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Re: Nexus 5

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Post by Ives » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 8:31 PM UTC

Spittie wrote: post #137

Ives wrote: post #20

It's quite depressing that a 350$ phone will probably translate to 460€ in Belgium and the Netherlands. That's 626$ if you use the official exchange course between euro's and dollars. We don't have phones on Google Play. EDIT: Strike that, it's dropped to 399€, that's still 543$.

$349/$399 isn't the price before taxes? I'm not American so I'm not sure, but I think prices in America are always listed before taxes, while they're listed after taxes in Europe. This makes it still cheaper in the USA than in Europe, but the margin is way smaller.

You are of course right, but I'm not sure if people in the US ordering over the internet actually pay sales tax on devices ordered from the google play store. It might depend on what state they're in though.

Re: Nexus 5

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Post by sampo » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 8:32 PM UTC

netcan wrote: post #19

OoTheNigerian wrote: post #6

As an African/Nigerian I am not even allowed to see what it looks like. Talk less of trying to make a purchase [1]. Last Night, I had to lie that I am in the US so I would be allowed to by Remote by 37Signals on my kindle. Quite ridiculous and annoying. http://imgur.com/eS8agor

It's not just Nigeria. And I agree. The way Google does this with an error page for non serviced locations feels really off. It's not how the web is supposed to work. Not shipping to other countries is bad enough. This is rude. Google should just put these things on Amazon.

> It's not just Nigeria.

It's not just Africa, either.

Re: Nexus 5

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Post by dschulz » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 8:34 PM UTC

OoTheNigerian wrote: post #6

As an African/Nigerian I am not even allowed to see what it looks like. Talk less of trying to make a purchase [1]. Last Night, I had to lie that I am in the US so I would be allowed to by Remote by 37Signals on my kindle. Quite ridiculous and annoying. http://imgur.com/eS8agor

Same thing in Paraguay. I managed to get a Nexus 4 from Amazon before, but I can't even buy apps from the Play Store.

Re: Nexus 5

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Post by hansy » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 8:34 PM UTC

Do the white Nexus 5s have a black front? Toggling the white color shows the device with a white back, but a black front. This looks kind of odd to me.

Re: Nexus 5

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Post by r00fus » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 8:37 PM UTC

davidcollantes wrote: post #38

4.95" 1920x1080 display (445 ppi), it reads. Does those specs make this phone the one with highest DPI ever? It is certainly above retina display, right?

Unlike the S4, it's IPS. Better colors, not as high contrast ratio.

Much preferred. Glad they're following HTC in making an iPhone-class display.

Re: Nexus 5

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Post by zokier » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 8:38 PM UTC

frogpelt wrote: post #132

davidcollantes wrote: post #38

4.95" 1920x1080 display (445 ppi), it reads. Does those specs make this phone the one with highest DPI ever? It is certainly above retina display, right?

The ppi race is the new megapixel race. Who needs pixel perfection 200 ppi beyond what the human eye can perceive? No one. But the show must go on.

Well 1080p is nice in that it is quite widespread standard and as such eg display cloning from your phone to a desktop monitor/tv/projector should be trivial. Also you can play media content without needing to downscale (albeit this is fairly minor advantage).

Re: Nexus 5

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Post by pilsetnieks » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 8:38 PM UTC

hansy wrote: post #144

Do the white Nexus 5s have a black front? Toggling the white color shows the device with a white back, but a black front. This looks kind of odd to me.

Yes, only the back is white.

Re: Nexus 5

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Post by Fundlab » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 8:40 PM UTC

bentcorner wrote: post #121

jwoah12 wrote: post #102

I just ordered one, but I'm currently on Verizon. What does everyone think is the best way to go in terms of non-contract carriers for the N5? Heard some good things about Straight Talk, but also read that their customer service is horrible.

T-mobile has a $30 prepaid plan that looks pretty good (100 minutes talk, unlimited text and "unlimited" [throttled after 5gb] data). http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans , click "Which plan is right for you?"

100 minutes of talk is pretty meagre I would rather opt for MetroPCS starting from $40 a month with unlimited talk, data and text.

http://www.metropcs.com/metro/detail/MetroPCS_SIM_Card/61021...

Re: Nexus 5

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Post by mappum » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 8:41 PM UTC

frogpelt wrote: post #132

davidcollantes wrote: post #38

4.95" 1920x1080 display (445 ppi), it reads. Does those specs make this phone the one with highest DPI ever? It is certainly above retina display, right?

The ppi race is the new megapixel race. Who needs pixel perfection 200 ppi beyond what the human eye can perceive? No one. But the show must go on.

Just because you can't perceive individual pixels doesn't mean you can't perceive higher quality. Imagine if you wanted to draw a human hair to scale, you would need some small pixels to make that look good.

However in most smartphone use cases, that's probably not an issue.

Re: Nexus 5

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Post by pilsetnieks » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 8:41 PM UTC

solnyshok wrote: post #106

my friend working at Samsung, tells me internal joke, that there must be a very well paid guy at Google HQ whos sole responsibility is to figure out how to cripple Nexus devices (micro SD slot, battery) and distribution (limited rollout to only bunch of countries) in order to NOT alienate other Android manufacturers.

If Nexus 4 is any indication, they will be available in other countries pretty soon as well, just not directly from Google, and they will be sold as LG Nexus 5, not Google Nexus 5.