Samsung Galaxy Nexus 4G Android Phone (Verizon Wireless) Review

The world's first smart phone with Android 4.0 (also known as ice cream sandwich), the Galaxy 4G LTE enabled by Samsung for Verizon Nexus offers a redesigned user interface with enhanced multitasking, notifications, full web browsing experience , and more. You can also enjoy innovative and next generation features such as Unlock the face, which uses facial recognition to unlock the Galaxy Nexus.

The nexus of the galaxy is equipped with a 4.65 inch Super HD AMOLED display contour (curved glass), 5 mega pixel cameras with zero shutter lag and Full HD 1080p video recording, and a front camera 1.3 mega pixel for video calls on the go. It is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual core that accelerates web browsing, gaming and multitasking.

The Verizon Wireless LTE network 4G mobile broadband offers speeds up to 10 times faster than the 3G network of Verizon Wireless. With 4G LTE, you will enjoy simultaneous voice and data, enabling you to check email, surf the web, download an application, and check the directions on Google Maps during a call. You can expect fast download speeds from 5 to 12 megabits per second (Mbps) and upload speeds of 2 to 5 Mbps in coverage areas 4G LTE mobile broadband (4G learn more about below).

You can share your broadband connection with multiple 4G LTE devices - laptop, another phone, MP3 player, and more - via Wi-Fi at (service charge applies), built in the Mobile Hotspot functionality. And the Galaxy Nexus is equipped with ultra-fast Wireless-N Wi-Fi networks, as well as the next generation Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity.

The new feature of Android (using NFC connectivity) lets you quickly share Web pages, applications and You Tube videos with friends with a simple touch phones compatible. You can also enjoy easy access to a full range of Google Mobile services, including Gmail, Google Maps 5.0 with 3D maps, synchronization with Google Calendar, Google's new design and application, and access to more than 300,000 applications in the Android Market.

Other features include a QWERTY keyboard on the screen with greater recognition of self-correction and touch to a more natural feel, 32 GB of internal memory, 1 GB of RAM and up to 12 hours talk time.

Advanced photography and video recording
the nexus of the galaxy has a full-featured 5 magpie camera with auto focus, top-notch performance in low light, and zero shutter lag. Open it right from the lock screen, and shoot a photo instantly. You can also take beautiful panoramic pictures - just point and touch the shutter and move the phone from side to side. Android immediately stitches together a wide panoramic photograph, willing to share.

A photo editor with all the features you can add filters and effects, color adjustment, straighten, reduce red eye, crop, rotate, flip, and even scribble on their favorite photos - right after shooting. The changes are saved as a copy, so you can always get to the original.
    
Your photos can be loaded with Instant Upload, making it much easier to share with family and friends. If you have registered with + Google, you can enable Upload and share photos instantly with anyone you choose.
  
Video recording in Full HD 1080p and snaps still images while you're at it. Continued focus, zoom in real time, and time lapse mode will give you the power to shoot awesome videos. When the material is ready, create your own movie with the movie studio and upload it to You Tube. When shooting movies, you can choose from a number of faces and other fun effects. Galaxy Nexus is smart enough to recognize individual facial features - give your friends large eyes, heads compression, bigger nose. Or change the setting to the replacement fund.

Vital statistics
the nexus of Samsung Galaxy weighs 5.29 ounces and measures 5.33 x 2.67 x 0.37 inches. Its 1850 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 12 hours talk time and up to 150 hours (6.25 days) of standby time. It runs on the Verizon Wireless LTE 4G network and EV-DO Rev A and 3G CDMA 800/1900, where the frequencies of 4G LTE are not available.

The Galaxy nexus is running Android OS 4.0 (called Ice Cream Sandwich), which adds powerful new ways to communicate and share while enhancing the best features of Android: easy multitasking, notifications rich, customizable home screens, widgets of variable size, and more.

The new ice cream sandwich interface has a navigation bar on the screen that replaces the hardware buttons for back, home and menu found in more phones with Android. And with the integration of Google +, you can video chat with groups of up to 9 friends, and easy to upload and share photos and videos.

