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Samsung Galaxy Nexus & Ice Cream Sandwich Reviewby Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/18/2012 1:34 PM EST
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roedtogsvart - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkFinally! Reply
prophet001 - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkJust had one of this hit my desk today :D very nice phone. Reply
Owls - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkNo offense but I'm kind of pissed after reading this article with what amounts to a masturbatory article about the iphone 4s.
For example on an ipad 2 and iphone 4s there is plenty of lag here and there using the UI on par with gingerbread. On ICS? It's pratically nonexistent.
The camera? The only issue I found was that on Auto the shots didn't always come out great. Some manual adjustments fixed that and after comparing the shots to my dad's iphone 4s there's virtually no difference.
I pretty much stopped reading after the camera section. Reply
michael2k - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkWhat kind of lag are you talking about? The A5 SoC is one of the most powerful out there and it's already been noted in several reviews how the older A4 SoC plus iOS 4 and 5 outperformed Gingerbread. You're saying the lag on ICS is somehow better than an A5 plus iOS 5 by saying the A5 + iOS 5 is as laggy as a CPU bound unaccelerated Android 2.3? Reply
medi01 - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkWhy, do you think, anand is using 720p "off-screen" in benchmarks, why not try it directly on screen?
Oh, and why "black levels" aren't present on screen comparison? And why iphones dissapear from charts where they are wtfpwned by other phones?
Sigh. Disgusting. Reply
michael2k - Monday, January 23, 2012 - linkAll the phones and tablets would go up in number if they used native resolution, but then you can't actually compare the HW because each would be constrained by different resolutions. By using 720p offscreen you get to judge all the HW on the same scale.
Also, Anand has definitely reported black levels:
I don't know of any places where the iPhone disappear so much as the iPhone doesn't run the app. You'll notice that the rankings appear congruent; 4S followed by S2 with the Nexus and 4 on the bottom. Nothing changes, except that certain apps aren't available for the iPhone. Rightware Basemark is an Android app, silly. Reply
medi01 - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - linkAnd "actual HW number" tells you what? That GPU X is faster than GPU Y? Instead of saying "phone X would render faster than phone Y"? How is first more appropriate mesurement than the latter?
@Also, Anand has definitely reported black levels:@
Are you kidding me? Where is vs amoled comparison in your link? How is it related to the article in discussion?
Not only do they skip "black levels", they somehow manage to make a picture of AMOLED screen where BLACK looks GREY. Wow, great job misleading readers. Reply
michael2k - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - linkYes, GPU X is faster than GPU Y is a perfectly valid comparison. You would have to ask Anand why he thought comparing GPUs was a valid benchmark, but given the long track record of how responsive the iPhone has been compared to Android, I don't see how that anything else is relevant. The fact that offscreen performance favors the iPhone 4S doesn't change that it doesn't favor the iPhone 4!
Also, why would he compare to amoled when in fact there are no amoled tablets to compare to?
You're a baseless and pointless critic. Reply
doobydoo - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkThere is no lag at all on the iPad 2 or the iPhone 4S, what are you talking about?
I think you're more pissed off that the Nexus came with an average camera and a 2-year-old GPU. Reply
Lucian Armasu - Monday, January 30, 2012 - linkWell, iPhone 4 came with a 2 year old GPU, too in 2010, and much lower FPS than the competition, if you remember those GPU charts, where the iPhone 4 was the last at the bottom. Not too many people seemed to care about it. Reply
JohnJackson - Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - linkYou mean the one where the devices were running the benchmarks at the respective device's NATIVE resolution? 960x640 has 60% more pixels than 800x480...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4064/glbenchmark-20-... Reply
Subzero0000 - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkWhere do you get "lag" in iPad 2?
I use it everyday and the only lag I found is when I slide to the spotlight screen, or browsing webpage (while rendering). Reply
sonelone - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkSeriously, where do you get lag on the iPad or iPhone? With the SGX543MP2 rendering nothing but a grid of icons, getting lag would be ridiculous. Reply
augustofretes - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkPseudo power users, judging mobile operating systems based on their home screens since 2007. Reply
audioman83 - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkLOL agreed. So sad. Reply
Owls - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkblah blah blah I don't like my iphone/ipad being compared so let me make fun of that person for being objective.
I know the gnex is not perfect but guess what, neither is your apple product. We all live with compromises and this is no different. However, I refused to be ripped off by apple AND be forced to use itunes.
sorry mr apple user. Reply
Subzero0000 - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkFirstly, I think you are over-reacting (so did augustofretes).
See, I wouldn't complain if someone finds a few lag on Android, because I appreciate the fact that Android is running true-multitasking, with all the widgets and background tasks give us the flexibility that iOS can never dream of.
But then, you cloud your judgment with hatred...
For example, I use Windows 7 at home, Android for phone, iPad for everything else (reading, browsing, gaming, etc...).
I use Google account to sync calendar+contact between Android and iPad.
I buy books in Amazon, and read them through Kindle app on iPad.
I upload my own mp3 to iPad through iTunes, no problem.
Mobile games are better quality on iOS (the truth), so I am happy to buy in AppStore.
There is nothing forcing you to use iTunes.
and "ripped off"? I actually think iPad is cheap, as a outstanding CONSUMER product.
So, calm down, it's just a product. And have a nice day :) Reply
medi01 - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkYeah, nothing is "forcing" you to use iTunes apart from the fact that many Apple's products won't even switch on for the first time without itunes. Reply
Subzero0000 - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkWell, what is the matter with one-time activate with iTune?
If you find that annoying, then how about the procedure to root/flash your Android, or jb your iOS.
How on earth would a tech-savvy find it annoying/difficult for such a easy task (iTune) ???
I am really confused.
Do you ever forget about the brand-hate and not being stubborn for a second?
btw, I remember I got my iPad activated at the store, their staff open the box and do it for me anyway. I could have done it by myself, but hey, it's "customer service".
oh, and if you think iTune is crap, wait till you try Samsung's "equivalent" (KIES)... Reply
medi01 - Saturday, January 21, 2012 - linkOh, now easily you've switched from "nobody is forcing you" to "what's the deal".
It's not one time activate with most devices it's "one time activate and this PC is your only way to put stuff on your device, unless you are using yet to be closed internet way of doing it".
@@@If you find that annoying, then how about the procedure to root/flash your Android, or jb your iOS.@@@
Could you get a clue, before whining about stuff about which you have very little idea? The only reason I had to root android device, was bacause it was rather old OS with fonts that didn't contain glyphs I needed.
And one thing you're completely missing, dear "I'm not an apple fanboi", YOU DON'T HAVE TO ROOT YOUR ANDROID DEVICE TO GET ACCESS TO IT. You don't have to root it to access it as a hard drive. Neither do you have to root it to install whatever you want on it.
@@@oh, and if you think iTune is crap, wait till you try Samsung's "equivalent" (KIES).@@@
I've never used KIES (even though I have a phone and a tablet by Samsung), so it's hard to compare them. But unlike apple "customers", android users have absolutely no need in using KIES. Reply
thecraw - Saturday, January 21, 2012 - linkcouldn't stop laughing at that statement, sure no one is forcing you to use itunes, its your own problem if you want to backup your iproduct or upgrade your iOS etc.. yes no one is forcing you right... Reply
steven75 - Friday, February 10, 2012 - linkHave you never heard of iCloud? I mean are we in bizarro world here or is everyone really THAT clues on iOS 5? Reply
augustofretes - Monday, January 23, 2012 - linkI found comments like yours absolutely hilarious, because I don't own an iPhone, nor I'm interested on buying one, I'm perfectly happy with my Samsung Galaxy S II running CM9 ;-)
You're not being objective, unless, of course, you only see your homescreen and never open any application.
The iPhone 4S is not perfect, I completely agree, but the interface is more fluid, this is fact, pinch-to-zoom is not a smooth, even on a GNex, as it on the 4S, but it's pretty smooth now.
Sorry mindless fanboy. Reply
kebab77 - Sunday, February 05, 2012 - linkSerious performance boost for phones currently on Android 2.3.x:
... Samsung Galaxy S2 still top of the pile! Reply
macs - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkMy only suggestion is that there are some device that need a sort of priority for a review. Galaxy Nexus and ICS should be on this list like the Apple products (you already do that) and maybe a flagship WP 7 device like Lumia 800/900.
We can wait a bit more for device like Razr, Lumia 710, various HTC, various Samsung,...
In 1 H 2012 my priority list will be Galaxy S 3, first device with Krait and Ipad 3.
Back at reading, I know this will be a good read!
Thank you Reply
roedtogsvart - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkAnand, just thought I'd throw this in there:
For something like $25 (Verizon) you can buy an extended battery and gain an additional 250 mAh (1850 vs 2100) that adds basically no perceptible thickness to the device, though I did not precisely measure. Have you tested with the extended battery? I feel like it makes an already amazing phone even better. Reply
Brian Klug - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkI managed to snag an extended battery for the RAZR review, but didn't get the chance to do the same with the CDMA/LTE Galaxy Nexus. I've seen that battery however, and it is a novel design - the back doesn't get thicker, just flatter (the whole phone is as thick as the bulge).
