LG Google Nexus 4 8GB Smartphone Black Sim Free

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LG Google Nexus 4 8GB Smartphone Black Sim Free

Feature

• The new smartphone with Google Now and Photo Sphere camera
• Built for Speed Made in partnership with LG, Nexus 4 is sold unlocked and is GSM/HSPA+ compatible so it will operate on more than 200 network providers worldwide. Quad-core performance Nexus 4 comes with a cutting-edge Qualcomm SnapdragonTM S4 processor, to give you the power and speed that you need. Zip around the web, experience rich 3D graphics and gameplay, and effortlessly switch between multiple apps without ever missing a beat. With 2GB of RAM and the fastest version of Android ever, Nexus 4 is our snappiest smartphone yet.
• Google Play Nexus 4 was designed with gaming in mind. With a super responsive screen, lightning fast quad-core processor, and sensors like a gyroscope and accelerometer - tilt, touch and tap your way to the top of the leaderboards while exploring over 675,000 apps and games available on Google Play. 675,000 Apps & Games Get all the apps and games that you love on Nexus 4 - with over 675,000 titles to choose from on Google Play, there's something for everyone. Find the most popular free and paid apps, explore hand-picked collections, browse by category or simply search for your favourites.
• Camera Capture and share your world nexus4 nexus4 8 MP Nexus 4 comes with a high-performance 8MP camera and takes stunning 360° panoramas, letting you capture every detail of the world around you. The all new camera lets you quickly view and edit your photos with powerful new tools, and share your favourite shots in a snap. Record HD Video Shoot video in full 1080p and snap still shots while you're at it. Continuous focus, real-time zoom and time-lapse mode give you the power to shoot stunning videos. When your footage is ready, create your own movie with Movie Studio and upload it to YouTube. Never lose a photo again with Instant Upload Photos upload themselves with Instant Upload so you'll never lose a shot. If you've signed up for Google+, you can enable Instant Upload and photos taken with your phone are automatically uploaded to a private album on the web. Easily organise, edit and share photos from your phone or on the web with anyone that you choose.

Product Overview

The new smartphone with Google Now and Photo Sphere camera

Nexus 4 is the new smartphone from Google. With cutting-edge hardware, the latest version of Android and the latest Google apps, Nexus 4 puts the best of Google in the palm of your hand.


Best of Google
Information at your fingertips

Nexus 4 comes with the latest Google apps, putting the best of Google in the palm of your hand.
Live in the Now

Nexus 4 comes with the latest version of Google Now to bring you just the right information at just the right time. It shows you how much traffic to expect before you leave for work, or when the next train will arrive as you're standing on the platform.

With the latest version, you'll see events and concerts nearby, reminders about hotel and flight reservations and even nearby attractions and popular photo-ops while travelling. All automatically.

Learn more
You ask, Google answers

Voice Search allows you to speak your query and get a response immediately. Google can speak back to you, delivering a precise answer powered by the Knowledge Graph.
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Navigate your world with Google Maps

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Phone but don't buy it from these clowns, 16 Jan 2013

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Pete - See all my reviews

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This phone is amazing, but can be bought direct from Google for £239 and the 16GB version is £279. May be a wait for it but come on...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply fantastic, 9 Jan 2013

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Claudio Dappiaggi - See all my reviews

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It is even better than I expected. The Nexus 4 is fast, reliable and one can find a lot of useful apps for free. The price is certainly competitive. I can only recommend it!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this from Amazon, 6 Jan 2013

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Mr. Joshua Brodie - See all my reviews

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The reason the Nexus 4 is such an amazing phone is because it's so cheap, if you're going to pay £400+ for the N4 you're far better off buying a smartphone actually worth that much instead

Go buy an S3 or wait for the S4 or the HTC M7

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Phone, 4 Jan 2013

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A. Shah "Ajay Shah" (UK) - See all my reviews

