I just managed to get a Nexus 4. Just refresh the page and you might be the lucky one.
out of curiosity (not obsessed), does the losing page say "Sold Out" in red letters like mine does?
Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 minutes
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#192is that 360 degree camera feature software or hardware or both?
Software which requires hardware to support Android 4.2
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
But now they have a lot of people bitching about how the phone doesn't have LTE so it's not like it was known it'd be a total slam dunk. I'm a T-Mobile customer in the US though so i don't worry about stuff like that. ;)
I'm more worried about the fact that they only have up to 16GB storage, for an Android phone that doesn't support removable storage. I mean, even the iPhone 4 has 32GB!
What do you use all that space for on a phone? My Android phone (HTC Evo 4G) has 512MB internal storage and the Android version it runs doesn't support moving most apps and their data to an SD card. I still have all the apps I want. I still listen to my entire multi-gigabyte music collection... by streaming it through Amazon MP3 for free. Everything's streaming or in the cloud these days. You don't need to carry duplicate copies in your pocket.
I ordered a Nexus 4 8GB.
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#194I just managed to get a Nexus 4. Just refresh the page and you might be the lucky one.
out of curiosity (not obsessed), does the losing page say "Sold Out" in red letters like mine does?
I think you're out of luck now. It was saying "Coming Soon" until under an hour ago, and that's when people were still picking them up here and there by refreshing all day, myself included. Since it just recently changed to "Sold Out", it's probably actually sold out now.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm more worried about the fact that they only have up to 16GB storage, for an Android phone that doesn't support removable storage. I mean, even the iPhone 4 has 32GB!
What do you use all that space for on a phone? My Android phone (HTC Evo 4G) has 512MB internal storage and the Android version it runs doesn't support moving most apps and their data to an SD card. I still have all the apps I want. I still listen to my entire multi-gigabyte music collection... by streaming it through Amazon MP3 for free. Everything's streaming or in the cloud these days. You don't need to carry dupl…
The problem with cloud access is that you need to have a reliable Internet connection to benefit from it.
I live in a 3rd-world country where 3G connections are either expensive or unreliable. Also, we don't have access to all the excellent streaming sites like Spotify or Hulu.
So yes, I need all that space for my music collection :)
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
But now they have a lot of people bitching about how the phone doesn't have LTE so it's not like it was known it'd be a total slam dunk. I'm a T-Mobile customer in the US though so i don't worry about stuff like that. ;)
I'm more worried about the fact that they only have up to 16GB storage, for an Android phone that doesn't support removable storage. I mean, even the iPhone 4 has 32GB!
An iPhone has 32GB. But I strongly suspect that the 16GB option is more popular.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm more worried about the fact that they only have up to 16GB storage, for an Android phone that doesn't support removable storage. I mean, even the iPhone 4 has 32GB!
What do you use all that space for on a phone? My Android phone (HTC Evo 4G) has 512MB internal storage and the Android version it runs doesn't support moving most apps and their data to an SD card. I still have all the apps I want. I still listen to my entire multi-gigabyte music collection... by streaming it through Amazon MP3 for free. Everything's streaming or in the cloud these days. You don't need to carry dupl…
Where do you live? For those of us that travel underground to and from work every day (i.e., the subway) having music accessible offline is pretty essential.
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#198I'd love to see numbers to compare this to the sale of previous iPhones. My gut instinct says this is a supply-side issue more than a popularity issue. Could google be keeping supply low to keep demand up? Or was this such a popular product (people reporting that this bringing the google store to its knees) that it sold out within minutes and google was just ill prepared for the popularity?
The fact that Google Play slowed to a crawl once orders opened in every single country tells me that they must have had a good amount of sales right? Even if they did have a small stock of devices this tells me that there is a high demand for the Nexus 4.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
out of curiosity (not obsessed), does the losing page say "Sold Out" in red letters like mine does?
I think you're out of luck now. It was saying "Coming Soon" until under an hour ago, and that's when people were still picking them up here and there by refreshing all day, myself included. Since it just recently changed to "Sold Out", it's probably actually sold out now.
The Google Play Store page kept switching between "Sold Out" and "Coming Soon." I didn't try it obsessively but i tried it once in a while throughout the day. And it worked.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm more worried about the fact that they only have up to 16GB storage, for an Android phone that doesn't support removable storage. I mean, even the iPhone 4 has 32GB!
What do you use all that space for on a phone? My Android phone (HTC Evo 4G) has 512MB internal storage and the Android version it runs doesn't support moving most apps and their data to an SD card. I still have all the apps I want. I still listen to my entire multi-gigabyte music collection... by streaming it through Amazon MP3 for free. Everything's streaming or in the cloud these days. You don't need to carry dupl…
> What do you use all that space for on a phone
You'd be surprised. Many games, these days, can take up to 1GB for program and data files. My iPhone 4 with 16GB was so maxed out, it'd often refuse to upgrade more than one app at a time because of insufficient space.