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damn... still not email with tracking #... My CC did get refunded the full amount. :suspicious:

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Originally Posted by FerrariEnzo (Post 8086936)

damn... still not email with tracking #... My CC did get refunded the full amount. :suspicious:

You went through the whole purchase process, and now you got a full refund?
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GG.
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Originally Posted by Eclypz (Post 8086182)

Mine finally shipped.
I called them yesterday, and it ships out today...coincidence? maybe....

If you guys haven't received any correspondence, you guys should just give them a call. I'm pretty sure nothing would've happened with my order until I called.

They've been saying since last week.
If you didn't get a backorder email then the order would ship out on Monday or Tuesday or as google like to call it "tomorrow".

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Originally Posted by marc0lishuz (Post 8086960)

You went through the whole purchase process, and now you got a full refund?
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Thats what I think it was for... logged into my online banking account and notice I have extra money.. I know I didnt transfer any money onto it.. The only other big purchase I did recently was for the N4... Online bank statement hasnt been process.. so cant see what it was.. gotta wait a few more days.

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Originally Posted by FerrariEnzo (Post 8087082)

What does your Google Wallet say?
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still only has the online purchase confirmation and thats all..

Then I guess your order went through, but they're not charging your card until the order fills.

lol. Someone made an app that checks the Play page for changes on the Nexus 4 every 30min..

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...RvY2thbGFybSJd

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Originally Posted by marc0lishuz (Post 8087580)

Then I guess your order went through, but they're not charging your card until the order fills.

prolly.. but weird they would charge, refund and charge again...

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Originally Posted by !MiKrofT (Post 8087658)

lol. Someone made an app that checks the Play page for changes on the Nexus 4 every 30min..

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...RvY2thbGFybSJd

at least its free.. haha he could have charged like .50 and to cover some of the cost of the phone...

^ he would probably get a free 1 if 700 ppl buys his app for 50c. im sure there are more than 700 ppl who missed out on the first batch.
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Any RS'er interested in selling their Nexus 4 or have an extra one available?

Lost my old nexus s last weekend and looking to upgrade.

PM me with your price if you are interested in selling. TIA!

Nexus10 is back in stock but it says...

"Ships Soon
Ships in 2 - 3 weeks. Tax and shipping will be calculated at checkout."

Hopefully the N4 will follow suit.

My Nexus4 was delivered at 11:15 this morning. I still haven't unboxed it. :p

I don't understand why they can't just let you buy the damn thing, and say "ships in 4-5 weeks* (*possibly more)"
I just want to buy the damn thing so I don't have to keep refreshing every time I'm at the damn computer.

Probably because there's laws somewhere stating "once you have taken a customer's money you must provide a product within a reasonable time, or else they are entitled to a refund and/or damaged based on their expectations."

Plus, Google doesn't need more bad PR. "Google holds thousands of customers' orders hostage!" is a headline I can just imagine.

apparently, someone on RFD and XDA got LTE to work in Canada only.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Ud2...ature=youtu.be
http://i46.tinypic.com/m0l55.png

Either way his "LTE" was 9Mbps.. even slower than regular HSPA+ which is ~10-11Mbps

This guy claims the same thing on Telus:

Telus LTE
http://forum.xda-developers.com/atta...4&d=1353653069
http://forum.xda-developers.com/atta...5&d=1353653069

Unless this is an actual LTE phone running AOSP? You can't tell for sure........it doesnt say Nexus 4 anywhere.

Telus DC HSPA (presumably)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/atta...6&d=1353653069

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON? I FUCKING WANT ONE NOW.

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Originally Posted by badgerx3 (Post 8088544)

apparently, someone on RFD and XDA got LTE to work in Canada only.
Nexus 4 has LTE!! Legit! (Band 4) - YouTube
http://i46.tinypic.com/m0l55.png

cant tell if it is even the N4... you can easily change the text through editing the build.prop file..

It can't be THAT simple to turn on LTE :fulloffuck:

Seems legit from what I read on xda as well.

Apparently the LTE hardware is functional and left in the nexus 4 but just not enabled by software. It's also apparently missing some sort of 'amplifier' chip for the LTE so the reception will suck vs other 'real' LTE phones (ie. iphone5, htc one X, sgs3, etc.). But regardless, it works and a lot of people have posted clips on YouTube now.

But doens't 4G in Roger's term is HSPA+
Because Rogers use the 4G term quite loosely and they actually have an icon for LTE

S3 for example 4G isn't LTE and when it logs in to LTE network it's labelled as LTE

According to Android Authority, LTE only works 1700/2100 (AWS bands). IIRC that's only Bellus, Rogers is using 850 for LTE.

Fuck, it was so much easier when it was just 3G/HSPA. 850/1900 RoBelLus, 1700/2100 WindIlicity. WHY DO THINGS HAVE TO GET SO CONFUSING ALL THE TIME!?

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http://www.androidauthority.com/lg-nexus-4-lte-133510/

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The Nexus 4 is the perfect smartphone, right? For a lot of people, the answer is yes. But folks who have had the pleasure of using an LTE network say they’ll never, ever, go back to 3G. If the video embedded below is accurate, then someone in Canada has figured out how to make the LTE in the Nexus 4 actually work.

Now we know what you’re thinking, does the Nexus 4 actually have LTE, but Google doesn’t advertise it? Apparently yes. All you have to do to enable LTE it to open up the dialer, type in *#*#4636#*#*, and then select LTE. Boom, you’re done.

There are some caveats of course, the LTE only works on the 1700 MHz and 2100 MHz bands, which in America is known as the AWS band. No one really uses that band, so … while it’s nice that this discovery was made, it’s not exactly useful for AT&T and Verizon customers.

So why did Google lie about the specifications of the Nexus 4? They probably didn’t want to offend people. Imagine the PR blunder that would have resulted if Google went ahead and said Canadians can enjoy LTE, but Americans and Europeans couldn’t. There would have been geeks with pitchforks storming the Mountain View campus.

Do you even need LTE? This is a controversial question, because 3G in some cities is downright terrible, while in others it’s frankly amazing. The Nexus 4 is capable of connecting to 42 megabit HSPA+ networks, and speed tests have shown that it can deliver 25 megabits per second down in the real world. Again, not everyone will get those sort of speeds, but do you really need a 50 megabit pipe to your smartphone to be happy? We don’t think so. The only real benefit we see to LTE is the noticeable reduction in lag. Ping times are minuscule, so things “feel” faster.

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Originally Posted by c3m (Post 8088651)

That's just the labeling that the phone's ROM uses.

A lot of phones show HSPA+ as 4G, some phones show LTE as 4G, and some phones show LTE as LTE.
The speeds they are getting look like LTE speeds. There's no way you get 10+ Mb/s uploads on HSPA+.