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First Nexus 3 Leak - Possibly made by HTC and headed to Sprint

http://www.redmondpie.com/nexus-3-spotted-in-the-wild-leaked-photo/
Looks pretty iPhone 3ish, but no buttons is pretty sweet looking and would make sense because 2.4/Ice Cream is supposed to smash all of the Androids together/into one OS, right?

Oh decisions, decisions. Looks pretty sick. And if it is made by HTC, I might have to save up for this one.
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Getting this for sure. Will probably come out in Dec - Jan though. Long wait.
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Good... My upgrade should be here when that rolls around.
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Ill be using my upgrade for the 3d, but I've wanted to try the nexus line for a while. If this has the external memory, I'll pay full retail for it.
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In some ways, I'm glad my upgrade isn't until January....

I wouldn't look into the design too much either. It's way too early and is probably just a test device they quickly put together to test/develop on honeycombs new form factor.

as the other nexus...
most likely in January/February time frame

Sweet, it'll be for Sprint as well. My upgrade is in April 2012 so I'll wait till Nexus 3 comes out so I can get that. Tegra 3 quad core Ice Cream Sandwich. Going to be awesome.

jblazea50 said:
Sweet, it'll be for Sprint as well. My upgrade is in April 2012 so I'll wait till Nexus 3 comes out so I can get that. Tegra 3 quad core Ice Cream Sandwich. Going to be awesome.
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how do you know it's going to be on sprint? the first nexus never came. but yes, it would be smart of google to never use samsung again for the nexus line.
ill still be waiting on the gs2 for my next upgrade.

fixxxer2008 said:
how do you know it's going to be on sprint? the first nexus never came. but yes, it would be smart of google to never use samsung again for the nexus line.
ill still be waiting on the gs2 for my next upgrade.
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quote from the article in the OP...
"Radio wise the device is apparently tooled up for HSPA+ and Sprint CDMA which could point to an earlier Sprint release than the 6 month wait endured for the Nexus S."
i agree.. no samsung for nexus...
but then you say .. you want the GS2...

fixxxer2008 said:
how do you know it's going to be on sprint? the first nexus never came. but yes, it would be smart of google to never use samsung again for the nexus line.
ill still be waiting on the gs2 for my next upgrade.
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Sprint did announce a Nexus One. They just canceled it. Plus Sprint and Google now share what is probably the tightest cooperation out of any carrier so a Sprint Nexus 3 on launch day is very likely now.

*shifts awkwardly*
Oh,uh, it's the pleats ... the pleats in the pants.
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Dan330 said:
quote from the article in the OP...
"Radio wise the device is apparently tooled up for HSPA+ and Sprint CDMA which could point to an earlier Sprint release than the 6 month wait endured for the Nexus S."
i agree.. no samsung for nexus...
but then you say .. you want the GS2...
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yeah the gs2 is a beast and lovely looking phone. i want to hate samsung but it's hard. i meant as far as the nexus line they should stick to htc.

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yeah the gs2 is a beast and lovely looking phone. i want to hate samsung but it's hard. i meant as far as the nexus line they should stick to htc.
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People like to stick to HTC but HTC has had a lot of problems too. I own a N1 and the touch screen sucks, build quality looks nice on the outside but almost always has issues like light bleeding (EVO), and they are known to stick with old chipsets (like slightly updating the same 2008 Scorpion core for their dual cores).
I personally would like to see a Moto Nexus. They do a good job with hardware.

Im sure its just a prototype but that is one ugly phone. I wouldnt buy it off looks already....

