In today’s smartphone world, the market is being ruled by superphones such as the Samsung Galaxy S III and the HTC One X. But before these beasts entered the competition, the toast of the smartphone town was the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. We remember it fondly as the device that got released to coincide with the unveiling of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, then the latest version of the Android operating system, and was used to showcase ICS to the whole world. And for a time, a couple of months actually, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was the only handset in the whole smartphone competition running Ice Cream Sandwich for its operating system which made it back then the best Android-powered device despite the fact that some of its components were pretty mediocre at best.
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The handset was offered by Verizon in US shores and for the longest time, the carrier has exclusivity over the handset until Sprint entered the scene and released its variant of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Announced by Sprint back in January but released in April, its variant of the handset was for a time its premier offering and was the handset used to the carrier’s bid to join the LTE bandwagon. Come to think of it, Sprint was already building a handset base of LTE-capable devices even before its LTE network went online and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was at the forefront of things at that time.
The handset immediately become one of the more recognizable and more popular devices in the lineup of the wireless provider and despite the entrance of other heavyweights in the Sprint stable such as the Samsung Galaxy S III and the HTC EVO 4G, its variant of the Sprint Samsung Galaxy Nexus is still considered as one of best smartphones being offered by the carrier despite its aging status.. And with the recent upgrade to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Android’s latest and greatest, the handset is once again at the forefront of things right there with the bad boys of the smartphone competition.
Looking at the resume of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the handset is no longer a spring chicken having spent almost a year now in circulation. Despite that, the device is still alive and kicking thanks to the recent Jelly Bean update which hugely improved its performance. Under the hood, the operation of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is powered by its Texas Insturments OMAP4460 chipset with its 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor and 1GB of RAM. The storage onboard the handset is pegged at 32GB while its Contour Display with its curved design measures 4.65 inches diagonally and is of the SuperAMOLED variety with a 720 x 1280 resolution. The most common source of criticism for the handset though is its below par camera department with only a 5MP shooter at its back panel paired with a 1.3MP video call camera out front.
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