CNP News – Samsung Galaxy Nexus Headed to Mobilicity

Mobilicity is about to turn out to be the fourth Canadian carrier that confirms plans to release the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone. Rogers and Fido are anticipated to launch the initial gadget to be delivered with Android four. Ice Cream Sandwich on board, on January ten.

Videotron also confirmed in an internal document that it is “currently in discussions with Samsung” to bring the Galaxy Nexus to its buyers. WIND Mobile would seem to be one particular of the number of carriers that have but to verify the release of the ICS smartphone.

Stewart Lyons, the new President &amp COO of Mobilicity confirmed the information by way of Twitter. Sadly, the official unveiled a rather vague ETA for the Galaxy Nexus release and said that the smartphone was “Coming Quickly.”

Given the truth that Bell’s exclusivity above Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus will finish all around January ten, we can safely assume that Mobilicity will go live with the device only soon after this date.

There’s no word on the phone’s value tag either, but rumor has it that Mobilicity will provide the smartphone for around $ 600 (465 EUR) outright.

Currently, Samsung Galaxy Nexus is solely accessible for acquire via Bell and Virgin Mobile carriers. The phone was introduced in Canada last year, but customers who favor other carriers will have to wait right up until next week to get their Galaxy Nexus devices from Rogers and/or Fido.

There’s a high chance that Videotron and Mobilicity will be releasing the Galaxy Nexus all around the identical timeframe, but no official specifics have been disclosed yet.

The Galaxy Nexus is powered by Google’s most up-to-date Android four. Ice Cream Sandwich platform and attributes a substantial-performance dual core TI OMAP 4460 CPU clocked at 1.two GHz and a PowerVR SGX540 graphics processing unit.

Dual cameras are incorporated as nicely along with 32GB internal memory, 1GB of RAM and Wi-Fi support.