Sprint was the premier carrier for the Samsung Nexus S and then Verizon ended up getting the new Galaxy Nexus first. It turns out though that Sprint will also get a LTE version of the Galaxy Nexus as they announced today at CES. LTE is new for Sprint and will launch before the middle of this year in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.
The Sprint version of the Galaxy Nexus from Samsung will likely be the same as the Verizon version, but Sprint did announce it will also have support for Google Wallet like their Nexus S 4G does right now. I actually used Google Wallet on my GSM Galaxy Nexus today in Vegas to buy a sports drink in the hotel vending machine because I had no cash on me, but my phone is always with me.
A benefit of waiting for the Sprint LTE version of the Galaxy Nexus is that you will get to take advantage of their unlimited Everything services. The one issue will be that you will have to wait for their upcoming LTE service to roll out to your locality.
The more I use the pure Google experience on my Galaxy Nexus the more I become a fan of the Ice Cream Sandwich interface with no customized manufacturer skins.
Matthew Miller started using a Pilot 1000 in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since.
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Matthew Miller
Matthew is a professional naval architect by day and a mobile gadget freak at all other times. He purchases his own devices and then sells them on eBay or Craigslist to buy more. Many other devices are sent for review on a 30-day loaner basis and then returned to the carrier or manufacturer. If any are provided as “long term loaner units” this will be clearly disclosed in his reviews.
Biography
Matthew Miller
Matthew Miller started using a mobile devices in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since. He is a co-host with GigaOM's Kevin Tofel on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and an author of three Wiley Companion series books. Matthew started using mobile devices with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 125 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, iOS, Android, webOS, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone operating systems. His current collection includes an HTC Radar 4G, Dell Venue Pro, Apple iPad 2, HTC Flyer, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nokia N9, Apple iPhone 4S, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".