Yeah, I'm usually not a big fan of chrome / silver anything ... as a test device I wouldn't be surprised to see it change. Maybe if we complain enough we can ensure a chrome edging doesn't make the final cut.
I will definitely be sitting on my Evo, waiting and waiting and waiting.
edit: awww, if it is fake ... pooh. still going to hold out for some nexus news down the line

conqu1stador said:
Yeah, I'm usually not a big fan of chrome / silver anything ... as a test device I wouldn't be surprised to see it change. Maybe if we complain enough we can ensure a chrome edging doesn't make the final cut.
I will definitely be sitting on my Evo, waiting and waiting and waiting.
edit: awww, if it is fake ... pooh. still going to hold out for some nexus news down the line
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I can't get the evo 3D anyways just used my girl's upgrade and she got the nexus s; my upgrade isn't until August so I'm thinking galaxy s 2 maybe. She'd kill me if I spent 599 on a phone when my upgrade is a few months away lol. You guys think by August sprint will launch another device? I'm not into the whole design and 3D gimmick stuff anyways.

Sweet! I would be stoked if the nexus 3 is made by HTC. The nexus s is great and all but Samsung's continuing radio issues make their phones less desirable to own. I'll take a little light leak over a shotty radio any day. May have to sell my 3d for this one.
Tapa tapa tapa

dirkyd3rk said:
I can't get the evo 3D anyways just used my girl's upgrade and she got the nexus s; my upgrade isn't until August so I'm thinking galaxy s 2 maybe. She'd kill me if I spent 599 on a phone when my upgrade is a few months away lol. You guys think by August sprint will launch another device?
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Hmm, even with the news of the Atrix-like device coming to Sprint I have even less reason to just jump on a phone. For a second there I was gonna pull the trigger on the NS but I'm glad I didn't. I had seen word of that possibly dropping mid summer, but I'm pretty sure that was just rumor. That GS2 - should it come through - is a tempting one. Haven't heard anything on possible / rumored date of landing, but I haven't done a good job of keeping up with everything, either.
I'm just gonna play the waiting game. Something I'm usually not good with, but I've done well enough with putting off a tablet purchase. And totally agree on the Evo 3D - not sure how I feel about it. Especially if some other more than capable device comes to Sprint.

Upgrade to Evo 3D or Wait?

Should i upgrade to evo 3d or wait tll 2012 for something better.
Ok so my upgrade isnt availible until 2012, but i was thinking about getting the evo 3d, but then again, next year theres probably gonna be a device with tegra 3 quad core, qhd,1gb ram,4.5" screen, sense 3.5. so im stuck between evo 3d or evo 4(or some other name).

There will always be a new device. After tegra 3 it will be something else. I am waiting on my upgrade for a little bit.
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It's really a question only you can answer. If the Evo 3D represents enough of an upgrade to you to warrant paying full price, and if you have the means to do so, you should do it. If not, you shouldn't.
Since we haven't seen the Evo 3D yet and don't yet know just how much better it really is than what we have, that makes the question premature as well. My hunch is it will be quite significantly better. I could certainly see myself choosing to pay full price to get either the Evo 3D or another dual core phone this year, but I'll want to see the reviews, see them firsthand, etc. But like I said, that's my feeling. Only you can answer what you should do.

I can totally see upgrading to the 3rd evo Nothing wrong with this phone but I would like a little less lay for when I play on it.
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bkrodgers said:
It's really a question only you can answer. If the Evo 3D represents enough of an upgrade to you to warrant paying full price, and if you have the means to do so, you should do it. If not, you shouldn't.
Since we haven't seen the Evo 3D yet and don't yet know just how much better it really is than what we have, that makes the question premature as well. My hunch is it will be quite significantly better. I could certainly see myself choosing to pay full price to get either the Evo 3D or another dual core phone this year, but I'll want to see the reviews, see them firsthand, etc. But like I said, that's my feeling. Only you can answer what you should do.
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thank you, i think ill stick with my evo for awhile. Ill wait to see what 2012 brings me.

Id go for it, but its all riding on the bootloader right now.

Just wait it out for the bootloader. Plus at the rate of tech these days, 2012 we'll have the Evo 4D with 6G Wimax lol
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I want to upgrade to the Evo 3d, but probably won't have the money so ill probably wait for the next big phone when my upgrade comes.

