The Google Nexus 4 Thread

[Brannigans Law]

Ya there's no way I'm streaming my music. If there's no 32 gig option I'll have to get the S4. I don't like the idea of carrying around 2 devices with me again and buying an ipod is stupid expensive.

[RedMileDJ]

I have the 16 GB version of the Nexus 4.

I have 24 albums of music on it, plus room for more. Each album is approximately 16 to 18 songs long, at a bit rate of 320 each.

I had my reservations about 16 GB of room, and using the cloud, but I'm all for it now.

Believe me, if the biggest is 32 or 64, we'll have plenty of room.

edit: to add: I also have 2 movies and a TON of pictures (downloaded, screen grabs and pictures I've taken) on my Nexus 4.

[Azure]

I don't get it why people are so opposed to streaming music.

If you use Rdio or something, you can offline sync all the music you want at home when you're Wifi, and listen to it without using data.

Even Google Music now lets you pin music to your device.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Red-Mile-DJ

I have the 16 GB version of the Nexus 4.

I have 24 albums of music on it, plus room for more. Each album is approximately 16 to 18 songs long, at a bit rate of 320 each.

I had my reservations about 16 GB of room, and using the cloud, but I'm all for it now.

Believe me, if the biggest is 32 or 64, we'll have plenty of room.

edit: to add: I also have 2 movies and a TON of pictures (downloaded, screen grabs and pictures I've taken) on my Nexus 4.

I was a little leery about getting an 8GB Nexus 4, until I realized that my 16GB Nexus S still had plenty of room on it when I was ordering my new device.

It's all about management. When you have a 32GB device you end up throwing a tonne of music on it that you don't listen to on a weekly basis, much less daily.

[Brannigans Law]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

I was a little leery about getting an 8GB Nexus 4, until I realized that my 16GB Nexus S still had plenty of room on it when I was ordering my new device.

It's all about management. When you have a 32GB device you end up throwing a tonne of music on it that you don't listen to on a weekly basis, much less daily.

I don't have a huge music collection, it's around 19 gigs. So a 32 gig phone can carry all my songs and still have room for large apps like tomtom. I guess I could throw songs on and off my phone as I go but that seems like a hassle to me. Perhaps I'm just lazy.... but why do it if you don't have to?

[opendoor]

Yeah, I couldn't imagine actually planning my future music listening and then going through a bunch of albums on my phone and syncing that stuff when I'm around WiFi. Just seems like a hassle and kind of silly in an era with such cheap flash storage.

I guess everyone's different, but the times when I listen to the most music on my phone are probably the least convenient times to rely on the cloud. When I'm on a plane, traveling outside the country, or on a long drive through sometimes spotty cell coverage, it's difficult or impossible to stream music reliably.

Not to mention I'm not particularly interested in having to pay several hundred more dollars a year for a larger data plan just to accomplish what $20 of flash memory could. Hell, Google could charge Apple-level up-charges for storage increases and I'd still come out ahead.

There's really no reason (other than Google wanting to encourage streaming through their services for some free market research) not to offer more storage options.

[FlameOn]

Nexus 5 confirmed. It's going to be built by LG. Kit Kat boot screen is also shown.


http://mobilesyrup.com/2013/09/16/ne...t-boot-screen/

[RedMileDJ]

O m g ! ! !

[SuperMatt18]

Interested to see what they come with.

Really hoping for more than 2GB of RAM.

[Brannigans Law]

ually identical to the LG G2, though with a slightly smaller 5-inch 1080p display, along with 2GB of RAM, 16-32GB of internal storage, multi-band LTE and pentaband

,16 to 32 gigs of storage hopefully that's not just a guess and I will be a happy happy man

[FlameOn]

I'm hoping they change the styling a bit and this is just a skin over the end product. This exterior looks kind of plain. LG did do that with the Nexus 4 leaks and we didn't see the end product till almost release.

[opendoor]

Yeah, I'm not all that impressed with the appearance either if that's close to what the end product will be. It's too bad they seem to be going away from the glass back of the Nexus 4. It was probably my favorite stylistic feature of the phone and it really set it apart from most other Android devices in both look and feel. The less it looks like a Samsung phone the better IMO. It's kind of a cliché, but I really do dislike the cheap feel of most plastic backed phones. Give me metal or glass any day. I can sort of understand plastic if you have a removable battery or an SD slot under it, but it's unlikely that a Nexus device would have either.

Functionally it'll probably be a great update though, assuming they can get a decent camera in there along with the obvious LTE and more storage options.

[MrMastodonFarm]

It looks like that soft touch gel stuff like the Nexus 7? If it's that I'm okay with it but I really love the glass back of the Nexus 4. I don't like the Nexus written vertical though, you're holding a phone most of the time upright, that looks awkward.

a 32GB option is great if true though.. but I would love to see them stick with an 8GB option. That's what I have and still have storage space to spare. I'd much rather they stick with that option as well as add a 32 one. Brings the price point in lower.

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Brings the price point in lower.

Would it really? What is the cost difference to build in 8, 16, or 32 GB? Wouldn't a similar analogy be having a desktop PC with a 1TB hard drive, and saying you wished there was a 500GB model available to save costs. As we all know, that difference is only $5-10 in cost. I'd even think only having to stock 2 models instead of 3 would almost make up for the cost difference.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

It looks like that soft touch gel stuff like the Nexus 7? If it's that I'm okay with it but I really love the glass back of the Nexus 4. I don't like the Nexus written vertical though, you're holding a phone most of the time upright, that looks awkward.

a 32GB option is great if true though.. but I would love to see them stick with an 8GB option. That's what I have and still have storage space to spare. I'd much rather they stick with that option as well as add a 32 one. Brings the price point in lower.

If you look at memory card prices at memoryexpress.com, a 16GB card costs a whole $7 more than an 8GB card. I don't think it'll break Google to get rid of the 8GB option

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

If you look at memory card prices at memoryexpress.com, a 16GB card costs a whole $7 more than an 8GB card. I don't think it'll break Google to get rid of the 8GB option

I'd love to see all three options available.

[Brannigans Law]

Well as long as mastodon can save 7 bucks, I guess I can give up the capability of having all my music on my phone without having to pick and choose the songs!

[MrMastodonFarm]

Don't troll me in my own thread bro!

[Azure]

Memory card prices are different than flash memory prices. But, I doubt there is much of a difference.

Google will charge more though, for more storage...just like everyone else.

[Brannigans Law]

I dont see why providing an option is a big deal. If they want to sell Mastadon and people like him 8 gig phones so they can save money if they dont need the storage, fine, just at least give me the option to spend the extra 40 or 50 or whatever you wanna charge me so I can have 32 gigs