That's just the problem. You Verizon guys are nestled all nice and comfy in knowing the Nexus is inevitably headed your way... while the rest of us await any (I repeat, any...) word on the HSPA+ Nexus.
Having read every single piece of (loosely defined) "news", I'm on the edge of my seat, refreshing Pulse (RSS feeds) and various forums every 5 minutes, with no credible info on whether the US will even receive the GSM Nexus, whether it will be 16 or 32 Gigs, and even if it will arrive this year.
VZW: You get the 32GB Galaxus (Yeah, I fused the name...) at the soonest available time with a fair amount of knowledge on the actual price.
GSM: Release date? Ha... info about delays are all over the place, these retailers say this, Samsung "confirmed" that; this site has it coming on this date, another site has it coming at a completely different date, yet they are all stating that Samsung is behind all the confusion
Storage size? 16GB now, 32GB sometime in the future maybe more or less.
Price? Import and pay as much as a 45" top of the line TV for the lesser model of the phone (16 Gigs). Pay it and find out the 32GB version comes out a week later... fun stuff
This entire thing is a giant Charlie Foxtrot. Google is either a spineless coward or terrible at advertising (go figure, the ad giant can't advertise their own products). Samsung is "in this together" and "a perfect combination" with Google, as they said at the ICS unveiling, however all they are in charge of really is the hardware... yet funny enough we got more information directly from them about this phone then either Google or Verizon (thinking about the little Facebook stuff here). As for Verizon? Hey, it's their "exclusive" LTE model.. they can do with it whatever they want... and the situation they are in is understandable. The Razr and Rezound need a bit of the spotlight before this behemoth devours them both, and VZW can't just screw over Moto and HTC for no real reason, not to mention the $$$.
Google, this is YOUR phone; no matter what company you make a "perfect combination" with, or whatever carrier is giving you LTE and bringing your phone to the general public to. Grow a pair, get a spine, hold your ground, "accidentally leak" a document, grab an Advertising for Dummies book if you need to, but don't screw over the customers/people that made you into what you are today.