Samsung could have new Galaxy Nexus stock free of the volume fault ready as early as next week, but is apparently freezing shipments in some locations until the updated phones have been prepared. Having confirmed it was working on a fix yesterday, Samsung has subsequently told Irish resellers that it will be bringing new, fixed stock in next week, one pre-order customer tells us.

"The latest update is that Samsung is bringing new stock into Ireland and that it will not be in until next week" the Nexus buyer was told by the retailer he ordered the Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone from. "It is looking like they want to release stock that does nott have the fault."

hardware changes have not been required, and that it is merely swapping out existing stock for handsets that have been reflashed with different software.

Finally, The Unlcoked version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has just hit US Fans with Free shipping too.

Currently, we are only hearing about one retailer in the US, Expansys USA who claims to have the device in stock. The phone will be sold unlocked for a price of 750 USD and it will work on AT&T and T-Mobile network.

Samsung UK has joined Google in promising a software fix for the volume bug in the Galaxy Nexus, suggesting that the company "will update devices as soon as possible" however, more retailers have apparently reacted to the issue by freezing shipments of the ICS smartphone. Samsung took to Twitter to confirm its awareness of the volume issue, indicating that software tweaks would address the randomly fluctuating in-call audio experienced by some Galaxy Nexus Owners.

However, developer Steve Troughton-Smith tells us that the retailer he ordered a Galaxy Nexus from warned him today that Samsung had stopped shipments, with deliveries only expected to resume when the volume bug was addressed. New stock has apparently been put on ice as Samsung investigate whether hardware or software is at fault, the retailer suggested, with even a possible recall mentioned.

It looks like Verizon will settle for a name that was known until Google and Samsung christened it as Galaxy Nexus. A leaked Best Buy catalog posted over at shows an ad that clearly mentions Verizon variant as Nexus Prime. The reason for a name change seems to be a marketing decision which will supposedly allow Verizon to differentiate its Nexus offering than the international version.

Nexus Prime on Verizon is expected to reach consumers in the next few weeks for a price of $299.99 on a two-year contract.

Ever since people have gotten their hands on the Galaxy Nexus, we have been hearing reports of the device not supporting the USB Mass Storage (UMS) protocol that allows you to mount the internal memory on your computer. Since this is the first Ice Cream Sandwich device, this peculiarity was attributed to the OS lacking the particular feature. But as Google engineer Dan Morrill explains, that is not the case.

As it happens, Ice Cream Sandwich does support UMS, its just that the Galaxy Nexus does not. Instead, it uses MTP or Media Transfer Protocol, which is natively supported on Windows and commonly used by devices such as media players to sync with Windows Media Player.

The reason for this is simple. Unlike, say, the Nexus S, which has two separate memory chips, the 1GB internal ROM on which the OS is installed and where you can also install apps and the second, 16GB storage memory for all your other stuff, including apps, which is what gets mounted on the PC when you connect it through USM.

On the Galaxy Nexus, they are using only one 16/32GB memory on which everything, including the OS is stored. This memory, as just explained, cannot be mounted on any other device. This is where MTP comes in. It allows you to transfer data just like on USM but without having to unmount the memory from the original device.