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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 78 reviews

Excellent:

31
Good:

33
Average:

11
Bad:

3

Pros

Gorgeous 4.65inch AMOLED Plus 720p screen, Comes with Android 4.0, Speedy performance
Beautiful and speedy Android operating system, Large, bright screen, Fast and responsive.
Enhanced interface and better performance on ICS; brilliant display, multitasking apps.
Gorgeous screen, improved Google apps, versatile camera.
No bloatware
Super responsive touch-screen and keyboard, Ice Cream Sandwich is fast, powerful and intuitive, 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.
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Giant 720p Super AMOLED display, Fast 4G LTE service
First phone shipping with Android 4,0, which includes many key software improvements, Excellent 4G LTE speeds.
The best Android phone to date, hands down. Improvements in Ice Cream Sandwich make it much easier to use. Super AMOLED screen is bright and crisp. Cool features like Face Unlock and NFCpowered Beam take phonebased parlor tricks to a new level. Data Usage
Incredible screen, Superfast performance, Beautiful and thoughtout interface
Big and beautiful 720p Super AMOLED screen; Sleeker more intuitive Android 4.0 software; Very swift performance; Fastest camera in a phone yet; Best-in-class multitasking; Robust photo editing tools

Cons

Hit and miss camera performance
Mediocre camera performance, Spotty 4G signal strength, Short battery life
Weak 5megapixel camera; plastic build quality.
Slightly larger phone to get used to, contextmenu 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
Camera is average in low light, Ice Cream Sandwich still has a few bugs causing force closes, lack of support for many video formats Look and Feel...
No MicroSD storage, Bigger than most phones
No expandable memory, No Google Wallet support, Camera is just okay.
Reception and call quality problems, Buggy HDMI output.
Some apps not fully optimized for ICS, bringing out annoying bugs. Snaps pics way faster than a Polaroid, though image quality is twice as crappy. Awesomely shiny screen makes for lessthanawesome battery life.
Poor video recording, Unimpressive design and construction
Back cover feels flimsy; No Facebook integration with People app; Type with voice feature doesn't always work

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.

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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...

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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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By HardwareZone.com on March 13, 2012

There's plenty to like about the Samsung Galaxy Nexus: its gorgeous and spacious 4.65-inch AMOLED Plus 720p screen, speedy navigation, and last but not least, the fact that it's armed with the long-awaited ICS OS. While its design is nothing to...

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By Computeractive on March 02, 2012

Although it has little interest in what manufacturers get up to with its Android operating system, Google does like to produce a smartphone of its own every now and then to show them how it thinks things should be done. The Galaxy Nexus is the third...

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By ConsumerSearch on March 01, 2012

Great smartphone, great operating systemHeralding a new era for Android operating systems is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus for Verizon, the first Android phone to run Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). "This gets said every month, but yes, the Galaxy...

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By Tech-Reviews UK on February 27, 2012

Overall, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has proven itself to be quite the power house it says it is on paper. From the insanely high-quality HD display, right down to the way Android Ice Cream Sandwich works on the device, there is hardly anything to fault...

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