We've seen pretty linear scalings before, so you can assume that extra 250 mAh will scale linearly as well.
-Brian Reply
3DoubleD - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkThe task switcher is blazing fast on the Transformer Prime, so I'd say it's a Galaxy Nexus limitation and not an ICS limitation. Reply
Lucian Armasu - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkAnand didn't say it's an ICS issue either. He said it's a GPU issue, because older GPU's still can't handle HD resolutions very well, just like Tegra 2 GPU barely could, too.
But I'm sure on lower-end ICS phones with lower resolutions, it should work faster, so it's not like every ICS phone will need a Tegra 3 GPU-level from now on. Reply
GnillGnoll - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkHe said it _could_ be a GPU issue. Something which I strongly doubt, it's not like the task switcher adds that much graphics load over rendering the normal UI. Reply
HooDooMagic - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkI think it's already been mentioned that 4.03 fixed the task switcher lag. I have alpha ICS 4.03 roms running on a Nexus One, Nook Color and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and everything runs very smoothly on all 3 devices. Even the very underpowered Nook has surprisingly little lag and stutter when using the task switcher and transitioning between screens/app drawer etc. Reply
Chloiber - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkThe Galaxy Nexus is a very nice phone indeed, but there are just some things that I don't like about it. As mentioned in the review, the GPU is not the best, which is actually the main reason I won't buy the phone. I buy smartphones which should last about 2 years. Buying one with a GPU from the beginning of last year is just not good enough. As Anand mentions: better wait for Q2, maybe Q3. At the moment, the GN is certainly the best phone (in my opinion) money can buy, but it's not the right moment to buy an android phone.
The review is very late indeed...but very thorough - thank you!
One question remains: are microSD slots a thing of the past? Google mentioned that there is a good reason why they didn't include one (slow speeds for apps). But I still think that's a very bad reason not to include a slot. While it is true, that the mSD cards are pretty slow compared to internal storage, there is just no way in hell I'm gonna pay 100$+ for 16GB of additional internal NAND. Additionally, you don't need high speeds for music, pictures and movies (the main reason to get an SD card).
I hope for a phone in Q2/Q3 with a) better SoC, b) an SD card slot and c) a 720p IPS or SAMOLED+ screen. Reply
humancyborg - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI agree. The GPU is a terrible oversight on this phone, particularly considering the inclusion (finally) of OpenGL rendering throughout Android.
With the 4S GPU being 3-4x faster it's tough to see how this phone is going to stand the test of time. Presumably the iPad3 and next iPhone will be packing an even more powerful SoC and GPU.
This is one of the main reasons that I think Apple is in a great position going forward with regards to hardware. With the exception of Samsung, everyone else is relying on TI, Qualcomm, Intel, etc to make the right decisions with regards to CPU/GPU etc combination and clearly those chip makers do not always have the best insight with regards to product pipeline or requirements.
A retina display-ish version of the iPad is going to take a GPU far beyond anything the current SoC guys are manufacturing. Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkThe next generation of PowerVR SGX graphics chips are supposedly 20x as powerful as the current ones. I'm guessing Apple will still be using the dual core variant of the 6** series. That's good, if the 4x screen resolution rumours are true.
Yeesh, Android devices still haven't caught up to the old GPU now a new one is around the corner. Nvidia is stuck with their own GPU's of course, but TI or Samsung should switch to PowerVR if this performance domination continues. Reply
trob6969 - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkWhat performance domination?! Android phones are easily the most powerful on the market! Reply
Greg512 - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkNot when it comes to GPU power. The iPhone 4S has a GPU 3-4 times as powerful as the one in the Nexus. Android phones do tend to have higher clocked processors, however, so they do have a healthy advantage on that front. Android phones also have more RAM, though many would debate that iOS is memory efficient, negating the hardware advantage. Reply
KoolAidMan1 - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkYou're kidding, right? The Tegra 3 is slower than the eight month old A5. Everything in Android world is playing catch-up with old parts, which is odd given that they have a more frequent upgrade cycle. Problem is that they've been behind since the beginning. Reply
doobydoo - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linktrob6969 - the leading Android phones have CPU's which are largely comparable to the CPU in the iPhone 4S - in some cases they even boast up to ~10% extra performance (as a result of, in some cases, 50% higher clock speed), but only in CPU limited tasks, and that <10% is barely noticeable.
Graphically, the GPU in the Nexus Prime is far slower than even the Samsung Galaxy S2 - using an older GPU which is up to 3x slower than the GPU in the iPhone 4S. The GPU in the SG2 (the fastest Android GPU) is also far slower than the iPhone 4S (as the benchmarks in this review show)
Because iOS is hardware accelerated (and tightly intertwined with the iPhone), the performance of the iPhone 4S and iOS is far superior to any Android phone out at this moment in time. Reply
zorxd - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkuh?
50% faster clock speed gives you 50% more performance in CPU limited tasks. Don't forget that it's the same architecture (Cortex A9).
Zoomer - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkNot really, the A9 ISA have many different architecture implantations. TI does their own, Apple probably did their own, and I believe nVidia has their own too. Reply
zorxd - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkThey can have some differences (cache size, memory bandwidth, neon instructions) but the A9 is not an ISA. ARMv7 is.
Given that it has the same configuration, an Apple A5 behave the same as a TI OMAP4 or a Samsung Exynos of the same clock speed. I beleive nVidia tegra2 lacks the neon instructions so can be slower in some cases. There is an article on Anandtech about this.
Given that the iPhone 4S is only 800 MHz it is the slowest A9 CPU by far. Reply
pSupaNova - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkThe GPU's on the IPhone uses Tiling so in most GPU rendering tasks it will be a lot faster, However spit lots of Triangles at it and then see how fast it really it is. Reply
StormyParis - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkIt's not all about performance, at least if you don't do FPS games. The screen on the Nexus is much bigger than on the 4S for example. For me, it's not about performance at all. I went for the GN for its even bigger screen, and that criteria alone was 95% of my decision, the remain 5% being "... and the rest don't suck", and "has xda-dev support'. Reply
humancyborg - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkOnce you start accelerating the entire interface, performance becomes much more significant than just FPS games. There's a reason Apple uses such a gigantic and powerful GPU in their devices, and it's definitely not only for FPS gamers.
Agree with you on the rest, there are other good reasons to buy this phone, just a shame that they skimped here. I have the 4S, GN and Lumia 800 currently and constantly switch around between them. Reply
metafor - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkIt doesn't really take a whole lot of resources to render a 2D interface. Just about any ol' GPU with OpenGL ES 2.0 support will do it.
About the only thing where the GPU is the limiting factor is rendering 3D games. And even then, most if not the vast majority of games on the market will continue to be written for this level of hardware for at least the coming year.
Honestly, people take benchmarks way too seriously. Reply
doobydoo - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkActually, you're absolutely wrong.
In fact, the GPU slowness is cited in this very article for causing slowdowns in situations where no 3D gaming is being done.
Remember, the operating system as a whole is hardware accelerated, so every thing you do - animations, transitions, task switching, etc are carried out by the GPU. With the higher screen, the speed of the GPU becomes even more relevant.
The combination of a high resolution screen and a low powered GPU is a bad combination and materially affects the performance of everything you do on the phone. Reply
zorxd - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkDo you remember the iPhone 4? Who complained that the GPU was slow? It was much slower than the SGX540 in the Galaxy S. Reply
metafor - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkSpeculation in an article isn't exactly proof of concept.
Alpha blending, panning, compositing are very light tasks for a GPU pipeline; it's only a problem when a GPU is TMU-limited. And if it's TMU-limited, it would be obvious all the time.
I don't think you quite grasp exactly what parts of UI rendering are handled -- or could be -- by the GPU and just how trivial it is compared to rendering a 3D game. Reply
trob6969 - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkWhat i don't understand is why would samsung give the gn 1gig of ddr2 ram then give it an inferior GPU? But to be fair, Apple is no better. Why give iphone 4s a powerful GPU then give it only 512 mb of ram?! My old-ass og moto droid from over 2yrs. ago had that much! Reply
doobydoo - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkAs alluded to by numerous posters, including one in this comments section, iOS handles memory usage more efficiently than Android so it doesn't suffer any performance penalty as a result of having less RAM. Reply
zorxd - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkAnd what exactly is more efficient? Reply
c4v3man - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkTheir implimention of pseudo-multitasking as opposed to the much more flexible multitasking in Android. Reply
erple2 - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkBingo!
Since the iOS can't do "true" multitasking, primarily as a design decision on Apple's part to greatly improve battery life (seen the battery life numbers on WebOS? They're pretty terrible), the requirements for memory are generally quite a bit lower than for Android.
