Arriving on December 15 last year, nearly eight months after it was announced, the Galaxy Nexus 4G was important to the entire smartphone marketplace for a few critical reasons. The handset delivers one of the largest and most resolute screens of any smartphone, and offers the most out-of-the-box, built-in data storage of any mobile handset as well. It also debuted the long-awaited and much-anticipated Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) 4.0 operating system to the United States for the first time.
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus for Sprint is on sale now starting at 49.99.
The handset immediately became a flagship phone for the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE system in the tech hungry US marketplace, and on April 22 of this year became available for Sprint customers as well. That handset now runs on the brand-new Sprint 4G LTE system, with an additional 100 major market metropolitan areas being upgraded to 4G by the end of the year. Competition between the two major rivals has led to some attractive price points for Sprint wireless customers.
That network in the US delivers simultaneous voice and data access, allowing you to surf the web or check your e-mail while in the middle of a voice call. The Sprint 4G LTE system is also up to 10 times faster than their previous 3G network, and though the handset is nearing its one year anniversary, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus 4G is still one of the slimmest smartphones available, at 0.37 inches (9.47 mm) in thickness. The Sprint version was the first Galaxy Nexus smartphone in America to receive an over the air upgrade to the new Jelly Bean 4.1.1 operating system.
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The large 4.65 inch Super AMOLED display runs 720 x 1,280 pixel resolution, delivered at 316 pixels per inch, both of those designations landing the phone at the high-end of the smartphone marketplace. Talk time runs approximately 7.50 hours after a single charge of the 1,850 mA battery on board, and a Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 microchip package is used to power the device and process requests. The hardware package also includes a dual core 1.2 GHz Cortex A9 central processor, and PowerVR SGX540 operating at 384 MHz.
Built into the back of the Sprint Galaxy Nexus 4G is a 5.0 megapixel camcorder with built-in LED flash offering autofocus, white balance, geo-tagging, a panorama mode and special effects package. Recording video in 1,080P HD resolution is possible, and the camera combo includes a front facing 1.3 megapixel chat cam. The Sprint Galaxy Nexus handset also delivers a built-in music player and proprietary YouTube video player, and the popular Picasa application has been pre-installed as well. Near Field Communications (NFC) support is present, allowing access to wireless applications like Google Wallet and Android Beam.
November 3, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Sprint is a joke. Atlanta supposedly has LTE all over but customers say they rarely get an lte signal in the city or suburbs. Even the Sprint store on Caroline St has no lte . When asked, employees shrugged and said ‘that doesn’t matter; our job is to move product…sell. sell, sell.’ WOW was my only reaction.Last year when I checked into the same store, they had wifi on, trying to mislead people with their “speedy” network. ID NEVER TRUST SPRINT