After weeks of waiting, rumoured launches and still a a small number of accidental sales, the indefinable Verizon Wireless Galaxy Nexus is finally here. We dropped by a New York City put on the market store to try out Google’s first Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone in the flesh, before bringing one home for a correct unboxing and LTE presentation test. As predictable, the manufacture description that we lastly got our hands on today is almost the same to the sample that popped up at the Samsung Experience earlier this month, but with one main exemption: there’s a Micro SIM installed, letting us try out core functionality, such as insertion phone calls and accessing data without a WiFi network in variety.
The Verizon Nexus arrived with Android 4.0.1 pre-installed, but encouraged us to update to 4.0.2 just a small number of minutes after we added a Google version. It is obviously thicker and heavier than its HSPA+ counterpart, but this obsession is fast when it comes to move speeds — not fairly as speedy as we’ve seen with some LTE devices on AT&T’s budding 4G network, but it’s definitely in line with rival handsets from Verizon, and the MiFi we used for a contrast speed test. Our salesperson wasn’t eager to let us go away without first confirming that the phone was actualy working, so he had the admiration of first flaking back the phone’s synthetic cover.
