The Galaxy Nexus, or GNexus as we've taken to affectionately calling it, is destined for Verizon's LTE network some time very soon indeed. Dealing with that wait isn't being made any easier today, as a new video has emerged showing the 4G handset reaching 8.5Mbps down and 2Mbps up on a Speedtest.net run. That video is, of course, entirely unsanctioned, though we doubt Verizon would mind having its LTE network promoted in this fashion. The Galaxy Nexus LTE on show only indicates two bars of signal while pulling down those speeds — can you imagine how it would fly in a well-connected area? See the video, replete with Verizon 4G branding on the Nexus' rear cover, below.
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Once again, all this money sitting here waiting to give Verizon and still no release date
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 4:08 AM EST reply Recommend (10) Flag actions
I have to say I"m really surprised they still haven’t officially announced a date by now, so strange. They must be having some kind of trouble with the LTE version seeing as the HSPA+ versions around the world are out already.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 5:16 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I hope there’s a good reason, and just that they’re pushing the razr
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 5:23 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Nope, they’re just pushing the Razr and Rezound.
btw, I just threw money at my screen and once again nothing happened.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 11:08 AM EST reply Recommend (4) Flag actions
i’ll just leave this here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGgRCicn0M&feature=channel_video_title
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:08 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
What is the point of this?
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:59 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
that it won’t be 20mb once people start using it. (as is the case where i live)
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 10:21 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I live in Chicago, downtown.
http://db.tt/lZb6VrLV
I do not have any issues with service. With 1 bar I get ~8Mbps down.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 11:56 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
LTE is not speedier than HSPA by now, it’s just verizon and other’s marketing. But the important thing that most of 3g carriers can’t provide (but LTE does) is a good PING
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 2:13 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
very true ~ although i’ve seen LTE go far far far beyond HSPA+.
in certain situations tho, this happens.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 2:40 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
It’s a good technology for Verizon and Sprint to adopt, since the CDMA data standards just simply can’t reach the speeds LTE, or HSPA are capable of. Qualcomm dropped their plans for Ultra Mobile Broadband, and the unification under one standard will benefit the entire industry. I see this is a plus that nearly everyone is headed to LTE long term. It will lead to better competition where it matters for the consumer. You now have companies like Qualcomm throwing their engineering talents at LTE, alongside other big cellular radio players, which will lead to quicker advances in power efficiency, and hopefully some speed wars.
Posted on Dec 03, 2011 | 1:50 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I’m not sure where you live. But whenever I’m browsing the web on my bionic and my friends are using AT&T’s “4G” HSPA+ phones, mine consistently loads 2-5 times faster.
Posted on Dec 03, 2011 | 2:39 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I’m with you, Guz. Just sitting and waiting…
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 9:14 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Maybe they are waiting for AT&T’s version to come out (which just passed through the FCC). It is entirely possible the two have colluded and decided not to compete. As Verizon and AT&T competing assures mutual destruction, but collusion means big profits and total domination.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 2:17 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
“had to cut the video short because the battery died”
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 4:09 AM EST reply Recommend (2) Flag actions
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 4:09 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
Oh silly Supernatural
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 4:28 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Loves me some Super Natural. = )
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:29 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
My concern still is the battery life..Will it be as bad as the thunderbolt? On the fence on this one…
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 4:12 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
The LTE Model is rumored (proven?) to have an 1850 mAh Battery, where the HSPA+ Model has 1750. So at least that’s a plus.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 4:13 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Well I think this has been common problem in faster phones that it also drains its battery juice faster.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 4:50 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
The leaks so far show the battery life as being “OK” but certainly not Thunderbolt bad.
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/11/28/verizons-4g-lte-galaxy-nexus-still-in-testing-receives-android-4-0-2-update/
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:36 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
verizon is an asshole.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 4:13 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
If it doesn’t have CIQ i don’t want it!
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 4:14 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Pretty sure China can fix you up with something at least as good, for free.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 4:22 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I wish Verizon had a face so I could punch it! Take our damn money idiots!
