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Yet, we still have no official word from Verizon. They announced the RAZR for tomorrow, but still nothing about the Nexus.

http://www.droid-life.com/2011/12/14/verizons-announces-shin...

I wonder how pissed Samsung is

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This is all par for the course in the industry. The big players all hate each other. Carriers mess up handset OEMs who muck up the OS vendors configuration who collide with carrier lock-in and exclusivity requirements.

The reason we care this time is that this is the new flagship Android phone. But there are dozens of handsets every year that find themselves in the same mess.

Android is undoing all the work Apple started against the carriers with the iPhone...

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