Samsung Galaxy Nexus hands-on video and initial review

After months of speculation and hype, we finally have the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first device to ship with the brand new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS. The phone recently went on sale in the UK, and we’re hoping to hear something (anything) out of Verizon about the Nexus’s US availability over the next week or so. We’ve already given you a first look at the device based on pre-release units at the recent Samsung Galaxy Note World Tour, but today we can bring you our initial thoughts on the GSM retail version that’s slowly becoming available across Europe.

We’ll have a full review in due course, but here’s a little spoiler: this is a phone we think you’ll want to buy. Read on to find out why.

We’ll have a full review in due course, but here’s a little spoiler: this is a phone we think you’ll want to buy. Read on to find out why.

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Much has been made of the size of the Galaxy Nexus, and at 4.65 inches diagonally, it’s certainly one of the larger Android phones out there. But it’s designed in such a way that it doesn’t really feel appreciably larger than a standard 4.3-inch device. Screen bezel has been kept to an absolute minimum, and it also helps that the phone is unbelievably light, weighting in at just 135 grams -- that’s a mere four grams heavier than the Nexus S. As you’ll see in our photos, it’s also fairly thin, although the upcoming Verizon LTE variant is reportedly a little girthier.

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Via http://www.androidcentral.com