You could argue all day as to which one is better, and still not come up with a clear winner. This is strictly due to the phone form factor. Given the limitations on usable screen size (can't display 2 apps at once reliably), and that you have to rely on battery life, the argument of which is "better" is more difficult to make. These all disappear when power is no longer a serious concern (desktop), nor physical screen display (notebook through desktop). Reply
zorxd - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkyeah and DOS is better because it works fine with only 1MB RAM. Reply
OCedHrt - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkWhich is fine due to fast app switching. Reply
trob6969 - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkYou didn't have to sacrifice GPU performqnce for a 4.3 inch 720p HD display. You could have done what i did and got an htc rezound. I downloaded Dead space, which is probably one of the most GPU demanding games for a phone, and gameplay is FLAWLESS on it! ZERO choppiness throughout the game. My rezound plays this game just as smoothly as my playstation 3. That says a lot about a phone's performance. Reply
metafor - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkNote that with the increased clockspeed to the SGX540, the OMAP4460 matches the GPU performance of a Snapdragon S3 (used in the Rezound).
Both chips perform similarly with the CPU clock at 1.2GHz (compare Sensation 4G to GN, for example). Reply
dwang - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkDeadspace runs perfectly fine on the galaxy nexus. No choppiness or slowdown. Reply
Zoomer - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkTI probably didn't anticipate the move to such high resolutions. The 540 was probably chosen as a good enough solution, given the power reqs are well.
This is where Apple's hardware-software codesign wins out. Reply
Johnmcl7 - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkThat reasoning that microSD cards are too slow seems to only apply to some of the cheap phones which pretty only use micro SD storage, for a phone like the Nexus it doesn't matter as you say because the micro SD card is for storage rather than applications. I don't really understand why the Nexus doesn't get a harder time for the lack of microSD storage given the relatively low onboard storage and high spec which means it can play back high resolution video which needs quite a bit of space. It's one of the main reasons I went for the Note instead which has the better camera, faster GPU and the micro SD storage allowing me to add 32GB very cheaply (and more down the line when 64GB cards come down in price) which is pretty necessary as the high resolution video recording and other features chew through space very quickly.
John Reply
Insomniator - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI wonder if the Rezound's Adreno 220 will help with the delays using the ICS buttons. Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkThe chip in this one generally benchmarks right after the Mali 400, the fastest GPU in an Android phone right now. Its probably a software thing, not hardware. Reply
Insomniator - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkAccording to anand's own benchmarks (can't find much else on the 220) the SGX540 is significantly slower...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4243/dual-core-snapd... Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI know, but its still one of the faster GPU's out there. I don't see why the GPU would be a limitation on just the function buttons while the rest of the UI is buttery smooth. Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkAlso, one of the comments below ours show Android 4.03 being faster and almost eliminating that lag, so it was a software thing. Reply
doobydoo - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkFair enough - it may have been a software thing.
Nevertheless, it's a software thing which doesn't happen on the faster GPU of the Samsung Galaxy S2. So I'd say it's a bit of both. Reply
zorxd - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkIs the iPhone 4 with the slow SGX535 lagging? If not, how can it be a hardware thing? Reply
zorxd - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkYou are comparing a 1GHz TI OMAP4 SGX540 to a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S3 Adreno 220.
The CPU alone can explain the difference between the Optimus 3D (31 fps) and the qualcom developement platform (37-38 fps).
As you can see, single core devices using the SGX540 are even slower.
At a given CPU clock speed (let say the common 1.2 GHz) I think the SGX540 is faster than the Adreno 220. Reply
jeremyshaw - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkDifferent architecture. Snapdragon at 1.5GHz is probably a smidgen slower than Cortex-A9 at 1.2GHz. Remember Snapdragon as an amped-up Cortex A8. Reply
french toast - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkScorpion is not an amped up A8, they are not related in any way other than the v7 ISA.
The adreno 220 is way more powerfull than a 540, the problem with it was the poor bandwidth and the terrible drivers qualcomm released it with, it you check out the scores of the samsung galaxy s2 skyrocket with those new drivers it is much faster. Reply
zorxd - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkThe Skyrocket is also 1.5 GHz so the CPU helps. Reply
sprockkets - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkThere's a very small bit of lag on the bottom buttons. Quite frankly I think the delay is just the OS making sure you are holding down the home button for the task manager instead of just going home.
Using ICS on a HTC Sensation. The status of it is beta - HTC still has work to do on it to make it as good as the 2.3.4 ROM. Reply
webmastir - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkLove my Galaxy Nexus. Best phone I've ever had & have no DOUBT in my mind that I'll be happy until my next Phone.
Thanks Google! Reply
OCedHrt - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkSince I can't get the HTC keyboard working on AOSP ICS...I have to make this comment: I prefer the HTC keyboard much much more than even the ICS keyboard. It is ridiculously easy to mistype on the ICS keyboard. Reply
vithee05 - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkCan you guys tell me how the accessibility is in ICS? It's supposed to be better for those of us who are visually impaired. I am debating between the galaxy nexus, the razr, or waiting on the droid 4 to get the keyboard. Do you think the accessibility is good enough to not need the keyboard? Reply
secretmanofagent - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkI have a Droid RAZR (2.3.5) in my hands, and looking at the accessibility settings, it's pretty paltry. If you're considering a RAZR or Droid 4, I would wait until ICS shows for it. Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI agree that its worlds better than the Gingerbread browser, but scrolling on image heavy pages still lags a bit compared to Opera Mobile (not to be confused with Mini). AFAIK Opera Mobile uses GPU acceleration as well and seems to do it better than Google at their own game. Just an idea, but a comparison of all the Android browsers would be nice :) Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - link*on my Nexus S. Maybe on newer/faster phones it would be a toss up. Reply
bjacobson - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkReally? interesting. Opera seems to get everything right. Their browser is blazing fast for Netbooks too. Everything in the UI and foreground tab gets processing priority, everything else (like background tabs rendering) gets delayed. It's a flawless design, much more responsive than Chrome when loading multiple tabs. Reply
tipoo - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkYeah, and as far as I know its the only browser that dynamically adjusts its memory use depending on how much your using for other tasks, so it scales up or down to more powerful or less powerful systems, another reason its good on netbooks. It has addons now too which are rapidly gaining traction. If it wasn't for some compatibility niggles I would say its hands down the best browser, but I keep Chrome around for the 1 in 1000 site it might break. Oddly enough the Mobile version seems to be the opposite, its the only mobile browser that I've never seen break a site. Reply
gamoniac - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkThe article is co-authored, yet I keep seeing the use of "I" as the pronoun in sentences throughout. As a daily AT reader, I find it a bit awkard when trying to put a face to the article. I like the writing style; it just bugs me when I can't figure out whether it is Anand or Brian who is making the statement that I am reading. Perhaps the use of "we" makes more sense?
Thanks. Great work as usual. Reply
Omid.M - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkAs an editor, I agree with this comment.
It's not a huge deal, but it's nice to see:
AL: I think that...
BK: I disagree with Anand, but...
Just don't do it everywhere because it'll seem like an interview.
The videos have been the best new thing AT has done in a long time. Thanks! Good to put faces to names, even better to add voices. Next, comment system ;)
-Omid Reply
bjacobson - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkPerhaps writers at Anand should be required to speak in terms of The Collective. Reply
Brian Klug - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkThis is definitely something we've struggled with in the past and admittedly continue to struggle with. Most of ICS is Anand (though we collaborated and always wind up agreeing about most things), then the hardware and onwards is myself.
Think of us as a hivemind (or collective) and the problem goes away :P
-Brian Reply
Zoomer - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkOr write in 3rd person like a technical paper. Though that can be boring to read. Reply
just4U - Friday, January 20, 2012 - link"Think of us as a hivemind (or collective) and the problem goes away :P
It does NOT!! Ok, which bonehead asimilated Brian & Anand? There goes the neighborhood (...grin) Reply
thebitdnd - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI've had my GNex since the day after launch. It surpasses any experience I've had with a smartphone (including HTC Incredible, iPhone 3GS, and a HTC EVO) as a web browser and mobile computer device, but the single complaint I have is with using it as a...(wait for it) PHONE.
I've had over a dozen calls now where I'll be conversing away and all of the sudden my microphone cuts out and the other person can't hear a word I'm saying. The call is still connected and I can hear them just fine, but I have to hang up each time and call them back.
Google directed me to Verizon, Verizon says it's a Samsung/Google problem, but I've been assured it's a software problem and there will be a fix in 'an upcoming update'.
