Samsung Galaxy Nexus battery life fully tested, results come out disappointing [TEST]

The last battery test of the year is really something special. Samsung Galaxy Nexus is a key device for both Samsung and Android and as such there was no way it could avoid being subjected to our traditional battery test.

So far, smartphones with HD displays have really struggled to get good grades in our test – the LG Nitro HD is the worst performer so far and the HTC Rezound is just above it in the leaderboard. The Samsung Galaxy Note did manage to put in a pretty good performance despite its HD screen, but that one had a huge 2500 mAh battery.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus on the other hand has a slightly smaller, 4.65?, Super AMOLED, but notably less powerful 1750 mAh battery. That’s certainly one of the worst screen-size-to-capacity ratios we have seen, so we started the test knowing that anything but last place will be a success for the Nexus.

Telephony is how it all started and that was the Samsung Galaxy Nexus one chance to get a decent score. With the screen turned off for the duration of the calls, the Nexus had the chance to make its larger-than-usual battery count and that’s exactly what it did.

A fully charged Galaxy Nexus took 8 hours and 23 minutes of 3G talking to switch off. That’s exactly what the manufacturer promises and it was enough to secure the ICS pioneer a good mid-table position.

The second test was web browsing and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was in for a rough ride. For comparison’s sake, despite its huge battery, the Galaxy Note phoneblet only managed 3:35 minutes of browsing, using a screen of the same technology.

The predominantly white webpages are really taxing on AMOLEDs and the Galaxy Nexus paid the price here. It only endured a minute over 3 hours of our automated script before it switched off and placed last of all tested smartphones. And it was some way of the pace, as you can see from the table.

The video playback test concluded the round of individual tests and the good news is that the Galaxy Nexus did fairly well in it. It wasn’t great, but after the web browsing fiasco, the 6 hours and 2 minutes seemed like good news.

Needless to say that after such results, we were having no illusions about the Galaxy Nexus real life endurance. The smartphone’s standby wasn’t particularly efficient either and it got a total endurance rating of 31h. This suggests that you’ll need to charge the Samsung Galaxy Nexus every 31 hours if you use it for an hour of 3G telephony, SD video playback and web browsing each day.

That’s tied second worst score we have seen so far, but as we told you, it wasn’t completely unexpected. On a positive note, the Galaxy Nexus matches the HTC Rezound and outdoes the LG Nitro HD and they have screens smaller by 17% and 7%, respectively.

Samsung Galaxy nexus GSM brings more ice cream of sandwiches to our Office, we party on video [VIDEO]

It's finally here folks-you all have for droid has finally arrived on our doorstep. We are naturally very well this year since how Santa sent us the most beautiful Christmas present given the Samsung Galaxy nexus (in fact, that he sent us two of these).

We have already rolled our sleeves and investigate the Android ice cream sandwich flagship and hopefully, again with the answers to all your questions are sometimes next week.

And as it has the tradition, we have prepared a short unboxing video for you and it garnished with to make our first impressions of the Smartphone that wait more bearable.

The Samsung Galaxy nexus outer had hardly any secrets, like us, a preview of the ice cream sandwich pioneer have been a while. The round shape with a nice pattern on the back, which beautifully sleek profile and incredibly large Windows make the heart itself respects everyone to melt tech-freak.

Samsung Galaxy nexus live shots

Fashionistas may be a few things on the forehead frown, but this phone not aimed at them anyway.

It will be really interesting if you explore the Android 4.0 ice cream sandwich. It is a fairly new experience and it certainly takes some time getting used to, but you learn your way through, how amazing find works the Android version. Add you the smoothness provided by the Galaxy get a nexus 1.2 GHz dual core CPU and you experience value write home about.

We are wasting our time now, and down to test. Feel free to post questions may be answered you in the final review in the comments section.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus for Verizon brought its ICS magic to our office [VIDEO]

The U.S. version of the hottest Android smartphone of the year made it in front of our camera, folks. The Verizon Wireless exclusive (at least for the time being) Samsung Galaxy Nexus is practically identical to its GSM sibling, save for the CDMA/LTE radio on board.

