Samsung Galaxy Nexus US release right after European rollout?

By Edwin Kee on 10/31/2011 14:50 PDT

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which has been thought to be a Verizon Wireless exclusive, will first be released in Europe followed by what could very well be a Stateside rollout. An official image of the Verizon model did leak in recent times, but the latest rumors claim that November 17th would be the European release date, while Verizon as well as other US carriers, if it is not an exclusive handset, will only launch later next month.

UK’s The Telegraph carried this story, where they staked that claim at the European Galaxy Note, saying, “At a recent Samsung European launch for the Galaxy Note electronic notepad, the Galaxy Nexus was also demonstrated, and the company confirmed that the European launch will precede the device going on sale in America and the rest of the world.”

It is rather strange, don’t you think so, that Google, Samsung and Verizon would actually delay a smartphone which has been touted by many to be one of the main iPhone 4S rivals?

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Galaxy Nexus The Samsung Galaxy Nexus was the first smartphone to officially receive Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich. The Galaxy Nexus was launched in Hong Kong on Oct 19 2011 and has debuted commercially in Europe as a carrier-free and unlocked GSM phone, and later arrived to the USA under the same name on the Verizon network. Although its internal hardware is pretty much equivalent in performance to the older Galaxy S2, the Galaxy Nexus has a great design with a curved glass 720p display. It is powered by a TI OMAP 4460 with 1GB of RAM and a Power VR SGX540 GPU.

Samsung Samsung is a South-Korean conglomerate which counts many subsidiaries like Samsung Electronics, which you probably know very well, but also Samsung Heavy Industries which builds ships, or Samsung Life Insurance, Samsung Securities and many more. Samsung is responsible for an amazing 20% of South Korea's exports. In the consumer electronics world, Samsung has gone from being a company with a reputation for cheap products to becoming one of the most respected companies in the world.

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