As much as I like the hardware and software, not making reliable calls is a real kick in the junk for a smartphone. Reply
jalexoid - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkWell, what did you want with CDMA or LTE? No bugs? Reply
mhaager2 - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkGreat review as always Anand. My only criticism is that it felt like it took you a very long time to get this review out compared to how quickly the iphone 4S review came out. I think your comments about the hardware are correct; its certainly not leaps and bounds ahead of other phones. Being my first phone since the iphone 3G I do wish it was more bleeding edge to future proof it a bit. However it actually works very well, both as a content consumption device, as well as (gasp) as a phone, and I just love, love, love that fact that its penta band. Now when I visit the US I no longer have to endure the legal extortion that used to be the norm with carrier locked devices. That feature alone makes this phone better than any other out there,, old GPU and all.
Has anyone overclocked this to its 1.5 ghz spec? I wonder if there is any appreciable differerence and what the battery life trade off is. Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI can only speak from my experience with my Nexus S, but the max CPU speed has little battery life impact compared to the impact the CPU governor does. 1.3GHz with the Lazy governor (available in Trinity Kernel) lasts longer than the stock 1GHz on OnDemand. Reply
bjacobson - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI believe most of the readership is willing to wait--it's the price we pay for the most analytical reviews the net has to offer, and I definitely hope AT doesn't take a page from Tom's Hardware's book... That said, this one does seem a bit delayed, poor Anand has too much to do... Reply
dwang - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkAny remaining lag issues in ics is due to software and not hardware.
4.0.3 has significant performance enhancements that address any remaining lag issues in the browser and buttons.
For example, theverge.com lags pretty badly in 4.0.1/4.0.2, but is buttery smooth in 4.0.3. Check out this youtube video.
Either wait for google to push out 4.0.3 to the galaxy nexus or install one of the many custom 4.0.3 roms from xda.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f... Reply
cgalyon - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI've noticed popping and static coming from my GNexus when using apps (such as AmbiSciPS) that include extremely low tones (like 1.05Hz). I never had this problem with my Droid X, so I'm wondering if this is a limitation of the GNexus in general or if maybe I'm having bad luck. I don't suppose there's a way you could test the ability of the phone to produce tones across a broad range of frequencies? Reply
bjacobson - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkconsidering 1hz is 6hz below the threshold of human hearing (7hz), 19hz below what most headphones support (20hz), and about 80hz below what perfect-pitch musicians could identify as do, rei, me, fah, so, lah, or ti, I think you're asking a bit much... Reply
gorash - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI hope Android becomes a full-fledged desktop OS pretty soon, and it would be interesting to see how iOS will pan out in a few years.
We're ready to say GOODBYE to Windows hegemony. Reply
Zoomer - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkNo thanks, that would suck badly. Reply
sjankis630 - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI have the Galaxy Nexus and while I love it, I am coming from the Droid Eris, I have noticed several picture heavy sites which cause stuttering while zooming. I was slightly taken aback. I don't care how well my phone does against some other phone in a contest. I do, however, mind when visiting some sites makes it kind of annoying trying to get around.
2 particular problem sites for me are : www.theverge.com and www.msnbc.com
Lovely phone though. Reply
dwang - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkwait for 4.0.3 that addresses the browser lag issues.
Here is 4.0.3 on theverge.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN27yZQWfU0 Reply
notext - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linklove my nexus even though I dropped it and put a big ass crack on the screen. dropped my iphone many times and it never had a problem. Hopefully it was just a bad hit and not a sign of its design. Reply
notext - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkand i will send you my broken glass once I can get a replacement. The closest repair place here in austin said it is unavailabe right now. Reply
StormyParis - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkAndroid should use the tried and true method of siplaying a *screenshot* of the home page as soon as the home button is pressed, and then replacing it with the live version. Btton presses are indeed way too laggy. Reply
CoryS - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI feel it is worth mentioning that custom kernels, combined with 4.03 have completely removed the task switcher lag. The latest version of Francos Kernel has increased idle battery life by an incredible margin (I lose about 1% every 10 hours on idle) and it has removed all UI lag I noticed on the stock device. Reply
dwang - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - link+1
My gn is buttery smooth with 4.0.3 bigxie ROM and franco kernel.
Best phone I've ever used and I've owned every nexus phone (nexus one, nexus s) and the g1. Reply
bjacobson - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkthis is why people go to Apple, because Google, even on their flagship phone, can't make it out better than the modding community. Reply
dwang - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkwhat exactly are you babbling about. 4.0.3 is responsible for most of the performance improvements and thats from google. Reply
phantomash - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkIf Apple did such a good job on iOS then why is there the term "jailbreak"? Reply
doobydoo - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkFor the minority of users who want to use a different OS to iOS?
A number, which you should take note, is far lower than the percentage of Android users who want to 'root' their phone (the equivalent). Reply
Tetracycloide - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkOf course it's far lower, the people that want to customize like that avoid Apple because it's not as customization. It's an intellectually dishonest self-fulfilling statement that demonstrates absolutely nothing. Reply
Blackened144 - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkThat goes both ways.. If Google did such a good job on Android, why is there the term "root"? Reply
Tetracycloide - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkYour response to a post highlighting the strengths of a partially open platform vis a vis third party kernel development is that that is the reason people go with a completely closed platform? That makes no sense at all... Reply
CoryS - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkGuys, this is a NEXUS it is a dev device. That primary reason I got it was because of this...better hardware will be right around the corner...but we won't see another Nexus..especially on Verizon for some time.
It is refreshing to have a community to fix issues OEMS ignore (yes even Apple) for a change. This is my first unlocked device, and i can't see myself ever going back to anything else. Reply
medi01 - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkWake up, Smartphone market (worldwide):
1. Samsung 24%
2. Apple 18%
Android vs Apple = 3 vs 1 and gap is raising.
Most people turn to apple due to FUD, like this article. Google "steppit out of the shade of its competitor" having three times Apple's market share and much more usable interface (try to quickly access settings like wlan/bluetooth/gps on ios) Reply
steven75 - Friday, February 10, 2012 - linkLOL dont you get it? You don't *need* to fiddle with those settings on iOS necause the battery life is so dramatically better.
Also, funny reading this comment after Apple's Q4 report where they dominated. Reply
Omid.M - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI hope Samsung puts out this phone based on GN aesthetics but Exynos 5250 (plus MDM9xxx multi-mode/LTE modem) and blows away the competition.
@moids Reply
Chumster - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkCould someone clarify on what GPU/CPU he was talking about coming in Q2 devices? Cray? Crate? It was hard to pick up on my headphones. Reply
mmp121 - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkKrait
Read below:
Enjoy! Reply
Conficio - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkReally, Google can't survive once Walled Garden platforms like iOS gain traction.
While it is nice to control the OS (Chrome OS) on PC like devices and nice to stick it to Microsoft, it is essential in the world of smart phones. Google clearly saw that Apple did the unthinkable, wrestle control of the phone's apps away from the networks. That is an existential thread for Google. If there is a billion PC users world wide, there is a multitude of smart phone users, sooner or later.
If a hardware manufacturer and OS provider like Apple (or Microsoft) controls the apps that can be provided to the phone and features, move from browser to apps on phones, then this is the end of (a profitable) google sooner or later.
From anther point of view, Google is a huge data center that provides you with data services on their computing power (and you pay for it with advertisement somehow). Apple is a hardware manufacturer that sees it necessary to control the software to deliver a good user experience. Sure, two different approaches to a smart phone OS. Reply
hackbod - Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - link"Google clearly saw that Apple did the unthinkable, wrestle control of the phone's apps away from the networks."
There is this weird thing I see expressed a lot, as if Android is a reaction to the iPhone.
It is not.
In this particular case, it is obvious: Android's SDK was made available a few months after the original iPhone was on sale, well before there was *any* native SDK for the iPhone. At that time Apple's very clear official policy was that web-based apps was the One True Way to create applications for their phone. There was no concept of an App Store, no phone apps except what Apple shipped built in to the iPhone, nothing wrestled away from the networks in that department.
If Android was a reaction to anything, it was to the current situation on desktop PCs, with one company controlling that platform, and being able to quite strongly dictate and control its ecosystem and thus large parts of the computer industry.
One of the goals of Android was to try to keep that from happening in the upcoming mobile industry, by creating an open platform so that everybody in the industry can compete as equally as possible.
(And an aside -- this also makes it funny to see the recent stuff going around about Google "losing control" of Android. Android was very much set up so that no one company, not even Google, could have anything like the control that Microsoft does over Windows. This should be pretty obvious to anyone who wants to actually write thoughtful articles on the topic and not just link bait.) Reply
bjacobson - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkCan you talk more about this? From Diane Hackborne's post here (https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/... it sounds like the "limitation" is memory bandwidth in that hardwares that are "laggy" are laggy because they can't render to the entire screen 2 and 3x per frame for all the overlays. Which wouldn't seem like so much of a Tegra2 limitation in my opinion considering it has the power to play games like Quake 3 at 1600x1200 @ 60fps (I think...right?). What are your thoughts? Reply
hackbod - Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - linkI don't know about the performance of Tegra 2 playing Quake, but you need to be very careful when comparing the traditional 3d workload that GPUs are highly optimized to support (as exemplified by Quake) vs. the performance rendering 2d graphics.