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This is a review of the phone, not the Amazon price. I bought it from Google for £279.
Let me start by saying that this is the best phone I have ever used. I have used Android phones for over 4 years and this is the fastest, most fluid experience. The phone works perfectly, has never crashed on me and is a great piece of hardware, the cheap price tag is just another bonus in my opinion!
Focusing on the main points, firstly the screen. The screen is amazing and looks very sharp, yes you lose a small amount at the bottom because of the software buttons but I love that they disappear when doing something which requires the full screen such as viewing a YouTube video, very subtle and polished. The battery life is also very good, I consistently get around 15-20 hours depending on use (and I use my phone quite a lot). The notification light is also a fantastic and useful add-on which is new to me as I am coming from a Galaxy S2, I used an application called Lightflow which allows me to change the colour of the light depending on the application, and the versatility of this is why I love Android. The camera is good, not as good as I expected but I think that the visual representation whilst taking the picture is not as good as the final picture, if that makes sense. When set to auto, the balance is slightly off and colour reproduction isn't great, but for a phone camera I am happy with it. The build quality is definitely solid and for me the glass back looks nice but is nothing to get excited about because I have put a case on my phone, primarily because the phone slides when at a slight angle because of the glass but also to keep the phone safer if it drops and allow me to place it screen down. The software is great and I much prefer stock Android compared to skinned, I owned an S2 and rooted it (putting CyanogenMod on it), so decided my next phone should be a Nexus. Android 4.2 is incredible and I can't wait till the next version, whether it be Android 4.3 or 5.0.

To summarise, the screen is sharp and colour reproduction is great, battery life is also good and the phone feels solid. The only issue is with the camera, but this is not major and for a phone it is great. Definitely a recommended phone especially for the handset-only price of £279, cheaper than comparative flagship phones so do not hesitate to buy this fantastic piece of kit.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A phone that exudes quality at a bargain price, 28 Dec 2012

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TF (Egham) - See all my reviews

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This phone seems a bit of a bargain at list prices as there is very little to choose between the Nexus 4 and the Galaxy S3, even though the latter is almost twice the price unlocked. The 4.7 inch screen makes this a very usable device. The phone runs the latest Android operating system which is slick to use but also lends itself to more customisation than the locked-in IOS offered by the iphone. In use everything flies along, google maps and navigation works well with no perceptible delays. The quality of the 8.2 MP rear-facing camera is impressive. I took some movies of the recent floods and uploaded them to youtube and they looked sharp at 720 resolution. Battery life is good compared with other smartphones and will last for about 2 days with average use, but not if I play Angry Birds all the time. So for me this phone has enabled me to make the move from push-button to smartphone without any great difficulties and I feel very at home with it.

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars You Are Paying Too Much, 26 Dec 2012

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TechtheWeek - See all my reviews

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This device has an RRP of £239 from Google. So, if you don't mind waiting for them to get stock of this product, I would hold fire and buy through Google

The phone, however, is the best you will find in this price range by far so the star rating is based on the price rather than the product

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Smartphone by far! ...by former iPhone user, 24 Dec 2012

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TheCadster "TheCadster" - See all my reviews

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A couple of niggles are immediately obvious. The speaker is flush to the back surface meaning if the phone is put down the ringing/alert volume is reduced by up to 50% depending on surface. Schoolboy design error IMHO. The second is the volume buttons are opposite and slightly lower than the power button, which like the iPhone, is used for locking the Nexus... So if it's held in your left hand, index finger on power button, the base of your thumb and index finger hits the volume as you press it. I describe these as niggles because the case I bought allowed me to cut a slot from the speaker to the base thus solving the speaker problem and with the power button I just hold in right hand and power off with index finger.

Customisation/Preferences.
This functionality is way beyond iPhone with access to hundreds of settings to customise almost anything to your preference, This will take the average iPhone user a while to get used too but let's not forget that many of these customisations are simply because it has greater functionality and features than iPhone) For me though it's fantastic and I would also add that there are several core tasks that are made easier than iPhone, one click where the iPhone is 3 clicks in tasks you can perform on a missed call notification for example, also iPhone... press to unlock, slide, enter code. Nexus, press to unlock, enter code. Really... Apple, what's the point of the slide?

