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Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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Not sure there is enough there to get me to upgrade my Nexus S but then again mobile phones have reached a plateau of maturity for the moment and I can't see any "must have" features around the corner.

Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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post #2

Not sure there is enough there to get me to upgrade my Nexus S but then again mobile phones have reached a plateau of maturity for the moment and I can't see any "must have" features around the corner.

But is it an excellent opportunity for people with older phones to buy a nice new one. Only downside is the gigantic screen.

Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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post #2

Not sure there is enough there to get me to upgrade my Nexus S but then again mobile phones have reached a plateau of maturity for the moment and I can't see any "must have" features around the corner.

But is it an excellent opportunity for people with older phones to buy a nice new one. Only downside is the gigantic screen.

Some (like me) consider that an upside.

Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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post #2

Not sure there is enough there to get me to upgrade my Nexus S but then again mobile phones have reached a plateau of maturity for the moment and I can't see any "must have" features around the corner.

But is it an excellent opportunity for people with older phones to buy a nice new one. Only downside is the gigantic screen.

Yeah, I'm in the market for a new Android phone right now and phones seem to be going through a late-50s auto industry "new larger size!" phase.

Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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post #5

It doesn't mention anything about it's lack of 4G support. It's a great phone, agreed, but absence of 4G is a spoil spot.

Umm...

"But the Nexus 4 falls just short of perfection due to one major omission: It’s not compatible with any LTE networks."

Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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post #2

Not sure there is enough there to get me to upgrade my Nexus S but then again mobile phones have reached a plateau of maturity for the moment and I can't see any "must have" features around the corner.

But is it an excellent opportunity for people with older phones to buy a nice new one. Only downside is the gigantic screen.

And the pitiful internal storage coupled with the lack of expandable storage. It's still much more convenient for me to sync music to a card than to wrangle with the various cloud services.

Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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post #5

It doesn't mention anything about it's lack of 4G support. It's a great phone, agreed, but absence of 4G is a spoil spot.

Second paragraph into the article:

"It’s as close to perfect as I’ve seen any Android smartphone get. But the Nexus 4 falls just short of perfection due to one major omission: It’s not compatible with any LTE networks."

Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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Yes, I want this phone but it's huge. Please google, someone - make a decent phone that's not the size of a giant's thumb. I guess they've done their focus groups and their whatevers and decided that people want more screensize but please for the love of god make a small awesome Android phone for a girl's hands and purse and european small-sized car with a tiny dashboard (because I use mine for GPS every-single-day) and I don't even care if you shove pinterest and facebook on the frontscreen (I'll root it and make it go away, I promise).
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