It looks like wireless providers in US shores are finally picking up and taking advantage of the seeming popularity of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the current Google flagship device. Looking back, since getting released late last year to much fanfare as the first smartphone to have Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as its default operating system, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has become the toast of the smartphone town but only Verizon saw it fit to have the handset added on to its lineup of Android-powered devices.
Buy the Sprint Samsung Galaxy Nexus starting at $149.
After much dilly-dallying, Sprint also took advantage of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and have it added on to its stable and finally managing to release its version of the Google flagship handset to the market last April 22. Hardware-wise, the version of Sprint is almost similar to the variant of the handset released by Verizon except for the fact that Sprint’s Samsung Galaxy Nexus is able to utilize the NFC chip in the frame of the handset and as a consequence, users of the Sprint version of the device are able to make use of the Google Wallet feature of the device.
When its version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus finally made its debut in the shelves of Sprint, the handset came in with a price tag of $199.99 with a new two-year agreement with the wireless provider. If you happen to have Sprint for your wireless provider of choice with your contract coming to an end, you can already think of getting this baby for yourself at a much cheaper price compared to what Sprint will force you to fork over just to get your hands on its version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. That being said, the handset can now be had at select Sprint authorized online retailers for only $149.99 with the same two-year contract with Sprint in the package so you can take advantage of the handset at its listed price. Granted that the savings is not the life-changing at just $50, fifty bucks is still fifty bucks and it is not bad deal for a handset that has only been in the shelves for only a couple of weeks, give or take.
Should you need more push in making that decision, we have the specs sheet of the Sprint version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus below for your reading pleasure.
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus from Sprint packs the same Texas Instruments OMAP4460 chipset found in the version of Verizon and this chipset brings to the handset a dual-core 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor and 1GB of RAM for a smooth performance. The internal storage onboard the device is pegged at 32GB but this is non-expandable so you better be careful with the files that get saved in the handset. Display-wise, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus comes with a 4.65-inch SuperAMOLED panel with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels while its camera department, the biggest pain point of the handset, brings to the Sprint Samsung Galaxy Nexus a rear-facing 5MP autofocus shooter with LED flash and a 1.3MP front-facer. Both shooters are capable of HD video recording though to compensate for the apparent mediocre sensor resolution of the shooters. Buy the Sprint Samsung Galaxy Nexus starting at $149.
