The Samsung Galaxy Nexus since its release late last year has been one of the best handsets in the Android ecosystem. Some of our more purist smartphone-crazed brethren on the other hand consider it as THE best given the fact that it is the first smartphone to come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box. The only carrier in US shores to capitalize on this seeming popularity of the handset is just Verizon which has offered the Samsung Galaxy Nexus as early as late last year but Sprint has already joined the party releasing its version of the device last April 22 to spearhead its LTE campaign with its network reportedly about to get lit later this year.
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Given the fact that we are still waiting for Sprint’s LTE network to go live, users of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus can still take advantage of the 3G network of the carrier for the meantime until 4G comes online. That’s supposed to be how things should work but reports are coming in that early adopters of Sprint’s version of the Google flagship device are having hard time connecting over 3G.
Reports have accumulated over at the community forums of the carrier wherein users attest to being unable to use their brand spanking new devices to connect to cellular data. Wi-Fi is good to go when needed but getting EV-DO to work is futile at times. Other times, the handset will get a data connection for the briefest of moments but the connection gets cutoff the instant it is acquired.
Some users of the Sprint version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus have resulted to exchanging their problematic handsets in Sprint stores so it looks like the problem is associated with individual handsets and did not plague the whole lot, so to speak. A Sprint representative on the other hand confirmed in these community forums that Samsung and Sprint are already aware of the problem and software update for this issue is already being worked on.
Although no release date has been confirmed by either of the parties as of yet, we are willing to bet the farm that the update could hit the airwaves as early as next week. We love the commitment of both the manufacturer and the wireless carrier to make things right for users of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and while waiting for the update to land, let us get reacquainted with Sprint’s version of the Google flagship handset.
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus from Sprint is essentially similar to the one found inthe shelves of Verizon except that Sprint’s variant can make use of the NFC chip of the handset for some Google Wallet lovin’. It has the same Texas Instruments OMAP4460 chipset under the hood and a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor works with a full gigabyte of RAM to give the handset the speed boost it needs.
The storage space is pegged at 32GB while its claim to fame, its curved display with a 4.65-inch diagonal, is of the SuperAMOLED variety and has a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. The only snag we could find in the device is its underpowered camera department withonly a 5-megapixel shooter at its back panel and 1.3-megapixel video chat camera out front. Buy the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus starting at $49!
