Is the Galaxy Nexus the Phone to get?
06/12/2012 Leave a Comment
The Galaxy Nexus is a touchscreen slate Android smartphone developed by a partnership between Google and Samsung.[23] The phone and operating system were developed collaboratively by engineers from both companies.[24] It is the third generation successor to Google’s previous flagship phones, the Nexus One and Nexus S. It has an HD (720p)[25] Super AMOLED display with curved glass, an improved camera system, and Google’s new version of its Android operating system, version 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich.[26] The name is the result of co-branding between the Samsung Galaxy and Google Nexus brands of Android smartphones.
The Galaxy Nexus features a 4.65-inch 1280×720-pixel HD Super AMOLED PenTile[41] curved glass display,[11] a dual-core 1.2 GHz TI OMAP 4460 processor (ARM Cortex-A9)[8] with an accompanying PowerVR SGX540,[42] 1 GB of RAM; a 1,750 mAh battery (1,850 mAh LTE version); 1.3 MP front camera and 5 MP rear camera (with zero shutter lag) capable of 1080p video with the rear camera and 720p with the front camera;[43] 4G; Wi-Fi a/b/g/n; Bluetooth; GPS, barometer; NFC;[39] and 16 GB or 32 GB of internal storage.
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the first device running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The HSPA+ GSM version is a pentaband device, able to utilize 3G networks nearly anywhere in the world. In terms of hardware, the Galaxy Nexus features a 4.65-inch 720 Super AMOLED HD display, 16GB or 32GB of on-board storage, 1GB of RAM, and NFC technology.
The Galaxy Nexus is a new phone in the series created by Samsung. It’s the third official phone contracted by Google and the first phone to come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Specs include a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16/32GB of internal storage, a 4.65 inch 720p HD Super AMOLED display, a 5 megapixel camera with 1080p HD video recording, a 1.3 megapixel camera and a lot more.
The phone features NFC-based sharing with a feature called Androdid Beam, face-recognition unlocking, advanced battery and data monitoring options and a lot more that is possible with the advent of Android 4.0.
