I9000 to nexus

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Would upgrading my i9000 to the newest nexus be worth it, or should I wait for the galaxy s 3 or beam or go for galaxy s 2???

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Personally i am waiting for s3 :) with all the great ics roms at the moment my galaxy s i9000 feels like new so may as well wait...

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yeah that's a bit how I feel. I have everything in i9000 and the newest phones are just souped up versions from what I can tell.

The sgs 3 and/or beam seem a bit different from what I have seen, so I guess im not wrong to want to wait.

Cheers

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I have thoroughly enjoyed the extensive life of my i9000, having flashed an unimaginable amount of ROM and kernel setups, tweaking it in every way I could figure out how to. Now that the i9000 ICS ROMs have reached a state usable as a daily phone, I must admit that it feels like I have a new phone again. ICS is a wonderful improvement.

That being said, a good friend of mine recently purchased a Galaxy Nexus. Actually, he purchased it before I had flashed ICS onto my phone. I thought the phone was a definite improvement over my i9000, but to be honest, it was just ICS. Our phones can play the same games, do the same things, and our pretty much equal. Sure, his dual-core processor gives him a bit more speed doing things like installing apps and such, but my i9000 is unbelievably responsive after upgrading to ICS. Before it, I was going to upgrade. Now that I'm using ICS, I have absolutely zero reason to upgrade. None at all. My phone works just as well as a new one.

Now if I had never discovered XDA and was still using the stock Gingerbread firmware, I would definitely be buying a new phone. Thank god for our wonderful devs!

Basically, the best phones for this year would be the Galaxy S3 and the HTC One X. The Galaxy Nexus is similar to the Nexus S in the sense that is was released during the transition of core numbers, and hence would have rather inferior hardware by the second half of 2012. I was thinking of getting the Galaxy Nexus initially, but now I've decided to wait for the S3.

If you're upgrading from an I9000, I strongly urge you to wait for the SGS3. HTC locks down their devices and you will not have a good time flashing ROMs when they do

Go for it!

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Recently made the switch from 19000 to Galaxy Nexus myself, got it on a 12 month plan. The brilliant thing about it is how easy it was to unlock the bootloader, root it and install a custom rom. So if you are into tweaking your phone, go for the Nexus as its brilliant. Updating is also much quicker compared to I9000 and S2, plus no touchwiz.

GPU in the Nexus is unimpressive, same as the SGS just clocked faster.

That's a big reason why I'm waiting for the S3. Or the next Nexus, given how slick ICSSGS is I think it breathed another year of life into this unit.

i like the samsung beam looks different to all other phones even with that projector on it good for work and home when watching movies lol

Thanks for all the replies everyone, yeah I think I'll wait.

The beam looks very nice indeed, but from the little we do know, so does the s3.

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