Samsung has just announced, rather sensationally, that the product launch it had planned in conjunction with Google for next week’s CTIA will not in fact be happening.
Here’s the statement in full:
“Samsung and Google decide to postpone the new product announcement at CTIA Fall. We agree that it is just not the right time to announce a new product. New date and venue will be shortly announced.”
Naturally, with all of the Nexus Prime gossip and rumours that have been flying around over the last few days, including the confirmation by one of our sources that the handset WILL be launched on 11 October, this decision must have been made very recently.
Alternately known as the Galaxy Nexus or the Nexus Prime, this device was widely expected to give us a first look at Google’s next major iteration of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, but for whatever reason, the two companies have decided to push its official debut back. It was only this morning that we got a glimpse of a smartphone looking very much like this next Nexus — a leak that may or may not have anything to do with this sudden change of plans. Either way, Eric Schmidt promised us we’d see Ice Cream Sandwich by the end of November, so we may be facing a delay, but it should be a relatively small one.
“Samsung and Google decide to postpone the new product announcement at CTIA Fall. We agree that it is just not the right time to announce a new product. New date and venue will be shortly announced.”
Naturally, with all of the Nexus Prime gossip and rumours that have been flying around over the last few days, including the confirmation by one of our sources that the handset WILL be launched on 11 October, this decision must have been made very recently.
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