Galaxy Nexus Unlocked for $349 (Was $399) straight from Google Play Store

cueball said:   Ordered on Friday, received shipping notice today, estimated delivery Wednesday.

They are quite consistent. I ordered Saturday, received shipping notice today, estimated delivery tomorrow (Thursday).

IronTek said:   I just can't get over that it doesn't have a MicroSD slot. If the memory was expandable, I'd have bought one already.if it helps, it supports usb otg so you can attach as much flash memory as you want via a dongle (currently you need to be rooted to do this, but the android team has said it will be included in a future firmware update)

anyone know if the EXT battery from the Verizon Galaxy Nexus will fit this phone?

Received mine today... When I compare to Galaxy S3, Nexus seems very inferior... offcourse, there is a difference of $250 here....

IronTek said:   It's nice to know that it can do that, but it shouldn't have to. They should have spent an extra buck on the Bill of Materials and included it.

Extra buck? find me a pentaband dual core jellybean phone remotely similar to this for 360$ off contract brand new with an sd card. I bet you couldn't even find one for $400

ab2pk said:   Received mine today... When I compare to Galaxy S3, Nexus seems very inferior... offcourse, there is a difference of $250 here....
Received mine yesterday, already unlocked and rooted. So far very impressed, nice upgrade from my iPhone 4. Wish it had the same camera as the S3, and an SD card slot would be nice, but I think it's a great value for $350, especially combined w/ the T-Mobile $30/month plan.

KayK said:   wethead said:   IronTek said:   It's nice to know that it can do that, but it shouldn't have to. They should have spent an extra buck on the Bill of Materials and included it.

Extra buck? find me a pentaband dual core jellybean phone remotely similar to this for 360$ off contract brand new with an sd card. I bet you couldn't even find one for $400Nexus doesnt have SD card.

I believe he's saying that you can't find a similarly spec'd phone with an SD Card for around $400. The GN is a great value.

anyone know if the $349 is a sale or is it the new price???

IronTek said:   I know what he was saying, but since it had absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with the point I was trying to make, I assumed he was simply confused and needed a better explanation.Try telling Apple to spend an extra $1 to put an SD slot for the iPhone. Of course, you'd also have to explain why they should no longer charge $50 for 8GB of the same flash memory that SD card manufacturers get $5 (or less) for.

Essentially these companies are in the business of taking as much of your money as possible as passing as little of it to their downstream suppliers as possible. That's capitalism in a sentence. If they give you memory expansion then they have to get their profits elsewhere. That's why the cheap phones don't have an SD slot and the expensive ones do. Is the Galaxy S3 really $250 better than the Galaxy Nexus? I think not.

ufmale said:   I am in Seattle. Does anyone know if there would be a shipping/tax?
Is this the same as I9250 sold on Amazon for $403?

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-I9250-Galaxy-Nexus-Unlocked/dp/B00...
Tax yes. Shipping charge? Yes. Same as link? Yes. Warranty (on the link you provided)? No.

Amaz0n in WA charges sales tax. I'd just go with the Play store for a similar price + warranty.

This phone is getting close to being a year old, correct? Has anyone found any word on it's replacement?

If the rumors pan out that the new device is 4.2 with limited new functionality on LG hardware, I'm salivating at the prospect of buying a Galaxy Nexus for less than $300 from the play store.

Not sure why they would give LG a crack at Nexus without a must have new feature in Android (although who knows, maybe there are surprises coming) given their poor track making phones and smartphones. The LG fliphone I had on Verizon 11 years ago still leaves a bad taste in my mouth for their products.

The reason it does not have it has nothing to do w/ the fact that it would cost an extra $x.yy to include it..

Dan Morrill said: We got tired of seeing OEMs include many GB of internal storage for music, while users were still running out of space for apps and data. This approach lets us merge everything on one volume, which is way better.

-- Dan Morrill, Android engineer at Google

from Android Central article

I still think they're wrong.

In my mind, the Galaxy SIII is currently a great example of it done right: 16GB is great for apps, games, etc., and I can use a MicroSD card to keep my music, movies, and photos on.

This requires virtually no management as far as juggling apps back and forth, and keeps everything pretty well organized.