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Samsung Galaxy Nexus GT-I9250

The Galaxy Nexus by Samsung is the first device to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It also gets a larger battery and a super high-resolution display. It features a subtly curved front glass panel that protects the 720p resolution (720 x 1280) Super AMOLED HD touchscreen display.

Based on 83 reviews

Excellent:

33
Good:

36
Average:

11
Bad:

3

Pros

Gorgeous 4.6 inch AMOLED Plus 720p screen.
Comes with Android 4.0.
Fast and responsive.
Enhanced interface.
Multitasking apps.
No bloatware.
Super responsive touch-screen and keyboard.
Excellent social and email features.
Best iteration of Gmail available.
Full-featured camera with instant shutter and time lapse mode.
First phone with Android 4, fast and clean, great call quality.
Robust photo editing tools.

Cons

Hit and miss camera performance.
Spotty 4G signal strength.
Short battery life.
Plastic build quality.
Slightly larger phone to get used to.
Context menu should be made consistent in apps.
Does not support USB mass storage mode.
Macs require a file manager app to browse files via USB.
No microSD card.
Ice Cream Sandwich still has a few bugs causing force closes.
Lack of support for many video formats.
No Google Wallet support.
Reception and call quality problems.
Buggy HDMI output.

By TechSpot on December 22, 2011

As the current Google flagship smartphone, the Galaxy Nexus by Samsung is the first device to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The super large, super high-resolution display on the Galaxy Nexus is a dream to look at. Verizon's U.S. version is 4G ready and the new Android operating system gives users something very new and interesting to work with. It's a good combination.

90
By PC Mag on July 25, 2012

The unlocked Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the only way to get pure, unadulterated Jelly Bean (Android 4.1), and it's an unusually good deal for a smartphone that doesn't come with a specific carrier...

80
By evogadget.com on June 01, 2012

The Samsung GT-I9250 Galaxy Nexus is one of the manufacturer's most stable smartphones. And one of the most adequate when it comes to great performance, interesting specs and looks. So don't shy away from...

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By Dev Hardware on May 23, 2012

TOOLS YOU CAN USE advertisementAre you in the market for a new smartphone? This review will take a look at the Samsung Galaxy Nexus in terms of design, features, and performance to help you decide if this Android handset just released for Sprint...

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By PC Mag on May 17, 2012

Sprint's version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus pairs a "pure Google" experience with unlimited data, but for now, that's very slow data....

80
By Phone Arena on April 10, 2012

This was it, shutterbugs. Apparently we don't have an ultimate camera phone here, but even if we had one, it wouldn't have been the new HTC One X. The handset did arrive with a very fast ImageSense camera, which made photo-taking very intuitive...

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By Phone Arena on April 06, 2012

There's no doubt that both the One X and Galaxy Nexus are incredibly strong opponents to come out against. It's quite interesting, though, when you think about how your overall impression of a handset changes with time. When one approaches the...

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By HardwareHeaven on March 30, 2012

Looking at the operating system first Android 4.0 is a huge leap forward from 2.x and noticeably better than the tablet optimised Honeycomb. Almost immediately we noticed differences in overall performance with 4.0 giving us more fluid, quicker and...

80
By InsideHW on March 28, 2012

Nexus is a smartphone family signed by Google, while the OEM manufacturer is variable – for Nexus One, it was HTC, and for the next one, Nexus S, Google picked Samsung; the latest member of the family, Galaxy Nexus, is signed by Samsung yet again....

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By techcrunch.com on March 20, 2012

The LG Spectrum isn’t necessarily my favorite phone. It’s got pretty nice specs and a killer screen, but there’s something to be said about the way a phone draws you in from across the room. I don’t mean to get all romantic or dramatic about it, but...

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