So if I'm on Verizon and I buy this, what speeds should I expect? I'd be ok with HSPA+ speeds (I find Verizon LTE to be extremely underwhelming), but as I understand it, Verizon doesn't do HSPA+. What will the Nexus 4 fall back to?
Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 minutes
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Re: Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 minutes
#142The fact that it is 2012 and stores still refuse to just let you give them money and then have them ship you a product is ridiculous. I don't want to sit here and wait for a store to open or for things to come 'back in stock' to buy a phone. That's why we invented computers, to automate boring tasks. I give you money, you put my name on a list, as phones come in, you ship them in the order of the names on the list. P…
There are laws in the US which require you to ship a product within a certain time or offer a refund. I agree that the 'sold out' buzz is a popular marketing technique, its one of the persuasion tools that works well, scarcity, but I think that is a side effect here. So take a moment and imagine you are in the product manager's shoes at Google and you're tasked with forecasting how many Nexus 4's will be needed. If y…
Are you referring to the FTC 30-day / 50 day rule regarding mail/telephone orders?
Re: Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 minutes
#143Like some people have mentioned, I don't think that the N4 is actually sold out. I think they're just making small batches available slowly as to not instantiate a big performance issue on their servers. Keep refreshing the page every so often and click 'Add to Cart' once you see that button. F5'ing the page and then clicking that small gap in between the 'Email' box and the 'Notify Me' button after each time you press F5 will increase the likelihood of pre-empting someone else's click (since the Add to Cart button will be located there).
Re: Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 minutes
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are laws in the US which require you to ship a product within a certain time or offer a refund. I agree that the 'sold out' buzz is a popular marketing technique, its one of the persuasion tools that works well, scarcity, but I think that is a side effect here. So take a moment and imagine you are in the product manager's shoes at Google and you're tasked with forecasting how many Nexus 4's will be needed. If y…
Are you referring to the FTC 30-day / 50 day rule regarding mail/telephone orders? http://bit.ly/PSuzVo
Yup.
Re: Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 minutes
#145So if I'm on Verizon and I buy this, what speeds should I expect? I'd be ok with HSPA+ speeds (I find Verizon LTE to be extremely underwhelming), but as I understand it, Verizon doesn't do HSPA+. What will the Nexus 4 fall back to?
I'm sticking to galaxy nexus until this persons question is answered.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does not seem to cause any problem to Amazon, Apple, or the vast majority of other shops out there. The biggest shop debit your card when they ship and let you cancel at any time. Google is crafting buzz like Apple is doing with the queues at the Apple store or their irritating "reserve your iPhone" that in reality does not reserve anything. A difference though, if you don't want to bother, you can simply order on…
On the other hand, why not just wait a week 'till all the fervor is over. If you're cool-headed enough to realize this is all to build buzz, then surely you can wait a week.
Your assumption is that Google is doing this to build buzz.
They could just as well have component supply problems.
Re: Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 minutes
#147I downloaded the Auto Refresh Plus Chrome plugin, set it to auto-refresh the 16GB page ( https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_16g... ) every 1s and set the "Popup notification once FIND the target" option using the word "STOCK". I went through 3-4 false starts of trying to add it to cart and having it fail, but it eventually succeeded and I was able to add to cart and complete the purchase at 3:04…
That worked for me too :). Thanks for the tip.
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#148Nexus 4 looks like a great phone - very comparable to the Galaxy S III. Since the fair price of a new or virtually new S3 on eBay is about $450, the Nexus 4 at $299 new is a steal if you don't need a microSD slot.
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#149So if I'm on Verizon and I buy this, what speeds should I expect? I'd be ok with HSPA+ speeds (I find Verizon LTE to be extremely underwhelming), but as I understand it, Verizon doesn't do HSPA+. What will the Nexus 4 fall back to?
>So if I'm on Verizon and I buy this, what speeds should I expect?
It won't operate on Verizon's network. GSM only.
Re: Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 minutes
#150So if I'm on Verizon and I buy this, what speeds should I expect? I'd be ok with HSPA+ speeds (I find Verizon LTE to be extremely underwhelming), but as I understand it, Verizon doesn't do HSPA+. What will the Nexus 4 fall back to?
This phone will not work on Verizon or Sprint.