I would wait. Nvidia is showcasing the tegra quad core and is supposed to have devices launching with it either near end of this year or beginning of next. So yeah i would wait cuz i believe after quad core comes out for phones hardware advances will stall or plateau. Then it will be all about the software and not what phone has what hardware
Edit: just looked at the initial benchmarks and the tegra quad core blows away the competition easily and even some LAPTOPS. Its not even final and still being worked on this is gonna be a beast

No point in waiting unless it takes until the end of summer to see the 3D.
New technology always comes out.
If you're gonna wait on that merit you might as well never buy.
You can always sell the damned thing if you find something else you want.

mattykinsx said:
No point in waiting unless it takes until the end of summer to see the 3D.
New technology always comes out.
If you're gonna wait on that merit you might as well never buy.
You can always sell the damned thing if you find something else you want.
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^ This
Haven't you seen the Best Buy buy back commercial, "I just bought this one".
Keep waiting and you'll keep waiting.
Swyped from my HTC Supersonic: EVO 4G

Ill definitely be skipping this round, as of right now I have no real need for 3D seeing as I dont even have a 3D tv to output content too. Also with the Kal-El processor chip set to launch q4 there really wont be a long wait till you find it packed in the next round of phones.

I pre-ordered the 3D, I can honestly care less about the 3D portion as I'll never enable it. Being able to upgrade less than a year after I signed my contract is why I will go ahead and upgrade to the 3D.
Getting bored with the EVO 4G right now, always wanting something new, so the 3D will hold me over until their next good phone comes out and I'll upgrade again.

If waiting for an upgrade is an issue I suggest reading the 1st post of this thread. It has worked for a ton of people including me.

Was going to upgrade until I heard about the nexus 3
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pelebkf said:
Was going to upgrade until I heard about the nexus 3
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What did you hear?

m4rk0358 said:
What did you hear?
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The same thing everyone else has, nothing. lol Just specualtion that is all over the board.

swaze said:
The same thing everyone else has, nothing. lol Just specualtion that is all over the board.
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Yea it is speculation. But enough to keep me from the evo3d. Of course I am a aosp fan but the nexus s I think is not up to par with the evo 4g. I like the no buttons part of the nexus 3
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pelebkf said:
Yea it is speculation. But enough to keep me from the evo3d. Of course I am a aosp fan but the nexus s I think is not up to par with the evo 4g. I like the no buttons part of the nexus 3
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That's what I'm saying, waiting and you'll keep waiting. I'll have the 3D and turn around and then get the N3 too, lol. Love being gold.
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a1platnum said:
That's what I'm saying, waiting and you'll keep waiting. I'll have the 3D and turn around and then get the N3 too, lol. Love being gold.
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Without extending your contract?
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Upgrade my Vibrant????

OK contract is up and I have a chance for a full upgrade with T-Mobile, would it be wise to use it now for maybe a Sensation, G2X, Galaxy S 4g
Any feedback from anyone who has tested the phones would be great

I tried the Sensation for like 4 days. I'd stay far away from it... If you can wait, rumor has it that the Hercules should be out no later than late September. That's undoubtedly what I will be doing. Apparently no SG2 for T Mo coming.
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wbexpress said:
I tried the Sensation for like 4 days. I'd stay far away from it... If you can wait, rumor has it that the Hercules should be out no later than late September. That's undoubtedly what I will be doing. Apparently no SG2 for T Mo coming.
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Is the Hercules the name for the new Nexus. If I were going to get a new phone I would get the Nexus. I personally have a Vibrant T-959 but all my friends have the Nexus. I love that phone and will probably get the new Nexus this fall.

Same in the dilemma as you. Going to wait and see when the prices drop. My vibrant is doing almost everything I ask for except the flash camera and GPS.

