Comments on: Rumor: Google to Unveil LG Nexus 4, 3G Nexus 7, and Samsung Nexus 10 at Android Event Next Week

By: kelli914

kelli914 — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:33:00 +0000

i just wish they would get on with it and price it right for xmas sales. my two biggest factores it seems to me right now is will the nexus have a rear camera also on the new one and will it truly have 3G capabilities. I am sold on the nexus after reading materials. but i cant seem to get an answer anywhere as to if it truly is gooing to have 3g. and having dual camers is a huge huge plus for me. more so the just haing the front camers. if i had to pick just one camera it would be the rear. but nexus has it over the rest as best i see.. the only thing i can say they screwed up on was only having one camera and no 3g. so fingers crossed cause im ready to but this n get on with it.

By: GotSka81

GotSka81 — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:48:00 +0000

Once again, I think you’re placing blame for the fragmentation of Android in the wrong place. If all device manufacturers would apply vanilla android to their devices, and if carriers (*cough*VZW*cough*) could get their update approval process in gear, we wouldn’t have all this fragmentation. Unfortunately, this is a side-effect of distributing an open-source software…anyone can change it however they choose. If you believe releasing a new version of Android once or twice a year is a problem, what is your alternative?

As far as developers and OS support is concerned, this is a problem no matter what OS software you’re talking about…be it Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac OS, etc. Any given developer must choose for him/herself how far back they want to support. This is the nature of software.

By: stwb

stwb — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:17:00 +0000

Polycarbonate IS plastic….

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:57:00 +0000

If you look carefully at the iPhone 5 specs, you’ll see that the CDMA model only gives you LTE in the US and Japan. If you want LTE in Canada, or anywhere in Europe, you have to buy one of the GSM models (and which GSM model depends on which country you want LTE in).

My original point still stands. Including CDMA and LTE in one worldwide unlocked handset is technologically unfeasible right now. In the end, all you’d be doing is supporting LTE frequencies for certain carriers over others. For instance, you could make an unlocked CDMA/LTE device that works on both Verizon and Sprint and maybe one or two overseas that use similar frequency bands…but as of October 2012 an unlocked CDMA/LTE device that works on almost any CDMA or LTE network anywhere in the world is not happening.

By: Kotlet

Kotlet — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:23:00 +0000

Why would you need more than 640Kb?

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:49:00 +0000

I’ve been reading articles about the Moto Nexus and it is saying that it won’t happen until next year or so, minimum of 6, 8, 12 months, and not till after they get through the phones moto already had in development already when Google acquired them.

By: trophynuts

trophynuts — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:40:00 +0000

then we’ll have to agree to disagree. My idea of Fragmentation is when a New version of Android comes out and so now you will have Several versions of the OS spread out across all devices. It’s a logistical nightmare. For a DEV when does he drop support of say GB and carry forward? GB is still on a LOT of phones.

By: trophynuts

trophynuts — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:37:00 +0000

The Verizon Iphone5 comes unlocked out of the box. It has LTE, CDMA, and GSM tech in it. You can buy it and put an AT&T sim in it and it will work fine on their 3G network. It also uses other LTE in other countries as well.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:56:00 +0000

First off you will never see an unlocked LTE/CDMA phone until there is an actual accepted worldwide standard for LTE, which currently there is not.

Secondly, which device variants get updates from Google has nothing whatsoever to do with if it’s carrier locked. The carrier lock only means that Google can’t update the device without passing carrier approval.

The US WiFi-only and Verizon Xoom variants both get updates from Google, but all international variants get updates from Motorola whether they’re carrier locked or not.

Google updates the Verizon Galaxy Nexus and GSM models purchased from the Play Store and in parts of Western Europe. The Sprint Galaxy Nexus, as well as GSM models sold throughout the majority of the world get updates from Samsung.

Google updates all variants of the Nexus S, including the Sprint model which is clearly carrier locked.

By: DainLaguna

DainLaguna — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:50:00 +0000

i would have loved a bigger option but with 16 gig iphones selling like hotcakes i dont blame them. i think we’ll be fine.

and man disqus is effing awful on the n7. or anything really.

By: noc007

noc007 — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:48:00 +0000

I hope the rumored $99 tablet is not the subsidized price of the 3G one. If it’s not, I’ll probably get two.

By: Derrick Glander

Derrick Glander — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:46:00 +0000

I don’t really need a tablet, I’ll keep using my netbook until google releases a nexus with a build in microsd card slot. I will not support this new strategy of charging exorbant prices for slight increases in memory capacity. I want to swap out 64GB cards to different devices and Im voting with me wallet.

By: jdtommy

jdtommy — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:46:00 +0000

I don’t want verizon to have interest. I want an unlocked LTE/CDMA version of the phone that I can buy direct from google and hook up to verizon’s network.

The only time google is not involved with the updates is if the phone is subsidized through the carrier and they put their own crap on it.

By: Jacob Davis

Jacob Davis — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:37:00 +0000

It’s more just that they sit quietly while the carriers circle round and gang-rape Android. They don’t even complain about it.

By: Lactose_the_Intolerant

Lactose_the_Intolerant — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:13:00 +0000

Right. If the past is any indication, VZW will pass on this because they are going with something similar (HTC DLX, perhaps?) They did the same thing when they passed on the Nexus One for HTC Droid Incredible.