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This phone will not work on Verizon or Sprint.
Wow...so to insure working across all carriers, they cut out two very large carriers? This doesn't make sense to me.
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Wow...so to insure working across all carriers, they cut out two very large carriers? This doesn't make sense to me.
Uh.. they didn't 'cut out' anything. If anything, it's the carriers that are stupid for not adopting the same standard of using sim cards (Verizon and Sprint don't use sim cards..). I think they wanted to lock people in to their service.
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My gut feel is the opposite. This is a ridiculous phone, for a ridiculous price. I personally wanted it and couldn't get it Today yet, and I know of at least 5 other people (outside the US) who've been pinging me to see if it's going to be available anytime soon. Pretty sure it's a demand-issue this time.
If the numbers are good, they'll brag about them. If they don't, it's a pretty good sign that it's supply.
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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…
Xoom and Touchpad were 'new' products (new to that brand) - Nexus isn't 'new' by any stretch. It's got a track record. They have customers they can survey. Hell, it's google - if they can't predict public and customer sentiment and willingness to buy, who can?
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You can always download android and build/flash it yourself. The Nexus S 4g has downloads for binary drivers through Android 4.1.2, the rest is the regular source download.
I'm fairly well-versed regarding ROMs, and actually ran CM and MIUI on it for quite a while with decent results, but that's not really the point. Nexus is supposed to mean "first in line for OTA updates", not "wait for us to put it on AOSP and then build and flash it yourself, or wait for a modder to make a decent ROM". That is absolutely not the brand I thought I was buying. Edit: Sorry, that was a ruder tone than I…
After flashing yakju once, all the updates flow smoothly.
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>Day-0 updates are effectively part of the Nexus brand For current Nexus devices may be - but for older gen Nexus devices I am not sure I have ever seen a same day update.
I've got a Nexus S 4G, I'm lucky if I see an update within months of release.
I 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…