Comments on: Is This the White Nexus 4?

By: MichaelCrackMonkey

MichaelCrackMonkey — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:11:00 +0000

I don’t see what is so “amazing” about it. It’s a white phone that says Nexus and has the camera and light offset instead of in the middle.

By: Rene Barba

Rene Barba — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:13:00 +0000

This pared with a white Nexus 7, all that is needed is a white Nexus 10.

By: Tony Byatt

Tony Byatt — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:05:00 +0000

HA!…

By: Cristian Borsa

Cristian Borsa — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:40:00 +0000

It looks like a white whale to me.

By: andrew galvin

andrew galvin — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:22:00 +0000

white looks nice but how about a $400 32gb? or LTE?

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:16:00 +0000

Excellent point. I did forget the royalty problem, the biggest fiasco of CDMA technology, in my opinion. And no, if Verizon didn’t want it, they definitely wouldn’t offer the subsidy. I think with the Galaxy Nexus they were trying to get the unlockable bootloader/rooting crowd (myself included) off their backs, which worked for all of about zero minutes.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:14:00 +0000

Personally from someone who always goes for the white phones. This seems like it wouldn’t be very nice. The white soft touch would attract alot of dirt and dust to discolor it. The Nexus 4 is the first phone that I actually think looks amazing in black.

By: Justin Swanson

Justin Swanson — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:11:00 +0000

You are also forgetting one primary objectives google had with the N4. Low price point. If they paid all the royalties to Qualcomm for CDMA then that jumps up the price of the phone. I wouldn’t want to think about the same phone, on different carriers being different costs. Plus if Verizon didn’t want it on their network, do you think they would offer subsidized plans (like T-Mobile is doing)?

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:56:00 +0000

The problem is that Verizon has to aprove what CDMA phones enter their network. There is little to no chance that they will allow an “unapproved” Google phone to enter their network. However, once they use VoLTE and have a bigger footprint, that will be feasible because they can’t control what devices run on the LTE spectrum like they currently do with CDMA.

By: Brian Worhatch

Brian Worhatch — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:26:00 +0000

That does look very sexy

By: Mike Hilal

Mike Hilal — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:03:00 +0000

They can build the radios in, and verizon is legally obligated to activate the phones. Support, etc, they’re not legally bound (not that anyone uses their crap support anyway). Google (or whomever builds said device) can pay the royalties to qualcomm and add any CDMA tech they please. This is precisely what apple does…why the f*ck hasnt google yet?

By: Joey Funk

Joey Funk — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:45:00 +0000

So this phone is basically the I phone 4 two years later? No removable storage, built in battery, Glass back, no lte, hspa+ only. White one comes out several months later? I guess if it worked for apple…

By: mechapathy

mechapathy — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:43:00 +0000

It certainly looks like A white Nexus 4. Let’s hope it’s not THE Nexus 4, so I can buy one.

By: Droidzilla

Droidzilla — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:34:00 +0000

“Just bought a black one myself and I’m sure I’ll be satisfied.”
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By: Droidzilla

Droidzilla — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:33:00 +0000

This thing will be available in 4 months, and sell out in 5 minutes while hundreds of thousands click on Play store buttons that do nothing. Stick with your black N4.