Samsung Galaxy Nexus, 10 years later: Retro Review!
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- Опубликовано: 7 янв 2022
- Ten years before the Pixel 6, there was another milestone Android device, also developed in close partnership with Samsung, that represented a huge leap forward for the platform.
This is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, launched a decade ago to revolutionize the Android ecosystem.
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I was one of those forced to live with the Verizon version. All you say is true: hugely delayed updates and the free extended battery that came with it *always* had to be in my pocket for that mid-day battery swap. Still in all, the first Android phone I truly loved. Great throwback dude.
Would you consider making a video talking about ROMs and rooting?
Oh hello, my pocketnow man! Your journey from the smartphone boom era to the flexible folding time today is just nothing short of glamorous🙌the king of phone review!
golden age of Android Gnexus with cyanogen was amazing
but only 1 rom was usable, it was called google factory image..
Ahhh.. rooting and ROMing. The old days were so fun.
I remember getting a galaxy nexus shipped all the way from the US and the thing I was most exited about was the stock android and the 720p display I eventually switched to iPhones later but the GNex was one of my highlights in my android journey
My memory of my GNEX was it was buggy as hell on 4.0, especially when using it with the official car doc, which you didn't mention. 4.1 changed all that and it was a great phone until 4.2 made it so laggy it was unusable. But the Nexus 4 was out by then and it was time to move on.
I owned one and aside from the first few years it was slow af, but oh man I loved this thing! The UI looked fantastic for that time!
Project Butter on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean was AWESOME!
I was so hyped to get one, and finally, I did, but then I quickly replaced it with an even better Nexus 4 :)
I still have a GNexus, here in Brazil, it was released as Galaxy X, due to a problem with a Telecommunications company using the Nexus name. Updates because of this came directly from Samsung, which delayed, so I decided to unlock the bootloader and install the original ROM so that the updates arrived faster straight from Google. Today, it's in my drawer, I installed a ROM based on Android 7, but it's too slow for daily use. Good times.
OMG! One device I truly miss outside my HTC and Sony phones! The Samsung Galaxy Nexus! One of my very first phone unboxings and reviews even on my RUclips Channel right now! So much history!
I remember it being so easy and cheap to swap out the battery and just keep going all day
Oh I miss those times. Even HATING the camera. ICS was so futuristic looking I fucking loved it. Plus the on screen buttons were just phenomenal
That Google Pixel 6 Pro be looking sharp af 😎🤙🏻🔥
Damn, this phone brings back memories
I had one for Sprint. I still to today think back to that phone. It's was just perfect at the time. I loved it. I miss it. 😢😢
Great video Alex!
The Galaxy Nexus was my second smartphone ever, I bought it in December 2011 when it was newly released. What a great phone it was - and such a big upgrade coming from the first HTC Desire before! I still remember my friends and family being shocked by the back then huuuuge 4,65' display. I also got the bigger battery later, which resulted in good battery life as I was using the 3G version of the Galaxy Nexus. Also got the official dock which was way to expensive, but I really had to have it. The Galaxy Nexus was my loyal companion for 3 years and then finally got stolen in October 2014 in Hamburg ... I then got the Nexus 5 which was also a great phone. Nowadays I have so much nostalgia for the Galaxy Nexus, it warms my heart to think back to that time. 😄
I had 2 or 3 backup batteries in my wallet... LTE ate that battery up! I still think HOLO on a mostly black AMOLED looked sick as hell!
Nexus One was my first Android phone. Never got another Nexus until my cousin gave me the 4.. in 2019. Then got a 5 a few months later. I still have my Nexus 5. GNex came with a weak TI chip.
This was the first smartphone I ever owned. Got it when I was a sophomore in high school and I remember being absolutely in love with it. Then, it got stolen out of my locker at the beginning of my junior year and I ended up getting stuck with a cheap LG smartphone for a few months. I was super bummed because not even the Galaxy S4 I eventually got as a replacement was on the same level as the Nexus.
Sorry that happened to you.