Traditional 3d games tend to rely, for example, on triangle rendering as much if not more than raw pixel fill rate, and GPUs are designed to be able to do that fast. When drawing 2d scenes, there are very few triangles but those triangles cover very large parts of the screen and are rendered as overlapping layers.
On all of the hardware I have seen, for 2d rendering raw memory bandwidth (determining the number of times every pixel can be touched per frame) is the #1 impact on performance.
Look back at that post -- for a typical scroll of all apps in launcher, without using overlay tricks (which aren't available on Tegra when the screen is rotated), you are looking at touching every pixels about 4 times to render all the layers and composite them to the screen. This is just not a typical 3D game workload. Reply
TedG - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI am looking forward to ICS on my RAZR. It seems similar in power and size to the Nexus. Reply
Jonathan Dum - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkAny comments on the quality of the touch sensors? My biggest gripe with my Nexus One is the absolutely inane touch accuracy in comparison to an iPhone. If these new ICS phones have significantly improved touch sensors, I may be coaxed into sticking with Android. Reply
jalexoid - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkSynaptics touchscreen controller on N1 was to blame. Even the HTC's "copy" Desire had a much better touchscreen experience due to a better touchscreen controller.
All devices after that should have a really good controller. Reply
tipoo - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkSame with my Nexus S. The locational accuracy is good, but it actually senses a tap with my finger a few millimeters above the screen, which can cause problems with the keyboard and other precise apps. Reply
Brian Klug - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkThat was always my bug with the Nexus One as well, and it remains an unsolved problem to this day on that phone.
I've seen no touch recognitions at all on the Galaxy Nexus. For the most part honestly these issues have gone away as the OEMs stopped being cheap with their capacitive layers and controllers. The Nexus One was especially bad.
I've seen some people complaining about issues with recognition in the bottom right corner - hardware swaps fix those problems.
-Brian Reply
Skiddywinks - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - link... is the GN still going to be the best Android on the market? I upgrade in March, and it basically comes down to the S2 or the GN. Each has their advantages, but personally it largely comes down to the display and the GPU.
I like to play emulated games on my phone, but I don't know how they work in terms of whether they are software only, or can GPU accelerate. The better GPU in the S2 doesn't really do much if the GN can play everything else on the market at no apparent deficit. Better display all the way in that case. GN wins.
I'm not liking the lack of mSD in the GN either, though.
BAH. Decisions, decisions. Reply
tipoo - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkYeah, the Mali 400 in the GS2 might benchmark way higher than the Galaxy Nexus, but there are no games that exclusively run on it, or even that have more features on it like Tegra phones. I'd guess that even with its relatively weak GPU the Galaxy Nexus will never leave you wanting in games for the next year or two, and its screen is better. My Nexus S can still play top end games like Shadowgun, and that was built for more powerful tablets. With Android developers aim for middling hardware. Reply
medi01 - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - link@Android is an OS that, although more closed than many would like, still allows more flexibility than iOS@
And that comparing Open Source OS to something as closed as it gets. It is merely "still allows more than iOS", hilarious. Reply
doobydoo - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkThe openness of Android wasn't being compared to iOS, the flexibility was.
Two separate points. Reply
Gwynbleidd - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkTwo things, though:
1. You wrote "Business is as usual for Windows users as ICS based devices just appear as a drive letter thanks to native MTP support." - that's not true, because of MTP Nexus appears in My Computer in Windows as a multimedia device and does not have a letter assigned, so sadly it's not possible to use traditional file managers like Total Commander to deal with files on it without additional plugins.
2. Did you notice any screen quality issues in your devices? Mine shows ugly pinkish smudges visibly especially on gray backgrounds, here's photo (it's out of focus on purpose, otherwise there would be a rainbow goo on screen):
So when scrolling webpages you can see that text is pinkish at the top, then white stripe, then pinkish again... Apparently I'm not the only one having this issue with Nexus, and there is a long thread on xda forum about the same problem with Galaxy Note Screens
A little investigation, maybe? ;) Reply
Tujan - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkConcerning the youtube video shown about the android smartphone. No misconception here,but is it the intention of the video to put your thumb so much at the forefront of the small phone,somehow toggling between 'both eyes' of the viewer. ? Is that the intention of the video ?
Pure punn intended that is an awesome big speaker you are speaking to. And true even though the video was most likely rendered in 'full part',with both video and audio attached,I cannot help the feeling that there IS SOME LATENCY between my chinese made glasses and the finish of my lcd.
The fact that you are discussing a radio device,and I am utilizing a later viewing of it over a wired internet connection. Does not diminish the fact that your radio devices capability of facial recognition,and my lcds display of it is no substitute for taking x-rays if you actually need to.
I see that you are descript in functioning your arms across the whole of the screen at the making of your video. And there is that very large meter between the preposition of the distance of the audio device,and the radio device that is to conclude that preposition.
Punn accepted there is certainly some latency there that is perfectly conceptual. Between the foreground,and the background. And the autonomic acceptance of my viewing it.
You notice that at times as a forefront,you have a wide screen rendering. Then at other times there is the focus 'in'. The difference in doing so is the focal point of my comment in that subject of its latency.
And that truly the speaking IS a separate distinction of a Microphone. Than that of a speaker,and the screen displayed. Your being behind it shouldn't be misconstrued of what my comment is coordinating to account to. Since obviously the latency between my glasses and what I see on the screen at my viewing of it is of no consequence to your creation of it.
Mentioning that relationally you cannot change the environment around you no more than I can make your video for you. Perhaps someone will recognize this.
And thanks. Reply
nsnsmj - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI always enjoy how detailed the reviews are. Reply
BitGambit - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI love this phone, but I have owned 2 different Nexii with the "Mura" screen issue. The first one I owned was glaringly obvious, but the second one less so, but it's still there. I was not able to exchange it for the second time, because the defect wasn't apparent enough to warrant an exchange, explains the Verizon employee. It pains me because having a good screen is important to me and I was looking forward to release of the Galaxy Nexus. I'm absolutely jealous of those who have a Galaxy Nexus with immaculate AMOLED screens. Reply
crankerchick - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkI haven't had a chance to read the whole review, but I'm happy to see it. I've been checking everyday thinking I must have missed the review. It's great to see time and care being put into the review, as always. The video at the bottom was also very insightful and hits right in the points if why I prefer Android and the evolution it has seen, over iOS when it comes to my mobile devices. ICS flies in my Galaxy Nexus and my XOOM! I don't ever see 25 Mbps on my Nexus though, or all the bars for that matter. Maybe I have a signal issue? :-p Reply
flomt - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkI see you have the iphone 4s getting 9.85 hours of web browsing. Do you receive a phone from Apple to test, or do you go to the store and buy one?
The reason I am asking is I have a 4s and I can tell you mine, and the people I know that have one are lucky to get 9.85 hours of battery life with the phone sitting on the nigh stand.
Thanks for the great reviews. Reply
doobydoo - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkI think all the figures Anandtech post are their own measured statistics.
I have a 4s and I, and the people I know that have one, are amazed by how long the battery life lasts, both in general and when web browsing.
When sitting on the night stand for 9.85 hours a very small percentage of battery life is depleted. Reply
flomt - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkI know 4 other people with a 4s, none of them can last 24 hours with very light usage. 9 hours of web browsing is not even kinda of possible. All are on the most current release 5.0.1
Reading the Apple forums, I am not the only one. Do the phones with poor battery life all originate in a different factory than the ones that last a long time? have a different version of the radio?
Apple is just denying that they have a problem now and I can tell you that they really do have a serious problem with some phones. Reply
tipoo - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkAre you running push e-mail by any chance? That kills idle battery life. Reply
flomt - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkNope, manual sync only. Reply
tom5 - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkYou state in the article here that the camera sensor is a NOT-back-illuminated S5K4E1G sensor and Chipworks in the teardown article states that Galaxy Nexus is using "S5K4E5YA 5 Mp, 1.4 µm pixel pitch back illuminated CMOS image sensor":
Who is right? Reply
Brian Klug - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkInteresting. I originally picked S5K4E5 family as being the likely choice - as it's the BSI equivalent, and though that was what was inside until I decompiled/dug around inside the ducati-m3.bin file as noted in the review.
You'll see numerous references to "S5K4E1G" and none for "S5K4E5" which is the BSI version. EG:
It could very well be BSI since they've x-rayed it.
-Brian Reply
tom5 - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkOfficial Samsung site says SGS II has quad band 3G and Galaxy Nexus has penta-band 3G, so there's a difference in GSM connectivity:
http://goo.gl/gvIWV Reply
Stas - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkI appreciate the thoroughness in this review, Anand.
