To me, this is a clear case of “everything is great and nobody is happy”. I’d understand if the phone would just drop connection, but “the bandwidth is slower than it should be” strikes me as a minor complaint, and I’d be surprised if something like this didn’t happen in the first few days of the phone being in the wild. I’m just glad it doesn’t appear to be anything major.

“I know they are releasing other versions of the phone to other carriers, but how does that change what we have today? You’re still locked to a network.” – to be really fair, that’s not Google’s problem – the other two carriers (Sprint and Verizon) don’t use SIM cards, so its impossible to make a phone compatible with those two and *not* have it be vendor-locked.

I also read that the Nexus works on AT&T, just not on 3G – you have to use EDGE. In this manner, it resembles the iPhone.

“What the hell is the point of the track ball?” – I’ve found ONE good use for it: the camera (Press and hold it, and it autofocuses only; releasing it runs the flash and takes the pic). But even then, its more useful as a button than a ball.

Also, selecting elements on a web page is easier with the trackball, especially if the text is really small. Having said all that, though, I predict that the phrase “useless as a trackball on a Nexus” will become geek vernacular before this year is out.

–G