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Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes

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Re: Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes

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Luckily any tablet you choose will have significant tracking capabilities...

Apple isn't in the business of exploiting your private data to advertise products/services/content from third parties at you though. The incentives are completely different.

Sure they are, they're just not as good at it as Google is. Apple has built Facebook and advertising into iOS. Besides their own advertising network, Apple made support for third party tracking using the IDFA (ID For Advertising, it was created after they decided using the UDID for ad tracking was not ideal).

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I guess google is going after budget conscious. No LTE is ridiculous and their excuse that they don't want carrier interference is lame. Does Apple have to deal with carriers interfering with deploying LTE? Please, the real reason why they don't support LTE is the Nexus is not a big seller. So it makes little sense to create multiple sku's. Gotta love that Google spin.

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The phone comes with wireless charging built in. Looks like that's a first. Does it come with a charging pad as well? I think I'd buy a phone just for this feature.

I don't know what you mean by "a first", but the HP Touchpad had built-in inductive charging.

also the HP/Palm Pre3. Neither Nokia or Google/LG are first with inductive charging.

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The idea of owning a tablet by Google creeps me out to no end. I just can't picture myself using this without the lingering feeling of having Big Brother tracking me, watching me, keeping tabs on what sites I visit and what content I post online.

At least you can check the source code.

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The $299 version is the 8GB version. The 16 GB version is $399.

16GB is $349, not $399. http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/29/nexus-4-official/

That's the phone, not the Nexus 10 tablet which is $399.

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As expected, very little support for other countries (specifically Canada where I am). Movie purchases, and HSPA, but no magazines or TV shows, no google music. Nexus 4 not available in Canada. [edit]Correction - magazines now available in Canada (Woohoo!) they just didn't say so. Now, can we please have google music?

Bah... My Nexus 7 came with preloaded content in French. I thought it was an error, until I checked out the store. Need a VPN just to buy any content in a language I understand :/
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