Verizon effort a branded edition of the incoming Google meaning phone?

August 30, 2011, 8:14 AM — I'm a Verizon wireless customer, digit who feels locked into the meshwork cod to having a grandfathered oceanic accumulation organisation (and I'm mostly bright with the assist and coverage). So when I saw that Samsung's Galaxy S II was (rumored to be) reaching to the US on AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile and not Verizon, I wasn't a bright camper. I've feature reviews of the dweller edition of the phone, (Android Central has a beatific one) and it measured same the Galaxy S II was the blistering newborn sound to get.

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Samsung is retentive an circumstance today that should support or contain these rumors, but modify if the Galaxy S II doesn't become to Verizon, there's added gossip that suggests we'll be effort something better.

There's a rumored sound floating around titled the Nexus Prime. The Nexus program of phones hit been Google's "reference" phones, message they become with a evenhandedly 'pure' Android artefact on-board. The Nexus Prime is questionable to be the prototypal Ice Cream Sandwich device. Ice Cream Sandwich is the incoming field edition of Android; the digit that is questionable to consolidate tablets and phones onto a azygos OS.

So here's where things intend engrossing for Verizon users. It haw be that the Nexus Prime will be reaching to Verizon as the Droid Prime. The reason? Verizon officials feature the Galaxy S II can't contend with the iPhone 5 (but presumably the Nexus Prime can). This gossip prototypal popped up as primeval as August 18th, TechnoBuffalo advisable the Nexus Prime, with a 720P, 4.5" screen, would be touch Verizon. Yesterday Boy Genius Report posted a kindred rumor, occupation the Droid Prime the "flagship Android sound aweigh of the holidays" and suggesting it could start as primeval as October. BGR says the Droid/Nexus Prime will be a Verizon exclusive, which seems inferior probable if this is rattling the incoming sound Google will want to place in developers' hands.

I meet spent 24 hours with no noesis or internet, and exclusive my example Motorola Droid to ready me adjoining to the faint, fearful Verizon communication I could vantage in (I venture Irene knocked discover whatever radiophone towers along with the power). It apace became rattling manifest that I requirement a newborn phone. With the possibleness of the Droid Prime, and a patronage organisation of the Droid Bionic, I conceive I crapper meet bright on Verizon for a pair more years.

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