Design and Body
To design and body in outline very similar to its predecessor which was also made by Samsung ie Google Nexus S, with a slim design melenglung and curved corners. To the front is solid black capacitive key difference lies in the lost at all due to the interface of the OS Ice Cream Sandwich itself that requires no physical buttons.
To the side and cover the area behind the Samsung uses a dark gray color of the plastic material. Rear cover of the battery cover using a plastic serrated typical Samsung mobile phones are very thin, so it seems you have to be careful when removing the back cover of this. Ridged plastic is intended to grip when you hold the phone to remain strong so that the phone does not easily slip from your hand. The buttons are available, among others, the volume buttons on the right, and the lock button on the left. No camera shutter button. A micro USB port and 3.5mm audio jack at the bottom of this phone.
Although made from full plastic but not to worry because the Galaxy Nexus does not look cheap. Shape when viewed sideways slightly curved first ICS increase the sexiness of this. In Galaxy Nexus width almost equal to 4 inches sail phones like Galaxy S, only the length is more pronounced. The screen feels better meet the horizontal portion of this phone, maybe this is what makes it not too wide. With the body is only 8.9 mm, thinner than the 5.11 mm Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus has a decent weight, 135 grams, so when grasped this phone feels solid though thin.
Screen
The screen is one of the main selling Galaxy Nexus. Of course with frills Super AMOLED HD, and resolutions like crazy to put on the phone screen that is HD 720p (1280x720 pixels). With a 4.65-inch screen size, the Galaxy Nexus yield of 315.83 ppi pixel density. It is still below the iPhone 4 329.65 ppi, but keep in mind, the screen Galaxy Nexus difference of more than 1 inch wide than the iPhone 4 is only 3.5 inches, certain multimedia enthusiast will be satisfied. Especially compared to fellow Android phones like the Galaxy Note (1280x800, 5.3 inches, 284.8 ppi), DROID Motorola RAZR (960x540, 4.3 inch, 256.15 ppi), and Samsung Galaxy S II (800x480, 4.3 inch, 217 ppi).
Using Super AMOLED like the Galaxy's first, Galaxy Nexus uses PenTile Matrix where a pixel contains only two subpixels, so it will look less sharp than the usual RGB type that contains three subpixels, but 720p resolution with 315.83 ppi pixel density in the Galaxy Nexus makes it This does not bother than PenTile Matrix on Super AMOLED screen Galaxy S version first pixel density is only 233.24 pixels per inch. IBHS in the Galaxy's first you must be observant to notice the difference.
For the beauty of color, brightness and contrast no question about it, Super AMOLED screen produces a very beautiful and comfortable view with high contrast and black really black and dark, though many are called if AMOLED unnatural and bluish than the LCD . Slightly different angle of vision on the screen when viewed perpendicular to the color tends to yellow in white display, while if viewed in a slanting position in the display screen looks bluish white color. Still a very good viewing angle, the screen is still very clearly visible even in the extreme corners though. If your tastes fall on Super AMOLED, other technologies such as LCD, IPS and others feel less beautiful though of course there are minuses as Super AMOLED ngejreng and bluish color that makes not everyone likes, so this is a relative thing. Just look at the picture below, Galaxy Nexus ngejreng and most vivid colors when compared to other phones like the Super AMOLED Galaxy and Galaxy S Note.
SAMOLED trio of left-right: Galaxy S, Nexus Galaxy, Galaxy Note
Interface
Problem interface, Ice Cream Sandwich is really new and very different compared with Gingerbread. Starting from the lock screen that also has a shortcut access directly to the camera. Lock screen similar to this can be dispensed with Honeycomb version (turning the screen with just a button lock) can also wear protection in the form of slides, face unlock, pattern, PINs and passwords. Unlock Face works well and is very quick in recognizing your face using the front camera Nexus. Even if not caught then there is still a backup of the previous PIN you should provide when selecting Face Unlock in the menu Settings-> Security-> Unlock Face. Still Face Unlock sometimes work for people who have in common. For example I wear glasses, when there is a friend of mine who also bespectacled face trying to unlock the Nexus which I review, the phone is open, though not always. When I took off her glasses, cell phones can not recognize my face and the phone does not open.
Display Ice Cream Sandwich is now dominated by a brighter blue color with a black background as usual. With the Super AMOLED display and a new font type that is used Roboto looks feel fresh and spoil the eye. On the Homescreen is still composed of multiple home screens are arranged horizontally, you can add widgets but its location is in the main menu and move it to the homescreen the same way by moving the application icon to the homescreen, the drag and drop. Wallpaper is still the same, can use the Live Wallpaper. Google Search widget always appear on every page Home. Each icon can you collect into a folder. At the very bottom of the screen present three physical button replacement icons which Back, Home, and Task Switcher (which is useful for switching applications) Honeycomb-style tablet. To close running applications from the Task Switcher, the shear alone applications that want to be closed to the left or right. On top of this there are 3 icon icon Contact, Phone, Menu, Messaging, and Browser although the composition and the composition you can replace at will.
