***The Official LG Nexus 4 Thread***
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Well I'm finding the phone very good, build quality seems good, screen is great, bit of a finger print magnet and a slight rattle sound coming from mine.
Seems very quick thru the menus with no lag, gets a little warm during gameplay of nfsmw but no slowdown but if you benchmark it then it is pretty naff against the s3, htc one x and note 2.
Seems very quick thru the menus with no lag, gets a little warm during gameplay of nfsmw but no slowdown but if you benchmark it then it is pretty naff against the s3, htc one x and note 2.
Unlocked?
Yes indeed
hard to say, between £550 and £600, but a few for buy it now for less, i have it on "best offer" and may change tomorrow. i have 7 days so if no sale then i will return one. im properly gonna keep one now either way, be nice to make some cash to offset paying over the odds, chap at o2 said, google wont have any for 3 - 5 weeks and when the o2 stock is gone its gone.
Nexus 4 16GB - £180 handset (£50 quidco cashback)
24 months @ £10.50 per month
Total Cost: £382
On the o2 website, you set to 24 months and lowest data, then as soon as you place your order speak to one of the online advisors and remove the 100mb data bolt on. Throw away the sim or put it in a spare £10 phone and you have yourself an unlocked Nexus 4 sim free phone.
I've done the above on several phones and I advised everyone in the Note 2 thread to do the same, I think only 1 person ordered it in time before the handset price shot up from £200 to £400 because they cottoned on. It works 100% if you get your order in quick enough. For anyone who wanted to pay it off slowly, and doesn't mind paying over the odds because they want it now, it's not a bad deal. Was obviously a far better deal on the Note 2 since that was selling for over £500 at release. This is just if you are desperate although I'd personally wait until they are back in stock and pay the £280.
24 months @ £10.50 per month
Total Cost: £382
On the o2 website, you set to 24 months and lowest data, then as soon as you place your order speak to one of the online advisors and remove the 100mb data bolt on. Throw away the sim or put it in a spare £10 phone and you have yourself an unlocked Nexus 4 sim free phone.
I've done the above on several phones and I advised everyone in the Note 2 thread to do the same, I think only 1 person ordered it in time before the handset price shot up from £200 to £400 because they cottoned on. It works 100% if you get your order in quick enough. For anyone who wanted to pay it off slowly, and doesn't mind paying over the odds because they want it now, it's not a bad deal. Was obviously a far better deal on the Note 2 since that was selling for over £500 at release. This is just if you are desperate although I'd personally wait until they are back in stock and pay the £280.
Nexus 4 16GB - £180 handset (£50 quidco cashback)
24 months @ £10.50 per month
Total Cost: £382
On the o2 website, you set to 24 months and lowest data, then as soon as you place your order speak to one of the online advisors and remove the 100mb data bolt on. Throw away the sim or put it in a spare £10 phone and you have yourself an unlocked Nexus 4 sim free phone.
I've done the above on several phones and I advised everyone in the Note 2 thread to do the same, I think only 1 person ordered it in time before the handset price shot up from £200 to £400 because they cottoned on. It works 100% if you get your order in quick enough. For anyone who wanted to pay it off slowly, and doesn't mind paying over the odds because they want it now, it's not a bad deal. Was obviously a far better deal on the Note 2 since that was selling for over £500 at release. This is just if you are desperate although I'd personally wait until they are back in stock and pay the £280.
good deal, note the cash back can take 12 months. mine did
That long?? I use quidco quite often and when I first signed up to it specifically for one of these deals, it took around 3 months.
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The reason I am doing it is because I can sell my gs3 for the same price to cover the cost of the nexus 4.. So why not take a better specced more future proofed phone made by google itself meaning instant updates ? Also my phone is damaged and scratched from it falled out my pocket so want a nice new shiny phone! and im a tech lover
But that's the thing, I'm not convinced that it's better-specced! It might be slightly ahead to the S3 in a few areas but it's behind in others, like battery life and storage. The only aspect in which this phone is head and shoulders above the competition is in price. Guess it's more accurate to say it's head and shouders below though
And yeah, I'm a tech lover too, I totally understand the allure of the new, but it's wrong to let our gadget-lust overpower our reason!
The lag is probably temporary files building up i the phone's memory, it's an Android problem, not an s3 problem (I've got an HTC and mine got laggy after a few months too). Rooting and wiping temporary files every now and then is the only way round it.
I won't argue that the N4 is better looking, I prefer it too!
But that's personal preference of course.Congrats to everyone who got a Nexus
But After everything that's happened (back-order)I have gone and bought out a Note 2 (cancelled my order with Google) for under £400 if I don't like it I will sell it and get Nexus 4 when they are back in normal stock.
But After everything that's happened (back-order)I have gone and bought out a Note 2 (cancelled my order with Google) for under £400 if I don't like it I will sell it and get Nexus 4 when they are back in normal stock.
GS 3:
- storage
- battery life
- audio
- camera overall
N4:
- build/perceived quality
- stock android so get updates fast
- CPU/GPU and 1GB more RAM
- cheap
Screen is personal preference, NLED is good on both and design/looks is personal preference as well as software skin (touchwiz VS stock)
Comes down to what is more important.
Battery life, audio and camera are 3 important areas for me and so far going by the reviews/first impressions the N4 doesn't seem to be as good thus I will be staying with my one S as the only areas where the N4 is better (for me) is the nexus part so get updates quicker (I prefer sense over stock android though), NLED and the screen (more so for the size as I love the quality of the SAMOLED screen on the S and only wish it was bigger). The GPU/CPU is very nice but I doubt there will be much if any difference between it and my S (when it gets JB) as android and the apps etc. don't properly make full use of dual core let alone quad core CPU and I have not noticed any slow down on my S in games etc. at all apart from google earth But it lags like a bitch on pretty much every phone 
If I had the Gs 3, the advantages of the N4 for me would be, design, build/perceived quality, stock android, hardware.
- storage
- battery life
- audio
- camera overall
N4:
- build/perceived quality
- stock android so get updates fast
- CPU/GPU and 1GB more RAM
- cheap
Screen is personal preference, NLED is good on both and design/looks is personal preference as well as software skin (touchwiz VS stock)
Comes down to what is more important.
Battery life, audio and camera are 3 important areas for me and so far going by the reviews/first impressions the N4 doesn't seem to be as good thus I will be staying with my one S as the only areas where the N4 is better (for me) is the nexus part so get updates quicker (I prefer sense over stock android though), NLED and the screen (more so for the size as I love the quality of the SAMOLED screen on the S and only wish it was bigger). The GPU/CPU is very nice but I doubt there will be much if any difference between it and my S (when it gets JB) as android and the apps etc. don't properly make full use of dual core let alone quad core CPU and I have not noticed any slow down on my S in games etc. at all apart from google earth
But it lags like a bitch on pretty much every phone If I had the Gs 3, the advantages of the N4 for me would be, design, build/perceived quality, stock android, hardware.
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