[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MMcCraryNJ:
Wah Wah Wah. Every Android forum I go to now there is incessant whining. "The Nexus sucks because of this..." "My bars are lower than a Pantech Element! WTF Google!" "Does Google REALLY know what they are doing?"

I don't ever remember any device I bought that had THIS much forum whining behind it. Everybody was so psyched for the original Galaxy S that we all put aside our whining to help each other and figure **** out. In 6 months we had a blossoming developer and end-user community with great users that would take time to write lengthy threads and replies. The US models were plagued with slow updates and some of the carriers abandoned support for their models very early on, but everybody stuck through it and created fixes and helped each other as much as possible.

Now, Google/Samsung release the third Nexus. It's in no way perfect (no device is EVER perfect, there will always be issues because humans built and coded the thing and no human is perfect), but it's a very solid and capable device and it does most things right more often than not. It's brand new hardware meshed with a brand new software platform, and everyone expected it was going to be issue-free upon release? Is that a joke? Aren't we a developer/hacker community that knows better?

The bottom line is this...at least for my fellow Verizon friends. You guys had 30 days (till Jan 15th) to return your device or exchange it for another phone if you weren't happy with it. You bought into the device knowing everything was all new and that some apps/games wouldn't be coded to run flawlessly with it just yet. You bought it knowing that Google would have to release a few patches before minor annoyances would be ironed out, as ALL companies have to do this, the almighty Apple included. Even if you didn't get it through Verizon, everyone had time to take advantage of a return policy, 14-days or otherwise.

Now, people like me, I've had no major issues, certainly nothing I would call a deal breaker. Sure some programs that weren't properly coded stutter around a bit, as do some live wallpapers. But I'll be damned if this wasn't the best Android device I've ever used. Now, everyone doesn't have to feel the same as me, because everyone is different and has different experiences. But what good is it moan and complain about major issues? Most of the posts I've seen aren't constructive at all, meaning instead of asking for help and wording potential issues in a way the community can test and report back with suggestions, they are worded in that they only want to complain about their poor experience and nothing else.

Nobody is going to help you if you post something like "I can't believe my signal is THIS bad! I mean this is nuts! Worst phone I've ever had!" because it looks as if you don't really WANT help, you just want to complain. If the phone isn't for you, you had a nice long 2-4 weeks to get something else or get your money back. Or you can decide to wait for Google to sort things out because you love the phone. Or you can *constructively*, key word there, post issues and the steps to reproduce them so that other people can help you troubleshoot in the meantime.

Complaining just to be whiner won't get you very far in being happy with your device. Just my long-winded 2 cents.