The smartphone features a TI OMAP CPU with two 1.2GHz cores. There is a gig of RAM on board and 32GB of built-in memory (28GB is available to the user). The display is a gorgeous 4.65? Super AMOLED unit with HD resolution (720×1280 pixels) and a pixel density of 316ppi. It has oleophobic coating. There is a 5MP camera on the back of the device, capable of recording 1080p videos and a 1.3MP front-facing unit for video calls. A full connectivity suite is at your disposal, including NFC.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus measures are 135.5 x 67.9 x 9.5 mm, and its weight tips the scale at 150 grams. A 1850mAh battery powers the smartphone.

In terms of design, the device is unmistakably a member of the Nexus family. Like its predecessor, the smartphone features a curved display for better ergonomics. It is one of the most understated phone designs we’ve encountered – there is a total of two hardware buttons on the entire device. Check out its live shots below.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus LTE live photos

The software of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is certainly its biggest highlight (after all, we’ve seen quite a few impressive spec sheets this far into 2011). The smartphone is the first device featuring Google’s latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS. Our unit came with the 4.02 update already installed. See it in action below.

We have more features of the LTE packing Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the pipeline, so stick around.

Google employees receive a special edition Samsung Galaxy Nexus for Christmas

You know what’s a byword for Christmas? Presents. And Google likes to give them to its employees come Christmas and this years’ is no exception.

As a “Thank you for your hard work throughout the year”, every Google employee in the company’s offices in London and Zurich has received a special Christmas gift in the form of an exclusive Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

What makes this particular Galaxy Nexus exclusive is its battery cover. It sports an unique pattern with various Android icons, specially designed for the hardworking Googlers. Sadly, however, hardware specs of the device remain unchanged.

I don’t know about you, but I am not entirely convinced that this is the best battery cover design Google could have created. In addition, as this is Google’s internal matters, it’s not yet confirmed if this is the only bonus all the 20,000+ Google employees are going to receive this Christmas season.

Reportedly, last years’ Christmas holidays, all 20,000 Google personnel received an $1,000 individual bonus plus 10% increase in salary as of January 1, 2011. But, you know, a Galaxy Nexus isn’t so bad either.

Google employees taste Ice Cream Sandwich on their Nexus S, mere mortals not far from getting it on theirs

Ever since Google announced the Galaxy Nexus and along with it Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, those of us with a Nexus S have been salivating at the chance of getting it on our own devices. Unfortunately, Google did not give any official date as to when the update will be made available for download.

It seems now, however, that it won’t be too long now. A Google employee posted on Google+ that he got the Ice Cream Sandwich on his Nexus S and that ‘it’s looking great’. The update was later on deleted from the site but you can see a screenshot below.

Usually when a product is near completion it is given to some of the company employees for testing, a process known as dogfooding and by the looks of it this is exactly what is happening with the ICS update for Nexus S. I guess it won’t be long now and if I have to make a guess we should see the update come out in this month itself.

Of course the impatient ones have had the option to install the custom ROM for quite some time now but there’s nothing like getting the goods directly from the factory.

Verizon Galaxy Nexus to come with bloatware, will let you disable them

The mythical creature known as the Verizon Galaxy Nexus has been spotted in the wild and much to the surprise of its spotters was found running some Verizon apps. As you may know, the Nexus phones have been known to come with a stock ROM from Google with nothing but Google’s own applications installed. The Galaxy Nexus will be the first to break this tradition and have some bloatware courtesy of Verizon, tarnishing the name of the Nexus brand forever.

It’s not all bad news, however. If you may recall, Ice Cream Sandwich comes with the ability to disable unwanted applications from the Settings menu. Mind you, you can only disable them and not delete them, which means they will still reside on your memory but won’t be visible in the app launcher.

Thankfully, Verizon has not disabled this functionality, so you will still be able to disable their applications and pretend nothing ever happen. Still, it is disappointing to see Google submit to carrier demands and allow them to install bloatware on their Nexus devices. Whatever happened to the Pure Google Experience?