Back when Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was still the latest iteration of the Google mobile operating system, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus gained prominence as one of the best Android-powered handsets because of the fact that it was for a time the only handset back in the day to be powered by ICS under the hood. This was way back in the latter parts of 2011 and this attribute of the then Google flagship device made some of our smartphone-crazed brethren consider the handset as the best Android-powered device during its heydays.
The Galaxy Nexus for Sprint is available for a reduced sale price now starting at $0.01.
Fast-forward to today, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is still in circulation but has long been sent to the retirement home because its successor, the LG Nexus 4, has already made its debut in the shelves a couple of months back. This is not to say that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has already outlived its usefulness, no sir! In fact, the handset still is alive and kicking and has already gotten a taste of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, the latest Android version to hit the airwaves. This was made possible on the handset because the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is a Google developer device and runs a pure, unadulterated version of the Android operating system with no custom user interface to “mess up” and further complicate and delay the whole update process.
However, not all variants of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus have already gotten a taste of the Android 4.2 refresh. Take the case of the Sprint version of the handset or example. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus released by Sprint in US shores earlier last year is still running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for its operating system but word on the street is that an OTA update that will give the handset Google’s latest and greatest is about to land any day now.
As it stands, the Android 4.2 JOP40D update for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is now live in the servers of Google and anybody who has some technical know-how and a lot of guts can actually download the update file and flash in onto their respective Samsung Galaxy Nexus handsets to give it a taste of some latest Jelly Bean goodness. Though this might be the case, there is still no news as to when the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean update will be rolled out by Sprint to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus but we are hoping that it be sooner rather than later.
As for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the handset still has some impressive components in its internals despite its aging status. Its operation is powered by its Texas Instruments OMAP4460 chipset which comes with a dual-core 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor and full gigabyte of RAM. The storage space onboard the handset comes up to 32GB while its Contour Display is a 4.65-inch SuperAMOLED panel with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. Its camera department on the other hand is a bit mediocre for a flagship device because the Samsung Galaxy Nexus only has a rear 5MP shooter and a front 1.3MP video call and self-portrait snapper.
You can purchase the Galaxy Nexus for Sprint at a discounted price tag now starting at $0.01.