Interesting, however, how I find so many things about the software completely irrelevant to someone who just can't leave things vanilla. Browser performance and features, launcher scrolling, screenshots, on-screen keyboard, etc. None of those things are in their original Android form on my phone (SGS2). Some issues have been addressed by Samsung, some by XDA developers, some by myself. As a result, I believe I have the perfect phone on the market (for me). Reading every section of this article, I kept finding myself thinking, "Heh, my phone doesn't have that problem," or, "Mine does that even better," or, "would suck to have that phone instead of my Galaxy."
I always thought advancement in tech = replacing devices sooner. However, after reading this review, I have no desire whatsoever to replace my current phone with the new flagship. I always get that feeling when I read a video card review, CPU review, SSD review, etc. But I feel like my phone lacks nothing, and I will stick with it for a long while. Customizing and tweaking software to your own taste, making it feel just right is the most important aspect of an electronic device that provides so much interaction. I guess that's why I almost feel handicapped on a stock Android phone or, especially, iPhone. The devices just feel so clunky and unrefined.
Thank you, if nothing else, for helping me see a different perspective on things :) Reply
Lucian Armasu - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - link1. Can you re-check and confirm if swiping tabs off in the task menu, actually KILLS the apps, or it just takes them off the list? Because I've heard before that it doesn't kill them.
2. The battery tests, especially the Wi-Fi ones, were they done with 3G and LTE on? Reply
silow675 - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - link"At 720p, which happens to be the GN's native resolution, the OMAP 4460 is a bit faster than Tegra 2 but not significantly so. The more important thing to keep in mind is just how much faster Tegra 3's GPU is by comparison"
I don't understand this remark. The chart that's posted for the 720p offscreen renders don't have a Tegra 2 device. In the RightWare charts the Galaxy Nexus scores much more than "a bit faster" than the Tegra 2 devices. And to my knowledge no Tegra 2 smartphones are offered at native 720p resolution.
I also checked the AT Bench database and couldn't find any Tegra 2 benchmarks to compare. Do you guys have some unposted numbers? Reply
RobElk - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkYou guys do a great job. Love the attention to detail in your review. Thanks. Reply
DrKlahn - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkI found this comment interesting. I have had the phone since launch day (VZW) and have yet to notice any lag hitting the virtual buttons. Perhaps I am just not as sensitive to it or some other process on your test phone is affecting it. I have got the phone to lag doing some very intensive tasks on occasion, but it's very infrequent. My chief complaint has been the volume which I remedied with a free app (Volume+ with the +2 setting). Otherwise I give the phone very high marks. I have no real desire to root or tinker with it yet, the stock experience is excellent. Reply
peokuk - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkfor the font comparison, why not 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'? using cat and jumped leaves out the letters 'g' and 's'...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_j... Reply
DanSmith - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkNo one has actually said it yet so I will. Good review guys, in depth and informative as always.
Thanks for your hard work.
Dan Reply
DanSmith - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkActually, someone already has! Seems the internet is not completely populated by haters. :) Reply
jamyryals - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkI liked this review very much. Do a video wrap up of the CES experience! Reply
HangFire - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkAnand,
Are you using 2.2 era data for Thunderbolt battery life in the graph, or are you using modern Gingerbread data? The Thunderbolt has come a long way in managing battery life since introduction.
HF Reply
Brian Klug - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkHF,
Yeah, we're using the initial launch performance of the HTC Thunderbolt here. Unfortunately HTC wanted that phone back, so we can't test with the newer updates. This is one thing we're working on changing this year.
-Brian Reply
lewchenko74 - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkI moved from an iphone 4 to the Galaxy Nexus... and there are issues that are not listed in this review.
My only previous Android phone was a HTC Hero, which I rooted to 2.1 after no carrier support (Orange in the UK suck). Im happy with ICS in general.. but the phone itself has 2 really annoying major flaws which have happened to me on many occasion ...
1. The random turn off problem.
2. The random mic turning off mid call problem.
Both are discussed quite a bit on sites like androidcentral.com and xda-developers.com forums, and seem to be happening to MANY (see the forum pages yourself) people, whether you have a GSM version, US phone on all versions of ICS. Swapping out hardware for a different phone is not solving the problems, and whilst infrequent for me , they happen to other people far more. (and not at all to some people..)
In other words... Either ICS has a couple of critical bugs, or the hardware is at fault (or the firmware)..
Both issues are apparently acknowledged by google as well.... yet seem to be getting little to no publicity. BGR.com recently reported the random turn off problem with the Nexus.
So well done on the thorough review, but I wish somebody had warned me about these issues.
I dont regret switching from the iphone 4 (screen was too small, and the lack of customisation was frustrating.. and the 4s was such a major dissapointment)... the Galaxy Nexus is a phone with serious problems (hopefuly ones that can be resolved with updates).
Links to the forum pages of the issues :
http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-ne... Reply
B3an - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkThese both seem like a very common issue. Pretty serious problems too, not exactly something small. Disappointing to see no mention of this in the article. Reply
anandtech pirate - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkreally? you guys, a tech site, uploaded a 480p quality video in 2012? sigh.... Reply
tipoo - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkAh yes, if I can't see every follicle in his beard the review loses all its informativeness! lol Reply
Nevod - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkVery weird battery life measurements.
Judging by Wi-Fi hotspot and Talk time, Wi-Fi and cellular basebands are comparable in efficiency to other modern devices. Advantage over SGSII seems to be proportional to battery.
Cellular web browsing time is quite good. Yet so low Wi-Fi browsing time - looks like it goes into some "hunger mode", like not caching anything when on Wi-Fi.
Also, there is an option in ICS browser to invert colors, switches black and white , probably to extend battery life on OLED screens, as, well, sites usually have white backgrounds and that's not very nice to battery. Would be interesting to see tests of battery performance on inverted colors. Reply
Bytales - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkPlease Anandtech, if you have the posibillity, make a review of Galaxy Note Reply
Artifex28 - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkYou should use some curtains to kill the early reflections from concrete walls. :) Reply
Jingato - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkWhy even bother posting a review of a phone that is over a month old? If you want to be a real news /review site you should of had a review the next day. There is no reason not to. period.
get your shit together Reply
tipoo - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkBecause they go more in depth than most reviews out there. The ones that post reviews the day after a product launch don't find nearly as many flaws and details as the AT team. There are plenty of other sites for quickie reviews, I like Anandtech for in-depth. Reply
Omid.M - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - linkThat's unnecessarily harsh. If you're used to the same day "reviews" of Engadget--i.e. NOTHING technical, totally subjective measurements of everything, in the name of being the "first" with a review--then go ahead and keep reading Engadget.
Brian and Anand review EVERYTHING in depth: basebands, screens, software, they even have supercurio who is well known dev in Android community for his take on audio processing. Plus, Anand and Brian were covering CES.
Anand, Brian,
Great job as always. I have a chance to pick up a Nexus LTE for $500 (since I don't have an upgrade) but will hold off; might go with iPhone 4S until Krait or iPhone 5 comes out and (hopefully) blows me away.
@moids Reply
Harbler - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - linkWhy even bother posting a comment if you're not going to read the review? A cursory perusal of the index alone would have answered your question.
Anand & Co. take the time required to turn in top-notch, in-depth reviews, and they've been doing it for longer than your favorite gadget review site has even been in business. Anandtech is, in every sense, a *real* review site.
If wholly subjective reviews of devices (provided within hours of launch) are your idea of informative reading, then please return to Engadget or whatever site you strayed from. Unlike Anadtech, sites of the sort you're looking for are a dime a dozen, and you'll find them substantially better suited to your attention span. Reply
vortmax2 - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkCan Brian or Anand comment on why they believe Samsung used an OMAP 4460 when they only clocked it to 4430 levels? Also, devs at XDA are having a hard time overclocking it to the 1.5GHz/384MHz max values. Any ideas? Thanks! -Jamie Reply
Tripp1717 - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkIve had it for over a month now and i upgraded from a galaxy s (epic 4g on Sprint). Watching Blue ray movies i put on my phone are simply amazing. Ive never seen anything better and i work in the electronics dept at sears. Its better than the samsung 7000 led screen. Overall it took a few weeks to really get used to Andriod 4.02 but it is an amazing improvment from 2.3.5. I cant think of too many flaws here. LTE is SOOO much fater than WiMax! i get about 25-30 MB/s when using speedtest. Upload speeds are very fast too, ave. is around 10ish MB/s. Battery life is fantastic compared to my epic 4g. At work i set my ohone to data restrict so i only get calls and texts because in my store there is NO signal at all and after 8 hours from 100% it will drop to 85%. My Epic wouldnt make it through the work day. 720p Super AMOLED+ really makes this phone a winner. Google and samsung working together is a great combo. My ONLY complaint is i wish i had an 8 or higher megapixel camera. But with the added features its pretty darn decent. No complaints except there are a few programs that are still not compatible with 4.0+ (HBOGO). I highly recomend this over any phone out or anything slated to come out for awhile anyways. Reply
Amit P - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkI'm waiting for my THIRD Nexus to come in. I had screen problems with the first two. The screen wasn't as bright as my brothers Nexus with the same settings. The colors weren't as vivid either. Reply
Bristecom - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkThats why I didnt exchange mine. Even though it has a dead pixel, aside from that, the screen looks great. So I fear getting one with no dead pixels but poor brightness or colors. This screen is the best Ive ever seen. Other super AMOLED plus displays Ive seen have off colors that bother me. Reply
Bristecom - Friday, January 20, 2012 - linkI have to say, mine has a dead green subpixel and it is very clear to me even from a distance with green or white screens. Regardless, I didnt bother exchanging it. -Sent from my Galaxy Nexus Reply
medi01 - Saturday, January 21, 2012 - linkA question, I have Galaxy S so can't compare.
