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That is a perfectly reasonable assessment. If Samsung is putting inferior radios in their phones and subjecting their customers to signal issues, it will catch up with them eventually. My wife has a RAZR MAXX and I have the GNex, so I will have my own long term study going on here

After doing a little more research, I found this http://www.phonearena.com/news/Verizon-confirms-Galaxy-Nexus-signal-problems-fix-in-the-works_id24916 and I have loaded the 4.0.4 update, so maybe Verizon issued a fix and that is why I have not seen any issues?

Absolutely agree. Nexus S is WAY overdue for an OTA update. There are HTC phones with Sense that have already seen OTAs. There is no reason that people should have to root their phone to get an update, especially when it is part of the sales pitch that you will see updates before any other phone. Google really messed up on this one. Hopefully they learn from it and don't make the mistake with the GNex. As for the signal issues, you are correct, there are a lot of people that are very vocal about their signal issues. I personally have not had a problem, but I never experienced the LOS on the Samsung E4GT either. Maybe I am lucky or it is a case of "expecting something to happen, and when you see the slightest bit of evidence that may be supporting it, you jump to the conclusion you were expecting." The Nexus S had a lot of people complaining about signal issues, then there was an OTA to correct it. To this day, people call the phone junk, because of the initial problems that it had. I never owned the Nexus S, so I have no first hand knowledge of whether or not it was/is a problem. Has your wife had signal issues? I see the "signal issues" on the Samsung Nexus phones similar to the "transmission issues" that used to be the stigma with Dodge trucks. Samsung, HTC, Apple, Motorola have all proven that they are the top smartphone makers in the world, just as Ford, Dodge and Chevy have proven that they are the top truck makers in the US. If you expect to see a bad transmission in a Dodge, every bad transmission that you see on a Dodge will "prove your point," but transmissions go bad. They are a mechanical object that is prone to mechanical failure if favorable conditions are not consistantly met, in any vehicle by any carmaker. Now, as far as Samsung's radios are concerned, maybe they are not the best, but I would have to say that they are at least on par with the average of the industry. If they were really as bad as everyone seems to think, they wouldn't be in the top smartphone maker spot in the world http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/samsung-overtakes-apple-as-worlds-top-smartphone-maker/15847 shipping nearly 25% of the world's smartphones. Or at least they will not stay in that spot. For a long time, I thought Samsung feature phones had bad software and bought Sanyo instead. Recently, after owning the E4GT and now the GNex, I am very impressed with where Samsung has gone with their phones. I'm not saying that what you have experienced with Samsung is wrong, but I have seen a lot of unbased comments regarding the Galaxy Nexus being "junk" because it either doesn't have a qualcomm baseband or has junk radios etc.

Wi-Fi calling would absolutely be voip. They just offer a free voip app because they have the worst coverage of any nationwide carrier. As I said before, there are voip apps out there in the market. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

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The announcement that Sprint was rolling out their own LTE network was made in October 2011. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

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And Verizon's 3G network is a lot more reliable in many areas than Sprint's network. I hear what you're saying. Also, Sprint did not announce that WiMax was going away until October? I wonder what the sales numbers looked like in December with the GNex and RAZR vs the older E4GT Photon and Evo 3D with a 4G technology that was not expanding.

Yes, Josh, we know you are an iPhone guy...

I'm not intentionally trying to jump all over your argument, just trying to present another point. The way I see the mobile smartphone landscape when it comes to apps: 1. Customers want to buy a smartphone with a big library of apps, especially free apps. 2. In order to have apps, you have to have developers. 3. In order to have developers, the developers have to make money. 4. In order for the developers to make money, people need to buy/use their apps. 5. In order to have people buy/use their apps, they need to attract more customers/sell more phones. then you go back to 1. Microsoft is trying to infuse some cash into 3 and 5 in this model. I'm not saying that it will work for sure, but I think it gives them more chance than just letting the handset flounder like HP did with webOS Apple and Android sell phones partially because people show their friends/family all the cool things they can do with their phones. They also sell phones thanks to the advice of the store personnel, because who knows better than the people that sell phones full time? Windows phone doesn't have the market share for the friend/family referral, and there is really nothing they can do about that now. Microsoft and Nokia have instituted a program to "bribe" AT&T sales associates by paying them a small commission on every Windows Phone they sell. See here: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/82-microsoft-resorts-to-bribing-att-sales-associates-to-sell-windows-phones/ Windows phone has also offered to provide AT&T with subsidized Nokia 900s to give their employees in exchange for their current company use phone so they are familiar with the phone and can point out the unique features etc. See here: http://www.wpcentral.com/report-nokia-paying-att-exclusive-employee-use-lumia-900 They are also offering high end phones at lower prices, there are several high end Windows Phones that are free and the Nokia Lumia 900 is said to be priced at $99. The last point I will make is that Microsoft brought Nokia on board partially because those in their late 20's and older probably remember owning a Nokia. They made good phones. This will give them a little more push with the customers than just being another offering from HTC or Samsung. Plus if you see a $300 Galaxy Nexus, a $200 Galaxy SII and a $100 or free Samsung WP, you might confuse it as being inferior to the other two. Now everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and I respect that. I just think Microsoft is making all the right moves to push their way into the smartphone marketplace. Apple and Android come off as complacent, RIM seems dormant, webOS is all but dead, but WP has been very active and is putting themselves in position to make some noise. MS and Nokia will undoubtedly stop infusing all this money into promotion at some point and that is when their phones need to do the talking, the question will be "did enough handsets sell to maintain/grow their market share and earn the 'look what my phone can do' referral."

I thought for sure we would have seen an official OTA by now. Good thing the E4GT has good devs...

Apple somehow gets the carriers to tack on a higher subsidy on the iPhone... I consider that buying a reputation as well. How many less iPhones would be sold if they were $300 for the least expensive new model? I'm sure they would sell plenty, but people might consider cheaper options instead. And there would be virtually zero sales of the iPhone 4 at $200

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You're comparing apples to oranges. Apple was at the start of the app development movement. Where else were people going to develop? Windows already has earned a reputation, just not in the smartphone arena Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

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