Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Design
Ten years ago, was the big joke that Nokia is building the same design mobile phone, while it held a small set-up for each subsequent model. These days, however, is Samsung, which is always guilty of this design missteps. Since founding the company started, the Galaxy devices, many of them have been very similar. In fact, the Galaxy Nexus has much in common with their predecessors, especially the Nexus S (a galaxy, provided that the name) and until Galaxy III. You'll see the same dark color, edges, and the form of "boundary", which is assumed to follow the curve of the head. The phone is large (5.33 cm and 2.67 cm wide), can be very difficult to control for some users. Samsung squeezes every inch of it, however, it may be as thin as possible (0.37 inches for this version of LTE). Of note is the fact, but like other Samsung phones before seeing the Nexus Galaxy and also feels fragile. Fortunately, thicker version of LTE (both Verizon and Sprint) are thicker than the GSM model (5.1 ounces ounces vs. 4.76), but I was afraid to drop it even once on a hard surface. This is obviously a case of an option, but fatten the phone. The "hyperskin" material on the back adds a little texture, but not quite the Kevlar in the Motorola RAZR maxx Droid (Verizon) or anodized aluminum the next Evo HTC 4G LTE.


Camera,Display and Interface
The screen measures 4.65 inches Nexus Galaxy, but only 4 in this chamber is suitable in view of the programmable logic tray located in the ground (the shell is also evident in some but not all, of the internal baffles). But even with this peculiarity, the screen is big enough for a smartphone, but not large enough to ICS.Mit a resolution of 1280 X720 pixel AMOLED screen super HD is wonderfully bright and alive with bright colors. Everything looks good, from graphics to photos and menu icons, and you can customize the five home screens with the Google search bar, menu icons and widgets. ICS offers new folders and new widgets, but I will later on that. The main menu displays the traditional symbols and internal menus have the structure of the family list. This is a clean and elegant design that is especially shines in the SMS and email applications, which is dead easy to create an audio, video and other devices add photos.Like Nexus, the Nexus Galaxy pure Android interface, the ISN t 'by a manufacturer or service for another skin. It is ideal for users and developers alike, as it passes the true brightness Android appearance. Additionally, developers have committed to love the "Developer Tools" on the main menu, providing access to features such as CPU utilization shows a process of setting limits on the bottom, and feels the activation of visual feedback to the front end of the phone Touchscreen.Ganz three touch control to move backward through a menu to jump to the home screen and open a list of recent applications. Yes, you lose the specific search button, which is earlier on Android phones, but this is a feature that the link Honeycomb Galaxy (the search box is available in almost all native applications and the home screen) inherited. And as in the honeycomb, these controls are in some ICS applications within three points of resistance to light, until they open again. What's more, turn the knob 90 degrees when the camera refocus phone.The main phone has a resolution of 5 megapixels, but you can in 3-megapixel, 1.3 megapixel, QVGA, VGA and shoot. There is also a forward-looking 1.3-megapixel camera for photos and video calls.


Basic Features
The nexus of Galaxy has all the other essentials you would expect from a smartphone, such as text messaging and multimedia synchronization of email (Gmail, and not so much) synchronization of calendar (Google or not), a calculator, an alarm clock and a widget of news and weather. Also on board are Bluetooth 2.0 (A2DP), Wi-Fi (802.11 a / b / g / n) and a download manager and file. The speaker independent voice control, you can do everything with just your voice. They work well as long as you speak clearly, and the phone in a place without much background noise. You can transfer images and connect as a USB media via a USB cable, but I do not like that, although ICS supports USB mass storage not Galaxy Nexus. Bad news, Samsung. Otherwise, there is no physical controls on the front of the phone. However, you will notice a glowing light that pulses when you have a call and receive messages, email or messages. It may seem a light touch, and I'm glad it's there because it was a major oversight in the Nexus S. The virtual keyboard has full width of the screen, whether you use it in portrait or landscape mode. The main display has three rows of alphabetic keys with the most important punctuation mark above. At baseline, there is a huge space bar in the center with a single voice activation key on the left side (when entering an email address "@" key takes place). You must click on the additional keyboard for more punctuation marks and numbers, but the keyboard is large and easy to use. Unfortunately, it is not compatible with Swype. The alphanumeric keypad is facing a big number, but the small text.


Performance
The 1.2 GHz dual core processor is a big step above the Nexus S '. Open menus and functions most immediately took a few seconds to boot. Even the picture-gallery, which has about 5 seconds to open in the Nexus S, was launched in 2 seconds. The phone also out for a day of heavy use. I tried to move between applications quickly and without my colleague Jessica Dolcourt Nexus Schluckauf.Als the Galaxy by the iPhone 4, which was mixed results. Some applications, such as messaging and maps, for example, opened faster in the galaxy of Nexus, while other features such as camera, opens faster on the iPhone. And to make things even more confusing, there was a tie between Einstellungsmenü.Getestet phones I have a dual-band (CDMA 800/1900) Samsung Galaxy Nexus in New York with Sprint network. Callers said that while he told them he was calling from a mobile phone to connect, my voice was heard loud and clear. I heard as clearly to the people who called, and the listener produces a good amount of volume and the speaker. In fact I had to take things down a few notches below the maximum, to enjoy a comfortable setting.One most attractive attributes of the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus 4G LTE connection is fast. Unfortunately at the time of this writing, I could not sprint version of the LTE can not because the incumbent's network. Sprint says it will deploy its 4G LTE infrastructure in the second half of 2012. Meanwhile, the slow speed telephone 3G data. I measured an average yield of 0.54 Mbps downstream at various locations in Manhattan and Queens, New York. Upload speeds were better with the phone averages 0.93Mbps. However, these figures are far from what the Galaxy Nexus Verizon was able to do. Along with the LTE system manages downloads Big Red mobile phone in the range from 6 Mbps to deliver the ranks of sprint 17Mbps.Samsung Galaxy Nexus 1850-mAh battery to 6.25 days standby time and 12 hours time of use. In my anecdotal evidence, the listener is a 720p HD MP4 video file to play continuously for 5 hours and 12 minutes. This is consistent with the battery life I have lived, with the Nexus constantly sustained by the work of a full day, but not much else. According to ICNIRP radiation standards, the device has a digital SAR rating of 1.04W/kg.