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 4:35 AM EST via mobile reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
Verizon wants your money, they’d just rather you spent it on the Razr or Rezound
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 6:32 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Kind of low for LTE isn’t it? I mean I get better performance with Sprint Wimax on my Galaxy S II. (When I have a signal that is)
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 4:45 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
yeah i have a video up in mobile that’s my iphone tethering my computer vs a LTE card. It did better than both yours and that test, on hspa+ (around 11mb down and just under 4 up)
the vid is at youtube.com/jessedegenerate
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:07 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
I have gotten speed tests as high as 25mbps on my Amaze 4g (42mb HSPA+), granted this is extremely uncommon for me, if I have good signal, 10mbps isn’t unusual… I’ve done speed tests on LTE devices at work with poor signal, when it can hold it long enough to run a speed test, I’ve gotten 7mbps on literally 1 bar of LTE before it drops to EVDO. That being said, the speeds in the video aren’t bad, but they are by no means exceptional.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:45 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I think this guy is missing the point. It was getting 8Mbps on a low signal. I just did a test on my bionic with one bar and hit 6Mbps down. The video of the iphone on at&t and the verizon hotspot did not show signal of either device. Also, get the iphone on a speed test when it has 1 to 2 bars.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 9:08 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
you miss the point. I had full strength on both devices. (i live in North Brooklyn, i would have 5 bars on any carrier) At the point i’m at (in one of the larger cities on this planet) LTE performs worse than HSPA+ due to (imo) user saturation. (i’ve gotten over 20mb on that card, and i’ve seen Verizon’s NYC LTE network do just about 30, just not in about a year or so.)
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 10:16 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
i’ve gotten about 29mbps on LTE in NYC when it launched. It’s more about user saturation at this point. less people use HSPA+, so in some area’s it will perform better.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 10:13 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGgRCicn0M&feature=channel_video_title
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:08 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
It is. I get 35-40 Mbps on my Thunderbolt / GTab 10.1.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:59 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
Holy shit.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 9:41 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Kind of slow indeed, 1O1O in Hong Kong proposes 24Mb with 3G+
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 4:50 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
Can’t really compare something provided tip something in service. That could be theoretical max.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 6:15 AM EST via mobile reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
Something proposed to
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 6:16 AM EST via mobile reply Recommend Flag actions
erm.. is that what Americans call 4G speeds? I get that on our 3G network in Sweden.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 5:05 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I’ll help you out since you probably don’t follow carriers in the US. It’s common knowledge here that American carries have been abusing “4g”, even lte (without advanced) is still 3g but at least much closer. So no, it’s not what Americans want to call it, but carrier marketing departments do.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 6:22 AM EST via mobile reply Recommend Flag actions
I agree, I hope this is a worst case scenario for the LTE Galaxy Nexus. Because the LTE version will get a much shorter battery life even with the bigger battery and zero of the benefits. All it will have to show is the LTE branding on the back and the $150 cell phone plan. I will keep my HSAP+ thank you T-Mobile
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 5:34 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGgRCicn0M&feature=channel_video_title
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:09 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
You can stop pumping your video now, we get it. It also means nothing given how poorly shot that video was it making it near impossible to see anything, and you ran it once.
Of course everyone forgets about the times you can get well over 10mb on these LTE devices, it all depends on where he is (obviously inside, which Verge showed to have a performance hit). Lets see this outside or somewhere with slightly greater signal and I bet that jumps right up. Ive seen in plenty of reviews LTE phones averaging over 15mb down, with the occasional jump to 30mb. Everyone should ignore what I just said though as it won’t give you anything to troll about.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:44 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
i ran everything there 4 times; i just thought that posting that would be excessive. If you can see the speeds, the empty ethernet port, and the airport menu (you can) then your all set. I’m sorry that the results weren’t to your liking so you have to take that tone.
LTE under load doesn’t mean LTE speeds. As i’ve said more than once before, i’ve seen 30mbps from that network, just not in the last year. I’m in north brooklyn, i assure you i had full LTE signal.
Maybe you should ask about the conditions before assuming i’m not thinking of them? Cause your post comes off like a dick.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 10:20 AM EST reply Recommend (2) Flag actions
For those bragging about how fast their country’s or providers down speed is, this phone was only getting 2 bars of coverage, I’d say that’s pretty impressive.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 5:44 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
“During each and every speedtest, we dutifully copied down how many bars of reception our devices saw. Unfortunately, we quickly discovered that the bars weren’t particularly useful for predicting how well LTE would perform. In the exact same location, LTE devices with fewer bars could out-perform others with more, and we had quite a few unusably slow or completely unresponsive data connections even when our hotspot had full bars.”
—Sean Hollister
So in other words, two bars may or may not be so impressive..lol
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 5:59 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
yay for you. Reading the article is good.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:09 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Bars are inconsistent measures from device to device and shouldn’t ever be used. Apple, for example, just changed their OS so it showed a different amount of bars at the same signal strength. The least Sean should do is list the signal strength in dBm when listing speed test ratings or call quality.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 10:06 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
im probably wrong, but i believe the bars indicate how much cell voice service you get..not what your data service is at the time.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 6:45 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Wrong.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 9:42 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
actually im not…but way to be a douche
Posted on Dec 03, 2011 | 8:31 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
My Bionic has been managing speeds that are a little higher than that. This is on the high end but I’m almost always over 10 MB/s. As for battery life on the Bionic, I have the extended battery and have no problem getting through a day with moderate to heavy usage. To me, the Bionic is the best device on Verizon for that reason alone.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:10 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I have a question, Vodafone gives me up to 40Mb here in Portugal (3GPP, R8). Is this considered 4G? thanks
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:13 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
If you were in America, yes… everywhere else? nope, not 4g.
