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Default Google X Phone in the works - reportedly - 01-24-2013, 07:55 | posts: 16,923 | Location: Guru3D testlab

Quartz has a little writeup that Google hinted in yesterday's earnings call that something big is coming from its Motorola division. The site speculates this will be the Google X Phone, a highly adva...

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Default 01-24-2013, 09:24 | posts: 847 | Location: Land Down Under

Might be worth a look, the current crop of new phones announced / rumored to be coming out soon give me no reason to look at upgrading from my GNex.

This might be an interesting option
   
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If this phone is anything like or better than the Galaxy Nexus, I will have it.
   
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Default 01-24-2013, 18:15 | posts: 3,373 | Location: MI, USA

If Google were smart, they'd put a few capacitive buttons on the bezel instead of using soft buttons, but that's just me I guess. I think they said they weren't going back.
   
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If Google were smart, they'd put a few capacitive buttons on the bezel instead of using soft buttons, but that's just me I guess. I think they said they weren't going back.
No way man! I like pie!

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Default 01-25-2013, 03:02 | posts: 2,010 | Location: Hong Kong

i would like samsung to use soft button (or those sensor,capacitive, button instead).... seriously, hard button is so easily broken.



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Default 01-25-2013, 03:38 | posts: 3,373 | Location: MI, USA

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Yeah I run PA too, but I just wish that something like that didn't need to be implemented. Would it really be that hard to have 3 buttons on that large bezel? I end up using the super lowered tablet nav bar so its about equal to the LG optimus G normal bar at the top.
   
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Default 01-25-2013, 03:40 | posts: 13,480 | Location: US East Coast

Meh.... If Google follows their usual release in the US, it'll end up on T-Mobile where it will be nearly worthless...


   
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