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LG Nexus 4
« on November 5th, 2012, 07:42 PM »
So...Google recently announced the LG Nexus 4 and it's looking to be a pretty good phone. I'm probably getting it myself. Who else is looking out for this?
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Re: LG Nexus 4
« Reply #1, on November 5th, 2012, 08:10 PM »
Bit too wide for me.

Plus it doesn't have a Microsd slot.

I'm still looking for the perfect phone around 64mm wide. :( whatever the price at this point.

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Re: LG Nexus 4
« Reply #5, on November 5th, 2012, 09:05 PM »
It does have a modification LED

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Re: LG Nexus 4
« Reply #6, on November 6th, 2012, 11:13 PM »
Quote from Nao on November 5th, 2012, 08:10 PM
I'm still looking for the perfect phone around 64mm wide. :( whatever the price at this point.
Went to various shops today... Fell in love with the Galaxy Note II but it's way too big for phone use. As a tablet it'd be perfect, but what the heck.
The S3 is definitely too wide for me. Had a Razr i in my hand (a fake one, not a real one unfortunately), I loved it. But obviously couldn't play with the OS itself... Also played with a 'real' Razr HD, nice but a bit too wide once again. Tried the HTC One X, it's possibly the least annoying 'wide screen' to me, but still too wide.

I'm torn between choices, once again...
And the S3 Mini comes out in two days. Hmm...

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Re: LG Nexus 4
« Reply #7, on November 7th, 2012, 09:09 PM »
Nexus 4's  wireless charging makes no sense, you still ñeed to plug the pad to outlet anyway. The phone must be placed on the pad for it to charge.

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Re: LG Nexus 4
« Reply #8, on November 7th, 2012, 09:16 PM »
Wireless charging just strikes me as just being a 'cool thing' rather than being genuinely useful - though I suppose you could install a bank of them in somewhere like a cafe.
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Re: LG Nexus 4
« Reply #9, on November 7th, 2012, 11:47 PM »
Oh, I myself would appreciate just putting my phone on a charger pad rather than having to plug it in... It saves a couple of seconds every time I recharge it. Time is money eheh.

Okay, so I still have no idea what phone I'm gonna buy, ah ah...
I think I'm bewitched by the Note II.

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Re: LG Nexus 4
« Reply #10, on November 8th, 2012, 03:36 PM »
Quote from Nao on November 6th, 2012, 11:13 PM
Quote from Nao on November 5th, 2012, 08:10 PM
I'm still looking for the perfect phone around 64mm wide. :( whatever the price at this point.
Went to various shops today... Fell in love with the Galaxy Note II but it's way too big for phone use. As a tablet it'd be perfect, but what the heck.
The S3 is definitely too wide for me. Had a Razr i in my hand (a fake one, not a real one unfortunately), I loved it. But obviously couldn't play with the OS itself... Also played with a 'real' Razr HD, nice but a bit too wide once again. Tried the HTC One X, it's possibly the least annoying 'wide screen' to me, but still too wide.

I'm torn between choices, once again...
And the S3 Mini comes out in two days. Hmm...
S3 mini has nothing of a S3 besides it's looks, so be careful there. How is it the Note II bewitched you but Razr HD is too wide? :P. You should try holding a Nexus 4 when it comes out, it feels better than some of the existing options although it's about as wide as the HOX. How does their width bother you? You can't hold them comfortably and access the screen or is it something else?
Quote from Nathan Sparrow on November 7th, 2012, 09:09 PM
Nexus 4's  wireless charging makes no sense, you still ñeed to plug the pad to outlet anyway. The phone must be placed on the pad for it to charge.
It's convenient, don't need to plug in the phone every time you plug it in and can just dock the phone into some screensaver mode.
Quote from Arantor on November 7th, 2012, 09:16 PM
Wireless charging just strikes me as just being a 'cool thing' rather than being genuinely useful - though I suppose you could install a bank of them in somewhere like a cafe.
Make it even more convenient to steal a phone, eh? :P.

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Re: LG Nexus 4
« Reply #11, on November 10th, 2012, 08:22 PM »
Quote from Dragooon on November 8th, 2012, 03:36 PM
S3 mini has nothing of a S3 besides it's looks, so be careful there.
I know... But if a phone looks ugly, I'm not excited about it. I'm not excited with the Razr i because it doesn't look/feel great in my hand... (Or worse, the Motorola Razr HD.)
I like the S3 Mini's looks.
As for power... I don't know if I need a nuclear plant in my pocket, see..? Maybe the S3 Mini is enough for me.
Then again... It's probably a tad expensive just for the looks.
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How is it the Note II bewitched you but Razr HD is too wide?
Note II is definitely too wide. But it feels great in my hands (very sensual if I may say...?), plus the S-Pen is fantastic. It's the only smartphone I know of that supports :hover in CSS...! (Just have your pen close to the screen, anything below it will get the hover effect... I tried here!)
I tried the Razr HD and I just thought it wasn't too exciting or innovative, from what I could see.
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:P. You should try holding a Nexus 4 when it comes out,
I've tried the Nexus 7, not the same I know, but I liked it. Except for the screen. Even in 720p, it's a bit... pixelized.
Nexus 4 has a big issue to me: it doesn't have a SD slot. It's a no-go then... I absolutely need the SD slot. I listen to tons of music on my devices. My iPod 4 with 32GB is already too small for me...
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it feels better than some of the existing options although it's about as wide as the HOX. How does their width bother you? You can't hold them comfortably and access the screen or is it something else?
When I close my hand on my phone, it has to fit exactly between the center of my palm and my intermediate phalanges, so that I have a perfect grip of it, and full freedom to use my thumb on the screen. Plus I need to be able to access the entire screen with the thumb. If I have to use two hands for that, it's too big for me.

So, from what I can see, the best width for me is around 60mm (like the Razr i, or a bit wider than an iPod), although I've held ~64mm phones that were pretty okay, such as the Xperia S. (And yes, the Xperia S doesn't have a SD slot IIRC, so it's hard to consider it...)
After trying a 65mm phone like the One S, it started feeling awkward. The Xperia T was even harder to hold. The S3 was quite obviously impossible to hold like my iPod. It's pretty much the same as holding a Note II, so between the two, I'd probably prefer the Note II.

Plus, the Note II doesn't have the deal-breaking feature that the S3 has: when you scroll something (whatever, settings page or web page), and you release your finger, you'll see the screen scroll itself automatically quite fast, then suddenly stop and keep scrolling very slowly for like half a second. It doesn't sound terrible when I say it, but once you see it in action, it's hard not to take this into account. The Note II seems to fix that. I NEVER was able to find a website discussing this. It looks like no one on the net has ever noticed that. And yet, everytime I showed this to other people with a S3 in hand, they admitted that it was odd.

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Re: LG Nexus 4
« Reply #12, on November 15th, 2012, 09:13 PM »Last edited on November 16th, 2012, 09:29 AM
Returned the Samsung Nexus 4G from Verzion after playing it for a few days, it's good considering the phone with great specs but I would rather get the unlocked one with HSPA+ since I am still in contract with AT&T. I have decided not to go with Nexus 4.

In other word, I would pick up the Nexus 7 instead. It had multi-users profile in the update 4.2

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Re: LG Nexus 4
« Reply #13, on November 15th, 2012, 09:15 PM »
There is no Nexus 4G from Verizon...what did you return?

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