Comments on: LG and Google Announce the Nexus 4, Available November 13

By: SJCEA

SJCEA — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:07:00 +0000

Why would they not make a CDMA/LTE version of this phone ?? Epic FAIL !!! Not to mention a tremendous loss of sales ?? How ridiculous ???

By: Ruel Smith

Ruel Smith — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 21:13:00 +0000

Let me state that I’m an iPhone user. Okay, here’s my beef with Android – support. I don’t want a junked up phone that doesn’t get regular OS updates for at least 2 years of my ownership. I really like Android. I’m a Linux user and love the openness of it. However, the thought of buying something that’s locked, full of garbage, and never gets updated is something I can’t fork my money over for. If they released a yearly Nexus phone, and made it available to everyone, I’d seriously bite. I’ve thought of adding ROMs, but they’re getting to be so complex that, even they are outdated. Cyanogenmod releases stable builds way too long after Google releases the source. Therefore, a Nexus would be perfect for me. However, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is already old hat and there is no new Nexus on Verizon to replace it with. I just won’t bite on such a proposal…

It’s honestly too bad that the software isn’t kept separate from the hardware and updates were timely, yet you can buy the phone of your choice. I really like Samsung but others might Motorola or LG. But, we’d all like to stay up to date.

By: Droid Burgundy

Droid Burgundy — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:11:00 +0000

well…. tbh I thought the comunity by and large was over the whole no SD card thing… Of course this was when we all ran out and got 32GB Gnexii from Verizon. 32GB w/o SD card was fine for my needs.

By: G8KeaPoR

G8KeaPoR — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:04:00 +0000

True there are a lot of people on VZ and I get where you are coming from but maybe the anger should be redirected at VZ for using CDMA vs GSM to begin with. I mean LTE aside the phone would have been usable if they had a HSPA+ based network with LTE on top of it.

By: Dillon Brown

Dillon Brown — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:04:00 +0000

you should follow black_man_x on twitter. its a tweet of his on 28 oct.

By: Adam Estep

Adam Estep — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:59:00 +0000

That’s great for you. I wish I could do that, but in my area Verizon has the best coverage hands down. Don’t get me wrong here, I understand releasing an unlocked phone via the play store. What I have a problem w are people saying there’s no point to Verizon version. Many woud be thrilled w a stock android experience on Verizon. To exclude us is a serious issue considering Verizon has 1/3 of the US under its flag.

By: G8KeaPoR

G8KeaPoR — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:57:00 +0000

CDMA should have been DOA sadly it lasted this long.

By: G8KeaPoR

G8KeaPoR — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:54:00 +0000

Great coverage??! I will leave that to being relative to the area you are in. Also my choice of going to T-Mobile almost 4 years ago had nothing to do with being impatient because I brought over my BB storm onto the t-mobile network I just swapped the SIM after conning VZ into giving me the unlock code because I was “traveling overseas”. For me it was all about price, service (not customer service), device freedom, and data speed. Sure Verizon has made considerable improvements but quite frankly I refuse to have a carrier locked phone. At the end of the day its my phone and I should be able to do what I want with it without having to root it. Now look at sales figures the Gnex sold more HSPA+ so it makes sense to release it where the money is first. That said the new unit is made by LG so it will probably be garbage anyway. Every LG I ever had if you breathed on it wrong it stopped working. 9 Env’s before i got one that worked although that was in part because VZ had a garbage standard of remanufactured phones and the 9th one I made a scene in store till they gave me a new one out of the box. but hey who’s counting

By: infamous926

infamous926 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:31:00 +0000

RAZR maxx HD it is then lol can’t leave Verizon for At&T and sure as hell not T-Mo

By: Adam Estep

Adam Estep — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:11:00 +0000

But still ahead of every other android phone. Just because some don’t have patience to wait in exchange for great coverage, doesn’t mean we all don’t.

By: Adam Estep

Adam Estep — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:11:00 +0000

Android phone on Verizon that is.

By: G8KeaPoR

G8KeaPoR — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:47:00 +0000

They were a month or more behind the non LTE unlocked version getting the update.

By: Sean Livingston

Sean Livingston — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:47:00 +0000

I agree with you, but I think Google is actually for the customer more than the money. This phone as a top of the line phone with regards to the hardware necessary for performance. That combination of hardware sounds like it will perform well overall and have great battery life, and the max price for such a phone is 350. I remember when GNex came out, day 1 it was like 650 unlocked, nearly double the price of this one, and this phone is far greater than last year’s Nexus. Google understands that its customers do not like being delayed updates for months at a time, or even a whole year. I for one m glad to see them not bend to verizon or any other carrier.

Even look at the Nexus 10 tablet, that is a top of the line tablet, if not at the top, and its very competitively priced at 399. 499 for the 32 gig version is obviously about money considering how they priced the two versions of the N4, but I can understand why they did so because of how they want to compete against Apple in the tablet market.

By: Adam Estep

Adam Estep — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:45:00 +0000

On Verizon they did. My apologies for not being more specific. To this day the GNex is the only phone on Verizon that has jelly bean.

By: G8KeaPoR

G8KeaPoR — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:36:00 +0000

WRONG the NON LTE version of the Galaxy nexus was THE FIRST to get the 4.0.4 and the 4.1.1 and the 4.1.2 updates. And those were OFFICIAL updates strait from Google OTA (over the air) Who cares about gingerbread updates. It is all about JB now. LTE phones thanks to VZ getting in the way of updates are behind the times.