Samsung Galaxy Nexus Coming to Verizon?
After months of speculation, Samsung and Google finally unveiled the Galaxy Nexus, which will be the first smartphone to run the search giant’s updated Android 4.0 OS, known as Ice Cream Sandwich.
But which U.S. carrier will nab the smartphone? According to a post by Samsung’s U.S. Facebook team, the device is heading to Verizon Wireless first.
“Verizon will be offering the Galaxy Nexus with the initial release. Other carriers may support this device in the near future,” a rep known as Samsung Janel responded to one user (click below for larger image).
When asked earlier today if Verizon would offer the Galaxy Nexus, a Verizon spokeswoman said the company hadn’t announced the phone and had no additional details. A Samsung rep said this afternoon that the company “has not confirmed U.S. availability or pricing.”
The Galaxy Nexus model showed off in Hong Kong last night supports the technologies used by ATT and T-Mobile, but not Verizon or Sprint. But Samsung could produce a CDMA model for a U.S. launch, which would work on Verizon’s network. As PCMag’s mobile analyst Sascha Segan pointed out, Samsung has also said that there will be an LTE version of the Galaxy Nexus; at this point, ATT and Verizon are the only carriers with true 4G LTE networks.
An ATT spokeswoman said the company had nothing to announce. Sprint and T-Mobile did not respond to requests for comment.
At the AsiaD conference in Hong Kong today, moderator Walt Mossberg asked Google’s Android chief, Andy Rubin, what U.S. carrier would carry the Galaxy Nexus, particularly if it might be Verizon. “Rubin doesn’t bite,” according to the All Things D live blog.
The Galaxy Nexus, meanwhile, sports a 4.65-inch HD sAMOLED touch-screen display with 1280-by-720 resolution. It’s 8.94 millimeters thin with a 4.29-millimeter bezel and runs a 1.2-Ghz, dual-core application processor. See the video below for more.
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