I think you are "totally wrong." There's probably some legit issue with the firmware that they haven't resolved yet. If what you say is true, it would be quite detrimental to Sprint's brand image. The Nexus S 4G was promised timely updates, but waiting 5 months from the release of the ICS source is not timely. The Nexus One had to wait only 2 months for Gingerbread. Yet I digress. Sprint's Galaxy Nexus will be its first (or one of its first) LTE phones, so that should be enough "first" for the phone. If they really want more, however, they could market it as their "first phone to ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich" or some such workaround. And it's still the first phone with ICS period, just not on Sprint (it won't be if the Nexus S 4G gets ICS before then). All of this, of course, is just my humble opinion, though.