Boy Genius Report has unearthed some possible specs for what looks like a button-less, dual-core, super-thin Google Nexus 4G smartphone featuring Android's upcoming OS build, Android 4.0, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich.
If true, the phone's most remarkable feature is probably its "monster-sized" screen, which reportedly has 720p HD resolution but lacks the usual Android menu buttons below the screen.
The device will be powered by a dual-core 1.2-GHz or 1.5-GHz CPU or Qualcomm's next-generation "Krait" chips, BGR said. It's also supposed to run on 4G LTE, feature 1080p HD video capture and playback, 1-megapixel front-facing and 5-megapixel rear-facing cameras, and 1GB of RAM.
It's "going to be an absolute beast," writes BGR's Jonathan Geller, speaking to developers, the Nexus line's biggest fan base. However, and perhaps we're being oversensitive, it should be noted that Geller has peppered his post with unusually conservative phrases like "most likely" and "said to be" and "also possible."
Geller also warned that this may just be a reference phone for Ice Cream Sandwich that will be manufactured by another company, such as Motorola's Droid and Motorola's Xoom did for Android 2.0 and 3.0, which both launched on Verizon.
Geller's source didn't name a carrier, which led him to believe that this will be AT&T's debut phone for its upcoming LTE network, despite AT&T's long-term relationship with the iPhone. Verizon runs the only commercial LTE network, but if this is a pure Nexus phone it'd be surprising if Google went with Verizon given the failed Nexus One tie-up. Furthermore, an AT&T Nexus phone would be easier to move and sell around the world, where AT&T's GSM, rather than Verizon's CDMA, is the dominant technology
Google has launched two Nexus phones so far, the Nexus S 4G on T-Mobile and Sprint and the first-generation Nexus One on T-Mobile.
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