Gestures keyboard
Clearly designed by wizards, this is quite simply incredible. How it knows the words you want when you are gliding around the keyboard and not actually being that accurate heaven knows! After using this you find iOS keyboard very frustrating.

Notifications
All in one place. Brilliant. No red buttons all over the place and whilst iPhone has the pull down notifications I was never drawn to it and used the red buttons instead because you have to pull it down to see what the notifications are, with the Nexus you get little icons along the top that show what they are for. This simple way of handling them instantly make the whole notification process better than iPhone... You pick up the phone glance at icon bar, pull down, dismiss, respond or whatever and you can dismiss a notification if it's an email or SMS because it has a preview and ones that require no response can be dismissed and that's that all in a couple of seconds, no opening of apps. iPhone even when dismissed the red buttons remain.

Back button
Really Apple, you're going to have to give up on not including this, it's quite simply the obvious thing to have, go to a link from an email, then back to email. Composing an email, then you get notification of SMS drag down, go to SMS, read/answer, back button to email. And a hundred other combos I could mention but you can guess.

Google Now
This is witchcraft, swipe up and Google Now appears... stocks and shares that have moved over 1%. What's in your diary, do you need to leave soon to beat traffic. How far are you from home, is there any traffic to account for. You have an appt/your trip home do you want to navigate there. You recently searched for this and this (shop, restaurant, or browsed cinemas website etc etc... do you want to navigate to it? You're in <wherever> here's local attractions and here they are on a little map, here's what's showing at the movies. You follow this team, here's what the score is right now. You searched a flight, here's its current status. It can even `see' your email (can be disabled) to give you a bunch of other cool notifications etc etc, the list goes on and on... It's a killer piece of functionality. Full list down the LHS here: [...]

Google integration and updates
As you'd expect this really enhances what is already a very good device although you DO need a Google account but you don't have to use Gmail. Updates to the system software will update separately, so whereas with iPhone you have to wait for a system update to update maps, email, Calendar etc etc... These all arrive separately on Nexus and this is brilliant because of the obvious reason there's no waiting around to see system improvements to key apps, also the apps for the most part have significant improvements, this is what I immediately noticed as being different from Apple updates. Just a short note about maps... Android Google maps has had significant updates over the Google maps iPhone app and I really can't see Apple ever catching up, bearing in mind that they are a year away (*or choose your own timeframe) from catching up to the current iOS version.

Apples worry here should be the sheer pace of improvement to Android, it's staggering!

Look and feel of OS
OK, Apple is the winner here, I miss the little bubbles on SMS and the black background on many Android menus isn't pretty, but as you'd expect with Android you can add a custom launcher interface to closely replicate iOS but I can't be bothered, maybe one day. Overall `Look' is worse than iPhone `Feel' (moving around the OS) is actually good. I do love vanilla Android over say, The Galaxy S3 for example which was an utter mess to the extent that if the Nexus wasn't available I'd still be on the iPhone. I had an S3 for precisely one day and sent it back (I could have kept it for 30)

4.7 inch screen
Obviously provides a better viewing experience and a marked improvement to browsing than iPhone but it has drawbacks, you can't easily reach the whole screen in one-handed use like the iPhone. I got used to it quite quickly and prefer it but some people may find it too large

It's it better than iPhone?
I'm going to say most definitely yes. Unquestionably.

That kind of sums it up, there are going to iPhone users that will be confused with the overwhelming functionality, but if they wouldn't use it or want it I wouldn't suggest they change.
Will I go back to iPhone? My loyalty is only to what I believe to be the superior platform and/or device, so Yes... If Apple ever meets that criteria but is that ever likely to happen?

For
Awesome amount of functionality
Incredible update pace
Gestures keyboard
Back button
Google Now
Battery 2,100 mAh (iPhone 5, 1,440 mAh)

Against
Power button placement
Speaker placement
Look of OS

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Very nice, 17 Dec 2012

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Calum Grant "calumg" - See all my reviews

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I got lucky and managed to get this (16GB version) for £280 + £10p&p from Google Play, and have had this for 2 weeks now. This is a very accomplished phone.

