Starting today, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is officially available in the UK. The first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich handset that we’ve been waiting for is finally available for those lucky bastards folks who live in the United Kingdom. The handset is also available online through multiple retailers. With no official US launch solidified, people looking forward to the Verizon variant are still left reeling for the sexy handset.
If you haven’t been keeping track with the latest Pure-Google phone, the Galaxy Nexus is one nice piece of hardware. Shipping with a 1.2GHz dual-core TI OMAP 4460 processor, a 4.65 inch, contoured, HD Super AMOLED display, five megapixel rear-facing camera with zero shutter lag, 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera for video chat, NFC and more, the Galaxy Nexus sounds like a lot of phones that are coming out right now. Luckily, it’s the only handset that will ship with the latest version of the Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich, which is enough to let the phone stand out in a crowd.
Ice Cream Sandwich completely revamps Android into the mobile operating system it was meant to be. There’s a polish and ease of use with Android 4.0 that many didn’t believe was possible but thanks to Matias Duarte and the Android team, Google’s geeky OS has finally grown up in the best of ways. It’s still Android at heart but it has finally hit puberty and has grown up a lot in its short lifetime.
Hopefully Verizon will shed some light on its LTE variant in the very near future. We’re all waiting, Big Red.
[Via: GalaxyNexus]