Big Nexus Prime news

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited September 2011 in Science & Tech
Samsung GT-i9250 = Nexus Prime
Samsung SCH-i515 = Droid Prime

I trust my target audience will understand the significance.
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  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    Verizon you no get our Nexus neener neener ;p
  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    Interesting. Perhaps a carrier switch is in my future.
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    The significance, I don't know, maybe further fragmentation of the Android platform??? :wink:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    Cliff_Forster wrote:
    The significance, I don't know, maybe further fragmentation of the Android platform??? :wink:

    No. Less fragmentation.
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    Thrax wrote:
    No. Less fragmentation.

    Ignore me, I'm just trollin... :bigggrin:
  • TushonTushon I'm scared, Coach Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    Cliff_Forster wrote:
    Ignore me, I'm just trollin... :bigggrin:

    I could tell. It was the pixels.
  • UPSLynxUPSLynx :KAPPA: Redwood City, CA Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    OK, for those that do not get it... So, there is going to be more than one Prime...?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    That appears to be the case. It looks like Verizon landed rights to have an exclusive variant of the Prime, but <i>not</i> to the exclusion of the authentic Nexus Prime on other carriers. Now, what those carriers are remains anyone's guess.
  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    QCH wrote:
    OK, for those that do not get it... So, there is going to be more than one Prime...?

    Remember those Verizon television ads where some synthisized voice would say "DROOOOID" ... that was Verizon building "Droid" brand equity and paying Mr. Lucas.

    The "Prime" phones are just the first phones to feature Ice Cream Samich. Droid is Verizon's (likely / rumored), while the Nexus will be for other carriers.

    Both will have the ice cream and the AMOLED.

    I think the big significance is that Verizon customers will have a Ice Cream phone sooner than they thought but honestly I don't know.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    PirateNinja wrote:
    Ice Cream Samich
    Point of information: The correct technical term is sammich. Please make a note of it.

    Also, this bodes well for The Yellow Carrier.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    Updated rumor, from reputable sources this time:

    1. Verizon version will be called Galaxy Nexus. It will launch at the end of October with ICS.

    2. Other-carrier version will be called the Nexus Prime. It will launch a few weeks after #1, also with ICS.

    Neither version has physical buttons beyond a volume rocker and power switch.
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    Other-carrier as in all of them, or unknown at this time?
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    It will be mine. Oh yes, it *will* be mine.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    fatcat wrote:
    Other-carrier as in all of them, or unknown at this time?

    Unknown, sir. Based on past evidence, perhaps T-Mobile first, AT&T a little behind, and Sprint ungodly late to the party.
  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    This is great news. My upgrade window is in November. Guess it's a Galaxy Nexus for me!
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    Oh God, I'm happy that I wasn't happy with the choices earlier! <giggles like a little girl>
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    One more month... one more month....
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    A very interesting rumor has emerged. I'm not sure if I put 100% confidence in it, but it comes from a source that has been reputable in the past:

    The Verizon Nexus will not have ICS. It may even be an Android 2.3.5 device with TouchWiz and carrier bloatware.
  • RyderRyder Kalamazoo, Mi Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    Thrax wrote:
    The Verizon Nexus will not have ICS. It may even be an Android 2.3.5 device with TouchWiz and carrier bloatware.
    :thumbsdow :shakehead :grumble::grr:
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    Thrax wrote:
    A very interesting rumor has emerged. I'm not sure if I put 100% confidence in it, but it comes from a source that has been reputable in the past:

    The Verizon Nexus will not have ICS. It may even be an Android 2.3.5 device with TouchWiz and carrier bloatware.
    Glad I'm not a Verizon customer...
  • UPSLynxUPSLynx :KAPPA: Redwood City, CA Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    trolololol
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    An even newer rumor being circulated:

    Verizon will announce the DROID Prime in October, and it'll be the Verizon variant of the SGS2.

    Meanwhile, the phone that everyone has calling the "Nexus Prime" will actually hit the streets as the Galaxy Nexus, and not on Verizon.
  • UPSLynxUPSLynx :KAPPA: Redwood City, CA Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    Galaxy Nexus? Samsung would want another Galaxy branded phone hot on the heels of the SGS2?
  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    Thrax wrote:
    An even newer rumor being circulated:

    Verizon will announce the DROID Prime in October, and it'll be the Verizon variant of the SGS2.

    Meanwhile, the phone that everyone has calling the "Nexus Prime" will actually hit the streets as the Galaxy Nexus, and not on Verizon.
    Verizon without a Nexus? FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

    If that's the case, hopefully it'll be just as easy to root and install CyanogenMod as a real SGS2.

    Of course, this is Verizon we're talking about...
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    UPSLynx wrote:
    Galaxy Nexus? Samsung would want another Galaxy branded phone hot on the heels of the SGS2?

    They were content to let US carriers introduce four different versions of the Galaxy S, so I guess they don't really care, so long as it sells.

    We'll see.

    Were I a product manager, however, I'd cling to the Nexus Prime name like a champ. It has so much momentum for enthusiasts that I'd never let the first ICS phone out the door with any other name.
  • RyderRyder Kalamazoo, Mi Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    Sigh.. time to change carriers again.

    Why are you screwing with this Verizon?
  • UPSLynxUPSLynx :KAPPA: Redwood City, CA Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    Because they're Verizon? I haven't missed them since I left three years ago.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    I look at it a little like this:

    Verizon has a policy of putting LTE on every phone in their lineup. If it's a flagship phone, it hasn't hit the market without LTE since the Thunderbolt launched.

    That presents something of a problem for our wunderphone, because nobody at Samsung is going to put an LTE radio in the stock device. It's not lucrative, because only a handful of carriers even offer LTE, and only one carrier has a decent deployment.

    So, I would be willing to bet that whatever Verizon offers will not be the Droid some people are looking for.
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited September 2011
    I was with Sprint before being with Sprint was cool...

    :D
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