Samsung Galaxy Nexus for AT&T, T-Mobile Can Now Be Pre-Ordered Discussion

[Ed Hardy]

Verizon has yet to release its version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, but some lucky AT&T and T-Mobile customers already have this smartphone, courtesey of the online retailer eXpansys. The company is now taking pre-orderes for its next shipment.

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[Adama D. Brown]

I am so very looking forward to this thing.

[Varjak]

Kind of a misleading headline. It kind of implies an ATT 'official' version. No big deal though.

Are there any rumors that anyone but Verizon will get an official version (i.e. contract-subsidized)? I didn't think so, but it's possible I guess.

As for the comment about CPU, Drillbit is better qualified to answer this; but from what he's written (and I may have misunderstood), the 1.2 Ghz chipset in the non-LTE versions is actually faster I think. We'll have to see. The Expansys site doesn't say; but I wonder if the Euro version has the 8 MP camera instead (like the SGSII LTE).

I'm torn about buying one outright or waiting for a contract version.

[Drillbit]

The CPU on the LTE and HSPA+ versions of the Galaxy Nexus are the same. Just that the Exynos runs rings around the OMAP 4460 when it comes to GPU speed. As a matter of fact, Samsung does have a version of the Galaxy S2 with the OMAP 4460, the GT-i9100G, which it sells to emerging countries for a cheaper price. Samsung appears to have a hard time keeping up the demand for the Exynos processors as part of its capacity is tied to making Apple processors and using the OMAP as a filler. This sort of indicates what Samsung really thinks about the OMAP.

But the OMAP has an ace in the hole, and the Exynos has a big drawback. The Exynos cannot support LTE at the moment but the OMAP does. That clinches it for the OMAP. Oddly, Samsung elected the Qualcomm 8660 for its LTE Galaxy S2, and I feel that Google's choice for the OMAP is partly weighted by the fact that Motorola also uses that chip.

The "Ghost volume bug" appears to beset to HSPA Galaxy Nexus only, and it occurs when the phone switches from HSPA 3G to 2G GSM during low reception areas. It's not likely to affect the CDMA-LTE variant like Verizon does. However, Verizon does have a bad/good habit (depending how you look at it) to space phone introdutions and probably wanted to give the Droid RAZR its moment in the front stage before the Nexus.

In any case, the bug has been flashed with new software on the unshipped GSM/HSPA+ batches, and the shipping has resumed again.

On Google+, AT&T sent out a feeler probing demand for the Galaxy Nexus. Seems that they are seriously looking into it. But chances are likely they may pass on the HSPA+ version and go with their own LTE variant.

The HSPA+ version of the Galaxy Nexus appears to be a pentaband thing so yeah, it supports T-Mobile as well.

[Ed Hardy]

Kind of a misleading headline. It kind of implies an ATT 'official' version.

That would be "Samsung Galaxy Nexus from AT&T". This is a smartphone for AT&T.

Are there any rumors that anyone but Verizon will get an official version (i.e. contract-subsidized)?

No carrier has had an exclusive on a Nexus-series model for more than a few months. Admittedly this is only the the third in the series, but I really expect to see it available from other U.S. carriers, and there have been earlier rumors to that effect.
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[Hook]

No carrier has had an exclusive on a Nexus-series model for more than a few months. Admittedly this is only the the third in the series, but I really expect to see it available from other U.S. carriers, and there have been earlier rumors to that effect.
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The Nexus One was kind of a strange critter in this regard. There never was a CDMA version, as far as I know. It initially came out with only T-Mobile 3G frequencies and T-Mobile offered a subsidized unlocked version. When the version with AT&T frequencies came out, it was never officially sold or subsidized by AT&T that I ever saw. I think Google had the idea to get it to all carriers, but I suspect the carriers were resisting Google's marketing strategy. Things seemed to work out better with the Nexus S where Google had given up on actually marketing it themselves.

[Varjak]

I disagree Ed. This isn't 'for' anyone in particular (it could just as easily be for Bell Moblity or Telus or any GSM carrier); but it's a tiny detail.

I should have used the term 'chipset' instead of CPU to differentiate Exynos from OMAP as it's all really one piece, and that's the real difference. But didn't you write that the Exynos Chipset is substantially better? And it's not much of an 'ace in the hole' if the coverage isn't there. For the length of a contract, I'd say that HSPA+ is probably better than LTE. But in the next year or two that will change.

Drill, what is the 'ghost volume bug?' And what kind of 'feeler' did they put out? I hope they offer the HSPA+ version for now. In a year or two, they can fully commit to LTE; but right now, they are quite a bit behind Verizon in rolling out LTE.