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Samsung Galaxy Nexus for Sprint Review
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Crazy to imagine, but the Samsung Galaxy Nexus swooped into our hearts courtesy of Verizon way back in December, which is nearly 5 months ago. In the short time since then, we’ve seen some enticing new handsets from the competition that gives the original Ice Cream Sandwich powered smartphone a good run for its money, but at long last, it finally made its way to Sprint – with LTE connectivity in tow of course. Knowing that, will it still be enough to entice customers who know that other highly prized smartphones are on the horizon?
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- microUSB cable
- Wall Charger
- Get Started Guide
- Important Information Guide
Design:
Identical in almost every way, aside from the obvious Sprint branding it’s flaunting, there is nothing we haven’t seen before with this version. Back 5 months ago, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was the talk of the town with its clean design, but now, it’s starting to look rather dull after seeing the beauties from HTC’s camp. As expected, the construction is typical of any Samsung made device – meaning, it’s fairly lightweight and solid thanks to its plastic body.
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The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is fairly lightweight and solid thanks to its plastic body | ||
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You can compare the Samsung Galaxy Nexus with many other phones using our Size Visualization Tool.
Boasting the stock ICS experience, this baby is free of any capacitive buttons, which adds to its clean overall appearance. However, perched above the display, is just the front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera.
Peering around the sides of the phone, our fingers take hold of the raised feel of the power and volume control buttons, which are both springy to the touch. Meanwhile, we also find its dock connection ports, 3.5mm headset jack, microphone, and microUSB port – the latter of which provides video-out functionality with the aid of an optional MHL adapter.
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3.5mm jack and microUSB port (bottom) | Volume rocker (left) | Top edge | Power key (right) |
The sides of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus | |||
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Back | Battery compartment |
Display:
Over the course of the last few months, we’ve been engorging ourselves with some immaculate smartphones brandishing some high quality displays. Nevertheless, the 4.65” HD (720 x 1280) Super AMOLED display of the Galaxy Nexus is still an appealing one – despite its choice of employing a PenTile matrix arrangement. In fact, looking at it from a good distance away, it still exhibits plenty of sharp details, while continuing to entice us with its oversaturated color production and wide-viewing angles.
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Viewing angles | ||
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16 Comments
12. NexusKoolaid posted on 0 0
Not like the Nexus One, if that's what you mean. I own the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus One - the G'Nex screen has been problem free for me.
2. kshell1 posted on 1 1
So even though the VZW edition had same problems it got a much higher score? Biased
3. johamsandwich posted on 3 0
Well this is probably being compared now to the S3 and the One X...
4. kshell1 posted on 4 0
Good point. Sorry wasn't thinking there. But yeah this thing will get killed by the S3 and already has by the forthcoming Evo LTE
7. PhoneArena Team posted on 2 1
http://www.phonearena.com/howd
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Release date: A phone released a year ago and rated as excellent should not be compared to a device that has just came out and has received the same rating. As the technology evolves, it is logical that the new models should meet higher expectations
14. sorcio46 posted on 1 1
I understand this but how about:
Sluggish performance
Choppy web browsing
in a GALAXY NEXUS with the last 4.0.4 update, when these problems weren't in the first version some months ago, maybe a malfunction in your unit?
Please remove the ratings from the reviews !
5. becazican posted on 1 2
yes kshell1 i dont understand how verizon's version could get such a high score and sprint's version drop 2 points. they are identical. i agree phone arena has lots of biases.
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13. threeline posted on 1 0
Maybe becaue VZW has an actual LTE network. I have the Sprint GN and I'm happy with it but I'm also not a power user. It has everything I need, I love the screen and it's fast enugh for me and I also enjoy the fact I will be getting updates pretty quick. #fingerscrossed
16. RORYREVOLUTION posted on 0 0
Keep waiting....I got the Verizon GN on launch day back in Nov and I am still on 4.0.2.