Could you please comment on whether black is actually black on Nexus as it is on Galaxy's?
I'm asking because dear objective Anand managed to make a photo of it that makes it look gray ("Display" page) Reply
sjankis630 - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - linkI can comment that my Galaxy Nexus' black is as black as midnight to a blind man.
The only time I see some grey type tones is when the website is colored that way. Reply
walkman - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - linkThat was a shocking detailed and informative review -- It's the sort of article that makes Anandtech my first choice for tech reviews.
- The article mentioned new processors just around the corner. Was this referring to any processors other than Krait? I haven't heard any news about Krait since November PR -- Are we looking at April or June? And do we think anyone besides HTC will use Krait? Reply
Omid.M - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - linkProcessors around the corner:
Exynos 5250
It's going to be a bloodbath for the next 12-18 months.
If iPhone 5 uses the MDM9160 (?) modem with LTE, I'm jumping on that. Tired of tweaking battery life on my Thunderbolt. Not sure I want to do the same with a Galaxy Nexus LTE.
And what's this I'm reading about connection issues / dropped calls on the VZW Nexus? Ridiculous. Reply
Rictorhell - Monday, January 23, 2012 - linkI am a big fan of this site and I read the reviews and articles all of the time and I find them very informative and useful, but, I have a request.
When a review is written, particularly about a certain smartphone or tablet, it is mentioned whether the device has an SD card slot and you always tend to differentiate between whether it is a "full-sized" SD slot or a "micro"SD slot. That is useful to know, but there are several actual types of SD cards available, each with a different maximum storage capacity, and you don't specify in your reviews which types of SD cards are actually supported by the device being reviewed and I think that is a bit of an oversight.
To the best of my knowledge, standard SD cards only have a maximum capacity of up to 2gb, while SDHC cards can go up to as high as 32gb, and SDXC cards, while only available right now in sizes up to 128gb, are supposed to theoretically be able to be manufactured in sizes up to 2tb.
There is a huge difference in size between 2gb, 32gb, and 128gb. Given that smartphones and tablets have substantial built in limits as far as storage capacity, I think it would be very helpful to know which type of SD card is supported by which device, if that is possible.
If I read two reviews about two different Android tablets and both reviews mention that both cards have a full-size SD card slot, as a user with a lot of media files, I'm going to be interested to know if one of those tablets can support SDXC cards while the other one cannot.
I consider that to be a major feature, to me, just as important as battery life. If you do reviews of tablets and smartphones, or even ultrabooks, and neglect to specify how much storage potential these devices have or do not have, you are making it very easy for the hardware manufacturers to simply put in second rate storage and format support, knowing that it will not be covered in reviews by sites like Anandech. Not only is this going to stunt the evolution of these devices but it's also going to mean less options for consumers.
Anyway, thank you for your time. Reply
peevee - Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - linkAnand, please include OS version number (and carrier when applies) in the charts for performance and battery life tests. They make huge difference, as browser speeds improve, they consume less CPU time and less energy when browsing.
For example, the discrepancy between iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S looks outsized and probably is the result of testing iPhone 4 with iOS much older than the current version, probably not even 4.3, and 4S with iOS 5. Reply
skinien - Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - linkWhat a review!!! I'm not in the market for a new hone right now, but when the time comes, I'll be looking here for a review on prospective phones. GREAT WRITE UP! Reply
sonicmerlin - Thursday, January 26, 2012 - linkI'm sorry, but you're ignoring the fact that ICS STILL lags. If you load up a heavy site like theverge, try scrolling around while the site is loading. Your entire page stutters and freezes until everything is done loading. ICS also lags more as you load more apps onto your phone, just like all previous versions of Android. Also notice how all UI elements are flattened when pages are rendered. Try zooming in or out. The new page info appears all at once, rather than pop up individually as in iOS and WP7. This can result in lag on heavy sites.
For whatever reason tech "nerds" don't seem to notice the very obvious fluidity issues. Yes once you've loaded up a site it's easy to pan around, but people don't sit there patiently waiting for websites to load. Nor do they appreciate the frequent microstutters due to garbage collection issues, or the massive standby battery drain issues that tons of Android phones experience. And even the basic phone UI itself still lags behind your finger, demonstrating an irritating rubberband affect.
It's stupid. Android will never stop lagging until Google rewrites the OS to give the UI thread priority, instead of putting it at the same level as app priority. Reply
rupert3k - Friday, January 27, 2012 - linkLearned loads from reading this, really impressed with how far Android has come.
The stuttering when scrolling, zooming or browsing always annoyed me, stoked to learn ICS is fully accelerated.
One wonders if we'll see any Motorola Nexus style devices once Google settles into their new ownership. Be nice to see a Motorola this nice!
Hope we see high dot pitch Android devices to combat Retina, not happy with AMOLED at present it seems a bit yellowy & over saturated to me, surely LG or Samsung can also spec Retina style IPS or at least offer the choice between AMOLED & IPS 330dpi.
Bring on the Quad high DPI Android & iOS tablets!! Reply
bruce3777a - Sunday, January 29, 2012 - linkHi,
Please bear with me:)
If a phone was upgraded from Gingerbread to ICS and It appears to be able to still work with the apps from many banks
It seems like these apps were not compatable with tablets running honeycomb so it was necessary to just use the browser.
If a tablet is upgraded from Honeycomb to ICS, or if a new tablet is purchased that has ICS would/should that automatically make it compatable, or is there still something that the banks would need to do to make it universal to both phones and tablets that use ICS. Thanks in advance for any insight. Reply
Lucian Armasu - Monday, January 30, 2012 - linkI think I figured it out. I just saw this:
And I remembered it's not the only time I see 1196x720 pixels being rendered in a benchmark. Anand, if you're reading this, could it be because the buttons are NOT rendered by the GPU, and instead are rendered by those Cortex-M3 2D cores? They would have to render much fewer pixels, but they are also much slower than the GPU, and also pretty old tech I think. Reply
dryphi - Saturday, March 10, 2012 - linkWhat about the contacts list?
One of my biggest pet peeves with previous versions of Android is it took so long to find the person you wanted to call / text / whatever. This was because opening the "Contacts" list or the "Phonebook" necessitated you scroll down to the name of the person, through page after page of contact (if you have a lot, like I do). Another option with Android is pressing the "Search" button (in some views) would permit typing the person's name, although this feature has been done-away with in ICS.
Compare these two options to the iPhone, on which you could simply press the first letter of the person you were looking for and the list would jump right to it.
As a result of the aforementioned frustration, my Android device often makes for a better mobile web browser than it does a mobile phone!
How does ICS address this issue? Did they finally adopt the alphabet list to the right of your contacts like the iPhone? Or do they provide another way of searching for contacts? Reply
Kuzma30 - Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - linkHello.
Need more information about decompile ducati-m3.bin. I need change watchdog timer from 11 to 10 in ducati firmware. Can you help me? Reply
vineeth - Monday, April 09, 2012 - linkI can't believe that after so many iterations, they just can't get it right. It pisses me off that when you zoom out of a webpage you get those white spaces Reply
eio - Saturday, April 21, 2012 - linkit's Camera ICS
an app based on ICS stock camera app code, but exposed many advanced settings, like bitrate in video =)
that result in significantly better video quality, especially at 1080p.
really made me wonder why google didn't include those features in their official rom Reply
rs1709 - Sunday, April 29, 2012 - linkHave you had a chance to revisit this subject. With support being available when buying the device from Google direct is there anything that has changed ? Reply


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Anuprep-HC Side Effects
Generic Name: hydrocortisone topical
Note: This page contains information about the side effects of hydrocortisone topical. Some of the dosage forms included on this document may not apply to the brand name Anuprep-HC.