There are phones with larger screens (Galaxy Note), faster CPU and GPU (Rezound), thinner profiles (RAZR), more memory and longer battery life, but the Galaxy Nexus (version Verizon LTE) gets a respectable amount of all together in one package, and leaves me almost nothing to complain about.

SUMMARY: This can be one of my longer comments, so in a nutshell: BIG, but nice touch, but begs to be used with both hands. The screen is impressive (bright and clear) and the keyboard is correct. No problems with signal coverage. Average levels of volume. Android interface feels smooth and polished smooth. Very good camera, but cam vide has a lot of issues. "Typical", ie the LTE battery life varies depending on use, at best a day on one charge.

Android 4.0 operating system:

Highlights: The operating system they feel integrated, fast and mostly intuitive. Unlocking the face is not just a gimmick, which is mostly reliable (though not to bad light), and is very quick to take me to the home screen. Pass-like gestures similar to the Web OS Palm not made through change management and recent applications. The ability to expand and customize the widgets screen is not only fun, but really useful - for example, I created a display of "home" where I am more interested in time, and G + Facebook updates, and feeds on my bike forum, as my "work" screen has quick access to certain websites and applications you use regularly. Icon animations to display transitions are subtle, but just enough to give a kind of front-end 3D effect. The selection of the "live" funds is clear, but some of the most graphically intensive stop the phone just a little - and as great as they look, they still opt for cheesy (and static) pictures of children. We expect this to be a Nexus device, new OS updates coming with regularity and speed of Google, Verizon promptly - but keep in mind that this can be a bit more of a beta device, as it believes that the first width of the entire distribution.

You need to know that because the operating system is new, not initially application incompatibilities. This is not a coup against the Galaxy Nexus - is something that early adopters should expect a new platform. I hope this will last only a short time, since new Android 4.0 devices are in the pipeline for release in the coming months.

Phone deposit:

For starters, I like 4.0’s largest "clean" dial pad. It is also easy to spot from any of my contacts, as selected from all sources (personal Gmail, corporate email via Exchange, G +). But I prefer to use voice dialing, because I'm often leads to call, and I prefer the voice of the Blackberry wing confirmation (Android 4.0 still forces me to look at the screen to confirm). External speaker sound quality is strong enough for most cases, but only a little quiet and flat compared to other phones (not a problem on my visor mounted Bluetooth speakerphone or headset), and my voice quality is apparently clear and strong on the receiving end. I live and work in a well covered urban, so the signal is seldom a problem with any phone.

However, I have a couple of "dark spots" in remote areas where I work, and the National Guard has lost an appeal to me yet. LTE coverage has been equally strong with data rates fantastic, fantastic, * but * 4G Verizon antenna is literally in the building where I work in is not enough to say "faster than the telephone line" as in some aspects is faster than my home cable (longer latency, however).

(Note 22.01.12: Have been numerous reports (confirmed by Verizon) of the signal problems, either in marginal or in-building coverage that I personally have not had any problem with this, either Voice calls are reduced (CDMA/1X) or drop data connections (LTE/3G) but there is a small "no data" timeout when the phone switches to 3G LTE, or vice versa.

HOWEVER, out of curiosity I checked my signal strength 3G in Settings> About LTE (must be turned OFF to read signal strength 3G, 4G, otherwise the reception will be shown) and is observed consistently -10 to Nexus -15 dBm Weaker than some other Verizon Android and Blackberry devices that had access to. And to repeat, I am in a well covered and have had zero problems with connectivity.)

Camera:

It was not long ago scoffed at the idea of a "good" in the cell phone camera, but increasingly I have come to rely on the handle of photos is always **** me - and the Nexus is a sniper. The switch to camera mode and the time from shot to shot is off the hook quickly, and the result is excellent. Yes, a tiny lens and low light shots still require a very steady hand and a constant theme. The dynamic range is still a challenge in situations involving the brightest spots combined with dark shadows. But the focus is usually sharp, the colors are quite accurate is not too bright and grainy "noise" is kept to a minimum - especially in the dark details. While the lens + sensor can not freeze a child engaged in a dimly lit indoor situation, super fast shot to shot times almost guarantees that at least one shot will no motion blur.

