Well, I got myself a gnex on release day. The best part has to be the ease of grouping apps and the dual core speed. Following shortly after that is the recent apps button to allow easy transitions between apps when multitasking. The 4g speed is also wonderful since I got to keep my unlimited data. I also tried out google wallet tonight at Rite Aid and it worked perfectly.
On the downside, sound quality is not as good as my fascinate was, but this may be an issue with my phone as others are reporting good sound. Swype isn’t available yet, though the keyboard isn’t too bad. The new location of the menu button takes some getting used to and I still occasionally am deleting emails when I mean to mark them as read. There also is not yet a car dock that includes audio and power quick connects. Rumor is it should be available soon though.
I had a bit of exciting time rooting. Actually a week before getting the gnex, my fascinate bricked off a ota update and I had to rebuild it. Well, it was a good week for bricking because I did the same to my nexus within four hours of getting it when trying to root. Two tense hours later I managed to find a stock image and was able to adapt a shell script to get the steps for reflashing my phone to stock from fast boot. It is now running quite happily rooted though.
The one last thing to figure out now is if the sound is actually bad on my particular phone and if it is a problem in general, I’ll need to decide between a Bluetooth DAC from Sony or Samsung or waiting for USB host support so I can use a higher quality USB DAC.