For the Consumer
Applies to hydrocortisone topical: topical application cream, topical application ointment
Other dosage forms:
- topical application cream
- topical application cream, topical application lotion, topical application ointment, topical application solution
- topical application cream, topical application foam, topical application gel/jelly, topical application kit, topical application liquid, topical application lotion, topical application ointment, topical application pad, topical application paste, topical application solution, topical application spray, topical application stick
In addition to its needed effects, some unwanted effects may be caused by hydrocortisone topical (the active ingredient contained in Anuprep-HC). In the event that any of these side effects do occur, they may require medical attention.
Major Side Effects
You should check with your doctor immediately if any of these side effects occur when taking hydrocortisone topical:More common:
- Skin rash, encrusted, scaly, and oozing
- stinging
- Burning, itching, redness, skin rash, swelling, or soreness at the application site
- cough or hoarseness
- dry skin
- fever or chills
- itching in the genital or other skin areas
- lower back or side pain
- painful or difficult urination
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- rash with flat lesions or small raised lesions on the skin
- skin irritation
- Blistering, burning, crusting, dryness, or flaking of the skin
- itching, scaling, severe redness, soreness, or swelling of the skin
- redness and scaling around the mouth
- thinning of the skin with easy bruising, especially when used on facial or intertriginous areas
Minor Side Effects
Some of the side effects that can occur with hydrocortisone topical may not need medical attention. As your body adjusts to the medicine during treatment these side effects may go away. Your health care professional may also be able to tell you about ways to reduce or prevent some of these side effects. If any of the following side effects continue, are bothersome or if you have any questions about them, check with your health care professional:Less common:
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- nausea or vomiting
- passing of gas
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- increased hair growth on the forehead, back, arms, and legs
- lightening of normal skin color
- lightening of treated areas of dark skin
- reddish purple lines on the arms, face, legs, trunk, or groin
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Applies to hydrocortisone topical: compounding powder, rectal cream with applicator, rectal foam, rectal ointment, rectal solution, rectal suppository, topical cream, topical gel, topical kit, topical lotion, topical ointment, topical pad, topical paste, topical solution, topical spray, topical stick
The most commonly reported side effects were burning, itching, irritation, dryness, and folliculitis.[Ref]
Frequency not reported: Bradycardia, cardiac arrest, cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac enlargement, circulatory collapse, congestive heart failure, fat embolism, hypertension, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in premature infants, myocardial rupture following recent myocardial infarction, syncope, tachycardia, thromboembolism, thrombophlebitis, vasculitis[Ref]
Frequency not reported: HPA axis suppression, decreased carbohydrate and glucose tolerance, development of cushingoid state, glycosuria, hirsutism, hypertrichosis, increased requirements for insulin or oral hypoglycemic agents in diabetes, manifestations of latent diabetes mellitus, menstrual irregularities, secondary adrenocortical and pituitary unresponsiveness (particularly in times of stress, as in trauma, surgery, or illness), suppression of growth in pediatric patients[Ref]
Frequency not reported: Decreased resistance to infection, concomitant skin infections[Ref]
Frequency not reported: Exophthalmos, glaucoma, increased intraocular pressure, posterior subcapsular cataracts, rare instances of blindness associated with periocular injections[Ref]
Frequency not reported: Depression, emotional instability, euphoria, insomnia, mood swings, personality changes, psychic disorders[Ref]
Frequency not reported: Burning, itching, irritation, dryness, folliculitis[Ref]
Frequency not reported: Abdominal distention, nausea, pancreatitis, peptic ulcer with possible perforation and hemorrhage, perforation of the small and large intestine (particularly in patients with inflammatory bowel disease), ulcerative esophagitis[Ref]
Frequency not reported: Aseptic necrosis of femoral and humeral heads, Charcot-like arthropathy, loss of muscle mass, muscle weakness, osteoporosis, pathologic fracture of long bones, steroid myopathy, tendon rupture, vertebral compression fractures[Ref]
Frequency not reported: Anaphylactoid reaction, anaphylaxis, angioedema[Ref]
Frequency not reported: Pulmonary edema
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Frequency not reported: Fluid retention, hypokalemic alkalosis, potassium loss, sodium retention, negative nitrogen balance due to protein catabolism, increased appetite, weight gain[Ref]
Frequency not reported: Elevation in serum liver enzyme levels (usually reversible upon discontinuation), hepatomegaly[Ref]
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Frequency not reported: Convulsions, headache, increased intracranial pressure with papilledema (pseudotumor cerebri) usually following discontinuation of treatment, neuritis, neuropathy, vertigo[Ref]
Frequency not reported: Abnormal fat deposits, hiccups, increased or decreased motility and number of spermatozoa, malaise[Ref]
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"Good night, Chuck. We'll shoot the gun and throw the hatchet after coffee tomorrow morning," BJ Tilden speaks these last words as everyone around the campfire nods, and retires to tents and sleeping bags. Lander, Wyoming, is cowboy country, where people still varnish holsters, chew tobacco and use horses as transportation, and where unsung climbing talents like BJ Tilden are hard at work sending the climbing projects of the last decade.
In November, Tilden achieved the first ascent of one of the area's best-looking and hardest lines. Orange for Anguish (5.14c) is at the remote Baldwin Creek, accessed by a gnarly four-wheel-drive road that is only open from June through November. The crag is also south-facing, making it too hot for climbing until November, so projecting hard routes is rather difficult. The Canadian strongman Scott Milton bolted the route in the mid-1990s, but was unable to send. Tilden began working the open project in 2007, spending 10 days on it last year, and eight days in 2008.
Gracious and understated, he says only, "This is for sure the hardest route I have done or tried."
Over the last six years, Tilden has been ticking first ascents around Lander, but one of his more significant contributions is Down in Flames (V12), an unrelenting 30-plus-move problem that climbs the underbelly of the Aircraft Carrier boulder at Hueco Tanks.
Growing up in Cody, BJ spent his youth horse packing and hunting with his father in the rugged Wind River Mountains. In 1995, at age 15, he put on his first pair of climbing shoes after Bobby Model, a family friend and climber, sparked his interest. "After that," he says, "it was all over.
"I quit playing baseball and have been climbing ever since."
When Tilden moved to Lander, he began climbing with Todd Skinner, Steve Bechtel and, his biggest influence, Andy Skiba, one of the first Americans to boulder V12.
"The Lander climbing community is strong, but small," says Tilden. "Everybody knows everybody. You might watch a friend's kid while the mom gets in a pitch, or bring a dog back to its owner. On a sunny Saturday in January, the Killer Cave at Sinks Canyon is like a family reunion."
Tilden, 28 and recently married, works six months a year as a carpenter for Skiba, and climbs the other half of the year.
"Being a Wyoming cowboy' is something that is deeply rooted inside," he says. "It's a kind of ethic and tenacity, and something I haven't seen many places other than here. It's a love for the outdoors, and a genuine pride in being from Wyoming."


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Published: Sunday, August 25, 2013 at 6:00 a.m.
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Max Garcia has finally found happiness, and it has nothing to do with football.
He started all 12 games at left tackle for Maryland as a true sophomore in 2011, but after the season, he decided to leave the school and his full-time starting job.
"I just felt I needed a change of scenery," Garcia said. "You come to college to be happy, personally and athletically and academically, find the right fit for you. It's all about being happy."
Garcia wasn't happy at Maryland. Along with personal issues like wanting to play closer to home, he didn't like the direction of the program under new coach Randy Edsall.
The Norcross (Ga.) product visited five schools in the spring of 2012, and UF coach Will Muschamp and offensive line coach Tim Davis had what he was looking for.
"I met coach Muschamp and coach Davis and the offensive line, and I felt at home when I came down to Florida," he said. "Aside from football, this is where I found Christ. He came into my life here. So since I've been here last August, my life has just changed forever and it's for the better."
Garcia sat out last year due to NCAA transfer rules, but he still valued his role in practice.
"It was tough at first," he said, "but that's where my spirituality came in, just learning how to serve my teammates. That's how I gained my satisfaction, knowing I helped them get that win by practicing every day and giving a good look on the scout team. That was the best part."
Now that he's eligible and healthy after missing the start of camp with a back injury, Garcia is starting at left guard for the Gators and looking forward to his return to the field.
"Playing in the SEC, how respected this conference is compared to the ACC, I'm really excited being down here with the best competition in the nation," he said. "I played tackle in high school and at Maryland for two years. Now I'm playing guard — I can play left or right, I can play anything besides center. Haven't done that yet. But I just want to play at Florida, doesn't matter what position."
Garcia's versatility is a luxury for an offensive line that lost two starters on the left side.
"The other day we moved him out to left tackle," Muschamp said. "He hadn't repped at all out there and did an outstanding job. ... He's a guy that gives you a lot of position multiplicity as far as the things he can do."
Muschamp called Garcia the type of guy he wants at Florida, and he believes the move to Gainesville provided the 6-foot-4, 307-pounder with happiness.
"He's smiling all the time," Muschamp said, "so I guess he's happy. I don't know."
Garcia does.
"It was the greatest decision of my life," he said.
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