Nexus Prime sounds like something from the upcoming Transformers movie. But, BGR says it will be the first Android phone to be based on the Android “Ice Cream Sandwich” release.

Google’s first Ice Cream Sandwich phone to be manufactured by Samsung, possibly dubbed ‘Nexus Prime’

Ice Cream Sandwich is supposed to unify the current fragmentation between phone (OS 2.3 Gingerbread) and tablet (OS 3.x Honeycomb) releases.

AndroidCommunity.com had info that indicated that HTC was producing the next Nexus flagship release. HTC produced the Nexus One while Samsung produced the current Nexus S flagship product.

Google Working with HTC on Ice Cream Sandwich Nexus Phone?