1. Jesus, HIGH SCHOOL?! thats way too late
2. Damn, why keep it in your locker? you couldve asked for a backup to take to school or sum.
Love these!👏
Loved my Gnex. But the battery life sucked. I had GSM model. Must have run 100 different Roms on it.
The best review for the Galaxy Nexus came from Josh Topolsky when he was still with The Verge. His Nexus 4 coverage was also awesome. Ice Cream Sandwich was the bigger game changer.
I owed this phone in 2012 and I loved it. Camera was very good at the time
This and the Nexus One are the gold age of android phones.
Back when phones had personality and weren’t rectangular slabs of glass that come out now.
The nexus was the first phone I ever bought out-right at the start (most of them came with a contract extension) but buying one made me feel like a true adult... Lol
8:49 that good old image retention
初めてのスマートフォンがこの機種でした。とても使いやすく、美しいデザイン、日常的に使用してもストレスのない性能。
とても素晴らしい機種でした。もう手元にありませんが、とても懐かしく、初めてスマートフォンを触ったときの感動が蘇りました。素晴らしい動画をありがとう。
I still have this phone.
The most iconic Google Nexus phone is the Live Wallpaper itself… 😂
Is the status bar taking the colour of the wallpaper?! That should certainly be implemented in the next version of material you!
Galaxy Nexus was my favorite phone until the news broke that it wouldn’t get 4.4 KitKat. It was heartbreaking seeing new features that it will never get so I ended up unlocking the ROM and installing Cyangenmod. 2013/2014 I switched to iPhone 5S and have only switched back to android once (for the Honor 8). I’m dying to see a modern Android that felt as fun with cool features like the Galaxy Nexus & Honor 8. A similar design to the Galaxy Nexus would astronomical in the modern day!
I remember when this phone first came out. I was on Verizon at the time, and I just had to get it. I was coming off of an LG Ally
I had the At&t version of the nexus. Damn what a great phone it was.
I wanted that Google edition GNex so bad back in the day lol
I remember paying a stupid amount to import one of these from Europe through Espansys since there was no GSM version in the USA at the time. Good times
This was my first personal cell phone after years with various nokia push to talk phones from through work. I got it when first moving to NYC and killed it three years later at Manley beach in Australia
I had a network-UNLOCKED (no update delays) US model bought direct from Google. It was great, and was the first phone I had which did HDMI-out from a cradle too.
The extended battery wasn't so bad.
Damn do i miss this Phone 😔
Pre-2017 had the best sizes for phones. And we didn't get glass backs all over. Between 2011-2014 still had great sizes for phones. While 2000-2010 had better design creativity.
You know, samsung wants to have phones that is not crack-fatiguing like glass ones, but yeah, as the samsung brand, they have to took criticisms that everyone likes to throw at it.
Ahh... I had a love-hate relationship with this phone. I loved everything about the design and software and absolutely hated the fact that I never secured one that worked properly. Every one I received from the original release purchase to the 7 replacements (yes 7) all had overheating and microphone issues. I finally traded it in for the note 3!
It was a state of the art technology then
I had the iPhone 3GS. This was my first android phone and I never went back to iPhones
It's funny how this screen used to be considered huge lmao 🤣😂
Can't wait for next year when the HTC One M7 gets covered. I own 9 phones. Flip 3, Razr 5G, Pixel 3, Essential, iPhone SE1, LG G5, Xiaomi Mi 3, Nexus 5, and Bold 9900. They're all useful for different things.
My favorite Nexus
The battery life on the Gnex was only slightly better than that on the nexus S, and on both phones each successive software update somehow managed to make the battery life better, then the next update would make it worse again. Also the lack of onboard storage was a problem, as there were no unlimited data contracts at the time. Overall I do miss the Nexus program, but it was a pain to be a nexus owner.
one of the best looking phones in my opinion. I had white version and it was so chick💥
Still kinda usable today with newpipe legacy and opera mini for basic apps
I like how the Nexus 6p was objectively best Nexus, by faaaaar
Definitely not... I think the Nexus 4 & Nexus 5 we're both much better received. The prices were absolutely unbeatable at the time. The Nexus 6P had that terrible SD810 with the performance issues from throttling.
