Specs:
Display - 4.65" Super AMOLED HD Display (1280x720)
Display - 4.65" Super AMOLED HD Display (1280x720)
Processor: TI OMAP 4460 Dual-Core @ 1.2gHz
RAM: 1GB
Onboard Storage/SD Storage/Total Storage: 16GB or 32GB/32GB/48GB or 64GB
Camera: 5MP Rear, 1.3MP Front
RAM: 1GB
Onboard Storage/SD Storage/Total Storage: 16GB or 32GB/32GB/48GB or 64GB
Camera: 5MP Rear, 1.3MP Front
Battery: 1750 mAh
Connectivity: 4G
Bonuses: HDMI output, webtop capable, NFC chip, facial recognition, Android 4.0.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
Imagine if everything good that has ever graced a cell phone was all rolled in to one super smartphone. Oh wait, that just happened.
Display:
The Galaxy Nexus utilizes the Honeycomb feature that banishes hard buttons like most Android devices have now in replace for software buttons. These are buttons that are displayed on the screen rather than built in to the device. That way, you can get rid of the buttons during something like video playback or an HD picture viewer and you can animate then when you click on the back., home, or app drawer buttons. It's displaying its picture in 1280x720 resolution (most commonly known as 720p). You know that 20" HD TV you bought? Yea, this thing has the same quality display as that when you're watching your blu-ray movies or streaming your HD videos from Netflix. This bad boy's screen has the best technology out there behind its native resolution too - Samsung's Super AMOLED display. Being an organic display, it makes it incredibly energy efficient as well. Seeing as how cell standby and display are the #1 and #2 battery suckers in Android devices, this means good things for battery life. They have a hidden notification LED at the bottom of the phone to notify you via different colored light flashes that you have a new e-mail, new voice mail, new text, etc. This keeps the nice sleek and simplistic design the way it's meant to be by not having any noticeable tarnishes on this monster screen.
Processor/RAM:
The processor in this thing is a beast. It's got a 1.2gHz dual-core TI OMAP 4460 behind it to power that big beautiful display. That means your videos are going to be played lag free, and your applications and screen transitions are going to be like ice cream melting down a stick (no pun intended). A 1.2gHz dual-core is the current standard in smart phones today, and the Galaxy Nexus delivers on that standard beautifully. On top of that, you've got a nice amount of memory in this thing to keep track of all the things you're going to be doing on it. 1GB of RAM is more than enough for constant every day use considering all of the features the OS will bring to minimize memory usage and give the user an easy way to free up used memory if need be. Maintaining phone speed will be easier than ever.
Connectivity: 4G
Bonuses: HDMI output, webtop capable, NFC chip, facial recognition, Android 4.0.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
Imagine if everything good that has ever graced a cell phone was all rolled in to one super smartphone. Oh wait, that just happened.
Display:
The Galaxy Nexus utilizes the Honeycomb feature that banishes hard buttons like most Android devices have now in replace for software buttons. These are buttons that are displayed on the screen rather than built in to the device. That way, you can get rid of the buttons during something like video playback or an HD picture viewer and you can animate then when you click on the back., home, or app drawer buttons. It's displaying its picture in 1280x720 resolution (most commonly known as 720p). You know that 20" HD TV you bought? Yea, this thing has the same quality display as that when you're watching your blu-ray movies or streaming your HD videos from Netflix. This bad boy's screen has the best technology out there behind its native resolution too - Samsung's Super AMOLED display. Being an organic display, it makes it incredibly energy efficient as well. Seeing as how cell standby and display are the #1 and #2 battery suckers in Android devices, this means good things for battery life. They have a hidden notification LED at the bottom of the phone to notify you via different colored light flashes that you have a new e-mail, new voice mail, new text, etc. This keeps the nice sleek and simplistic design the way it's meant to be by not having any noticeable tarnishes on this monster screen.
Processor/RAM:
The processor in this thing is a beast. It's got a 1.2gHz dual-core TI OMAP 4460 behind it to power that big beautiful display. That means your videos are going to be played lag free, and your applications and screen transitions are going to be like ice cream melting down a stick (no pun intended). A 1.2gHz dual-core is the current standard in smart phones today, and the Galaxy Nexus delivers on that standard beautifully. On top of that, you've got a nice amount of memory in this thing to keep track of all the things you're going to be doing on it. 1GB of RAM is more than enough for constant every day use considering all of the features the OS will bring to minimize memory usage and give the user an easy way to free up used memory if need be. Maintaining phone speed will be easier than ever.
Graphics Processor:
This is the one area that the Galaxy Nexus is only up to par in. It doesn't have the newest and greatest processor, so the graphics processor is slightly out dated as well. When I say slightly out dated, we're talking about it still being more powerful than 90% of the Android devices in-use today. It's rocking a Power VT SGX540 GPU that is in that TI OMAP processor listed above. It's still one of the best graphics processors on the market and will still blow all the other phones away, while still being equal to all of the phones that are just being released now. It will still run all of the games that you currently play, and it will run them all damn good.
Storage:
The Galaxy Nexus was rumored for a long time to have forgotten to include a microSD slot. Today they announced that they had not forgotten the SD slot, and that it does in fact have one with a max storage capacity of 32GB. Seeing as how the Galaxy Nexus is available in a 16GB model and a 32GB model, you can have up to 64GB on this bad boy. That's a lot of memory. Most everyone will wind up going with the 16GB model for economic reasons, considering Google is trying to move most of their content on to the cloud this day in age. Either way, you're looking at a minimum of 48GB of storage if you max out the SD card slot. That's a lot of space to take a lot of pictures, and that's a lot of space to play all of your HD videos you have downloaded digital copies of.
Thickness:
The Galaxy Nexus is 8.94mm thick. This means that it is ridiculously thin, seeing as how that's only about 1/3 of an inch. How Samsung managed to make a device so thin and still include a 4G modem is outstanding craftsmanship on their part. This phone is going to be very, very thin.
Camera:
The camera in this thing is a beast. It's got a 5MP Rear capable of recording in 1080p while having a 3mm focal point, 2.75 max aperture, and a 1.2MP Front-facing camera. The camera has the ability to take panoramic shots by shooting a 'video' of the stretch of picture you wish to create, and then formatting the frames to create a beautiful panoramic shot. It also has the ability to have facial recognition through the front-facing camera, although the demo at the event showed us that if you cake too much makeup on, it can lock you out of your phone (sorry ladies and cross dressers). Don't be demoralized by the 5MP camera. When Samsung took funding away from the sheer MP of the camera, they focused that funding in to amazing sensors for it. Oh, did I mention it has the shutter-close speed of an SLR camera? That's right, it takes a picture literally instantly after you press the button to tell it to take it. Literally. It's instant. Considering that, it takes amazing pictures and video as well.
Battery/Connectivity:
It rocks a 1750mAh battery, which is considered normal in most LTE phones today. Given that Samsung is using its newest modem technologies for its 4G radio in the Galaxy Nexus, you can expect to see better battery life than the dreaded HTC Thunderbolt. Overall, the battery should last only slightly less than your current 3G phone does. Considering you will be getting faster download speeds than your home internet connection, it's worth it. Seamless streaming with seamless content sharing. That's the goal of this device. Samsung boasts it as the fastest modem for any of the 4G phones on the market today, which I wouldn't doubt.
Overall:
This phone is what the market needs right now. Things are getting stale. 4G, 1gHz dual-core, 1GB RAM, 8MP camera, 1.2MP front camera, things are all the same. Things are stale. The Galaxy Nexus is going to spice up the phone market just like its predecessors have. Expect to see great things from this device. Hopefully soon we will see a release or preorder date.
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