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Samsung Galaxy Nexus coming soon - could this be the phone of 2011?

Apparently the fix for the volume bug is being rolled out, though I haven't received it on my device yet. And boy do I need it, as I overslept and missed calls this morning as a result of this simply dreadful bug.

I will wait another week or so before giving my thoughts on this phone in detail.
 
elbows said:
Apparently the fix for the volume bug is being rolled out, though I haven't received it on my device yet. And boy do I need it, as I overslept and missed calls this morning as a result of this simply dreadful bug.

I will wait another week or so before giving my thoughts on this phone in detail.
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How are you getting on elbows? Any issues after the first couple of weeks?

Have you done skype on it? Does it do video/audio well? How about the speaker. I use my phone a lot for internet radio when wondering about the house. Is it decent enough? Have they fixed the audio problems yet?
 
The speaker is nothing special, does the job but there are times that I would like the ringtone etc to be louder.

I have had no other problems with the phone, the volume bug fix did its job. I haven't used other android phones so it will be hard for me to do a comprehensive review, and my last Phone was an old and tired iPhone (the original 3G one).

Video is good, not tried Skype.
 
Just got one of these after having a HTC Desire for the last two years.

I'm blown away so far! It's a beauty.

I never filled up the 8gb sd card on my Desire so the 16gb on this is more than enough for me. What a treat not having to constantly fuss about apps taking up the internal storage! The screen is amazing, love it so far!
 
Had to send mine for repair today as it got stuck in a boot loop. Am now using the worlds most fucked blackberry 8900. This is my first experience with a BB, and the space bar is broken, it won't scroll down, and I get no internet services with giffgaff. Amazing.
 
Very cheap off contract at £199

I am hanging on for the Galaxy Note but the screen on this looks excellent.
 
Getting one on Friday, via my Mum's renewed contract with Vodafone. She doesn't want/need a new handset. Happy with her Galaxy Ace. Cheers Mum :)

Final decider for me was realising that both the UK versions of the Galaxy S2 and the Galaxy Note were not compatible with T-Mobile's 4G band in the LA (which is who I'm with when I'm there). By all accounts the Nexus is working fine on 4G, and it means I'll be able to swap it in and out with my giffgaff sim when I'm back in London.
 
Been playing with mine all weekend. Face recognition is OK, bit hit and miss. Haven't really tested out the panoramic photo taking yet but will do when I get a moment. Camera is pretty good, not quite as good as the S2 but pretty close. It does feel a lot nicer to hold than the S2 though - the biggest drawback for me is waiting for more apps to be Ice Cream Sandwich compatible. Chiefly Viber which I'm assured is being worked on round the clock.
 
I'm loving the panoramic function on the Galaxy Nexus camera. Here's a shot I took from the window from my London place at the weekend:

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Ordered one of these adapters on ebay for a fiver. Well worth it. I can now link the phone up to the TV and watch video. It does a neat job of recognising what your doing as well so as soon as you plug it in, it switches the whole display to landscape.

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Having played with one now, I'm not that fussed over the S2. I think I'll wait and see how that HTC One S turns out. The camera looks awfully nice.
 
OK this is pretty rad. I just hooked up a bluetooth keyboard and mouse to the Galaxy Nexus and I'm delighted to see that it operates VERY fluidly as a desktop OS would. I then plugged it into the TV with the HDMI cable and now I can lay in bed and control everything wirelessly FROM MY BED!

My TV is now a Smart TV :)
 
To comment on the original thread title, I think it's fair to say that the Samsung S2 took the crown as the phone of 2011, no?
 
editor said:
To comment on the original thread title, I think it's fair to say that the Samsung S2 took the crown as the phone of 2011, no?
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It's certainly had longer to bed in, and has a markedly superior camera plus the ability to add storage - both advantages over the nexus.

My wife has an S2 so I've had a lot of time to play with both and you can see why it probably should be the phone of 2011 - by sheer amount of sales if nothing else. It's been phenomenally successful and still hasn't been out a year. The one thing I do prefer the nexus for though is the shape, it seems like a small thing at first but the slight lip on the back and the curved contours make it much more comfortable to hold. Although the camera can't compete on megapixels with the S2, the shutter speed and the panoramic function are very impressive and seem to make up for what it lacks in resolution. I'm guessing that improvements to the S2 will come with Android 4 when it gets an update in the coming days. To be honest there's really not a lot in it. They're both fantastic.

