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| quote: | Originally posted by GGM
Samsung makes the Nexus. Google has a bit of sway in the design but for the most part it's pure Samsung parts and mostly them calling the shots. Most believe that's why there's a few specs that aren't as high as they could be (5mp instead of 8mp, 1.2 dual core instead of 1.5) in order to not make their own product line look inferior.
The fact Nexus has the buttons as part of the screen makes a huge difference. If I were buying an Android now and didn't want the Nexus I'd for sure wait for the new models made for ICS specifically come out. |
My buddy from work got a Nexus a couple of weeks ago and ever since we've been comparing our phones and, while trying to remain as unbiased as possible, I think my SGSII is the best Android phone you could get right now. The only thing the Nexus has over my phone is screen size which only comes into play when you're watching videos. When using the actual phone itself the screens are the same size theoretically, because the extra space provided on the Nexus is used by the Home/Settings/Back buttons. In terms of phone usability though, the physical Home button as well as the Back and Settings buttons work a lot better on the SGSII versus their touchscreen counterparts on the Nexus.
On top of that the actual picture quality itself is way superior on the SGSII (even I was shocked by this). And lets not ignore memory expansion. The Galaxy Nexus has no support for that; meanwhile the SGSII supports up to 32GB; although if you go on XDA or Android Forums there's people using 64GB microSD cards on the SGSII's.
Factor in the price and it's really a no-brainer as to which phone is the better purchase.
As to your last sentence (waiting for hardware made specifically for ICS): why? I'm really curious because I've had ICS on my SGSII for a few days before I went back to 2.3.6 (ICS was too glitchy), but I honestly do not see why a phone needs to be made specifically with that firmware in mind. It's good and all...but not the be-all, end-all Android version. In my honest opinion, Cyanogenmod should be made into the "official" Android flavour. That mod is like 5 steps ahead of whatever Google is putting out.
| quote: | Originally posted by Endlesswave
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Last edited by infinity HiGH on Feb-09-2012 at 05:08
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