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  • Looks just a little bit thinner than my Charge. I’ll gladly get one. I don’t need anything super thin.

  • ok, so i have the t-bolt and i’m upgrade eligible in February.  i want this phone the day it comes out.  could i add a line, switch my main number to the new phone, then kill the other line (new number) when i’m out of contract on the t-bolt?  anyone?  anyone?  bueller?

  • Seeing that there is no Verizon Wireless logo on the back means it’s going to be plastered all over the front. Depressing.

  • hmm…if all phones get the update, the rezound really has me interested….same/ better specs than the galaxy nexus, and htc usually does provide quick updates or they leak….which is what i did for my thunderbolt… and beats intrigues me..

    • Why would Beats technology intrigue you? Reports indicate that it is just a major bass boost and not much else. It is beyond me why people think Beats headphones sound good in the first place. Sure they are better than $5 ear buds that most people are coming from, but they can’t even hold a candle to real headphones that are within the same price range from companies like Shure, Beyerdynamic, Audio-Technica, Sennheiser and Sony. Seriously compare a $300 headphone from any of those companies to the Beats and you will be shocked at how much Monster is managing to rip you off. Nothing has changed with that company. They are the same company who put their HDMI TV next to a Composite Cable TV and called them both HD to get you to buy THEIR “superior” cables which were priced 300% more than their competition’s. 

  • Thicker phones are fine with me, long as it stays about or under the thickness of the og droid I’m good, I’ve used both the og and the droid x for extended amounts of time and they’ve both felt fine, and I’m sure this phone will also be plenty powerful enough for me, and finally long as the camera is better than motorola cameras, I’ll be happy

  • Android’s are the chrysler 300 of phone. They’re nice, but don’t ever try and compare them to a real bentley. They flood the market with all the exact same phones, they’re a dime a dozen. Android didn’t change the game, because Android can’t change the game, only Apple can do that. 

  • So… now that we pretty much know this is confirmed, open and not going to be messed with (much) by Verizon. Who wants to say “We told you so” to all the naysayers claiming that this wouldn’t be a true Nexus device?

    Though… I do wonder if they’ll call it the Droid Galaxy Nexus or something of the sort, or if it will have the Droid branding at all. If not that would explain the lack of advertisement on Verizon’s side.

  • I find it interesting there aren’t any Verizon logos on that beauty. Either they were going out of the way to hide them like they did in the presentation with that tape on the back of the one that was in the NFC demo or Verizon’s logo won’t be on it (which I highly doubt but of course, the iPhone doesn’t have carrier logos either, just in the status bar)  maybe its about time Android, as a NEXUS phone especially, got the same treatment since its also lacking bloatware.

    after watching the entire presentation of the device, i’m so skipping the Rezound, the Rezound looks sweet and all but i want a phone that will always get the latest updates and will likely be easily unlockable and supported by a vast dev community.  I was preparing for this for a while which is why i got beautiful widgets and fancy widget pro (for free thanks to Amazon he he) just incase i would ever lose the nice big sense clock widget i always use.  The time has come to leave sense behind.  I absolutely loved Stock Honeycomb on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 before it was changed to the “too bright” version of Touch WIZ UX.  And ICS brings that same look to the smartphone space and i’m all for it.  I cannot wait to get my hands on this device!!

  • guys.. make sure all of you order AFTER I have placed the order. If I don’t get the phone on day 1, I’m gonna be really pissed. so back off!!

  • Looks like the phone is so powerful it can jump a car off! Damn VZW must be proud of this one

  • is anyone aware if the micro usb port will have the ability to act as an hdmi out on this phone? 
    That would be amazing. 🙂

  • My concerns, no expandable storage and no HDMI.  I realize the HDMI can be overcome by docks and cables but I don’t really want to spend a ton on extras.  The storage thing is going to make moving over from an old phone (apps and stuff) a PIA.  Not to mention 1080p video and you can’t expand the storage…..

    • Really? Plug in OG with charging cord to computer and put in USB mode. Plug in Nexus and do the same (if needed). Copy and Paste. Done

      Might be hard if you use an ipad as your computer…

      • MHL actually looks better than HDMI to me. If I understand correctly, MHL lets your TV charge the device and the TV remote can control the device. I admit I don’t know the details of either standard. Can anybody shed more light?

