Love the little Jelly Bean Android at the top <3 Sort of looks like he's jizzing or something, though.
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Love the little Jelly Bean Android at the top <3 Sort of looks like he's jizzing or something, though.
Samsung have posted this on their Facebook page:
Can you comment on the smoothness of the UI in general? Things like swiping homescreens (ones with widgets on them, etc), opening the app drawer, scrolling lists, pinch to zoom in apps that support it, etc.
Do you notice any framerate drops or is it pretty smooth? I know this is subjective, just curious.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cDnaHLij_0w#
At the end "Galaxy Nexus. Pure Google."
Lies!! All lies!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cDnaHLij_0w#
At the end "Galaxy Nexus. Pure Google."
Lies!! All lies!!!
OriginalThinking
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Can you comment on the smoothness of the UI in general? Things like swiping homescreens (ones with widgets on them, etc), opening the app drawer, scrolling lists, pinch to zoom in apps that support it, etc.
Do you notice any framerate drops or is it pretty smooth? I know this is subjective, just curious.
The homescreen scrolling is the smoothest I've ever seen on Android. It's also extremely fast. There is no concession to speed on this phone. UI in general is very, very smooth. The dedicated apps designed for ICS like Gmail, SMS, G+ etc etc are iPhone levels of smoothness. You can force hardware acceleration on non ICS apps too and that had a definite impact on some apps, making them super smooth too (but not all, Google Reader for example). Pinch to zoom is smooth too as is scrolling in webpages. I've seen some slight frame rate drops when scrolling the preview widgets and sometimes the animations exiting the drawer (I'm not using the live wallpapers) but nothing that really impacts. Swiping away stuff is super smooth too. Responsiveness is excellent throughout. Only thing that is sometimes slow is the auto rotation, but whether that is in part due to how quick the rest of the phone is, as opposed to it actually being slow is another thing. I'll do a video tomorrow trying to show all of this.
Yeah, supposedly the auto rotation is slower to respond to prevent accidental screen orientation switching.
As someone who owns a DROIDX that rotates when you blink too strongly in its general vicinity, I like this feature.
OriginalThinking
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Would be much appreciated
No worries, my pleasure. I'll take some photo's too.
Unknown Soldier
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The worst thing about the Droid X's auto-rotation is that it feels too slow when you purposely turn the phone and want it to rotate. Then when you're just tilting the phone a little bit when carrying it, then it rotates for no goddamn reason. God I've come to hate this fucking phone.
How is the Galaxy Note in terms of portability? Do you ever find it overbearing to fit into your pocket?
I think mine is actively trying to get me to hate it. It randomly reboots, the GPS sometimes goes on strike, and of course this damn auto rotate bug. I think it's jealous of my Nexus lust.
nope, never had a issue. Interesting note, the G. Nexus isnt that much smaller than the G. Note.
OriginalThinking
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What network you on?
Adamm said:
Sanity effects confirmed!! Almost feels like Silicon Knights had a part in developing this phone. Can't wait for the following bugs:
- Sounds, such as footsteps, women and children screaming, doors slamming, the rattling of chains and the sound of a blade being sharpened.
- The player character finds him/herself walking upon the ceiling after entering a new room.
- Walls and ceilings bleeding. Attacking them causes more effusion.
- Appearance of large numbers of monsters that are not really there, and disappear when attacked.
Vodafone uk
OriginalThinking
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Give that the problem affects Vodafone and o2 due to the 900mhz band, it was gonna happen sooner rather than later.
Vyse The Legend
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LTE vaporware version on the left; GSM one on the right.
LTE one gets bloatware, uglier color scheme and it's thicker.
This thing has FAIL written all over it.
narcosis219
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LTE vaporware version on the left; GSM one on the right.
LTE one gets bloatware, uglier color scheme and it's thicker.
This thing has FAIL written all over it.
I agree, but then stepped back and thought about how ridiculous it sounds that we're all saying the LTE version is failboats because it is merely 0.57mm thicker... and grayer.
And don't forget the whole 2 pieces of bloatware!
narcosis219
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Wow that's fucking it. NO BUY FROM ME.
Vyse The Legend
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And, it's not out until December.
And, the battery life will be worse.
And, updates will come through Verizon.
OriginalThinking
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With ICS on the Prime and GB on SGSII it's not a fair comparison. I think the SGSII with ICS will be pretty damn smooth.
The updates bother me a bit, but it's not like it's not going to be easy to bypass Verizon.
