While I'm not the original poster, I'm in similar situation and I hope someone at Google is listening (for next Nexus):
- Hardware: S3 has better hardware. (I know, GN is 6 months old. We are comparing from the POV of today's purchase though). The camera also cannot compete to it's contemporaries. GN is more related to S2 than S3. Given that outside States, S2 was available for 6 months before GN, there was never a reason to upgrade to GN.
- Limitations: where I live, GSM GN is available only in 16GB version. S3 is 32GB + MicroSD slot. My current phone (Xperia Arc) has an 32GB card in the slot currently. Do you think that I would buy new phone with less memory than my current one? (That was rethorical, of course not). I do not have problem to be MTP only, but 32GB is minimum to be acceptable. At the end of the year, 64GB will be minimum.
Looking at available phones, the killer would be combination of HTC's One X design, finish and build quality, S3's hardware and GN's stock android upgraded by Google. However, no such thing is available :(.
Oh interesting, from memory I thought the GSM had a slightly smaller battery and I pulled those numbers from Wikipedia (they could of course be wrong).
That's exactly it -- low lighting situations are terrible. The year-old HTC Thunderbolt I used to use was better (and also higher resolution). But mostly, if you compare the image quality to the iPhone 4S, it's a no-brainer. The iPhone destroys the GN in image quality.
BTW, brings up another thought: I'm pretty sure Android is more aggressive about JPEG compression by default than iPhone. I haven't thoroughly researched this except to notice the relative sizes of files the two generate at the same resolution.
I almost always get the desktop version of sites on Chrome/Android too. I looked into this in detail and it's just stupid user-agent sniffing; Chrome on Android specifically sends the string "Mobile" to indicate that it's a mobile device. (My UA is currently "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76F) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Mobile Safari/535.19".)
I always try to avoid being cynical, but in this case, It's hard to argue otherwise:
Page title <title>: Instagram Fakes Spreading Malware on Android Devices
Post title <h1>: Fake Instagram apps are spreading malware on Android devices
In the page title, "fakes" is ambiguous. Is it a noun or a verb? The page title shows up in search results and RSS feeds, thus the ambiguity is present in a place where the verb interpretation would raise more eyebrows.
As a parent, I can't imagine giving my 1 year-old a kindle to play with - I think board books will be very hard to replace with digital alternatives, unless it's something that looks and feels like a board book, but has several different stories you can choose from.
Glad to hear this - I hope other schools follow along in their footsteps. This is a good way to both invest in graduates, and improve the money problems many schools are facing (though, this is more of a long term result.)
Credit scoring is relative and the magnitude for which most actions affect different people can vary significantly. However, directionally speaking, you may see a negative effect on your score from "churning" cards due to the following:
1) Lowering your average age of accounts. All else equal, if you have 2 credit cards open, one that you've had for 8 years and one that you've had for 6 years, the average age would obviously be 7. If you proceed to open a dozen airline cards in one year (regardless of whether you close them or not), your average age would plummet and could negatively impact your score.
2) Each time you apply for credit or a loan, a "hard inquiry" shows up on your credit report and can negatively impact your score. The scoring system is designed to account for multiple inquiries in a short period of time to allow people to shop around for a mortgage or auto loan by grouping them as one inquiry (as long as they are done in a 30-45 day period). This is not the case for credit or store card applications.
3) In addition to simply applying for credit, having numerous recently open accounts and newly available credit is also perceived as a risk and can lower your score.
The above being said, you may or may not experience a significant hit on your score through "churning." Don't assume that because someone else did it without any negative impacts that the same will be true for you. If you will be applying for a mortgage in the near future, I would advise against it. For everyone else, YMMV.
Most folks who churn already have a mortgage or some don't care about maintaining a really high credit score. I was mostly talking about what you can do, what people do, not what you maybe should do.
American Airlines and Citicards right now will give you between 75,000 and 100,000 miles for opening a new card. That's a free round trip business class ticket to europe/asia/south america. $10,000 in flights for opening a card.
Mostly people churn to try and get life time status, it's how people get status without BIS, Butt In Seat miles flown.
I personally get status mostly by flying crazy routes, Uruguay to South Africa via New York and London. I also focus on purchasing tickets which will earn me maximum miles, but for flights i'd fly anyway.
Disclosure: I work at Google.