Samsung - Galaxy Nexus 4G with 32GB Memory Mobile Phone - Black (Verizon Wireless)

I have enjoyed my Nexus tablet for about 5 months, and when I found the Nexus phone I couldn't wait to get it. I love the Android OS and I have added some apps to the phone that I don't need at home on the tablet. As a matter of fact, I wanted the HOTSPOT feature on the phone in order to get more use of the tablet away from home. They BOTH are great!!!

It was a tough decision, but I read a well written article from Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Jobs in 1976, says he’s a big fan of Android phones. If the co-founder of Apple supports the next best thing in the smart phone world, so will I!!! From the Steve Wozniak article: “My primary phone is the iPhone,” Woz says. “I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.” Woz says voice commands work better on Android. Android’s built-in navigation system, where the phone acts like a GPS system, is another advantage, he says. Woz says he recently spoke to a developer at Foursquare who said Apple’s bureaucratic approval process slows app developers down, whereas on Android, developers can get programs out faster and work on making tweaks and revisions in less time. Then there’s Siri, Apple’s new voice-recognition software. Woz says he’s been using Siri for a long time and used to love it when it was an independent application created for the iPhone. But ever since Apple bought Siri and built the software into the iPhone 4S, it doesn’t work as well as it used to. “I used to ask Siri, ‘What are the five biggest lakes in California?’ and it would come back with the answer. Now it just misses. It gives me real estate listings. I used to ask, ‘What are the prime numbers greater than 87?’ and it would answer. Now instead of getting prime numbers, I get listings for prime rib, or prime real estate,” Woz says. Worse, a lot of the time Siri says it can’t make a connection to the back-end servers that power the system. “With the iPhone 4 I could press a button and call my wife. Now on the 4S I can only do that when Siri can connect over the Internet. But many times it can’t connect. I’ve never had Android come back and say, ‘I can’t connect over the Internet.’”

I like the phone a lot but the battery life leaves a lot to be desired and the wall chargers that come with them are junk.

not bad for price and it is rough enought to take major abuse. so i give it 4 stars out of 5.

Excellent call quality and a very fast processor. The battery, however, is not the best.

The manual printed off the internet is not very explicte on a lot of "how to items". Such as how to add a contact and contact info, how to add apps

I would recommend this phone to anyone. It is easy to use and can be operated by anyone. My kids just love it. It is even easy for my husband who has no experience with the apps to play games and such.

I have just completed one month of owning of Samsung Galaxy Nexus and I have no doubt declaring I am very happy with this. This is the best smart phone on the market for the time being until iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy S3 releases. I had iPhone 4 for 2 months and I like many other people threw that 'dumb beauty' who could not be satisfied with beauty and fruit brand alone. For me that was more of a 'show off' rather than of practical use. Like -> (1) Bigger HD contour display-> Though you can distinguish between pixels while looking closely unlike iPhone's Retina display, Nexus's display is gorgeous. Colors are very vibrant and rich. Black is real black (because of Super AMOLED display technology) which creates the whole difference. The Screen is large and with medium hands I can reach to the whole screen stretching the thumb or fingers. Sometimes I tend to use the other hand (luckily I have two hands and both are fully functional so can't complaint). Because of bigger screen this phone is more useful or convenient for what Apple invented iPhone for ie Browsing web, playing games, watching videos. And because of this I tend to depend lesser on PC/laptop/tablet. With bigger screen, power and customization of Android OS this phone is closer to our old friend PC/laptop. (2) Soul-> The soul of this device is ICS OS which is now equal to iOS in terms of user friendlessness but is better because it is much more customizable and hence you feel completely in control and power. This is different feeling than using dumb iOS. After using ICS I really struggled to use the iOS or same iOS based apps. ICS is lightning fast and smooth. Face unlock, NFC, android beam and google wallet (not available on Verizon version) are very cool. Face unlock works perfectly. Built-in Data usage monitor is very helpful for not letting you go above your data limit. -> Mine is international unlocked version which within a week got automatically updated to 4.0.2 from 4.0.1. This has Best notification, better customization for web browsing. Ohhhhhhhh... did I tell you android has taken two steps which is miles ahead of time and going to change the things completely? (i) No Physical button-> The buttons are infact part of OS itself and function well. Hence the buttons can now be context specific and smarter. They change their position depending on how you are holding the phone or what you are doing. While watching video they disappear completely giving you the whole screen for watching, and yes they will reappear on appropriate place when you need them. (ii) Same OS for all devices: Unlike Apple now same application can run on any device running on ICS. For apple the applications need to be written separately both for iPhone and iPad. That's why Apple has lesser applications on iPads. With new approach of ICS now people will just write once and run it anywhere hence number of apps is going to get multiplied faster on ICS. (3) Eco System (Apps)-> Android eco system (or app market) is there on par with Apple eco system. In the same period I have installed more applications than I did on iPhone 4 (because most applications are free compared to Apple). I am more functional on Android than I was on iPhone 4. There is nothing which I want and its not there. And yes now google going to start monitoring of applications so less argument against Android apps. (4) Form factor-> I like its form factor more than of iPhone's. Countered makes it more convenient to use and keep in the pocket. Now to me iPhone is just any another device and I look on iPhone with pity. (5) Battery-> I need to charge it once a day with low to moderate usage which is what other iPhone 4S customers are also doing. And if you are going to use it like laptop you will need to charge it more (is not this same with your laptop?). Better part is unlike iPhone you can carry batteries and change it easily. No complaint here. (6) Reception-> Decent. (7) Call quality-> Nice. (8) Volume/Speaker-> Low, could be helped with volume control plus application. (9) More social-> Very well integrated with google. (10). Build-> Except the battery cover everything else is of high quality. I don't care about plastic versus metal debate. iPhone even with metal and corning glass are equivalently fragile and people have been reporting iPhone being broken having dropped just from 12 feet or so. And with gorilla glass on both ends iPhone 4 is more fragile. Remember gorilla glass is just scratch resistant not damage resistant. (11) Typing-> is a breeze and it seems to read you mind and hence make typing a different experience than on iPhone. And big screen helps every here again. Unfortunately this phone decided to do have some deliberate suicidal traits perhaps to avoid wiping away other Samsung devices. So here are the things which could have been improved upon: (1) Speaker-> Could have been better. (2) Reception-> Though not much complaint, Could have been just a 'little' better (Very Minor issue). (3) Camera-> Could have been better definitely. (4) External Storage-> Either they should have allowed adding external storage or given the device with more alternated with respect to storage capacities. (Minor issue) Conclusion-> This is the best smart phone on the market for the time being if you can live with some minor issue with volume. And all issues reported so far with this device seem to be software issues and should get corrected with updates or third part applications.