"But only 5 mega pixels?"  ... compared to previous phones, these photos look - greet - in resolutions typical of least see my 24 "monitor home PC after uploading to Picasa and Facebook Flash is wonderfully bright and properly light a subject of pitch black,. When over-illuminate a subject that is too close. And automatically upload photos from my phone on the ethereal "cloud" through my G + has, almost like an Eye-Fi SD, but better! And with an editing function, which can cut, filter and "fix" my pix before they share.

The camera is certainly more complicated to use than any other current phone, but this complication some flexibility is provided. The shutter fires very fast on the release (not forthcoming), and exposure seems to be compensated in the center (ie, the lighting conditions at the center of the image will determine how the image is exposed). This allows an image of 5 steps in the process of making difficult lighting situations (ie, the brightly lit scene):
- 1. Move the camera around the object to get exposure on the screen I want
- 2. Hold down the shutter button to lock the exposure
- 3. (Without releasing the shutter) recompose the shot if desired
- 4. (While pressing the shutter button) tap the topic that you want the camera focus on that can not be what was originally intended to, or no longer be at the center of my being (if desired)
- 5. Release the trigger to fire

On the other hand, can only burst to release the shutter and hope to get the shot I want. Honestly, outdoor shots do very well with not as much as a quick tap of the trigger. Decently lit indoor shots and shots with flash, when the issues are arm lengths away * are * pretty good, without too many exceptions. Are those first shots in the photos with flash and dynamic light that take time and care to shoot well?

Video Camera:

The video camera, on the other hand, leaves something to be desired. The image is presented is "clean" but also known as the blind "Jello Effect" is indeed present when moving slowly. There is a kind of oscillation which appears to be an artifact of some type of electronic image stabilization.

There is also a problem of intermittent stutter / pause - not bad, just very brief and remarkable. It is less clear when recording in 720p at 30 frames per second, versus mode HD 1080p @ 24 FPS. And finally, there is a weird fisheye effect when panning smoothly if there is an object at close range is not as evident in the long shots. If you are planning on using the video camera function a lot, you want to see this in person before buying - or see if software updates to correct some of these issues. On the plus side, I can vouch that the video images are very focused and good color.

Video:

I love the You Tube app, in this, that integrates seamlessly with the desktop favorite You Tube and lists of subscribers. Videos to expand to take full advantage of the 4.65 "screen, and have a minimum buffer only in the introduction (assuming a 4G or Wifi), without blockiness and artifacting / pixelation associated with my previous phone. Or with Adobe Flash installed, I can access desktop versions of sites such as ABC or NBC to watch full episodes of TV shows.

Browser:

The stock browser is very fast and really makes the substitutes, like Opera Mobile and Dolphin HD unnecessary and, frankly, dull. Pages pinch zoom smoothly and without delay. The displacement is equally soft. Tapping the expanded text format the columns to fit the screen width to eliminate side to side scrolling. With Flash installed and desktop mode selected in the user agent settings, I have access to almost everything I can surf on my laptop. However, there are some pages that are not done correctly (actually, only one in particular that I use for work) that forces the dolphins.

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LG Optimus Elite Prepaid Android Phone (Virgin Mobile)

The "LG Optimus Elite" is a great looking device is loaded with powerful features. Android experience on a large 3.5 "screen, tap to pay with Google Wallet, and choose from hundreds of thousands of Google player applications. All that, combined with unlimited data and messaging, puts the" Optimus Elite "a cut above the common smartphone.

With the 3.5-inch touch screen, you can glide through menus and web pages and drag and zoom while looking at pictures or surf the web. The 5 MP cameras with LED flash lets you capture and share photos from your phone. Through Polaris viewer can see a lot of different types of files on your phone, such as Microsoft Office and PDF files.

