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Finally the long awaited Samsung Galaxy Nexus is available for sale in the US market under contract with Verizon Wireless. The price of Galaxy Nexus at present is $299 with a two year contract with Verizon Wireless while Skyrocket is available for $149.99 along with a two year contract with AT&T.
If you want to unlock Samsung Galaxy Nexus you will need to add additional $20. Special thing about this device is that it happens to be the first smart phone running the latest version of Android named Ice Cream Sandwich which would combine the features of previous versions, Gingerbread and Honeycomb.
Due to the combination of these two operating systems, Ice Cream Sandwich would run perfectly well on both smartphones and tablets. Among the top devices form Samsung, Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket is also a remarkable device which happens to be the LTE version of Galaxy S2 (an upgraded version of Galaxy S with many awesome improvements). The OS for Skyrocket happens to be Gingerbread which at present is running on most of the Android based phones.
In the comparative analysis, both devices seem to be pretty impressive. Physical dimensions of Skyrocket and Galaxy Nexus happen to be 129.8 x 68.8 x 9.5 mm and 135.5 x 67.94 x 8.9 mm respectively. From the side of display, Galaxy Nexus has an edge with bigger screen size of 4.65 inches compared to Skyrocket's 4.5 inches. Besides, the resolution of Galaxy Nexus is also comparatively higher.
Both devices are quite powerful when we talk of processors. Galaxy Nexus comes with a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor while skyrocket runs on a 1.5 GHz processor, so on this front Skyrocket wins. The operating system of Galaxy Nexus is Ice Cream Sandwich which has been receiving highly positive reviews from critics and has very user friendly user interface. But Skyrocket's Gingerbread OS is nonetheless quite established among the Android based smartphones. ICS update for Skyrocket would most probably be available within a couple of months.
Camera is an important aspect to be considered in smartphones but Skyrocket easily wins the contest of better camera in this comparision. Galaxy Nexus comes with a 5 mega pixel back end and 1.2 mega pixel front end camera and also facilitates 1080p HD video recording. Skyrocket, on the other hand, is equipped with 8 mega pixel rare end and 2 mega pixel front end camera and also allows 1080p video. The internal memory of Galaxy Nexus is fixed 32 GB while Skyrocket comes with 16 GB memory which can be extended up to 32 GB with the help of the microSD card. Finally comes the price factor.
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