Sprint Announces LTE-Powered Samsung Galaxy Nexus

LAS Vegas - At this year's CES, Samsung has announced a Sprint version of its flagship Galaxy Nexus smartphone?complete with support for Sprint's upcoming 4G LTE network, which is launching in 10 U.S. cities by the middle of this year.

Like its sister device on Verizon Wireless, the Sprint version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus packs as close to a pure Google Android OS as you'll find. It offers Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), with its considerably improved user interface, improved multitasking, and faster performance. It also supports software navigation buttons and the gimmicky Face Unlock, which we bet you'll use once or twice and then forget about.

Significantly, Sprint's version of the Galaxy Nexus will support NFC with Google Wallet. That's in contrast to the Verizon version, which has the NFC hardware but can't do anything with it, since Verizon has declined to allow Google Wallet.

For the four or so Android fans that haven't yet heard of the Galaxy Nexus, it's a 5.3- by 2.7- by 0.4-inch smartphone with a dual-core 1.2GHz TI OMAP4460 processor and a massive, 4.65-inch, 720p (1280-by-720-pixel) Super AMOLED screen. Using LTE, the Nexus hit download speeds ranging from 5 to 20Mbps in our tests, and even upload speeds nudged against the 10Mbps barrier. The camera isn't great?with a 5-megapixel sensor and only average image quality, it trails the iPhone 4S?but it snaps pictures very quickly, and it's capable of 1080p video.

The Galaxy Nexus is an awesome device?it has the enthusiast cred of a Nexus phone and some killer specs, nearly all of which we assume will stay the same on Sprint. The Galaxy Nexus isn't a great voice phone, though, at least on Verizon. In our tests, we found it to have trouble with both call quality and reception; the latter issue could be more significant on Sprint's smaller network. The Galaxy Nexus is also rather huge; not everyone takes to the almost tablet-like 4.65-inch screen.

Sprint is now pushing LTE as its next-generation 4G network, now that growth of Clearwire's WiMAX network?which works with the 2010 HTC EVO 4G, among other popular phones?seems to have stalled out.

As for a price and availability, Sprint is holding its cards close, saying only for now that it will release more details "closer to its launch date." Verizon is currently charging $299 for the Galaxy Nexus.

In a statement, Sprint said that approximately 15 4G LTE devices are currently on track to launch in 2012, including handsets, tablets, and cellular modems. It also plans to sell existing 4G WiMAX devices like the HTC EVO Design 4G and Samsung Nexus 4G throughout 2012.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398620,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05039TX1K0000762

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