{"id":2558,"date":"2012-01-25T03:33:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T07:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2012-01-25T03:33:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T07:33:05","slug":"verizon-galaxy-nexus-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/verizon-galaxy-nexus-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Galaxy Nexus First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got my third Android phone. You can read about my previous experiences: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-first-impressions\/\">T-Mobile MyTouch 3G First Impressions<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/why-people-get-nexus-phones-i-rooted-my-mytouch-4g-after-less-than-one-day\/\">Why people get Nexus phones: I rooted my MyTouch 4G after less than one day<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> This time, I got a Nexus phone&mdash;the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. I&#8217;m just going to list the positives and negatives. These are positives and negatives <i>for me<\/i>. There may be things you care about that I don&#8217;t and things I care about that you don&#8217;t. Either way, you may find these lists useful in some way. <\/p>\n<p> <b>Positives<\/b> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Swipe-away notifications.\n<li>Swipe-away recent apps list.\n<li>Software buttons.\n<li>Beautiful screen.\n<li>Built-in screenshot ability without root (volume down button and power button together).\n<li>Verizon LTE network.\n<li>I have a Tasker profile that&#8217;s a tweaked version of what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juicedefender.com\/overview\/\">Juice Defender<\/a> does. It&#8217;s either near-instant or only one second to reconnect when the screen turns back on.\n<li>No shutter lag on camera.\n<li>Camera photo quality better than most reviews would have you believe.\n<li>Speaker is audible, despite what negative reviews say.\n<li>No need to root to get vanilla Android.\n<li>Will get updates to new version of Android before other phone models.\n<li>Not much bloatware on here, but Verizon managed to squeeze a couple of useless apps on. With Ice Cream Sandwich, you can disable these apps even if you can&#8217;t uninstall them.<\/ul>\n<p> <b>Negatives<\/b> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Headphones are noise-reducing ones, which are really uncomfortable for me. I know others prefer these. And I found an extra set of old headphones I can use instead.\n<li>Autorotate is slow.\n<li>The Android File Transfer app for Mac OS X needs the phone to be unlocked (makes sense, but confusing before you know it), and can transfer only one folder at a time from Finder.\n<li>Even though speakers are audible, they are not loud, so you will have to crank them up to the max volume to get decent sound.\n<li>Facial recognition to unlock takes too long. It has to load in a second or two before it even tries to recognize your face.\n<li>Battery life is not good. The screen is huge, and in the battery stats it easily takes up more than 50% of the battery use. Fortunately I can make it through the whole day using my pseudo&ndash;Juice Defender profile in Tasker. I also bought an extra battery from Verizon for $20.\n<li>The menu soft key (which is now three dots) is sometimes at the top of the screen and sometimes at the bottom of the screen.\n<li>Keyboard autosuggestions is worse than the Gingerbread keyboard, which was awesome. I used to get four or five autosuggestions. Now I get only three and have to long-press on one to get more.\n<li>Now that file transfer is MTP, I can&#8217;t use DoubleTwist as I normally would. Luckily, I could copy a ton of music and then use the AirSync plugin to finish the rest of the sync wirelessly. I understand why Google moved from MSC to MTP, but it&#8217;s also screwed things up a bit.\n<li>The screen is large, which is beautiful, but it also means I can&#8217;t do one-handed WordFeud\/Words with Friends while on the bus.\n<li>If you use the slide-to-unlock unlock method, there&#8217;s no way to disable the haptic feedback on it.<\/ul>\n<p> Overall, despite all the cons, I love this phone. Ice Cream Sandwich has a beautiful UI, which is a joy to use. The phone is fast. And Verizon&#8217;s LTE is wonderful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got my third Android phone. You can read about my previous experiences: T-Mobile MyTouch 3G First Impressions, Why people get Nexus phones: I rooted my MyTouch 4G after less than one day This time, I got a Nexus phone&mdash;the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. I&#8217;m just going to list the positives and negatives. These are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/verizon-galaxy-nexus-first-impressions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Verizon Galaxy Nexus First Impressions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[641,822,540],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-android","tag-galaxy-nexus","tag-verizon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}