Ready for the first "Ice Cream Sandwich" Android phone? Then you'll want the Samsung Droid Prime, a Verizon exclusive due this fall, according to a report.
BGR reported Monday that Verizon would exclusively launch the Droid Prime this October.
That could place the Droid Prime in a head-to-head race against the Apple iPhone 5, if one set of rumors is to be believed. So far, Sprint and T-Mobile have been rumored to be in conjunction with the iPhone 5; AT&T launched the iPhone, of course, and Verizon has its own version of the iPhone as well.
Verizon, for its part, plans to skip the Galaxy S II, and BGR suggests that the Droid Prime could be the reason why - it just wouldn't be able to compete with the iPhone 5.
The Droid Prime, of course, sounds suspiciously like the Samsung Nexus Prime, itself an "Ice Cream Sandwich" phone that reportedly would launch in the fourth quarter.
According to Internet buzz, the Nexus Prime will pack a dual-core, 1.5-GHz SoC from Texas Instruments, 1GB RAM, 4G LTE support, and a 4.5-inch 720p Super AMOLED HD display.
What's Ice Cream Sandwich? It will be designed as "one OS that runs everywhere," Claren said, on phones as well as tablets, according to Google executives at the May Google I/O conference.
The new OS can determine where your head is looking, and can update 3D scenes to update the perspective—and it runs via OpenGL on the GPU hardware, executives said then. The OS's virtual camera operator can even figure out by itself who is speaking and focus on the right person.
Samsung is already shipping the Nexus S, a stock Android 2.3 phone that is available for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint; see the accompanying slideshow for more. (If that isn't confusing enough, Samsung has also said that it will rename its Samsung Galaxy phones; click here to find out what the letters mean.)