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

BaldJedi said:
Had mine over 6 weeks, never had to reboot it once and still as fast as the first day i got it..
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+1

I dont have any of those issues either. And never had to reboot or have it freeze.

My only issue is the battery but I'm just not used to having to charge a phone every day.
 
I can't decide whether Apple... Sorry, Google... have just messed up in a major way, or if they're just incredible geniuses. They release a smooth marketing campaign, undercut the competition by half, and after creating insane demand for the product they release a limited number of units at a cut price. After whipping up a furore they sell off the rest of the stock at levels well under actual market demand for the product, and about 35% more expensive, through retail outlets while everyone raves about their epic 'cheap' phones. Clever... :p :D
 
I don't think its intentional, I can see it working the way Apple do it where you keep supply just behind demand and gradually drip feed more in, but they wouldnt want to be going weeks without any stock. Not sure about smooth marketing campaign, I've not seen any marketing, which seems for the best when they have no stock.
 
If any of this is engineered then the persons responsible would have been sacked by now :p. Its quite funny to consider that Google have got it so wrong that people are now considering it was planned :D

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I think it's actually the manufacturers that are giving them the most problems. There has been many rumours that LG have been slow to produce more units possibly because the Nexus4 really overshadowed the OptimusG.

It will be a continuing trend until Google can really get Motorola pumping out Google hardware which should start to happen at some point this year.

Wouldn't surprise me if the Nexus line ends up becoming Motorola exclusive in the next couple of years.
 
LOL what a load of tosh, its not difficult to get a Nexus 4 outside of the Google play store it seems so if there was a real issue with LG not producing enough it would affect all retail chains surely. I just think Google just didnt order enough from LG and completely underestimated demand for a cut price reference Android phone. By time they realised LG have obviosuly moved their production priority to produce thir next phone...

Wasnt the Nexus 7 launch pretty poorly organised too? Are we gonna blame Asus for that?

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ps3ud0 said:
LOL what a load of tosh, its not difficult to get a Nexus 4 outside of the Google play store it seems so if there was a real issue with LG not producing enough it would affect all retail chains surely. I just think Google just didnt order enough from LG and completely underestimated demand for a cut price reference Android phone.

Wasnt the Nexus 7 launch pretty poorly organised too? Are we gonna blame Asus for that?

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Not tosh at all. It's not a case of Google not ordering enough, it's a case of the retailers not being able to sell the phone at the inflated price because everyone knows they are paying extra for no reason. That is why the stores have stock and Google do not.
 
ps3ud0 said:
So LG have manufacturing issues yet retail stores seemingly have piles of them to shift - curious :p

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m4rk84 said:
Because nobody wants to pay an extra £130 for no reason?
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That was kind of my point. I'm not actually saying it was planned, but it has had the result of leaving stock available at an inflated price, while Google themselves don't have stock to sell. Yet the phone is still perceived as a 'cheap' high end device, rolling off the shelves £130 more expensive than the perceived price point.

Google have publicly blamed LG difficulties, yet the retail stores all have stock. LG is still managing to manufacture and market the Optimus but curiously can't get parts for the N4... unless you buy retail.

The £130 extra isn't really for no reason, it's profit. Google were selling the N4 at cost, weren't they? So I do understand why stores are more expensive, and for the specs it's still a cheap device... But it doesn't explain why Play is still sold out and can't fulfil weeks-old orders, but everyone else can source and sell you one for £400 no problem.

IIRC Google stated they've had 400,000 units manufactured. The Galaxy S3 was selling that many every two DAYS on launch. Epic fail?
 
It be interesting to see if those stores have had any issues with Nexus deliveries or are we just simply assuming they had one delivery back in early November and not had one since...

EDIT: Saw your response Rainmaker, Im of the same opinion that even though blame can be probably laid at both Google and LG, looking just purely at Googles inability to launch and sell products via its own portal its pretty obvious that its far more likely that Google really misjudged this, than LG who actually have done this many many times. Google decided to charge at near cost, they should have ensured LG were producing/allocating stock to them adequately to cover demand as LG werent going to be stupid to ignore orders from other retailers that were gonna pay them more per unit.

If LG have shifted production to their own phones (which who can blame them for?), then its even more silly for Google to accept so many orders when they had no way of fulfilling them - did they not make projections of stock supplies even after the first day of demand to make sure that one hiccup didnt occur again as it has (and even bigger)? No doubt their ordering system probably doesnt have the basic features to stop orders going in when theyve hit a certain amount :rolleyes:

Google has shown the world if its a tangible product, do yourself a favour and DONT buy from them. Its only the reduction in cost involved that people have entertained all these issues, but thats only gonna abait them for so long, yet no doubt will leave a longlasting bitter taste in their mouth for the next Google product sold on their store. Competitors couldnt ask for better way to knock them off a peg or two and at the same time devalue their brand perception. Id be interested in the next Nexus, but I wont touch the Google Play store unless it comes with better communication/assurances from Google and its significantly cheaper too - consider Google Play is their app store its not that hard to see where that brand devaluation could permeate into their digital store too...

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I don't buy the argument that LG are shipping stock to retail stores rather than Google. If Google are really selling at a loss or break even then they must be getting them for about 280, and I can't see the retail stores paying any more than that if they want to make a profit.
 
pI 3ud0 said:
You tried double and triple clicks? my headset skips tracks that way on the N4 using those commands. The volume controls dont work though :(

ps3ud0 :cool:
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I think I read somewhere on xda that the N4 hardware doesn't support volume control. I just tried my old Samsung S3 handset and the volume buttons don't work on that either.
 
smokedog said:
I think I read somewhere on xda that the N4 hardware doesn't support volume control. I just tried my old Samsung S3 handset and the volume buttons don't work on that either.
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Ah ok - I guess thats a relief that I wont need to replace them to attempt to get that function back

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