Nexus 4
 

Looking to pick one up. Still a good buy at that price point? or should I wait for the refresh?

How does this compare to the S4? Significance in difference, in terms of speed?

Waiting for Moto X. Suppose to be October launch.

It's a mid-range phone so it's not in the same league as an S4. Get it if you want a good cheap phone. Get the S4 or wait for a refresh if you want a better phone. If you sign a 2 year contract you can get it for free (or even with a gift card).

Is the Moto X the successor to the Nexus 4?

Well by now, it may be a mid-range phone, but at release, this was a high-end featured phone at mid-range price. I might just wait for the refresh, I don't desperately need a new phone at the moment.

i love my nexus 4

looks so slick feels so good in your hand

but only downside is no removable battery, my battery life is almost drained mid day if i'm texting a lot during work.

i had to buy a portable battery pack in order to sustain my phone...

^ what kinda battery pack ya got?

looking into getting one now acutally

Don't get it then. Facepalm

it's hard to justify spending $300+ on a brand new Nexus 4, when you can find many an excellent condition used S3 for around the same price. I know you can compare new to used, and warranties, etc, but I personally couldn't do it.

I do like the unlocked Nexus 4's because they can make use of more carriers with their AWS bands.

But Nexus and S3 are 2 different animals though. The Nexus' selling point is pure Google Android, while the S3 is the previous gen flagship model with all the bells and whistles. It's kind of like comparing between a brand new FRS versus a used last gen 3-series. They might be going for the same price on the market, but they attract different people for different reasons.

get the White N4!!!

That's true. But for some people, they'd rather get the Nexus 4 than the S3 because of the price, not because of the basic OS. They don't realize the used market price of the S3 is so low right now because of people wanting to upgrade to the S4/One.

The OP is comparing it to the S4 right now - so I don't think he really cares about the stock android OS.

that, and if you're techy - you can just flash the rom on the S3... hehehe. I just put CyanogenMod 10.1 on my S3 and it's a completely different phone!

Yeah I don't really care about the pure Android experience. I flash all my phones with CM10.1 :)

if you want a highend phone, S4...
if you want something right now to fill in until a good phone comes out later, N4 cant be beat for the price...

nexus 4 should be at $200 - $250 range now

the mobile shop in super store sometime has scratch and win and/or gift card promo
koodoo store sometimes has visa gift card offer
with phone cost at $150
$150 on koodoo tab
and $50 to $100 gift card (depending on promotion)

just wait for these type of promotion, they come and go

Best buy and future shop also has the promotion but the gift card is limited to best buy gift card or future shop gift card... (so it is less appealing for me)

i used something similar to this

http://www.monoprice.com/Product/?p_id=9282

If having a 1080 screen, external sd-card matter to you then go with the sgs4. Spec-wise, the two are not very far off. The Snapdragon 600 in the sgs4 is a small iteration on the Snapdragon S4 pro in the Nexus 4. Same CPU and GPU but at higher clocks and slightly more memory bandwidth. I doubt you will notice it in everyday use.

If you're into flashing cm10.1 and stuff then Nexus 4 is still a good choice but the longer you wait the less appealing it is. All the Snapdragon 800 phones are coming out within the next 2-3 months.

If you use the phone stock, the Nexus 4 has some dealbreaker bugs (eg. delayed notifications when connected to wifi network, hsic wakelock on 3g, bad screen color calibration). Not a problem if you root and tinker though.

how many hours can ya get outta it? fully charged

^^^

well i never really clocked it

but from using mine fully charged (it was black instead of white) i'd say i could charge my phone to full almost 3 times?

thing is i use it when my phones like ~50% and charge it to about ~70% then i'm good for the rest of the day

Any of the external batts from Anker is pretty good:

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