14 DAY TRIAL // Canadian mobile phone users should soon have the possibility to purchase the newly launched Nexus S by Samsung smartphone, the first device to run under Google's new Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system.
Apparently, the smartphone would become available with support for the airwaves of more than just one wireless carrier in the country, and should become available for purchased come March.
“The Nexus S is going to everybody, so we’ll have it. It will be AWS band,” Dave Dobbin, CEO of Canadian carrier Mobilicity, said in an interview with Howard Forums.
“And Bell, TELUS and Rogers will have it. I mean everybody will have the phone. So nothing special about it… it will be all over the place… so the Nexus S will I think will be available in March,” he continued.
The Nexus S was launched last year as “the most advanced Android-based smartphone,” packing the said Andorid 2.3 Gingerbread operating system version, in addition to hardware capabilities which were not present in another smartphone at the time.
The list would include a unique curved touchscreen display, along with NFC (Near Field Communication) capabilities, and new to the Android space.
The Nexus S was made available for purchase in the United States via Best Buy, with support for T-Mobile USA's network, and in the UK, via Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy.
The same as with Nexus One, Google decided not to make the new phone exclusively available on a specific wireless carrier, though the device would not offer support for all available networks out there.
According to a recent article on MobileSyrup, Samsung Electronics Canada’s Vice President Paul Brennan confirmed during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that the Nexus S would become available for purchase in the country sometime in the first quarter of the ongoing year.
All that remains to be seen is when exactly would the new mobile phone be put on sale in Canada, as well as what price tag it might feature. No info on the retailer that would bring it to the Canadian market emerged either.