer, ect, ect, ect, …I keep dropping calls. It happens around 5-6 times per day and seems to be completely random (I’m in a 4G market in the Twin Cities MN area) and some days seem better than others. Sometimes I can’t make it 3 mins before I hear “Hello? Hello?” sometimes I can make it over an hour without an issue.

Callers on the other end report a “clicking” or a “beeping” and then silence. Some have said it gets static/garbled and then fades out… so maybe we are dealing with two different things, but I NEVER dealt with these issues with my Droid X.

I talked to Verizon tech support and they said that “they have heard of others having the same issue” and that a software update is coming out, but that they are being told to replace the device when calls like mine come in… which scares me. I have NO other issues with this phone, just the dropped calls and if a software update will truly fix it, I don’t want the risk of getting into a refurbished phone that may or may not have other issues…

Signal strength has been fine for me and I’ve had no dropped calls. On the other hand I have an associate in Sacramento who has a new iPhone and he’s had a load of problems since getting it. His calls get dropped and his battery runs out much quicker than it used to.

No new technology is perfect on release and there was really a demand for the Nexus to be released. I’m betting the delays were because of similar problems. The 4G network Big Red is deploying is new also. I remember having more problems when 3G came out but that could have just been me.

You will always have people with issues. Sometimes they are legitimate and sometimes not. The one thing I’ve noticed is much more brand jealousy concerning the G-Nex than any other phone. Seems many of the detractors are just trying to make noise because they chose a different phone.

I am now on my second Nexus. The first had horrible problems with Latency even on wi-fi. Well I have not tried the new radios But I can say the actual signal (dBm’s) and the indicator are horrible. I have read VZW statements about it being an indicator issue. But I have spent alot of time with my GNex, our Droid Charge, HTC Thunderbolt, and Motorola Xoom and can say that Verizon is mistaken. I will be more then happy to share my data. BUt I can tell you there is no more blatant of an example as one location where I can not get a 4G LTE signal on the GNex. BUt I can get one on the other 3 devices and can pull down 45 Mbps down and 13 mbps up. Measured from the speedtest.net app as well as other speed test sites and apps. there also is a hugh difference in the dBm and latency from the GNex and my other three devices. I feel like Verizon is turning a deaf ear to us and telling us we are all crazy and are just looking at the signal bars.