On the main menu there are two main sections namely Apps and Widgets, there's shortcut access the Android Market on the right above. Arranged in a horizontal menu, with a 4x5 icon main menu application that stuff is. Now look a lot full of Ice Cream Sandwich interesting effects, like fade in, fade out. The order of application can not be replaced, so according to the alphabetical order only.
Notification bar appears more beautiful with a transparent display. However, the existing settings in the notification bar is only access to the Settings shortcut only. Arrangements for other Interface is the brightness, auto rotate screen, sleep, font size and light notification can be activated or not. This new interface will probably make you previously put on Gingerbread / Honeycomb need to adapt.
Text Input
For the keyboard and input method which used only Google Android voice and keyboard typing with features like auto capitalization, vibrate, sound, popup, show key settings, auto correct, suggestion. Voice feature to type in the Indonesian language is quite fast and useful, as well as having some kind of security settings block offensive words, and safe search to search using the voice. Typing through its own QWERTY keyboard is quite comfortable and can be done accurately and quickly even in conditions portrait.
Contact
In the Contacts menu that is now named People there are group favorites for easy grouping and your colleagues. As with previous Android phone can contact you synchronize with GMail account. Facebook, Twitter and others you can use to sync, but you must first install these social networking applications. Of contacts you can see the profile picture, updates the status of the concerned, email addresses, and other information that he shared on your Facebook / Twitter. For new contacts, some additional fields that can be selected is the ringtone, IM, Email, Notes, nickname, Websites, Relationship and Internet Call. Not so much has changed, but it looks more sweet and nice views than ever before.
Messaging
SMS writing interface in simple and easy to use, just create a new message only use icons with no sign''+'' add new information''message''or the like so that might be confusing. To make the MMS only need to add an attachment only. Are displayed in the SMS is a conversation, like other smartphones moderna.
Display GMail did not escape the changes. To continue to use the background color of white as it should. Now in each message part of the contents of the message is seen, after the sender and subject of the email. GMail version used is version 4.0.1. Existing arrangements became more detailed, like the confirm before deleting, archiving and sending (there is an option for on-undo), making the''reply all''became the standard when you reply to a discussion. hide check box, and change the text size. The rest remains the same as Label, mute, report spam, mark as Important notes and things like push-notif and ringtones.
Now there are two chat applications in the Galaxy Nexus Talk and Messenger in which synchronized with Google + and Huddle features, there are features Instant uploads to Google + so that you automatically send photos directly to Google + terunggah arrive. Actually, to use their own chat and Messenger Talk is pretty good, with push notifications, block features, and instant upload settings. But still it seems like Google Talk has not been popular than gasoline or Yahoo Messenger.
Camera
The camera resolution is still the same Galaxy Nexus with Nexus S which is a maximum of 5 megapixels. Its features include flash, white balance, exposure, scene modes, location and resolution. There are panoramic features with fairly large resolution (3814x652 pixels). It features relatively small and simple compared to the standard Android phones like the Galaxy S II for example. But what about results? And especially the performance and speed cameras are very fast of course the main attraction.
Galaxy Nexus camera is incredibly fast, with access to a camera shortcut on the lock screen, we recorded only about 3 seconds, less than 4 seconds the time it takes from the lock screen until the image is stored. For consecutive photos (burst shoot) up to 25 full-resolution 5MP photos in just 12 seconds. This course is very useful when you are photographing a moving object.
Results camera Samsung Galaxy Nexus produce a nice color but quite ordinary. Tolerable level of detail, but for the room feel less and there are effects like watercolor. Even so the camera can be said Galaxy Nexus is tolerable, even more speed to be immortalized moments that happen quickly. For you who want to see the results of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus camera without any compression can download it at this link (13MB).
Video Recording
With full HD 1080p resolution which has become a standard high end mobile phones, video recording Galaxy Nexus does seem unremarkable, except for the speed in pressing the rec button to start recording and video storage are almost instantaneous. Its features include flash, white balance, effects, Time-Lapse, resolution and location.
Okay, there are two interesting features in the video recording Galaxy Nexus. Namely effects and Time Lapse. For the effect is very funny, face detection feature takes advantage of the Galaxy Nexus to change the face of the person you are recording in the video (real time) into a face with big eyes, big mouth, big nose, small eyes and mouth. Additionally you can use backgrounds that are available. However, these effects impact the use of video is only recorded in 480p mode. Time-Lapse feature compresses the duration of the video that you record a lot faster with multiple speed options.
The results of 1080p video recording the results of 70MB for one minute of recording, with 9700kbps bitrate and framerate of 24 frames per second. Although the file size, bitrate and framerate is small for 1080p (120MB/menit, 17000kbps, 29 fps) video recording, but the results are still pretty sight so that more efficient use of storage. The drawback is not having touch to focus, so just rely on continuous autofocus in video recording, but this is better than the Galaxy Note that does not have any focus feature (fixed focus) so it can not record video with the object close to the camera.
