{"id":679,"date":"2012-03-04T11:35:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T17:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2012-03-04T11:38:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T17:38:03","slug":"review-samsung-galaxy-nexus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/review-samsung-galaxy-nexus\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Samsung Galaxy Nexus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend Julia and I ended the tyranny of our T-Mobile contract (even though the merger with AT&amp;T fell through, I was sufficiently spooked by the spectre of giving money to AT&amp;T that we bailed). AT&amp;T being out of the question, as well as Sprint, our choice was none else but Verizon. Verizon had two things going for it: the iPhone 4S, and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The salesperson did his due diligence and informed me of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2397821,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\">issues that the Galaxy Nexus has<\/a>, and tried to steer me towards Motorola, but after I told him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/motorola-loses-a-customer\/\" target=\"_blank\">I will never buy Motorola again<\/a>, I had my Galaxy Nexus in hand. Julia picked up the iPhone 4S instead.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I thoroughly enjoy my Galaxy Nexus. It is easily the best phone I have ever used. Ice Cream Sandwich on the phone\u2019s hardware is incredibly fast, with none of the lag that I had on my old phone. The AMOLED screen is incredibly sharp and bright. Apps all work beautifully. It\u2019s just a great phone.<\/p>\n<p>The phone is larger than the iPhone, and some people may think it is too big, but I don\u2019t mind the size. I also think I have seen the signal issue myself, but as I rarely make voice phone calls it hasn\u2019t been much of a problem (the data connection hasn\u2019t really dropped out for me). Finally, the notification LED on the phone didn\u2019t work to my satisfaction when I got it. However, after a bit of Googling, I found the <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Light Flow App<\/a>, which is well worth the $1.99. It made the notification LED useful again.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I have zero complaints about my purchase. I do think that this is the phone that future Android phones are going to be measured against.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend Julia and I ended the tyranny of our T-Mobile contract (even though the merger with AT&amp;T fell through, I was sufficiently spooked by the spectre of giving money to AT&amp;T that we bailed). AT&amp;T being out of the question, as well as Sprint, our choice was none else but Verizon. Verizon had two&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/review-samsung-galaxy-nexus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: Samsung Galaxy Nexus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-2","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}