Yeah I know that's why I'm hesitating, my vibrant with Trigger 3.3 + Bullet is plenty quick and everything works just right, including GPS (quick to lock & spot on). That dual core processor is tempting on the Sensation but I've heard a lot of mixed reviews of it.

I'm in the same boat and am waiting to see what the next Nexus phone holds. After this phone and the mytouch slide I had before, I'm done waiting for carrier updates and locked bootloaders. Nexus for me from here on out.
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Hold out for the Hercules, its a beast!
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I agree on both points. BUT, guys, remember the hype on Sensation? Then when they bit, it had mixed reviews.
"... Sensation is a BEAST of a phone! Tops all others when it arrives in the US!"
Yeah. I heard it before. I'm waiting for a Nexus line or whenever there's a bit better review of the Hercules. Besides, the rumor that the Herc is coming this fall is just pure speculation.
Either that, or wait for the SGS II 1.4Ghz to lower thier prices. Since we'll end up becoming AT&T soon with the merger, SGSII 1.4Ghz version might fit, so it's best to wait out on a lot of things nowadays. Rumor also dictates that the SGS II 1.4Ghz will have mixed bands of TMO and AT&T.
Aaaahhh, rumors. Hate to love them, Love to hate them. I'll believe it when it's on tv or media. Until then, waiting it out really will come to play for my next "Beast".

wait a few months... see what comes out (Hercules)... then wait another month or two for prices to drop and bugs to get worked out!
If we get Gingerbread like rumored, that will add another month or two of enjoyment to our phones... and the Netflix app being released for our phones (works on mine, stock 2.2 + Voodoo KB1 kernel)... HOURS of endless enjoyment to hold you over until the next wave of goodies comes out! And maybe prices to be amazing over holidays!

Torn about the Photon...

Well, I FINALLY ditched my Heroc and bought a NS4g on sunday and I'm in love (aside from battery life :-/). Now I've been reading up on the Photon and holy crap! HW wise, it's freakin killer.
But...
I'm concerned about not having root for god knows how long (or CM7), the screen not looking as good as the NS and the camera not being as good. Am I being paranoid?
Looking for opinions and info on this.
ZANKS!

It'll probably be rooted release day. As far as CM7, not sure if you've heard of second init but its a way of running aosp over motos locked in kernels/bootloaders. The Droid X and Droid 2 now have CM7 thanks to second init. Its just a matter of whether a Dev takes the time to make it happen. Can't count on moto to unlock it so hacking will be the way.
Spec wise, the photon will be a beast. It has a pentile screen but its still very nice. If you want to get a feel for what the photon will be like, go to best buy and mess with an atrix. Almost same specs.
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eh its not all its hyped up to be.. read some stuff about the tegra 2, my buddy has the atrix and its not this crazy super faster dual core

what kind of ram? ddr2?

Thanks for the input folks. Mikeyinid, I was unaware of second init but it sounds promising. IDK, I might just pick it up and try it out for ~2 weeks (I'm only gonna be 2 weeks in to my 30 days when it comes out). Also, I was told by sprint that you can cancel your plan, get a 100% refund and start a new plan to restart the 30 days the same day . So, I am gonna at least give it a shot...
Also, anyone have any suggestions about battery life? I wasn't happy with the batterytweak.sh and juice defender didn't really help that much. Wanted to work on UV but proton caused a reboot and setcpu doesn't have recommended settings.