Photo Gallery
Displayed in a thumbnail gallery of photos that reminded us of the gallery photos on the HTC Sense UI, with a large thumbnail and huddled together. Brownish-colored background that is in the gallery previous standard Android phone replaced with a black background is much simpler. You can edit the photos is simple, rotated, in-crop and used as wallpaper. Can also be shared via Bluetooth, Picasa, MMS, Google and Gmail +. Photos can be grouped by location, time, these kinds of people (face detection) and tags.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus Gallery Review
Video Player
Unlike the Galaxy S II or any other Samsung phones, Galaxy Nexus does not have its own video player application, so video playback is done from Gallery. The video player is very simple and does not have any features. The file. Mkv 1080p legible and can be rotated, but broken. Subtitle can not be displayed. It seems to you video lovers need once to install third party applications.
Music Players
Category on the new music player faced with this blue dominance is Recent, Artists, Albums, Songs, Playlists, and Genres. You can like and dislike songs that you put yourself into this phone. There are several sound effects that you can select as equalizer (flat, folk, rock, pop, etc.) and made your own. When wearing the headset you can set the''effect''Bass Boost and 3D effects. To output the sound via the loudspeaker voice sounded so strong and just standards. When heard through the headset Samsung congenital (in-ear) and third-party Senheisser HD202 headphones, output and loud powerful voice, though somewhat less convenient for the highest volume. Pretty good detail and 3D effects are felt when you activate it.
Connectivity
Samsung Galaxy Nexus runs on the GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 Mhz and HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 Mhz, has a maximum speed of 21Mbps HSDPA and HSUPA 5.76Mbps and a maximum of 4G LTE connectivity for some countries. Bluetooth is still using version 3.0. Then there's assisted GPS, and WiFi 802.11 a / b / g / n with a dual band. WiFi tethering (Mobile AP) helped complete the Nexus S, you can be pulled to share your Internet network (3G or GPRS) via WiFi. Selian there DLNA feature to play your multimedia files to another parangkat. There are also USB tethering, using your phone as a modem by plugging into a PC. In addition to a modem, an internal SD storage on the Nexus S can also be mounted on your computer. 16GB internal SD on Galaxy Nexus is big enough, but unfortunately the Galaxy Nexus does not have a slot for external memory is more flexible. Then Near Field Communication technology that has existed since the Nexus S is available for many uses. To prevent your Internet data over the quota in any Data Usage Settings settings, here you can see how much data you use, of course before you must enter the date the data begins and ends.
Web Browser
The number of tabs you can open the browser default is doubled from 8 to up to 16 tabs on Galaxy Nexus. Galaxy Nexus browser does not have support for Adobe Flash, which means streaming videos Youtube Youtube should be to applications, and you can not play flash games from your browser. ''When we click on the message download it (adobe flash player) from the Adobe website Adobe states that''the Adobe Flash Player is not available for the operating system or browser Galaxy Nexus. But take it easy because Adobe said if the Galaxy Nexus will get it in this month.
The advantages of HD resolution 1280x720 pixel screen is very pronounced in the web browser especially when opening a site that met a lot of writing and content. You have absolutely no need to zoom if you want to read the article, although the letter size is very small (cell phone in a state portrait) but still very clearly legible. Seamless web performance and smooth, although the opening pages filled with lots of content.
Not many new things to offer. Features of Galaxy Nexus browser bookmarks, share, find, incognito tab, requests for desktop site (option to always open a site full browser), save for offline reading, and others such as the homepage, auto-fill forms, cache, history, cookies, passwords, text size and zoom, javascript, plugins, and others. There's Accessibility features for your convenience in surfing on the internet, among others, controlling the scale of the text, zoom on double tap, minimum font size that appears, and rendering inverted (black to white and vice versa).
Default Applications
Since Galaxy Nexus is the original Android phone apps too little luggage, including Earth, Google +, Messenger, Maps (version 5.11.0), Market, Movie Studio, Navigation, News & Weather, Talk and Youtube.
Third-Party Applications
ASTRO File Manager
This application is very useful, in addition to the File Manager that is not owned Galaxy nexus, there are features and Task Killer App Backup. As a file manager such as the ability to pretty much copy and paste, and viewing modes.
Benchmark Results
Multitouch Tester: a maximum of 10 touches
Quadrant Standard: 1531 points
Antutu: 5215 points
Battery Life
With a battery of 1750 mAh, Galaxy Nexus least able to survive from morning till night with regular use as an occasional browsing, multimedia (video, camera and song), and connected with WiFi to pull emails and notifications from social networking Google Plus and Messenger.
Conclusion
As an Android smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has the look and several new features to be proud of like Face Unlock and incredible speed cameras for example. New and fresh interface is guaranteed to make you are already bored with the Android interface in general became interested again to the Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 Ice Cream sandwich. Plus all of it displayed in HD AMOLED display Super large and high resolution. But of course there are still shortages in areas such as video playback as well as the results of an ordinary camera.
Pros:
Ice Cream Sandwich
fresh interface
Super AMOLED screen HD720p
Full support by Google
Fast camera performance
Disadvantages:
There is no external memory slot
The results of ordinary cameras
Loudspeaker less tight
Performance in video playback is less satisfactory