        • you are correct, MHL uses the voltage from HDMI to keep it charged too, so unlike Motorola’s solution to always have the HDMI/USB ports together so they make big hulking adapters, Samsung’s has always been a solution that uses one single cable on microUSB, as does the HTC phones that use MHL.

          the HDMI control though, i think thats more CEC connected devices, or it has to have a multimedia dock, but i could be wrong, i never really owned an HDMI / MHL device to be sure, i’ve always streamed my content via PC anyway or DLNA from the phone itself.  

  • That is definitely a sign of relief…considering if this phone wasn’t going to be available at Verizon, like the SGSII, I would have probably jumped in front of a herd of wild red bulls.

  • This has likely already been said, but my understanding was that both phones were already shown side by side during the presentation. Perhaps most prominently on the Android Beam splashscreen, I think it was.

    One of the Nexuses set back to back appears to be slightly thicker than the other.

  • I am in now means saying that it is not coming to verizon (I really believe and hope it will), but the lack of Verizon’s name and Samsung on it make me thing that they were not put on their on purpose(duh). But 4G is a selling point of this phone and it stayed on, but the layout they used for 4G on the phone, while being the same as Verizon’s, is the only one Google used in the conference.

  • Why does VZW have that peice of crap RAZR up on their web site but not this? (it wouldn’t be a peice of crap if it had stock ICS on it, of course, but that is unfortunately not the case)

    • The bigger (and more disturbing) question is why now that Google owns Motorola are they letting them make a POS RAZR with Gingerbread on it! They were all hyping up the close relationship between Google and Samsung. Talk about s41ting were you sleep…..

      • The deal is far from being final, and once it is…it will have to pass regulatory approval. Don’t hold your breath with our Marxist masters.

        If/when it does go through, I don’t think Google will have as much influence on Moto’s hardware as many of are hoping they would. This was a strategic move to do patent battle with *pple.

  • Can anyone find a charger on that rig? I want to know how the phone was kept juiced for that long.

  • Is this too much to ask for in one single phone? Need to replace my OG SOON
    1.2/1.5 dual core processor
    720p amoled screen
    16/32 gb internal storage
    MicroSD slot up to 32 GB
    HDMI out
    8 MP Back camera
    1.3 MP or better front camera
    Pure Android (no blur/overlay/etc.)
    Removable useful battery

    • get the gnex or you’ll be waiting forever.. literally.  This is as close as you’re going to get.

        • This phone has convinced me to stick with Android and forget about jumping to iOS. However, after owning a Nexus device and getting fast updates from Google, I may never want to go back to a phone with Blur/Sense/Touchwiz again. But what if VZW doesn’t have another Nexus phone within two years? I may have to go to iOS if that happens.

    • Question… Why do you need so much storage on your phone? I don’t see the point any more… music? Google music streams to your device and holds 20,000 songs. Movies? Netflix is already there along with Hulu Plus… As for megapixels… I always wonder if people realize what “Megapixels” translate to… Because really more megapixels = bigger picture not better picture. If they have a top quality sensor that only takes 5MP photos, then great. That is more than enough for most people. I doubt you’ll be making any posters with the pictures you take with your phone. I only understand one complaint of yours… and that is HDMI out, and I will guarantee they will have an alternative with a dock that will have that…

      About the storage thing… On my OG Droid… I have a total of 10gb used… Thats it… Everything I want and need is on the cloud… I think you need to join the 21st century and use the awesome cloud based services that allows you to take more with you than you could hope to achieve with physical memory.

      The G-Nex has everything else you want… So I fail to see the problem with this being your next phone.

      • Clouds.. where data goes to viewed by every bored sys admin or pissed off security analyst. NO THANKS!
        Let me know how that cloud works when there is a massive security breech.

        How does that cloud stuff work when you are flying?

        Agreed a top quality 5MP sensor takes a better pic, but why not a higher quality 8MP sensor?

        It might be my next phone, things I am asking for are available on other phones so why not ask for them all in one? I am the consumer, make me something I truly want to buy!

    • 1.2ghz downclocked from 1.5ghz dual core – CHECK!

      720p HD SUPER AMOLED – CHECK!
      32GB of internal storage – CHECK! (Verizon model)
      MicroSD slot – N/A
      HDMI out – CHECK! – MHL connection cable required (whats the difference between buying a mini-HDMI cable and an MHL cable? regardless if you don’t already have one, you still need a cable for either one)
      8mp back camera – N/A  (Seriously, MP is just the size the picture is when its captured,  the sensor quality and size matters, NOT the Megapixels)
      5mp back camera – CHECK!
      1.3mp FFC – CHECK!
      Pure Android ICS – CHECK! (No Verizon bloatware or logos apparently)
      Removable battery (that unlike a certain Moto device, just so its the thinnest LTE phone) – CHECK!

