All kidding and interweb trolling aside, nobody really thinks the Galaxy Nexus will be a Verizon exclusive.  But the site to register for more information does have something there few were expecting — the Galaxy Nexus looks to be launching on more than just the big four in the US.  Besides Verizon, we see listings you would have imagined, like Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T, as well as a few others — Cellular South, Metro PCS, and US Cellular.

HTC has (finally) released the GPL kernel source for the myTouch 4G Slide, and they have tossed in the Gingerbread update kernel source for the Desire, and the code for the Raider 4G (Korea) kernel.  It’s a case of better late than never, and I know more than a few developers have been waiting for that Doubleshot kernel source code.  Let the CM7 games begin.

With yesterday and today being jam packed with news we’re sure a lot of you all out there have quite a bit to say about the events. You can catch up on everything here on the blogs and once you do — make sure you hit the Android Central forums to discuss it all. Anger, Joy, frustation — we’re here for ya!

Can’t wait until November for your Ice Cream Sandwich fix? You can now find eleven new high-resolution wallpapers from the recently-released Android 4.0 SDK build over on the Android Central forums! The images are same abstract backgrounds that’ve been spotted in a number of Galaxy Nexus photos, and we’ve got the high-resolution (1440×1280) originals pulled from the SDK, ready to spruce up your phone’s homescreens while we wait for ICS to officially arrive.

In a post on the Android-building Google group, Dan Morrill announced that the AOSP tree (the “Master” and “Gingerbread” branches) are once again available online.  Because of problems with the kernel.org servers, the source has been MIA for a while, and in the downtime Google ramped up work for their own git hosting on Google’s servers.