beyondinferno said:
Thanks for the input folks. Mikeyinid, I was unaware of second init but it sounds promising. IDK, I might just pick it up and try it out for ~2 weeks (I'm only gonna be 2 weeks in to my 30 days when it comes out). Also, I was told by sprint that you can cancel your plan, get a 100% refund and start a new plan to restart the 30 days the same day . So, I am gonna at least give it a shot...
Also, anyone have any suggestions about battery life? I wasn't happy with the batterytweak.sh and juice defender didn't really help that much. Wanted to work on UV but proton caused a reboot and setcpu doesn't have recommended settings.
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Motorola has great build quality, but as stated already in this thread the tegra 2 is pretty bad. If you like the nexus, you should consider waiting for the samsung gs2 coming sometime later. (rumored for late August/early September for Sprint. It should have either the exynos could or the Mali gpu, both of which blown away the tegra 2. I'm holding out for that because it fully meets my requirements.
- dual core
- hdmi out
- super amoled plus
- best camera for phone on market
- comes with gingerbread
- (most likely) unlocked on release day.
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Overstew said:
Motorola has great build quality, but as stated already in this thread the tegra 2 is pretty bad. If you like the nexus, you should consider waiting for the samsung gs2 coming sometime later. (rumored for late August/early September for Sprint. It should have either the exynos could or the Mali gpu, both of which blown away the tegra 2. I'm holding out for that because it fully meets my requirements.
- dual core
- hdmi out
- super amoled plus
- best camera for phone on market
- comes with gingerbread
- (most likely) unlocked on release day.
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If we're going to play the waiting game then you might as well wait for the Nexus 3. Dual cores don't mean anything if the phone's software OS isn't optimized to use dual core.
Ice Cream Sandwich + Nexus 3 = ?????????????
Ice Cream Sandwich + Nexus S = ?????????????
Good luck waiting on a carrier/manufacturer for updates. Knowing carriers playing the cat and mouse game with the manufacturers with Samsung. Oh boy you're going to regret it.
As far as Motorola.. lolilockyourbootloader
Nexus series for life. Never accepting anything less.

zephiK said:
If we're going to play the waiting game then you might as well wait for the Nexus 3. Dual cores don't mean anything if the phone's software OS isn't optimized to use dual core.
Ice Cream Sandwich + Nexus 3 = ?????????????
Ice Cream Sandwich + Nexus S = ?????????????
Good luck waiting on a carrier/manufacturer for updates. Knowing carriers playing the cat and mouse game with the manufacturers with Samsung. Oh boy you're going to regret it.
As far as Motorola.. lolilockyourbootloader
Nexus series for life. Never accepting anything less.
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I don't see the Nexus Prime coming out anytime soon, seeing as the Nexus S is heading towards AT&T. One can hope, but it just seems like the SGS2 is a better choice purely dependent on the release date. (within the next two months).

Do I don't know what they changed in cm7, but my battery life id amazing now. 10 hours and @ 72%.
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beyondinferno said:
Thanks for the input folks. Mikeyinid, I was unaware of second init but it sounds promising. IDK, I might just pick it up and try it out for ~2 weeks (I'm only gonna be 2 weeks in to my 30 days when it comes out). Also, I was told by sprint that you can cancel your plan, get a 100% refund and start a new plan to restart the 30 days the same day . So, I am gonna at least give it a shot...
Also, anyone have any suggestions about battery life? I wasn't happy with the batterytweak.sh and juice defender didn't really help that much. Wanted to work on UV but proton caused a reboot and setcpu doesn't have recommended settings.
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This is only partly true. If you choose to return your phone, they will hit you with a restocking fee
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zephiK said:
Good luck waiting on a carrier/manufacturer for updates. Knowing carriers playing the cat and mouse game with the manufacturers with Samsung. Oh boy you're going to regret it.
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^^ THIS.. Never buying a non Nexus phone again. Poor Epic owners were supposed to have Gingerbread months and months ago. To this day they have no official release builds but just constantly get conveniently leaked development builds of Gingerbread instead. The Froyo release for the Epic was ridiculously late by months and months. The snails pace and constant ridiculously long delays of promised updates drove me away from phones that depended on Samsung to update them.