As an aside, I'm back in the US at the moment and my wife's in London. Only just this morning we were chatting to each other on our respective phones via a high def Viber wifi call, then switching to a video call on Tango so she could show me a problem with one of the kitchen drawers not opening, then just now I watched tonight's Coronation Street on YouTube via the HDMI link, later I'll fire up the live TV app and fall asleep watching BBC Breakfast news. Over the weekend I was listening to BBC radio on TuneIn while I was pottering about the house, then later I navigated my way to a club via google maps and fortunately didn't end up in the wrong neighbourhood (I really don't want to end up in the wrong neighbourhood). All thanks to a smartphone.

It's those every day trivial things which is what makes these generations of smartphones so great, and make it not so bad when you're far from home and missing your partner and your favourite tv and radio shows. Even my trusty old orange san francisco now has a new lease of life as a portable internet radio in the kitchen and a bedside alarm clock - meaning I can leave the nexus hooked into the TV without having to retrieve it each night before going to sleep. All this gadgetry and geekery could send me mad with power :D
 
Finally got round to watching Netflix via the android app and plugged into the telly - the quality is amazing. You'd never know that the input source was a phone.
 
Just discovered you can have the browser full screen and use a pop out thumb wheel thing to navigate to bookmarks etc with. Took a little while to get used to it but I love it now. Apparently it's something that's come over from honeycomb tablet OS.

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skyscraper101 said:
Ordered one of these adapters on ebay for a fiver. Well worth it. I can now link the phone up to the TV and watch video. It does a neat job of recognising what your doing as well so as soon as you plug it in, it switches the whole display to landscape.

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Really, that's interesting. Currently I plug my laptop into my TV to watch iplayer - but my laptop is slowly grinding to a halt.

Now that I know that this phone can do the same job I might just use my upgrade which I'm due soon. In practice do you know how well it performs when playing iPlayer etc through your TV?
 
fredfelt said:
Really, that's interesting. Currently I plug my laptop into my TV to watch iplayer - but my laptop is slowly grinding to a halt.

Now that I know that this phone can do the same job I might just use my upgrade which I'm due soon. In practice do you know how well it performs when playing iPlayer etc through your TV?
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It performs very well. It recognises what you're doing too, to as soon as it's plugs in and the TV is on, the phone flips to TV style landscape mode and you can navigate easier. I've been watching Netflix, AVIs, Youtube, and TVGO for live TV and they're all pretty good. Haven't tried iPlayer as I'm not in the UK but the picture quality on Netflix is as good as any DVD, I should expect iPlayer would be up to a good standard too.

Also, you can use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard to remote control with if you don't want to keep getting up to type stuff on the phone. When a mouse is detected, you get a mouse pointer which you can use just like you would your finger, and the keyboard works well too.
 
skyscraper101 said:
It performs very well. It recognises what you're doing too, to as soon as it's plugs in and the TV is on, the phone flips to TV style landscape mode and you can navigate easier. I've been watching Netflix, AVIs, Youtube, and TVGO for live TV and they're all pretty good. Haven't tried iPlayer as I'm not in the UK but the picture quality on Netflix is as good as any DVD, I should expect iPlayer would be up to a good standard too.

Also, you can use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard to remote control with if you don't want to keep getting up to type stuff on the phone. When a mouse is detected, you get a mouse pointer which you can use just like you would your finger, and the keyboard works well too.
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Thanks for those details.
 
We'll see if it holds.​
Reuters reports that Judge Koh, "scheduled a hearing on Monday to consider whether to put the Galaxy Nexus injunction on hold pending appeal." In a decision earlier this week, Koh also granted Apple a pre-trial ban on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and Koh said she might rule on Sunday whether to hold that injunction pending appeal.
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Apple was ordered to post a bond of $95 million to enact the injunction, which would be used to pay Samsung damages if the decision is later reversed.​
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