Key Features
• 3.5 "capacitive touch screen
• Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
• 5 mega pixel cameras, LED flash and video capture
• Android Market for all your applications
• Bluetooth firmware version 4.69
• 800 MHz processor
• EVDO Rev A and Wi-Fi
• Google Android browser
• Headphone 3.5 mm
• Ability to NFC (Google Wallet)
• External Memory: up to 32 GB

Vital statistics
The "LG Optimus Elite" weighs 4.25 ounces and measures 4.5 x 2.47 x 0.39 inches. Its 1520 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 7.2 hours of talk time and 10.5 days standby time.

The "LG Optimus Elite" is running Android OS 2.3 (nicknamed Gingerbread) - the fastest version of Android smartphone yet available. It has a cleaner, more refined interface with new icons, improved notification bar at the top, and more intuitive navigation.

Multitasking in the gingerbread gives you the ability to run more than one application at a time. If you're playing a game, you can easily switch to an incoming email and then return to the game without losing your place. And like the previous version of Android ("Froyo"), gingerbread supports Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for access to the complete website.

The onscreen keyboard makes it easier to write thanks to the extra space between the keys and large print. And the more you use the keyboard, writing easier it will be the biggest feature of the story suggests the previous entry records to make better suggestions.
The "Optimus Elite" also provides one-touch access to popular Google services for mobile use every day. It also provides easy access to both personal and corporate email, calendars and contacts, support Exchange Server and Gmail. And through Android Market, you will have access to thousands of useful applications, widgets and fun games to download and install on your phone, with many more applications being added every day.

With "Virgin Mobile" you can pay only for the airtime you use. You can choose a month Beyond Talk Plan with unlimited data and messaging and the right amount of voice minutes for your needs.
                            

Pros

1.Bigger most notable screen than I expected, since it is only 0.3 inches larger on paper. Writing is a little better, but it remains difficult in portrait mode. It feels more colorful and vibrant, but that could just be me (maybe I'm in the way of hallucination "Wohoo my new phone"). The resolution is equal to V.

2. Better processor/OS-200Mhz higher and 2.3 Gingerbread (VO is 2.2). Much fewer delays in applications. It can handle desktop websites better (with some delays) with flash (wireless recommended). Auto switching between landscape and portrait is much faster than V, so it really became the difference in the improvement V. large video playback. I did not need to download additional codec’s to play videos converted.

3. Flash-Phone support is not powerful enough to handle big sites like daily show / Colbert / etc in high resolution video (audio only ice cream), but he managed to handle South Park, gaming sites, etc. Recommendations on the Wi-Fi only.

4.Slimmer design expected to be no big deal for me, but once held I can definitely feel the thinness compared with V.

5. Better 5 mega pixel camera compared to 3, with support for flash LED. Flash is bright enough to take good pictures in dark environments (in the door anyway), and focuses the camera on the camera mode (or you can focus manually by touching the screen). V auto focused after pressing the shutter button, so that takes pictures of Elite 3 ~ times faster. Is almost instantaneous. It also has micro mirror for self-portrait.

6. Bigger storage for applications, 900MB ~ exclusively for applications. More space if you move your applications (applications that support App2SD).

7. Better/louder sound-speaker sound is heard in the telephone conversation (do not know his name. Ear speaker?). Is strongest, and most importantly (at least for me), you can listen to music while the phone is looking up. OV was sound output on the back, so many times; I either put upside down V or leaned toward him somewhere to hear it in full volume. No more with the elite.

8. GPS-places faster than my V. Google Map is the mildest form that V.

9. Supports most 3D games are in the Play Store. Have not tested because they do not care about them, but they are there unlike V.

10. Faster MicroSD speed up load photos and videos much faster than V.

11. NFC Pay passes credit card support. It can be useful if I forget my wallet at home, but not many stores have really PayPass. I've seen some in McDonald and gas stations.

