In their latest shot at the iPhone, Samsung and Google have teamed up to roll out the Galaxy Nexus. The Galaxy Nexus earns bragging rights as the first smartphone powered by Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich.
The Galaxy Nexus sports a 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED display technology at 720p resolution. It also offers a 1.2-GHz, dual-core processor that powers multitasking capabilities and high-definition gaming or video streaming. The phone also features a camera and 1080p video capture.
But there's much more talk about the software than the hardware. With Ice Cream Sandwich, Android is offering a new look. Google redesigned the user interface with improved multitasking, notifications, Wi-Fi hotspot, near field communications (NFC) support and a full Web-browsing experience in mind. The changes make the Galaxy Nexus the first Android device to feature software navigation buttons.
A Sweet Makeover
Ice Cream Sandwich's innovations include Face Unlock, which uses facial recognition to unlock your phone. And using NFC technology, Android Beam lets users share Web pages, apps, and YouTube videos with friends by tapping phones together. It also readies NFC-equipped phones for "bump-to-pay" technology such as in Google Wallet.
Google redesigned the lock screen, home screen, phone app, and various other aspects of the Android operating system. Some of the new features include a People app, which lets mobile users browse friends, family, and coworkers, see their photos in high-resolution, and check their latest status updates from social networks.
Galaxy Nexus is connected to the cloud. That means users can keep their e-mail, contacts, and all other data synced across devices. And there are now more than 300,000 apps and games in the Android Market. The Google phone also comes with Google Services such as Gmail, Google Maps, Movie Studio and Google Calendar, pre-installed.
All About Apps
Michael Disabato, managing vice president of network and telecom at Gartner, said the Galaxy Nexus looks like a solid smartphone. But he remains what he calls an iPhone bigot -- and for the same reason as many others who walk in his enterprise shoes.
"I have so many applications on my iPhone that make my life easy and that don't exist on the Android. It would make my life difficult to change," Disabato said. "So once again it's not really the hardware and the sleekness and the Appleness of the phone. It's what the phone does for me."
Disabato is looking for what Ice Cream Sandwich can do for him. As he sees it, the latest version of the Android operating system does more for enterprise users than previous releases. But it may not be enough.
"As an enterprise guy it's nice to know that there's encryption in Ice Cream Sandwich. I think this is going to find its way into more enterprises. Enterprises will be more forgiving of Android because it's easier to control it," Disabato said. "With that said, the lack of curation on the Android Marketplace is still going to be an issue."
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