Still got the Desire ✌️
oh 2012... i remember being sick to get this phone, endless hours watching and reading reviews, end up with the s2 instead :/
I feel like I already own the best flip phones, Pixel, Nexus, iPhone, Bold, and all-around LG. I got Mi 3 and Essential at a bargain. To make it an even 10, HTC One M7 a third time owning it? Such a beauty.
Nice rear cover! Googler edition
I still have mine.
Good nostalgia
My best phone 2012
I loved this phone. Batteries were meh but It didn't bother me because it was my first smartphone. Watching this on Pixel 7 lol.
Thought that the Google version had MKBHD icons skin at the back.
I really hate that since I think Lollipop google made the battery app less useful at identifying battery drains. Used to be able to see what apps caused a 5 hour wakelock or GPS lock and knew the app was misbehaving.
Foldables I Like The Most
1. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3
2. Motorola Razr 5G
3. Oppo Find N
4. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3
5. Huawei P50 Pocket
I'd get a Find N and be done with foldables until one of them breaks. Find N made the Fold 3 look awkward. Samsung is a follower and not a leader. They did everything right with foldables except the outer display on the Fold and Flip and their battery life.
still have mine in the drawer; one day i will use it again :D :D :D
The last clip really drives home that someone who is impaired can still have an unexpected impact on others. Their actions could have killed someone by holding up that ambulance.
Thankfully, Ambulance crews do and have used their abilities to report this kind of behaviour to the police. There are videos of another driver who was prosecuted for deliberately holding up an ambulance.
Galaxy nexus was epic, also nexus one
Blast from the past.
The TIomap chip was great
People say Pixel 2 XL panda was the best Pixel ever made. I disagree. It's the 3 and the smaller 3. Perfect size. I didn't deal with a poor LG display that the 2 XL had. SD845 is a jump from 835 esp for PS2 emus.
Back when Android phones actually soul.
instead of those DSLR camera phones we have now :P, actually I kinda enjoy being an everyday photographer
Great phone, at that time seemed gigantic. And the plastic was just good and light. Why should i nowadays wear a stone with excessive metal frame and glass, just for estetica?
My favorite pre-2016 phone remains my Xiaomi Mi 3. It's almost 8-years- old and the battery life is still amazing! Like standby is fantastic. It has FM radio. I can listen to it for hours. Kills only a few % per hour.
Remember when the playstore was called Android Market.
Dark mode before dark mode became a thing.
Now i know how old I'm 😭
Samsung s2 is getting Android 12 now
This phone is the only android phone I ever wanted back in the day. It almost made me switch from iPhone. Almost lol
Wow 50secs and 6 views
Oppo Find N might be my final, final phone. I feel like I got every phone I ever wanted. I just need a book form factor now. We'll see. I said the same thing for the Razr 5G. Find N will make it an even 10.
Damn i miss my old GNex now. Wish Google came out with an updated version with a stronger battery. Id buy it in a heartbeat
I feel like Samsung has lost a lot of their creativity lately and also far more software bugs. My S21 feels so held back by Samsung especially in their One UI 4 update.
Sometimes I miss the Holo design language. We've sort of gotten to the point now where everything is so flat and boring.
This was most likely the very worst buggiest, laggiest garbage excuse for a phone I ever used.
UwU
The worst nexus phone I ever bought. In fact, all nexus phones apart from HTC Nexus have bugs that google didn’t fix. Google support is rubbish
“The G O O G L Y apps”
I got 6 hours without turning the screen on.
I still have this phone.
Can't wait for next year when the HTC One M7 gets covered. I own 9 phones. Flip 3, Razr 5G, Pixel 3, Essential, iPhone SE1, LG G5, Xiaomi Mi 3, Nexus 5, and Bold 9900. They're all useful for different things.