Surely one of my favorite features of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the ability to show your data usage over a monthly cycle. In the data usage area, accessed via Settings | Data Usage, you can set a mobile data limit and track your data usage by application. While the Data usage feature is not an exact measurement, it does give you a good idea how close you are to your data cap. This is a feature of the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android (4.0), and will be available regardless of your carrier once you upgrade.
I recently acquired the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first phone to come with Google’s new Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) operating system. I have been putting the phone through its paces, and thus far, speech-to-text really stands out. It is arguably the best speech-to-text system offered on a smartphone.
As good as speech-to-text is, voice dialing, on the other hand, is atrociously bad. What baffles me is how speech-to-text on the Galaxy Nexus can be so accurate and easy to use, yet, voice dialing be so abysmal. For two features that are seemingly related using them is like a virtual Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde.
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus will bet the first Android device to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. In the US this device will be coming to Verizon Wireless in December. This latest commercial shows off many features of Ice Cream Sandwich. The Galaxy Nexus has a dual core 1.2 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 4.65 -inch screen 5 megapixel 1080p rear camera, and 1.3 megapixel front camera.
Several days ago Verizon announced that they would be carrying the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, one of the hottest upcoming Android devices, and the first to be released with Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. Up until that point, speculation ran rampant about where the Nexus would land. In the absence of any solid answer from other US carriers, hope still remained, since the device had already been announced for carriers in other countries. Last night, however, the hopes of many were dashed, as Verizon’s sign up page contained the underlying banner ad, stating Verizon exclusivity.
If you follow mobile phones at all, then you know that Verizon has a convergence of three powerhouse Android devices set to be released in the next few weeks. They are, in no particular order, the HTC Rezound, the Motorola Droid Razr, and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. I don’t know that I have ever seen three such amazing devices released on the same carrier in so short a time. Read on to find out everything we know about these incredible phones so that you can decide which is the best device for you.
