Featured User Reviews Jelly Bean! Jelly Bean! The update to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus global has the fans voting it right into the top three for the past few weeks.
Android Does anyone remember a time when I got flamed for calling Google out over their Nexus line? No? Back in late November, I claimed they had lost their initiative, gave in to the pressures of wireless carriers and device manufacturers. They...
Android Dogfight battle time between two T-Mobile devices (in theory): the HTC One S and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. What's more important, specifications and build quality or the most up to date software?
Android Aaron takes a look at the HTC One S and Samsung Galaxy Nexus, both of which are available (in some capacity, at least) on T-Mobile. They're both feature-packed devices, but only one can take home the gold. Which will it be?
Android The jury in the trial between Apple and Samsung in California may still be working on coming to a verdict, but tonight some decisions were made in legal battles between the two companies in a completely different part of the world....
Featured User Reviews After watching unlocked and global devices get quicker OS updates and have quad-core processors, they have become very popular on the Official Smartphone Rankings charts.
Android It's been a while since we've heard anything in the battle between Apple and Samsung related to the Galaxy Nexus, but today a bit more information about the case came out as the lawyers for the two companies were duking it out in appeals...
Lifestyle In the future, we're going to have all sorts of neat things. Phones that lack any kind of physical buttons, phones that work with foldable displays (maybe this one sooner rather than later), and hopefully phones with better batteries.
Android When Google unveiled Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, one of the best new features of the mobile platform was Google Now. An advanced voice search, but with a twist: personalization.
Android On the last Sunday in July, on a tiresome, hour-long drive home, what I thought was a brilliant idea crossed my mind. I had spent the better part of five months devising a plan for a similar (but different) challenge to what Aaron and...
Featured User Reviews The addition of Jelly Bean has moved the global version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus up the charts quickly. For the past three weeks it has settled into the #3 spot.
Android When it comes to preferences for smartphones, there are a million little idiosyncrasies with each device that you will never learn until your get your hands on them. After a few days, you may learn how much you hate how stiff the volume...
Android Ever since last Monday, I have been using only voice input – or dictation – to enter text on my phones. That means no keyboards, no typing, no word prediction. Just speaking and going all-in on dictation, putting all of my text entry in...
Android I'm on day four of the Voice Input Challenge, but it has felt like an eternity since I woke up on Monday morning and realized it would be another seven days before I could grace my thumbs with the predictive power of SwiftKey to text...
Featured User Reviews The PhoneDog is happy to announce that today is Wednesday August 1, 2012 The first day of August is a big day for the Dog as it kicks off his favorite month of the year! He happens to know a lot of special people with August Birthday's
Android While most of the recent rumors and leaks have focused on the forthcoming iPhone, it's hard to ignore the fact that Google, too, will soon be aiding in the production of one of the market's next flagship Android phones. Despite having...
Android There is constantly a ton of hubbub about the size of smartphones, how easy (or difficult) they are to use and hold, and how much pocket space they take up. Just this morning, a couple of colleagues and I had a mini debate over this. And,...
Android Aaron and Sydney have both made the rounds with their own set of challenges. Aaron has spent 30 days with a BlackBerry Bold 9930, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nokia Lumia 900 and the Samsung Galaxy S III. And Sydney survived...
Featured User Reviews Making the biggest upward movement on the Official Smartphone Rankings chart this week, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus global landed in third position.
Android Aaron does a dogfight battle between the LG Optimus 4X HD and GSM Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The Galaxy Nexus is only $349, while the Optimus comes in at just under $600 through online retailers. Which one is the best all-around deal?
Android Dogfight time! Aaron brings the LG Optimus 4X HD and GSM Samsung Galaxy Nexus together for a head to head comparison. The Galaxy Nexus is only $349, while the Optimus comes in at just under $600. Which one is the best all-around deal?
Android It's been almost two weeks since Google officially began rolling out Android 4.1 to the HSPA+ version of the Galaxy Nexus, giving users of that handset access to goodies like Google Now and the smoothness offered by Project Butter....
Android As companies start rolling out announcements regarding smartphones getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, it’s pretty easy to get lost in the irony that they’re getting updated to a version of Google’s mobile OS that’s already...
Featured User Reviews Wow, for the first time since this segment started, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus global is our #6 device for the week earning a featured spot this Saturday.
Android Storage space on your smartphone, or lack thereof rather, isn't something many people lose sleep over at night. Unlike a computer or an external HDD, most people don't plan on storing their entire music and digital movie libraries on their...
Android When announcing Jelly Bean, Android 4.1, Google's Hugo Barra took the stage to detail some of the new Android versions's most notable features. Among the plethora of new features – such as Project Butter, a refined notification shade and...
Android Most people, when they go into their carrier store with the intention of buying a new cell phone, they plan to keep that phone for the next two years. In exchange for a smaller price tag, otherwise known as subsidization, the majority of...
Android There are hundreds of components within your smartphone that make it run as smoothly and efficiently as it does. But all of that would be for nothing if it weren't for the giant, glorious display. A smartphone's display is easily one of...
Android More news concerning the legal battle between Apple and Samsung today, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued an order that'll speed up the evaluation of Samsung's appeal of the Galaxy Nexus injunction. According...
"Simple looking phone with great features. Well done Android ! Thumbs up for ICS."
Overall4.4
Why this phone ?
I had an Samsung Galaxy i3, which was running on Eclair, began to slow down with the load of applications. I had an bigger pocket to buy an high end smart phone.
This time I was not narrow minded towards Android, with iPad at home was very impressed with IOS, decided to pick iPhone 4s when it launches in India. The pricing by the network operators were abusrd, totally out of my budget. With that money could have got an descent lens kit for my camera. Then, my attention came... more...
Through all of the hundreds of Android phones that have released in the past year, the Galaxy Nexus is easily one of the most highly anticipated and notable that we at PhoneDog have had a chance to review. It's big, slim and stylish, and it comes packed with some of the best specifications we've seen in a handset to date. Officially, you can only purchase it through Verizon in the United States, but through other resellers, you can purchase an unsubsidized, unlocked GSM version that... more...
Arushha
"Simple looking phone with great features. Well done Android ! Thumbs up for ICS."
4.4