Up Close And Personal With The LG Viper And Sprint Galaxy Nexus

Sprint held a special event for journalists and analysts alike at the TAO nightclub in the Venetian Hotel Tuesday night. The main event? The carrier's brand new LTE Android smartphones. I managed to get my hands on both the LG Viper 4G and Sprint Galaxy Nexus at the event; while this is by no means a full review, I liked what I saw from Sprint's newest offerings.

Aside from support for Google Wallet, the Sprint Galaxy Nexus is identical to the version found on Verizon. You still have a dual-core 1.2GHz processor and the phone still comes with Android 4.0 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich). We weren’t able to test outits LTE performance, so we’ll have to wait until the phone launches in mid-2012 to test that aspect.

Unlike the Galaxy Nexus, the LG Viper is a new LTE phone that LG announced Monday morning. The Viper has a brushed-metal back, and it felt lightweight yet sturdy in hand. LG says it's an eco-friendly phone--35 percent of the plastic on the phone is recycled. The Viper has a 4-inch WVGA NOVA screen (a type of display technology), which Sprint tells me is brighter than what is on the Galaxy Nexus.



By Friendly Computers Copyright: 2010-01-28


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