New Nexus – always an event, because that’s what Google Android is currently in a spherical vacuum. Samsung Galaxy Nexus – the first device on the highly anticipated Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwitch. In this article we share our first impressions of the new smartphone and a new system, and the most impatient can squander down – there is laid up for them a video
new items go to Russia slowly and painfully: managers need to catch all agree with the Western (and sometimes Eastern) counterparts, the device should stand at customs, ride plenty of “Mail of Russia” and after a month or so finally find yourself in a local office . At this point, at best, the hype around them is extinguished, and at worst they are in retail, and the journalist who gives “exclusive, first in Russia,” the material has to be explained to the reader, for whom this piece of hardware on hand for several weeks. With the Samsung Galaxy Nexus – the first smartphone to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich – luckily for us, everything turned out differently. The presentation was held in Hong Kong on the night of 18th to 19th in our time, and already we were number 20 in the office of Samsung, but in the hands we had let a very early, but working sample of Galaxy Nexus with this fourth “android”. We can not share with you a small portion of impressions.
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Before the announcement of iPhone 4S Network swell and overflowing with all sorts of concepts of iPhone 5: especially popular version with guttate design – it was praised for its realism. After the announcement of the 4S all, of course, laughed at and forgotten, but it’s time to remember: at the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has something to do with the fact guttate “iPhone” from scratch designers with a rich imagination. It also resembles a drop of only curved, from the previous Nexus he got a concave screen, and from unrealized “apple” designers dream – a thickening at the bottom.
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Samsung, however, is recognized in the Galaxy Nexus without the slightest doubt: glossy black panel, the screen is Super AMOLED, which merges with the body, glossy stroke and the back cover of a flexible, durable, and not of the brand plastic, first seen in Galaxy S II. Buttons to a minimum: the volume button on the left side and the power button – on the right. Huh? Who said what about the camera button? No it.
hardware buttons on the front it was decided to completely abandon now they do not even touch, and the screen. It is better capacitive, but were still much mechanical as shibche. But the expulsion of the keys allowed to increase it up to 4.65 inches, almost preserving the typical 4.3-inch device package size. For some it’s just a dream come true: now the screen is no more free space on the front. I remember it for the iPhone 5 also predicted … There is a downside: still rather big Xperia Arc S next to the “Nexus” seems quite petite, and the iPhone 4S looks like an small fry.
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marketers Samsung Galaxy Nexus is very difficult to sleep another consideration: this device does not have to affect the sales of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III. And every chance to stop were. Because of this, had to “Nexus” to cut back a bit but saw through: the victim was, for example, the camera – Galaxy Nexus is set in a 5-megapixel digital camera module, while all the competitors and even the venerable Galaxy S II has long flaunted 8-megapixel cameras. Shoots with the new “Google phone” bad. But cutting off his three megapixels sort of dropped in rank.
front facing camera is also a bit clipped wings if suddenly (very unlikely), it’s someone cared. Even the Galaxy S II it was at 2 MP, here slimmed to 1.3. The picture quality can still change dramatically with the release of new firmware, but for the “Skype” enough and that there is.
cupping undergone the same time and a slot for Micro SD-Card: if you believe the Samsung, then 16 (32 in the more expensive version) GB user memory will be enough. Is called at the time a little different figures to Gates in this regard for a long time do not believe, and Bill, by the way, for many who have authority. Not Galaxy Nexus and beloved TouchWIZ. The previous Nexus was not there, he was loved for it.
Aside from these minor limitations, the Galaxy Nexus bedecked with the latest technology: dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 1.2 GHz, a gig of RAM, an NFC chip for wireless communication over short distances and the other, other. This again is not the most powerful stuffing, which today can be found in the phone, but looks impressive. In the Galaxy S III hardware will be even more serious, but this is enough to badly crude system hardly slowed in the display with the rather strong resolution 1280×720.
display as it is got from Samsung, is perfect: no matrix LCD still can not compare with the Super AMOLED, and even more so with such a density of dots per inch. No joke, this parameter Galaxy Nexus is almost caught up with iPhone 4 (4S) with its vaunted Retina Display: 316 dpi 330 against the candidate of the “apple.” The 16:9 aspect ratio is very conducive to watching movies on your phone. Recall the so-called «HD ready» – these are the most 1280×720.
We stayed with the unit too long, so at least something to talk about his battery life, and “ice cream sandwich” is still too raw, so gluttonous. But we can make assumptions: the battery in 6.48 Wh enough for no more than a day, and at high loads, and a dual-core monster with a huge screen resolution will not leave anything on it in a matter of hours.
the whole feel of the device could be described the sentence: “Another good Samsung with an excellent screen, but dull.” After the Galaxy Note it is somehow not as impressive as it could be. If it were not for one “but” – on any other device Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwitch you until you find it. So let’s talk about the mealy-mouthed.
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