It's a garbage phone on big red. I'm really surprised they didn't up the mAh to 1900-2000 for the LTE hit.
I thought they did? Or was that a rumor.
Yeah I agree.... just because it's slightly thicker and darker in color it's FAIL? lol okay.
The "bloatware" is just the My Verizon app and the Backup Assistant app that's hardly FAIL considering the My VZW app is somewhat useful.
I guess since it's coming out in December(the same time in Canada) makes the VZW version FAIL to right? The updates are coming from Google not Verizon.
Great, now we have Android infighting...we're doomed.
They did up it (though just shy of what you posted)
narcosis219
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Going by processing power, I think the GS2 will perform better. Also the fact that it has fewer pixels to push
are they though? I think the fear is that because it has a couple of pieces of Vzw software that any updates will be pushed through Vzw rather then google.
OriginalThinking
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I don't think there will be any difference. The extra processing power won't make it smoother because it doesn't require an insanely fast GPU/CPU combo, it just required hardware acceleration to be switched on. See WP7, iPhones etc. The GS2 might have an edge in speed but nobody will know until we have an official ICS rom running on it.
Vyse The Legend
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Haha. It's really not that serious. I don't know why the Verizon faithful are so sensitive.
If the updates are going through Verizon it's not a Nexus phone at all, and I guess people would argue that since it has "bloatware" it's not a Nexus phone anyways but people in the know say the updates will go through Google and not Verizon.
Do we even know if that picture of the LTE GN is correct anyways since it's a picture of a render and the GSM picture is of the actual phone?
narcosis219
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1) I'll give you this one. The launch got botched by someone somewhere. Whether or not it's hardware related is yet to be determined. I'm assuming you're taking issue with the hardware?
2) LTE is fairly new, this is to be expected. If you wanted battery life, you should have considered it before waiting for this "vaporware" and just imported the GSM version. Also, if you want more battery life then that needs a bigger battery which means it has to be thicker. But if it's thicker then that's a problem. So make it thinner by making the battery smaller. But we want a bigger battery so it has to be thicker. But if it's thicker then...
Come back in a year or two. Maybe even longer. Battery technology hasn't made the technological leaps that transistors have in the same amount of time, and it's really showing now. Either we find a breakthrough new battery tech, or those chips become more power efficient. In this case, power efficient transmission at such high speeds is a little difficult, and the energy problem has more to do with physics and natural limits rather than how it is stored.
3) Root it?
narcosis219
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Probably no difference because if the GN can push it to "200fps" and GS2 can do "240fps", then it's moot.
Buuuuut, some application is going to be poorly written, and the GS2 will have more juice to pick up where the GN might not be able to.
I doubt we'll see this often though.
EDIT: doublepost whops
I wanna say it's 1800 something but I could be wrong. It's a tough sell on a phone of this stature to only go a day and having to charge it.
Which--- btw GN brethren, what is the consensus on how fast the phone charges? Is it slower than the GS2?
Also to the people wondering if they should hop on the GS2 or Skyrocket--- the speed difference you'll see between those two phones and the GN is the fact that the GN has GPU acceleration on it and the other two Sammy phones don't. You be the judge. <the more you know....>
narcosis219
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That's the thing though... what about GS2 w/ ICS? Then they will be pretty much be better than the GN performance wise.
Unknown Soldier
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800x480 is a pretty low resolution for browsing. It's the one big thing that is really driving me to want to upgrade my Droid X, other than ShittyBlur.
narcosis219
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Apparently, the screen technology is better on the GS2 (Super AMOLED+ vs just Super AMOLED), but GN has much higher pixel density and resolution, so the GN screen would look better overall despite that.
Other things include being the google phone so it'll receive the best software support.
NFC.
Faster camera (albeit probably worse quality)
notification led
no sd card slot
One thing I'm not sure of is the buttons. I don't know if ICS has the ability to disable the onscreen home, menu, and search buttons. If you can't then that will look really dumb on any phone other than the GN lol.
EDIT: you can disable them.
Gs2 has a front facing camera.
Also you can disable the sw buttons on phones with Hw buttons
OriginalThinking
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Anybody thinking a GS2 is going to be better than the nexus to a noticable degree on ICS is kidding themselves. This thing is blazing fast. If you are debating between a GS2 and a Nexus then the screen kills that argument every time. Not to mention the updates, no ugly touchwiz and the non physical buttons. If you can afford it go Nexus every time.
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