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Mine is coming soon should I send it back?

by shannonbailey78 14y ago

pkulak 14y ago
No way. Check it out yourself first. Most people love it.
fatjokes 14y ago
No. I love mine.
mladenkovacevic 14y ago
Absolutely not. I had a Galaxy Nexus (which I gave to my dad) so I can compare the two directly. Screen: The Gnex has more saturated colours but the Nexus 4 screen is also gorgeous with accurate colour representation and insane viewing angles. Whites are brilliant and everything looks like it's printed on paper. Connectivity: I really have no idea what he is talking about here. I am on a shitty cheapo unlimited everything carrier in Canada and at the ground floor of my house I would get 0-1 bars of reception on the Gnex while now on the N4 I get a consistent 2 bars. Just one example but this might vary user to user. Battery Life: this is a huuuge huge win for the Nexus 4. My Gnex would last until about 6pm with about 1.5 hours of screen time while with the Nexus 4 I go until midnight on over 2 hours of screen time (I say over because I've never put it back on the charger with less than 14% so far - also I play Ingress). I think anecdotally there are phones with even better battery life (razr maxx, iphone5, htc one x) but to say that Nexus 4 is a step down from the Gnex is absolutely false. Here are a couple of things that I do like better on the Gnex: It is more comfortable to hold. While the Nexus 4 looks a little sexier with the straight edges and flat black glass surfaces.. the Gnex was a little thinner and a little curvier in just the right places to ensure that my hand is not straining at all in order to hold it comfortably. Buttons were more solidly built on the Gnex. The volume and power button on the N4 seem cheaper and squeakier than the Gnex. I imagine HTC and iPhones are even better in this regard. I say accept your new phone and use. Then if you don't like it don't send it back but instead sell it back on Ebay. In the first few weeks of the N4 being available (or rather unavailable) people were making $50-$100 of profit on extra phones they bought by mistake from the Play store.
- shinratdr 14y ago
  > I think anecdotally there are phones with even better battery life (razr maxx, iphone5, htc one x) but to say that Nexus 4 is a step down from the Gnex is absolutely false. It's no anecdote, most high-end smartphones crush that statistic even in objective tests. If 2 hours of usage is "good battery life" for you, then your standards are way too low. Just checked my iPhone 5, with LTE, Location Services, WiFi, and Bluetooth enabled. On a Canadian carrier that doesn't support LTE connections for calls (meaning the 3G radio is running all the time too). 3 hours and a minute of usage according to my phone, as well as 8 hours of standby. It's still at 60%. 2 hours is like a bad netbook. I don't know how you even stand a phone like that. I've had Bluetooth earbuds with better battery life. However it does explain why every time I've wanted to try out someone's Android device they had to enable data for me. No wonder. I would disable data too if my phone didn't even outlast my commute. I think we have also discovered another reason it doesn't have LTE. Only two hours of usage with 3G is beyond ridiculous.
  - mladenkovacevic 14y ago
    I say anectodally because I've heard both good and bad about every phone out there. A friend at work with an iPhone 4s can't get through a full day without also charging his phone at work. Then I hear about the 5 having similar battery life to the 4s. Same for the Galaxy S3, I've heard both praises and horror stories. A lot of it depends on the network you're on too. Anand does good objective tests and the Razr and the iPhone blow everyone away in those but again they do not take real life use into consideration. I also have an old Nokia phone that I could play snake on for days on end but now I have slightly higher demands out of my phone. My comparison was limited to the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4 (all other things being equal including the carrier) and saying that the OPs battery claims are false in my opinion. I just came back home at noon with 12% of battery life after having taken my phone off the charger yesterday at 6:30am. But I only had the screen on for an hour and 40 minutes... that doesn't mean I have 1:45 hours of battery life. But thanks for adding your experiences to the mix. What is usage time by the way? Is that like screen time?

Mine is coming soon should I send it back?

pkulak 14y ago

No way. Check it out yourself first. Most people love it.

fatjokes 14y ago

No. I love mine.

mladenkovacevic 14y ago

Absolutely not. I had a Galaxy Nexus (which I gave to my dad) so I can compare the two directly. Screen: The Gnex has more saturated colours but the Nexus 4 screen is also gorgeous with accurate colour representation and insane viewing angles. Whites are brilliant and everything looks like it's printed on paper. Connectivity: I really have no idea what he is talking about here. I am on a shitty cheapo unlimited everything carrier in Canada and at the ground floor of my house I would get 0-1 bars of reception on the Gnex while now on the N4 I get a consistent 2 bars. Just one example but this might vary user to user. Battery Life: this is a huuuge huge win for the Nexus 4. My Gnex would last until about 6pm with about 1.5 hours of screen time while with the Nexus 4 I go until midnight on over 2 hours of screen time (I say over because I've never put it back on the charger with less than 14% so far - also I play Ingress). I think anecdotally there are phones with even better battery life (razr maxx, iphone5, htc one x) but to say that Nexus 4 is a step down from the Gnex is absolutely false. Here are a couple of things that I do like better on the Gnex: It is more comfortable to hold. While the Nexus 4 looks a little sexier with the straight edges and flat black glass surfaces.. the Gnex was a little thinner and a little curvier in just the right places to ensure that my hand is not straining at all in order to hold it comfortably. Buttons were more solidly built on the Gnex. The volume and power button on the N4 seem cheaper and squeakier than the Gnex. I imagine HTC and iPhones are even better in this regard. I say accept your new phone and use. Then if you don't like it don't send it back but instead sell it back on Ebay. In the first few weeks of the N4 being available (or rather unavailable) people were making $50-$100 of profit on extra phones they bought by mistake from the Play store.

shinratdr 14y ago
> I think anecdotally there are phones with even better battery life (razr maxx, iphone5, htc one x) but to say that Nexus 4 is a step down from the Gnex is absolutely false. It's no anecdote, most high-end smartphones crush that statistic even in objective tests. If 2 hours of usage is "good battery life" for you, then your standards are way too low. Just checked my iPhone 5, with LTE, Location Services, WiFi, and Bluetooth enabled. On a Canadian carrier that doesn't support LTE connections for calls (meaning the 3G radio is running all the time too). 3 hours and a minute of usage according to my phone, as well as 8 hours of standby. It's still at 60%. 2 hours is like a bad netbook. I don't know how you even stand a phone like that. I've had Bluetooth earbuds with better battery life. However it does explain why every time I've wanted to try out someone's Android device they had to enable data for me. No wonder. I would disable data too if my phone didn't even outlast my commute. I think we have also discovered another reason it doesn't have LTE. Only two hours of usage with 3G is beyond ridiculous.
- mladenkovacevic 14y ago
  I say anectodally because I've heard both good and bad about every phone out there. A friend at work with an iPhone 4s can't get through a full day without also charging his phone at work. Then I hear about the 5 having similar battery life to the 4s. Same for the Galaxy S3, I've heard both praises and horror stories. A lot of it depends on the network you're on too. Anand does good objective tests and the Razr and the iPhone blow everyone away in those but again they do not take real life use into consideration. I also have an old Nokia phone that I could play snake on for days on end but now I have slightly higher demands out of my phone. My comparison was limited to the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4 (all other things being equal including the carrier) and saying that the OPs battery claims are false in my opinion. I just came back home at noon with 12% of battery life after having taken my phone off the charger yesterday at 6:30am. But I only had the screen on for an hour and 40 minutes... that doesn't mean I have 1:45 hours of battery life. But thanks for adding your experiences to the mix. What is usage time by the way? Is that like screen time?