If you're not willing to give Android a try, don't overlook Windows Phone 7. Super smooth, intuitive UI and the relative lack of apps probably won't bother you coming from a dumb phone.
So I thought I wanted an android phone, but it stutters and has bugs etc? But I don't really want an iPhone either. Have an ipod touch and kinda tired of it.. So maybe I should just stick to my dumb phone? I'm tired of hearing about all these problems; why can't they just make me a perfect product!
As it turns out, it's only Engadget who has that update.
I guess I will wait until final reviews come out, as I said I would, but... what's the guarantee it'll be different? Take Engadget's words for it?
No. TIMN is the only article depicting Nexus performance as laggy and unresponsive and it contradicts all the other ones. The point is that the TIMN article was referred to as the only truth out there. Not only was it used to portrait G Nexus as a shitty phone, it was used as a platform to fire all the salvos at all things Android, all over again, including video comparisons that have as much to do with the Galaxy Nexus as the Geo Metro has with the Skyline GT-R.
What it’s not — at least not yet — is flawless. There was a crash here and there, and a tense moment or two when a slider just… wouldn’t.. work. Google was quick to note that the build I was seeing was a relatively old one — but even if it weren’t, they still have weeks to stomp out the lingering bugs for the initial release, and months before anyone really expects Ice Cream Sandwich to trickle out onto a wide array of devices. They’ll fix it up right.
The Galaxy Nexus is a fast device but Android 4.0 comes with various transition effects that seem to artificially slow down the perceivable speed at which the menus open and close. We did encounter a lot of hiccups but that's what you get for messing around with pre-release software.
Update: turns out our demo phone was a bit of an early build; we touched another model later in the day, and our response gripes were gone. Perfectly responsive.
I want to see them get fixed
They will, not matter what Google does:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4153/ti-reveals-omap-5-the-first-arm-cortex-a15-soc
Lag is flavor of the day, tomorrow it will be size, cheap plastic, battery life, poor app and game selection...
I doubt your agenda. In the locked thread, few who claimed to be willing to give Android a fair chance got exposed. After few posts, same folks who claimed to use Android or would be willing to consider it, all of a sudden started saying Android is shit and doesn't deserve a spot on this planet or something like that.
Do we really want to believe that if G Nexus is performing well, it will actually be recognized as such? No, I don't think so.
Well yeah, but I was hoping on a software level. I want to be able to utilize more of that hardware for something else. Like playing back Flash, for instance.
Or if they can make those chips slower but consume less power, then at least Android will be able to utilize them efficiently and get more battery life.
To me, it's both battery life and performance, and I refuse to give up either. I guess you can call me greedy, but my standards are high, and that's partly why the feeble battery life of the iPhone 4S really disappointed me despite the added performance (which is not visible at all unless it's a game).
In the end, it's still that I hope Android can improve more upon what matters now instead of adding more features. For instance, NFC may seem cool, but realistically, I'm not seeing it in wide use until a few years later, and by that time, the Galaxy Nexus would already be ancient in light of ARM-Cortex AX devices.
As has been said many times, the Galaxy Nexus is a developer phone. Developer phones aren't meant to be bleeding edge. They are basically the reference platform for the OS (in this case, Ice Cream Sandwich). And for NFC to take off and become common use in a few years, it has to first start from somewhere, and that's what Google is trying to do. You can't snap your fingers and everybody suddenly has an NFC capable phone.
Oh yeah. A few people really outed themselves. Wonder if they'll pop back into this forum after that.After few posts, same folks who claimed to use Android or would be willing to consider it, all of a sudden started saying Android is shit and doesn't deserve a spot on this planet or something like that.
While developer phones aren't meant to be bleeding edge, they are often used as a reference for performance metrics, no? Like the baseline of what can be expected out of a completely stock experience?
Unless I'm missing something there, that's usually what developer reference means to me.
Also I think what NFC needs is not more phones that run it, but more applications for it. Like posters , like maps and landmark information, like brochures, and all that kind of thing. It needs contents, not phones. In that regard, if Google really wanted to push the technology, I think they should have a campaign to NFC-ize contents all across a certain area, and spread it all around so that phones with NFC can utilize the chip for something other than bumping into each other to share cat video clips, which is arguably not that useful unless the other person also has an NFC phone that runs ICS.
But they haven't done anything. In the end, I get a feeling they just included NFC to say that they have something new rather than trying to push the technology. It's evident that after the Nexus S, there still isn't many, if any, manufacturer who wants to jump on the train.
You did watch the ICS presentation right (or at least read about it?)? It's a lot more than sharing Youtube videos. You can share apps in a much more convenient, easy way. You can share directions. You can share contacts. Heck, there is no limit on what you can share because they've given app developers access to it.
I agree it would be neat to be able to swipe your phone at say the zoo and the map downloads to your phone, but that's not Google's job. It's the app developers commissioned by the zoo that need to do that.
Well, I did. But the problem, as I stated with one example, was that the sharing needed two devices with NFC both running ICS. At this point, it's just the G Nexus, Nexus S 4G (unofficial) and so on... Plus I can just shoot the address, contact, or anything of the sort via email or text to my pal, so NFC is still not that useful. Or at least it doesn't do anything that hasn't been done before.
As for the Zoo, there is really no incentive for them to hire a developer to include such a thing at this point. They just don't get rewarded for it. NFC means more convenient information for their customers, but what do they gain from it?
That's the thing. Google needs to organize a campaign to adopt NFC, and I don't think they want to go through the hassle right now.
...~320 Android devices vs. 8-9 iOS devices, applying same standards won't work ever.
It was only just announced, again how do you expect it to gain widespread use? Overnight? It's going to be implemented in more and more phones until it's a common sight, like front facing cameras.
It was only just announced, again how do you expect it to gain widespread use? Overnight? It's going to be implemented in more and more phones until it's a common sight, like front facing cameras.
If I'm looking at a destination I've just searched for in Google Maps, instead of sending a text/email sharing it with my friend, I would much rather just tap phones and be done with it. It greatly simplifies the process. This is especially the case if I'm using an app and a friend thinks it's cool and wants to know how to get it. Before NFC I have to quit the app (aka stop the fun) and then send him a link. With NFC I can tap phones and continue using the app as I was. It certainly promises to add a lot of convenience to information sharing. I'm sure we'll see developers think of very creative uses for it as well.
Plenty of parks now have their own mobile apps that include things like park maps and other info you used to have to carry around on paper. If they're smart they'll leverage smartphones and save some money from printing everything on paper that inevitably will just be thrown away.
It's a problem that "pre-release" build of ICS has, as Google claimed, and I'm just noting it, hoping that it'll get fixed in the final release.