Overstew said:
I don't see the Nexus Prime coming out anytime soon, seeing as the Nexus S is heading towards AT&T. One can hope, but it just seems like the SGS2 is a better choice purely dependent on the release date. (within the next two months).
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Who ever said Nexus prime? This is all rumors. But it will be guaranteed by later this year during the holiday season there will be a flagship phone for Ice Cream Sandwich by Google.
This is following Google's timeline for when a new Nexus device comes out. It's a fact. It could be,
Nexus Prime
Nexus S2
... and the list goes on.
Who knows? The one thing thats absolute is definitely a new Nexus phone coming out later this year.

zephiK said:
Who ever said Nexus prime? This is all rumors. But it will be guaranteed by later this year during the holiday season there will be a flagship phone for Ice Cream Sandwich by Google.
This is following Google's timeline for when a new Nexus device comes out. It's a fact. It could be,
Nexus Prime
Nexus S2
... and the list goes on.
Who knows? The one thing thats absolute is definitely a new Nexus phone coming out later this year.
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If thats the case then I'll hold out too lol.
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If thats the case then I'll hold out too lol.
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I mean don't get me wrong. You have a excellent point about the Samsung Galaxy S2, it looks amazing in terms of hardware. But I think what's really going to cripple it is software updates. Samsung is really good with updates internationally in Europe but I don't know if it's Samsung Mobile USA or if its the carriers. And honestly, I really don't care what the deal is between them two but I want my updates asap.
Nexus One released on January 5,2010.
Nexus S released on December 16, 2010.
Google likes to have a flagship phone for their newest Android OS. It'll most likely be Nexus 3 that gets it first followed by Nexus S and then followed by Nexus One (if it's that lucky but I have good hopes that it will get it.. probably)
And yeah, I know.. people may try and counter me by saying Oh we have CyanogenMod and all that. Well guess what Cyanogenmod can't do. Make a kernel for for that Android X and you're stuck using stock or whatever the deal is. Development will be very limited. And I had a Samsung vibrant and honestly... there are a lot more ROMs for vibrant than Nexus S I'll admit that. But under the hood, they're all the same and mainly built off TouchWiz. That's my interpretation of the Vibrant forums 7 months ago. I don't know how it is today but most of the ROMs are just themed. Nothing is really ever implemented as features.

kawaski47 said:
This is only partly true. If you choose to return your phone, they will hit you with a restocking fee
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When I returned the Evo 3D, the store charged me $35 for restocking fee. Later I chatted with a rep online and she told me there's no restocking fee if you are not exchanging the phone but completely returning it.
I emailed Sprint a copy of the restocking fee receipt and $35 was credited to my Sprint account (only reason I had to do that was b/c the store charged my credit card the fee and did not put it on my account).

zephiK said:
Who ever said Nexus prime? This is all rumors. But it will be guaranteed by later this year during the holiday season there will be a flagship phone for Ice Cream Sandwich by Google.
This is following Google's timeline for when a new Nexus device comes out. It's a fact. It could be,
Nexus Prime
Nexus S2
... and the list goes on.
Who knows? The one thing thats absolute is definitely a new Nexus phone coming out later this year.
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what is about Nexus 3D D would love something REALLY new! like nfc, but more usefull!
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Borky_16 said:
what is about Nexus 3D D would love something REALLY new! like nfc, but more usefull!
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Oh no you didn't. 3D is so useless
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If you have a new Nexus-S, be happy with that awesome phone. Just wait for the king of all phones to release in Oct/Nov. The Nexus-4.0 Prime, that will blow away the Photon.
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The ONLY reason I'm considering this is because i'm within my 30 days. I can't afford to shell out $700 for another phone in 6 months, so this is a good opportunity for me to have "the latest and greatest" (arguably)

At least you don't have to hack it in order to play tegra2 games lol. I wish it had the1900 mah battery like the atrix...
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Waiting for LTE handcets

This may be kind of a pointless thread, but with everybody patiently waiting for GB, I thought I'd give my opinion...
I'm so happy that I didn't upgrade to the epic touch yet. They're saying they're launching 15 devices with LTE by mid next year with the full LTE rollout starting next year and ending in 2013. Now that upgrades are 2 years in stead of 1, I'm really happy I didn't jump on the epic touch like I wanted to.
Anybody else holding out?