      The two missing specs of yours aren’t really that important with cloud storage and the camera, again, the megapixels mean diggly squat for quality, yes it is size but again, thats only useful for taking pro shots that you want to get printed or blown up. not for something you want to share online.

      • Are we sure about MHL on the Nexus?  I was hoping it would be the case.  I think I could live without the MicroSD expansion slot if I had to.

  • verizon has only one data plan, when you upgrade from a 3g to a 4g phone, your data plan doesn’t change, it stays exactly the same. If you have grandfathered unlimited data, then that will also stay the same.

  • I’m ok with this.  Now, someone buy my DX on Ebay so that I can but this when it comes out.

  • It’s still pretty thin and after what I saw last night the thickness is really not important, I really think ICS is by far the biggest improvement over any version of android and I can’t wait to get it along with that nexus in my hands. I went away from that video presentation extremely impressed and excited as hell. But I wanted to ask you guys what you thought Larry Page was talking about when he commented about a surprise a while back because I was kind of hoping for chrome on android and I’m still not sure as to what LP was talking about unless it was the facial recognition software or if he was speaking in general terms? I kept waiting for the announcement of my built-in bloody mary machine but nothing, oh well I guess I’ll just live with what they gave us.

  • WWHHHOOAAA !!! Serious power consumption happening there.. They needed jumper cables to power it in time lapse mode???

  • Everything about the phone is great. Specs, Size, Screen.  Won’t effect my decision either way, but curious to see how pictures taken really look (I know we’ve seen some already that have G-Nex attached to the EXIF) and true video quality. 

  • Yea, I’m ok with the size of this. Verizon’s first priority should be to work on slimming this chip down for future devices and improving battery life

    • Verizon doesn’t make the chips. based on the razr i’d motorla’s got the “chip thinning” down

      • thats only because of the non-removable battery, the device gets thicker the more accessible it has to be to get inside the device to get to components like microSD cards, SIM slots and battery. although some argue that its a marketing ploy to have to buy replacements or accessories to get those missing features.  RAZR won’t be able to get an extended battery unless they have a similiar option that iPhone users have where a case becomes the battery addon for additional power.  which could very likely be the reason they moved the USB port to the top of the device, thats rare for any phone thats not a Windows Phone to be placed there.  

  • The clamps on that look like they are torturing the poor device. Just let it go! Release it to us! It wants to be free!

    • I thought the same thing, there has to be some nasty teeth marks on it after those clamps are taken off.  could be a great way to see how durable it was if we could see the aftermath marks 😛

  • I’m alright with thickness as long as it’s got the battery stamina for the LTE, or at least make it not as bad (like make it last 10 hours instead of 7 or whatever it is). But since my area won’t get LTE for awhile it doesn’t matter as much to me, but LTE is always a plus.

  • I like motos build and the docking options and HDMI mirror, but waiting for ICS is not an option, nor is a non HD screen. qhd doesnt cut it

  • dumb question but will i be forced to upgrade to 4g when i purchase this phone or can i just stay on 3g?

  • I’ll be seriously pissed if there’s any branding in the front. I see a 4GLTE branding on the back and I hope that’s as far as that goes.

    Also, regarding the thickness of the device. While I am disappointed its not 8.8mm like the HSPA+ version, it doesn’t look to bad. I assume its about 9.5mm thick considering that’s how much the Galaxy SII HD LTE is.

    • Never understood the hate for branding. Do you hate cars because they are branded front, side, and rear?

      • I don’t care if there’s branding on the back, I don’t want it on the front of the device. I like looking at a clear display. branding on the front usually takes away the minimal and stylish look of most devices.

        • Also Verizon’s logo is just obnoxious to be plastered on the front. Yes I know I’m on Verizon! I don’t need it staring me in the face when I look at my phone all the time.  

        • I always read a penny can scrape it off with out scratching the display. Never tried it though

      • But cars don’t have their brand name on the front in huge letters across the hood.  That’s what this is like for most people.  Yes I know they have something in the grill, but it’s more subtle for most cars and for the ones where it stands out people are probably choosing that for for that look.

