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Samsung Galaxy Nexus now available in the UK

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, November 17th, 2011 at 10:43 AM

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]

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Blake Stimac

Blake was born in Beaumont, Texas, about 100 miles away from Houston. Even as a youngster, technology came to him very naturally, tinkering with anything he could. His passion of technology grew with mobile phones when he dreamed that the capabilities of phones would eventually make one's life much easier. Since then it's been his mission to advocate the push of mobile technology to anyone who will listen.