Silly Best Buy, It’s Galaxy Nexus not “Nexus Prime”

November 22, 2011

Silly Best Buy, It's Galaxy Nexus not "Nexus Prime" 4

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Oh snap! Somebody within Best Buy marketing either made a huge snafu or Verizon decided to throw a major curve ball real late in the game. According to Best Buy's upcoming December wireless catalog, the Galaxy Nexus, as it was officially named by Google, has reappeared with the Nexus Prime name. Some reports are saying that they believe the ad to be true and that Verizon wants to have their device stand out from the other carriers' device. I personally don't believe this to be the case because Best Buy has been known to botch a few print ads here and there. Another reason this sounds fishy is because the ad refers to the phone as being apart of the Galaxy S II family – which we know it isn't.

Over the past couple months we have seen the device referred to by Verizon as the Galaxy Nexus on many occasions,on ads, in print, on accessory packaging and on in store training documents. For Verizon to decide to change the name so late in the game makes no sense. What could have happened for them to go to this extent? I just don't really see any foreseeable reason for the name change and I atribute this to a major error on Best Buy's part. Who knows, I could be wrong and this is Big Red's way of putting their stamp on Google's latest masterpiece, either way, it makes for some entertaining news and we will definitely keep our eye on this one. I am willing to bet that you can plan on buying a new Galaxy Nexus hopefully on December 8th, or whenever they decide to release the damn thing. Jump past the break to see another page of the ad.

What do you guys think? Fact or fiction?

[via Android Central]

Stacy Bruce Author

Stacy Bruce was born and raised in Spokane Washington. He attended the University of Washington to study pre-med only to change his course study a year later to forensic science. Although currently not a doctor or a scientist, some believe he posseses the knowledge of both. He was a resident of San Diego California for ten years, lived beachside and sometimes wonders why the hell he moved back to Spokane. A multi-talented man, Stacy is a fabricator, an artist, a gear head, a tech junkie and at most, the disciple of Casanova. Growing up, he was always enthralled with electronics, gadgets and gizmos. Throughout his life he has had one, if not two, of every cool and new electronic device available. He began his smartphone experience with the original iPhone. After realizing it was more like theirPhone, he decided he wanted the ability to customize, so Stacy moved to the OG Droid and has been a loyal Android fanatic ever since. Moving through all of the top tier Verizon phones, he recently retired his Droid Charge in favor of the Galaxy Nexus, only to wonder what great device Samsung will come out with next. Stacy is a busy new homeowner in where he lives with his beautiful girlfriend and two dogs.

4 comments

Ivan Samuelson says:

November 22, 2011 at 7:41 AM

Best Buy sure does have a lot of these “typos”. I think they do it to generate consumer interest, lure them into the store and then “Oh sorry. That was wrong. However we have these…”.

I can understand if they made this mistake once, but this is NOT the first time they’ve done this.

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_R@¥_K@p13$_ says:

November 22, 2011 at 12:14 AM

It’s probably a typo, but I think Nexus Prime is a better name for it anyway

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1. Darkcobalt says:
  
  November 22, 2011 at 3:55 AM
  
  I think so too, the word Galaxy should just stay with Samsung products, and Google products should stick with Nexus ________.
  
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2. Darkcobalt says:
  
  November 22, 2011 at 3:55 AM
  
  I think so too, the word Galaxy should just stay with Samsung products, and Google products should stick with Nexus ________.
  
  Reply