Cons

1.Shorter life this battery can be YMMV, possibly depending on what applications you have downloaded. I'm using most of the same applications that are used in V, and the battery life seems to 1.5 / 2 times worse in the elite. No Juice Defender, Elite absorbs 3.6% per hour for waiting. V generally used ~ 10% per hour with 3G/WiFi, while the elite are using 15-20% per hour. I am now using Elite JD, and all off (including location data and background data).

2. No immobilization. Do not download tethering apps / widgets. There have been reports that the phone will fail permanent data, which forces users to reset the phone through Virgin Mobile service. V Foxfi supported applications like (I'll miss since I combed with my tablet).

Buttons, two times smaller than 3.Volume V, and are on the opposite side. It's hard getting used to.

4.3G not reconnect as fast as V, so JuiceDefender bit annoying to use. Maybe I was not getting good reception. .

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Samsung Exhibit II 4G Prepaid Android Phone (T-Mobile)

Budget to use and rich in functions, the Android of Samsung Exhibit II 4G keeps you connected to everything you love - fast. And with the T-Mobile postpaid and prepaid calling plans without annual contract, you will be able to pay the way you want without being tied to a monthly contract

The combination of a 1 GHz processor and burning T-Mobile 4 G fast network, annex II provides a display perfect channels live and on-demand of preloaded T-Mobile TV - including the free programming stations selected as ABC News Now, Fox Sports, PBS Kids and Azteca America.

This phone is designed specifically for the 4 G T-Mobile HSPA broadband network + mobile, which currently covers more than 200 million people in the United States.UU. (Read more about HSPA + below). Annex II 4 G also offers Wireless-N Wi-Fi networks, as well as the possibility of sharing your connection to the Internet 3 G / 4 G with other laptops and other Wi-Fi enabled devices.

Capture videos and photos on-the-go with the 3 mega pixel camera (with DVD quality video capture). In addition, annex II is equipped with a camera front VGA for the composition of self-portraits of social networks, as well as through Wi-Fi or 4 G video chats.
   
Other features include a 3.7-inch multi-touch screen, Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity for hands-free devices and streaming stereo music, the memory expansion microSD up to 32 GB, access to personal / corporate email, player of music, web browser full HTML with support for Flash, and up to 5.5 hours of talk time.

Mobile entertainment
Samsung Media Hub allows you to rent or buy movies and TV shows on second watch from the comfort of anywhere. With the function of progressive download Media Hub, you can begin to see their content almost immediately as the rest of the downloads of files in annex II. In addition, all Media Hub content can be shared between the five media enabled devices on the same account concentrators.

The pre-loaded of T-Mobile TV offers access to applications of live and on demand mobile HDTV in the 4 G network, T-Mobile, including the free programming of selected as ABC News Now, Fox Sports, PBS Kids stations, and Azteca America. You can upgrade T-Mobile TV to a variety of packages of high quality, including the first (with ESPN Mobile TV, Disney Channel, CNBC, and more), in Spanish, Life & Style, and Crackle movies.

Demographic statistics
Samsung Exhibit II 4G weighs 4.1 ounces and measures 4.54 x 2.35 x 0.45 inches. Its 1500 mAh lithium-ion has a power of up to 5.5 hours of talk and up to 360 hours (15 days) of standby time. Runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM / GPRS / EDGE frequencies as well as the network of T-Mobile 3 G / 4 G (1700 / 2100 MHz, UMTS / HSDPA / HSPA +).

Will t-Mobile Prepaid plans give you access wireless with less commitment, to enable it to pay - and talk - on-the-fly. Without an annual contract, no credit check, and monthly invoice, prepaid plans are a simple, direct way to mobile technology. There are many ways to conveniently fill the T-Mobile Prepaid Plan so you can stay continuously connected with the most important people, including the use of web2go directly from your phone through T-Mobile web site, or the use of recharge cards available in over 90,000 places throughout the country.

With Pay As You Go, you get wireless service exactly as you like - there is no contract of long-term, no credit checks, and no surprises. Add $100 in recharging with Pay As You Go and will become a client of rewards gold, which takes you minute 15 percent more in all the spare parts and the minutes that does not expire one year after the time to renew your prescription.

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