***** The Official Galaxy Nexus Thread *****

I had a full days play with one over Christmas and needed to charge it 3 times for about 7 hours use :D

Those sAMOLED screens do like the old leccy if your displaying lots of whites, is there an official 2000mAh+ extended battery kit out yet?
 
I gotta say, I like the GN. The screen is awesome and most importantly, I love the pure Samsungless branding.

I cant say for certain but I don't think the mobile reception is very good, compared to my previous phones (inc Desire and Sensation) I get very little reception at work, maximum of one bar all day, so drains the battery but just enough to surf the net a little bit at lunch. First day at work with the GN and had no reception the whole day.
 
Yeah spot on review there Robbo, the camera side doesn't really bother me as I use them a lot in the first week then i rarely use them, same thing happened with the Optimus 3d, for a few weeks I was obsessed with it and recording video but as soon as I tired of the 3D side the phones short falling's came out.
 
Nice new app out called Browser plus, you can download it here.

It's the same as the stock browser but with more quick controls and an option to permanently request desktop sites. Works great for me, hopefully Google will add this in the future permanently as options.

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Great review Robbo and echo's my thoughts on the Galaxy Nexus

mrk said:
I found the smoothness in the UI to be smooth enough, it's not as silky smooth as the iPhone 4s though when scrolling menus or loading the app tray, IMO the GSII is smoother but that does have a superior GPU so that's to be expected.

I found small text to be easier to read on the GN compared to the S2, again thatw as expected because of the higher PPI and resolution of the GN screen but the iPhone 4s screen is a bit better on smaller text but that's down to the lower resolution + high PPI of the retina.

Overall, the SII running ICS is a slicker experience than the GN on ICS, and the SII ICS ROM is still in Alpha! Just a shame that the SII resolution isn't a bit higher :p The S3 will be "the" ICS phone to own if the current running rumours of it hold correct.
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They're both as smooth as each other and I've had both handsets at the same time. The GPU in the Nexus is more than capable of rendering 2D user interfaces and animation, heck; even the CPU in the Nexus S can render the UI through software and manage 60FPS.

Having extra GPU power to render 2D is a much use as putting Lithium batteries into your TV remote when alkaline and probably even carbon zinc is going to keep the remote powered until you get a new TV set.

The Galaxy SII isn't completely smooth either, every single home screen transition was smooth on the Galaxy SII until I got to the screen that hosted my 4 x 4 agenda widget, which is when the transition to and from that screen was choppy. Kind of similar to how the app drawer exit animation can be choppy now and then on the Nexus.

No Android phone is truly lag free simply down to the fact that the UI isn't given any sort of processing priority like it is on iOS, which stops lists et al from updating whilst you're scrolling or interacting with the UI.

I'll only buy the SIII if the hardware doesn't require proprietary drivers and binaries! Otherwise a functional AOSP without TouchWiz will be the usual waiting game.
 
mrk said:
I found the smoothness in the UI to be smooth enough, it's not as silky smooth as the iPhone 4s though when scrolling menus or loading the app tray, IMO the GSII is smoother but that does have a superior GPU so that's to be expected.
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Did you go to developer options and then enable "Force GPU rendering" ?

This seems to make quite a large difference, especially in the facebook app. It basically stops this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCavTQON-GI - mine is now nothing like that video.
 
horrorwood said:
Did you go to developer options and then enable "Force GPU rendering" ?

This seems to make quite a large difference, especially in the facebook app. It basically stops this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCavTQON-GI - mine is now nothing like that video.
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I never checked the developer options area on the GN for that, didn't even know it existed out the box!
 
mrk said:
Things should just work out the box dammit!
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It's not really google's fault. Firstly facebook need to enable gpu acceleration instead of it being forced and they need to test their app properly to make sure it works without bugs when enabled.

That's the same for all other apps not made by google.
 
AndyMoody said:
Have you tried Handcent to do this?
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Yes, I originally did download Handcent, but for some reason, not all of my contacts were displaying when I scrolled through the list. If I began to type the name of somebody missing in the list, it would appear - very odd.

I believe all 3rd party messaging apps for ICS are currently suffering from the "name fault" where you receive a message from X and the app sometimes displays Y's name instead, so I'll stick to the stock messaging app until I know that the issues with the 3rd party apps have been sorted.
 
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