I have the Amaze on TMOUSA, which is 42mbps HSPA+, I can almost give this one a pass on being “real” 4g, I’ve gotten speed tests as high as 25mbps on it.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:51 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Pretty good, but this needs to be on Tmobile, we would see the real speeds.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:35 AM EST via mobile reply Recommend Flag actions
Man, I really wish someone would post a link to an LTE vs. iPhone tether video…I saw one earlier in the thread but scrolling up is hard.
:)
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:49 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
press the verge logo in the upper right of the screen, don’t you listen to the podcasts, this is revolutionary.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:52 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Here, from my Bionic.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 9:45 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
This is from my iPhone 4s. Stood in the middle of a field. This was a particularly quick day, it’s usually around 7.5Mbps
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 10:28 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
You’ll notice some not so great latency there, I’ll take my American 4g…. whenever they will sell it to me!
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 10:44 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Mmmmm 4G LTE on my HTC rezound
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 11:26 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Wow, with that connection, you could burn through your 2GB in only 11 minutes!
Posted on Dec 05, 2011 | 7:26 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Verizon is playing Google for fools. Google makes this huge announcement and demo of the Nexus, and then Verizon delays, delays and delays. The money that is sitting out there to buy the Nexus is instead, slowly drifting away, much of it to bloatware infested Razrs and Rezounds on Verizon’s network, and to iPhones, many of them on Verizon as well. Meanwhile the Christmas season is slipping away, and when very few Nexuses sell compared to the various Droid branded phones, not to say iPhones (which surely are selling like gangbusters) this Christmas, we’ll get reports about how people don’t seem to want the Gnex or whatever. And many idiot executives at Verizon and elsewhere will actually believe that there is no demand for a “pure” Android experience.
I only hope that the silver lining to this is that Google is getting so pissed off with the carriers here that they’ll finally just go ahead and fucking buy T-Mobile. Then we can move on from all this bullshit. The new Google owned Motorola will make awesome Android phones for the Google network, and we can just forget about the broken carrier model that led to this Nexus clusterfuck in the first place. How Verizon has this much power in the marketplace is beyond me. I’m a Verizon customer, and I guess I’ll continue to be for the foreseeable future, but their attitude toward consumers makes me angry. I hope it makes Google angry too.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 11:26 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
Hell yeah, Google should buy T-mobile and use it as a fairly priced dumb-pipe to sell premium motorola made vanilla Android phones, with no preinstalled crapware and with a full compliment of google products and services. I would be a customer tomorrow!
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 1:10 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Everyone would be a customer tomorrow. I doubt it would pass antitrust muster though.
Verizon has a huge group of customers who bought the original Droid two Christmases ago, all coming off contract. That phone was released in early November of 2009 and was a massive success (remember, this was before the VZW iPhone).. Verizon is clearly trying to steer all those people into the bloatware ridden successors to that Droid (which, remember, had no carrier bloatware, and no manufacturer overlay), since switching to a different network is a mild pain in the ass. Then they’ll use Gnex to try to win customers away from the competition.
I hope it blows up in their faces. I can’t believe how stupid Verizon has been since that original Droid. No one could believe it when the OG Droid had no bloatware, and didn’t have any of its features disabled (that was a first for VZW), and it seemed Verizon had figured out that the way to win customers was to give them what they want. They obviously did not figure that out though. Customers want the fucking Gnex, and they’re starting to get pissed.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 2:07 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Why is this news? I get over 10Mbps on my Sprint HTC EVO 4G.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 12:31 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
My cousin’s uncle’s barber was walking through a park and saw a big foot playing with a Galaxy Nexus. he was about to take a picture but space-faring proctologists suddenly abducted Sasquatch before he could take the picture.
I’m starting to think this phone doesn’t really exist. It’s just a cruel joke made for keeping us reading articles and seeing Google’s advertising.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 1:13 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Jesus! I have less than 1mb down on Sprint 4G
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 6:15 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
thats because wimax is terrible.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 7:46 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I’m not seeing what all the fuss is about this, I’ve had 25Mbps down on my revolution with 6Mbps up. also had 10 – 11Mbps down with 1 – 2 bars of service.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 7:45 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I get that on t mobile with a mytouch 4g. I have only seen it once. I get about 5 to 6 down other wise. If I see some 20’s that would be nice.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:57 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
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