The Galaxy Nexus has two cameras: a front facing 1.3-megapixel one, and a rear 5-megapixel one. Google boasts that the smartphone's rear camera is "low-light optimized", but in our experience that only meant that the flash triggers very easily in low light situations. The aforementioned giant Super AMOLED screen on the Galaxy Nexus is one of the first 720p displays we've dealt with on a smartphone. At the very least, the Galaxy Nexus leaves behind the obvious-pixel problems of 800x480 resolution displays that are stretched so thin on 4-inch-plus phones.
The screen is fairly readable in sunlight, though it definitely packs less maximum brightness than other phones. We tried playing some videos on the Galaxy Nexus, and found that while the picture quality was fine, the phone's speaker is not very loud at the highest volumes—an average conversation could entirely drown the phone out. Call quality on the phone was as good as we've heard on recent phones. We're not going to discuss the Android 4 operating system just yet—the OS is saving itself for Ryan Paul. The Galaxy Nexus performs very well at the browser benchmark Sunspider 0.9.1, scoring 1990-2010 milliseconds on the test (the iPhone 4S hovers around 2200 milliseconds).
But in Linpack, the Galaxy Nexus scores a modest 43-45 MFLOPS in single-threaded processes and 35-38 MFLOPS multi-threaded. The smartphone's performance in graphics rendering is likewise unimpressive. The Galaxy Nexus scores around 24 frames per second in the GL Benchmark 2.1 Egypt Standard test, and 40-42 frames per second in the PRO Standard test. The Samsung Stratosphere, with its year-old hardware, scores 25 and 42 fps, respectively. The Galaxy Nexus's battery is rated at 1750mAh, which is middling-to-high for the most recent batch of cell phones. The phone's Super AMOLED screen will help it to not lose catastrophic amounts of battery life, but it is running a new operating system on a dual-core processor, and the flagship version is on Verizon's LTE network.
With WiFi on, full volume, and the screen at half brightness, we found the phone could play back video for 5.5 to 6 hours. This phone is likely shaking in its boots over the shadow 4G LTE access is casting (though the LTE version will have a slightly larger 1850mAh battery, according to Google's docmentation). Overall, the Galaxy Nexus is a bit of a mixed bag. Sounds about right. Screen is highly detailed, can play 720p video--Camera's pictures are nice with decent lighting Phone feels decent in hand, and people with bigger hands may find it more comfortable to use than sub-4-inch phones.
Performance is smooth, in spite of lackluster benchmarks Curved design is a little weird, Battery has potential to flounder on 4G LTE MobiCity, one of Australia’s largest phone retailers, currently says that the Galaxy Nexus’ expected launch date is November 24 – although it looks like the first batch of devices will arrive a day earlier, on November 23 (this Wednesday).
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