14 DAY TRIAL // Mountain View-based Internet giant Google confirmed on Thursday that sales of Galaxy Nexus in the United States would recommence next week.
The handset had been pulled off shelves in the beginning of this week, as Apple won a legal dispute with Samsung and Google and managed to impose a ban of the device in the country.
Starting with Monday, the device was removed from Google’s own portal, the Google Play Store, where it featured the tag “coming soon.”
At the time, Google explained that the issue was related to software, and that it would manage to come up with a fix for it in the near future.
On Thursday, the company confirmed to ABC News that the device would be back for sale next week, as it would have the fix in place for all units out there.
When returning to shelves, the smartphone will be loaded with the latest version of the Android operating system, namely Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which was made official in the last week of June, at Google I/O conference.
In the meantime, Samsung is determined to appeal to the injunction a judged set on sales of the device, saying that it was rather disappointed with the decision.
“We will continue to pursue an appeal of the Galaxy Nexus preliminary injunction, which we filed on July 2 to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Meanwhile, we are also working closely with Google to resolve this matter, as the patent in question concerns Google’s unified search function,” a company’s spokesperson reportedly said.
Apparently, the problem was related to the search capabilities loaded on the device, which delivered results from both the phone and from the web.
Initially, Google was said to be en-route to cripple the settings, so as to deliver only web results to the phone, something that would avoid any further litigations with Apple.