Yes me but not only for the lte enabled but the voice over 1x or advanced 1x cuz that will allow data and talk at the same time no matter what wooo hooo
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Definitely holding on to my upgrade now.

I got the epic touch. By the time most of us see lte we will already be on a new phone.
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I still never upgraded from the Epic either. And the news on LTE confirms that I won't be upgrading until my 2 years is up (August 2012). By then, we should have some nice LTE phones to upgrade to. When official GB comes out for the Epic and if its stable, I'll be fine with that for another year.

Wizard Knight said:
This may be kind of a pointless thread, but with everybody patiently waiting for GB, I thought I'd give my opinion...
I'm so happy that I didn't upgrade to the epic touch yet. They're saying they're launching 15 devices with LTE by mid next year with the full LTE rollout starting next year and ending in 2013. Now that upgrades are 2 years in stead of 1, I'm really happy I didn't jump on the epic touch like I wanted to.
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I'm holding out for my full upgrade. Don't see the point since I bought the Epic for the keyboard instead of getting the bigger EVO. Was hoping for a Galaxy III or IV with quad core 2.6Ghz and keyboard but now am excited to get LTE then too.

My upgrade isn't until November 2012 so I glad that the new lecture devices will be out by my upgrade time
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R3537L1F3 said:
My upgrade isn't until November 2012 so I glad that the new lecture devices will be out by my upgrade time
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In the same boat. Maybe by then a new dream phone with LTE, multicore, ICS and a keyboard will exist.

DroidApprentice said:
In the same boat. Maybe by then a new dream phone with LTE, multicore, ICS and a keyboard will exist.
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THAT would B Cool !

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THAT would B Cool !
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I think at this point, I might hold out for the galaxy S 3. I may hate samsung's upgrade drama over and over again, but hell, they just make the sexiest damn phones

Wizard Knight said:
I think at this point, I might hold out for the galaxy S 3. I may hate samsung's upgrade drama over and over again, but hell, they just make the sexiest damn phones
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I think they will behave better insofar as updates going forward. The Epic seems like just a special problematic case because of the unique hardware. The "killer app" Sammy has and may continue to have is the screen...they're king of the hill when it comes to those. I just hope newer processors make for better phone modems and much more battery life.

samsung galaxy s III with lte? HELL YES.
actually kind of happy right now im not upgrading till next august.

I still don't really "get" the need for 4g. Good 3g is more than enough for me on a phone. Except for tethering (which I rarely need to do anymore now that I don't spend 3 weeks a month on the road any more).
But if the lte rollout means rock solid voice and good 3g service, ill be happy with my epic or any 3g phone.

Since the epic can handle every game in the market, I think It will be good enough for 1 more year.

Sir Alphonse said:
Since the epic can handle every game in the market, I think It will be good enough for 1 more year.
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For some it better be good for another 20 months. It is down to $49 everywhere with new contract which since people are still buying it wanting the keyboard, they will have it until the next full upgrade for them 20 months from now.

kennyglass123 said:
For some it better be good for another 20 months. It is down to $49 everywhere with new contract which since people are still buying it wanting the keyboard, they will have it until the next full upgrade for them 20 months from now.
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Let's hope samsung reallizes this and keeps supporting poeple that are going to buy this phone sometimes this month or who just bought it. They're going to have it for 20 months that's a long time when you consider how fast technology improves now a days. Maybe we will get some more updates but that's just being optimistic.
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We have the hardware to run ICS but I'll be shocked if we get it. It's much more different than Froyo to GB.

DroidApprentice said:
We have the hardware to run ICS but I'll be shocked if we get it. It's much more different than Froyo to GB.
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Even if we don't get it officially I bet we get a ported version.
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Is there a place to find which handsets are getting ICS
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