Samsung Galaxy Nexus vs Samsung Galaxy S2: Which One Will You Buy?

Galaxy Nexus, which features Google's Ice Cream Sandwich, was also known as Samsung Google Nexus Prime, Samsung Google Galaxy Nexus I9250, Samsung Google Nexus 3 and Samsung Google Nexus 4G.

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Ice Cream Sandwich is a combination of Gingerbread and Honeycomb in one unit that include widgets in a new tab, a customizable launcher, Gmail with offline search with a two-line preview and new action bar at the bottom. Ice Cream Sandwich also has better voice integration, improved copy and paste and a new tabbed Web browser that allows up to 16 tabs.

Galaxy Nexus comes with dual-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A9 CPU, TI OMAP 4460 chipset, 4.65-inch high-definition Super AMOLED display, 1 GB of RAM, 16 or 32 GB of internal memory, NFC, 4G LTE support, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with 1080p video capture and 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video calls. On the flip side, the phone would not support Google Wallet.

On the other hand, Samsung Galaxy S2 also doesn't lag on the specifications front. Both the T-Mobile and Sprint versions of Galaxy S2 have 4.52-inch display screens whereas the AT&T version retains the 4.3-inch screen of the versions sold worldwide.

The Galaxy S2 features an 8-megapixel camera with flash and can record HD video in 1080p. The phone also has a front-facing 2-megapixel camera for video chat.

As Galaxy S2 is also expected to get an Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade in early 2012, customers would be little skeptical over which smartphone to buy this holiday season.

Let's take a look at how these two devices fare against each other that may help in purchasing decision:

Display: Galaxy Nexus sports a 4.65-inch high-definition Super AMOLED display that may give a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels with about 316 ppi pixel density. Galaxy S2 comes with a 4.3-inch WVGA SUPER AMOLED Plus display with resolution of 800 x 480 pixels at 217 ppi.

Size: Galaxy Nexus will come in 135.5 x 67.94 x 8.9 mm dimension and weighs 135 grams while Galaxy S2 is comparatively thin weighing 116 grams and has a dimension of 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5 mm.

Operating System: Galaxy Nexus runs on the latest version of Google Inc.'s smartphone operating system - Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich - while Galaxy S2 runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread that is upgradable to Android 4.0.