Arriving in the United States in late December of last year as the first mobile handset to deliver the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) 4.0 operating system to that country, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was a runaway hit. The handset is still one of the best selling Android smartphones in the entire mobile handset arena, and arrived on the Sprint wireless US network on April 22 of this year. Any time that multiple wireless carriers offer a full-featured smartphone that is in high demand, the customer is the eventual winner after the pricing wars begin. Along those lines, Sprint recently reduced the retail price of their Galaxy Nexus 4G handset to make it the least expensive handset they offer.
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus for Sprint is on sale now starting at 49.99.
When the Galaxy Nexus 4G Android smartphone hit the Sprint wireless network in the United States earlier this year, Sprint was still working on their 4G LTE network. Just last month Sprint rolled out their new and speedy 4G LTE system across the United States, and the Sprint Samsung Galaxy Nexus 4G now has a speedy smartphone superhighway to travel on. The handset delivers Android’s 4.0 operating system out-of-the-box, and is the recipient of a recent Sprint and Google promise to receive an over the air transfer to the new 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system before the end of the third quarter. As usual, Google left their roll out plans ambiguous, and have mentioned no specific dates.
Delivering Near Frequency Communications (NFC) capabilities out-of-the-box, the handset offers access to wireless applications like Google Wallet, a retail payment processing app, and Android Beam, a wireless data share app. The Sprint Galaxy Nexus 4G represents the first out-of-the-box ICS OS for a Sprint handset, and contains one of the largest high resolution screens found on any smartphone. That 4.65 inch Super AMOLED display delivers a pixel density of 316 pixels per inch, for an overall screen resolution of 720 x 1,280 pixels. That display uses more than 16 million different colors to render visuals.
The hardware profile on board the handset includes a Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 microchip package which centers around a powerful 1.2 GHz dual core Cortex A9 central processor. A separate PowerVR SGX540 chip handles all graphics processing, 1.0 GB of RAM system memory is built in, and a 4G-best 32 GB of user accessible data storage come pre-installed out-of-the-box. Video capture runs 1,080P HD from the rear facing 5.0 megapixel camcorder.
Buy the Samsung Galaxy Nexus for Sprint starting at 49.99.
August 26, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Bells are great but a working phone would be so much better i heat the update ob my Epic 4g touch nothing but problems so far countless on the pbone and still no better off the be for on this phone ICS needs to be in the garbage i be looiking a old phone ans or a new carrier