***The Official LG Nexus 4 Thread***

_Jimlad_ said:
just pay the extra £100 and get one tomorrow. you will forget about the hit to the wallet after a few days .... i did :D its worth it :D
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Yeah that's what I did, wish I'd been able to get it at the Google price but as it is I got it weeks ago, without any hassle and even at £389 it's cheap for an elite smartphone.

Nexus18 said:
Indeed jubei.

Besides, I don't see how stock android is an advantage personally, the only good thing about it IMO is the holo theme throughout, IMO the apps are too basic and not feature rich enough especially the camera app, it pales in comparison to touchwiz and sense camera app, touchwiz has a lot of good features these days like the multi-view, smart stay tweaks (although you can get these as apps now). Any bloat on the phone isn't a problem either, ever since ICS you can disable most of the stuff anyway so they won't use any resources at all and won't show throughout the phone.

Plus nowadays you can make your phone look/act more or less like stock android, can change the home and lock screen to stock android, download the stock android calendar, SMS, dialer, browser, gallery etc. apps and even replace the status bar/notification tray with the stock look (but those status bar apps are a bit buggy still) without having to root, afaik you can't do the same with sense, touchwiz etc. apps only make apps look like them via go sms etc.
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Having owned a One X, an S3, a GNex and a Nexus 4 in the past year it's my opinion that stock Android is superior to any manufacture skins. Sense has improved a lot over the years, but at the end of the day it's still an ugly, sometimes laggy overlay for an operating system that just doesn't need it. Stock Android looks good and performs very well. Additional functionality can be easily obtained by using third-party apps.

TouchWiz isn't too bad; Samsung has added a variety of features that differentiate the software and give people more than what stock Android can offer, but it's still ugly and therein lies the problem. As a graphic designer UX issues irk me; it's why I gave up on my Nexus One and bought an iPhone back when Android was all still grey and horrible. With Jellybean, we have a platform designed by the guy who used to head up UX at Palm; he knows what he's doing so why the meddling? If it's not broke, why try to fix it?

What we really need to see is a mandate that requires all manufacturers to issue a stock build of Android for each handset, along with an easy bootloader unlock method. That way, we please all of the people all of the time.

Mekrel said:
Custom ROMs built from AOSP are generally buggy, incomplete or contain work around hacks to get features working. If it's not a Nexus then generally speaking the binaries from manufacturers never get distributed until the manufacturer release a leak or final firmware.

Not only that but you also have poor platform/hardware documentation from the likes of Samsung and Broadcom, leaving half working Bluetooth like when people got Android 4.0 "running" on the Galaxy SII.

This isn't the case with the Nexus, look how quickly the Galaxy Nexus had 4.2 pushed to it.

I used to be one of the flashaholics until I realised it was a pointless exercise that results in instability.
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This is too much of a blanket statement; it totally depends on the device. Yes, early builds for non-Google handsets are often buggy and pretty horrible, but after time they usually improve a lot. Take the SGS1 for example; the first AOSP builds were rubbish but now it will run Jellybean really well.

I think Android is now at the stage where tinkering is not required, and that's great, but I'm happily running Rasbeanjelly and Motley kernel on my N4 just because I can. The tweaks to the UI and performance are worthwhile and I'm not experiencing bugs either.
 
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Anyone else notice that the phone automatically connects to wifi secured networks that you have connected to before on other devices?

It connected both to my work and home's wifi without prompting me, certainly saved me a bit of hassle for the work wifi.

Which update included that? I hadn't noticed it being talked about previously.
 
Shimmy said:
Anyone else notice that the phone automatically connects to wifi secured networks that you have connected to before on other devices?

It connected both to my work and home's wifi without prompting me, certainly saved me a bit of hassle for the work wifi.

Which update included that? I hadn't noticed it being talked about previously.
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if u go to settings>backup and restore, the option states wifi settings too. i think thats it
 
BathmanNick said:
My nexus 4 arrived this morning ordered 4th December 15:09. Coming from an iphone 4, this phone is massive, much better quality than i was expecting.
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Yeah I know what you mean, I've also come from an iPhone4 and it looks huge. Sure I'll get used to it pretty quickly though.

I must say I was surprised at how great the phone looks and feels, despite the fact that I had read so many posts saying the same.
 
mark43 said:
Yeah I know what you mean, I've also come from an iPhone4 and it looks huge. Sure I'll get used to it pretty quickly though.

I must say I was surprised at how great the phone looks and feels, despite the fact that I had read so many posts saying the same.
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You get used to the size in no time.. pick up an iphone 4 in a few days and you will wonder how you managed with a screen that small :)
 
Mine arrived this morning too, not had chance to play with it yet and not even sure i will keep it. Assume i can contact them to send it back under DSR within a week or whatever? That way i can at least try it and make up my mind.
 
Stock android's appeal goes up and down with release cycles. Come key lime pie everyone wants a nexus to get their hands on the latest features. The gs3 etc look most appealing right about now when they have just been officially updated to the latest android version and so have all the latest features integrated.

The conversation in this thread would be totally different just after Google i/o
 
So got a second email just before I went into the shower saying once again my phone was out for delivery. Shortly after I got my phone. First thoughts is this is a seriously good looking phone with some really great build. Scared as **** that I will break it though.
 
Mattey1 said:
Do you have the plastic protection on the back still?
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lol aye, i realised it a couple minutes after posting :P

Not really had a good play with it yet but my mum wants to buy my s3 off me for the 240 saves me messing about with a recycling site so its more incentive to keep it. Feels faster through the app drawer but could just be due to having put nothing on it yet.

Can anyone details the faults/defects that i need to check for in order to be sure my phone doesnt need RMA? There was something about light bleed and a buzzing speaker?
 
Running a speedtest on it was hoping to have a faster data speed than the s3 but its worse apparently. s3 was only getting 2meg down on threeuk but this is getting 33kbps :| lol.
 
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