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Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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Post by polshaw »

CrazedGeek wrote: post #19
marquis wrote: post #10

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)…

The Galaxy S3 Mini looks pretty nice to me: http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-s3-mini/4...

The S3 mini is more S1/S2 than S3 though. May as well get one of those.

Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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Post by ajross »

CrazedGeek wrote: post #19
marquis wrote: post #10

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)…

The Galaxy S3 Mini looks pretty nice to me: http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-s3-mini/4...

Amusingly the GS3 Mini has exactly the same screen specs as the original Galaxy S did. I'm wondering if they still had a warehouse full of these they needed to ship...

Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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Post by jug6ernaut »

marquis wrote: post #10

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)…

I am of the opposite opinion, I have had the Note one for almost a year and idk if i can downgrade in size! If it was not for that and a little the lack of expandable storage, i would be all over this phone. Looks truly amazing.

Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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Post by lmm »

bdfh42 wrote: post #38
WrkInProgress wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think if I was still using a Galaxy Nexus, I wouldn't feel a pressing need to upgrade but I'm not so sure about the Nexus S. What version of Android do you have running on your device and if it is the latest (Jelly Bean), how is the performance ?

Currently running Android 4.2 - my UK network supplier is pretty good about piping updates to the phone. The early 4.1 kept eating the battery but 4.2 is OK as long as I switch of wifi when out and about.

Which network is that? I'm stuck on 2.2 on my (cheap) year-old phone.

Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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Post by marquis »

CrazedGeek wrote: post #19
marquis wrote: post #10

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)…

The Galaxy S3 Mini looks pretty nice to me: http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-s3-mini/4...

If this can run my GPS app NDrive nicely (you can't use Google Navigation when you're in the middle of the Brazilian jungle or wherever) I think you've found the current winner.

Though CNet review sounded gloomy, as if it were "here's what would have been a really nice phone in 2008" but if that's what I have to give up for a small phone that can run a few important apps I'm happy.

Looks like it's already available but maybe it's just not worth the price for what you get and I should get a bigger purse, and get really good at holding a phone with one hand while pointing with the other. http://www.mobilekiwi.co.nz/android/item/1694-samsung-galaxy...

He quotes from another source: ""Apple has proven quite conclusively that tens of millions of people are happy to have a device they can wrap their hands around. It doesn't mean they don't want powerful processors or high megapixel cameras."

Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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Post by bryanlarsen »

joejohnson wrote: post #28
ch0x wrote: post #21

I'm having a terrible first world problem: I want to use both Nexus 4 and iPhone 5. It's literally making me insane. I currently own iPhone 5 but each time I read Nexus reviews, I want to get Nexus 4. I can't use both as I have just one phone number. Perhaps I'll get Nexus 4 and just switch the sim card around. That's terrible. ARGH.

The Nexus 4 is too big, doesn't have LTE and the headphone jack is on the top (it seems like a minor nuisance, but being able to slide your phone into you pocket while listening to music is actually much easier with the headphone connected to the bottom of the device). Go with the iPhone 5.

Why is it easier to slide the phone into your pocket upside down than it is right side up? I've had phones with both styles, and I didn't notice a difference once I adjusted to the change.

I actually prefer the headphone jack on the top, because it's easier to use that way when the phone is plugged in.

As for size, once you get used to a larger screen everything else seems too small.

Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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Post by dmazin »

tadfisher wrote: post #13

I don't care about LTE, but if the article's claim that the headphone jack is on the top edge is true, then I may have to forgo this phone. I just can't change my habit of putting my phone in my pocket upside-down.

For what it's worth, Apple just flipped the location of the jack and I adapted quickly after n years of habit - I'm sure you could too!

Re: Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless

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Post by lftl »

joejohnson wrote: post #23

If it's only $300 unlocked, it should cost less than $200 with a two-year contract. The iPhone 5 is $699 (16GB) and is still $200 with a two-year contract. Can LG/Google not get this same subsidy for their phones?

The nice thing about T-mobile is that they will actually give you a monthly discount if you don't take a subsidy. So you can just pass on the weak subsidy, and save ~$10/mo with the no contract plan.
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