  • I find it odd that after the galaxy sII was out every other phone was “fat” because it wasn’t as thin as the the sII. Now because it’s a nexus it’s ok that its thicker. Hypocrites

  • Well since Samsung is no longer listed on the back (like the press shots) this means they will surely be plastered on the front of the device. And if they are putting their 4G logo on it, you can bet Verizon will want a piece of that front bezel real estate too. Sucks. Looked so nice without any of the extra crap on the front.

  • I’m DEFINITELY okay with the thickness.

    There’s a tradeoff between the Galaxy Nexus and the RAZR; Most up-to-date software and most advanced hardware for a slightly thicker (albeit still thinner than most of the modern phones out there; not to mention w/ LTE to boot) frame, or the thinnest phone, on the hardware and software of the last generation of phones with an update to the software pending for 2012.

    I’ll have the Nexus please!

    • You’ve got it backwards buddy.. the GNex is the one with the outdated hardware.. while the RAZR has the newer hadware. look it up.

      • How so? RAZR doesn’t have 720p screen, NFC, or barometer. It might have the same processor too, in fact. I’m confused about why you’re saying it’s better tech….

        • I may have been misinformed.. you are right. .the GNex has a newer processor than the razr (4460 vs 4430 on the razr). But I also heard the gpu in the gnex is worse than in the razr.. and thus the lower benchmark score.

      • Just wondering but doesn’t the RAZR have the same TI OMAP 4460 processor? Outside of a higher MPs for the camera. What else is there?

  • Will someone let me know what the major differences are between this and the Razr? I’m not a techy guy so if you could put the technical specs into functional specs for me that would be great. Thanks in advance to anyone who replies.

    • the major difference is the difference in the operating system. Galaxy Nexus is running ice cream sandwich. RAZR is running Gingerbread. RAZR will almost definitely get upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich in 2012 sometime, however, take a look at Motorola’s track record with supplying software updates and you’ll see that they are almost always ~6 months behind.

  • I care very little about how thick it is, how fast the processor is, how big the battery is, all this petty nonsense everyone has been talking about.  The only thing I care about is that this is a Nexus device supported directly by google without verizon sticking their dirty little hands in the middle.  This is the phone for me.

  • No one really cares about that to be honest. It’s something that was created by the Apple “chic and cool” mentality. As long as it’s not a giant brick most people are fine with it being a few millimeters more.

  • hrm… I was kinda hoping that the added thickness of the LTE version would smooth out the camera hump, a la the Epic 4G Touch…  Looks to still be lumpy.

  • Who cares about the thickness..? it’s still a monster of a phone and i can’t wait to get this in my hands! sweet little rail system too..wonder if the screen is all scratched up from those grips!?

  • Sexy phone, regardless of a little extra padding. I will definitely be selling the TBolt for this. I want the pure Nexus experience and the ability to play with ICS from the get go.

  • I’m perfectly fine with the thickness (or lack thereof). I’m buying the phone for ICS and the Nexus brand.

  • I don’t have any problems with the thickness.  I can’t wait to get this in my hands!  ICS looks awesome!

  • I am DEFINITELY ok…it would be great to hear from vzw, im just curious if they are holding out until preorders for razr are open….

    • Either that or there waiting till the RAZR goes on sale or there actually going to launch all 3 superphones at once like the rumor suggests.

      So if that would be the case, yes, pre-order date for RAZR first likely, then G-NEX and Rezound eventually. Panda said there was not going to be any pre-orders for the NEXUS though, i wonder why that is.

      there isn’t much time left until that Nov 10 rumored date, 
      RAZR – Oct 27 for pre-orders would leave 2 weeks before Nov 10 and Three weeks from now.  Better than a few months or *gasp* a whole 4 months!!!

      • not to compare phones, but if vzw delivers phone 1 week after ip4s pre-order, i guess it could do the same for gnexus

        • I think your right, i just realized that, looks like each week is going have a new device release then.  Oh the options.  Can’t wait till November.  November 3rd was the original leaked date via BMX, but it seems that might not happen now thanks to the delayed announcement, unless everything is still on track for Nov 3rd.

          I wouldn’t be surprised if the G-Nexus is before the RAZR since it will have pre-orders but the G-Nex will not.
          So to Verizon I say, shutup and take my money and my 2 years of blood, sweat and tears!

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