Pros:
- Nice and light.
- Seems to be sturdy.
- Good size display.
- Speaker is bright and clear.
- Jelly Bean is very nice.
- Google updates, no operators and OEMs getting in the way.
- Personal hotspot is fast and works flawlessly.
- Generally very fast.

Cons:
- I find it quite ugly. Black and shiny silver don't do it for me.
- Volume is slightly low on headphones.
- Android is still not as intuitive as iOS, but more fun.
- Glass has already scratched on both sides.
- Hard to manage privacy; By default Google and Facebook will now know your every move.
- Battery will get you through the day if you dim the display, but there seems to be a bug in Google Maps which is taking 50% of the CPU even when I don't use it. This will probably get fixed.
- No cheap wireless charge pads? (I can personally attest that Powermat Home & Office Wireless Charging Mat (Mat only) is NOT compatible)

I'm personally very happy with the combination of features it offers at the price point.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A top-notch, sleekly, fast device definitely worth buying!, 5 Dec 2012

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Jose Miguel - See all my reviews

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I'm not going to talk about the price here. I just want to share my thoughts on what an amazing phone I've found this to be. First of all, I've got the 16GB version which I've found is more than enough for my needs. I bet 8GB is still enough for most users, specially if you don't go and download all of your pictures that you have on your PC or Mac to the phone. I think it's more convenient if you've got your images in the cloud. So, as far as storage space goes, it's pretty much up to the user to decide if it's going to fit their needs. For me, it is perfect since I don't tend to download tons of pictures to my phone. I've got most of them on my Picasa web albums. I do have a fair amount of songs and apps but no videos. All in all, storage space is pretty decent.

With regards to the hardware, the phone is beautifully made. It feels pretty good on the hand, it's light, looks elegant and sophisticated. If you're careful with your devices as much as I am, you'll find that there is absolutely no problem with the fact that it's got crystal on the back. And you can always get it the official bumper case or some other third-party case if you're worried that it's going to get scratched or something. The screen is pretty resistant and it also feels great to the touch of your finger. Your finger glides effortlessly across the screen and I've noticed that it's quite resistant to smudges too. Of course it's going to get finger prints on the front and back, but just a swipe with you shirt or any cloth that's soft is enough to get rid of the finger prints or smudges on both the front and back of the phone.

As for the experience of using 'Vanilla' Android on this device, it is pure bliss. The phone is fast as lightning, very responsive and handles all kinds of tasks effortlessly. You can be playing a game, receive a call, reply to a text message and return to your game with the 'multi-task' menu pretty easily and even be connected and synchronizing your accounts over the internet using either wi-fi or mobile network. This should come as no surprise since its 2GB of RAM and the Quad-core 1.5 GHz Krait Qualcomm APQ8064 Snapdragon processor are quite the beasts. You do not need to worry at all about multitasking with this phone, trust me.

Another great feature is the camera. It takes pictures at a resolution of 8MP and shoots video at 30fps in 1080p. It's also got HDR mode, different 'auto-scenes', flash, touch focus, panorama mode and photo sphere. It's great fun taking pictures with it and navigating through your panorama pictures right there in the phone and turning your 360 degree photos into 'mini-planets' using the embedded editing suite in JellyBean 4.2. Its front camera is also pretty cool for video calls and gives you great detail at 1.3MP resolution.

One more thing that I've noticed about the IPS screen is that it renders colours more realistically than other devices. I've seen that colours tend to be over-saturated in other phones, whilst in the Nexus 4 you get more 'life-like' tones and colours. But don't get me wrong here, the screen is pretty bright too and you can definitely enjoy videos and pictures with vibrant colours, but on a more realistic way if you will.

Battery life is pretty good. You can comfortably get a full-day's worth of texting, calling, navigating, taking pictures, emailing and gaming with one charge. You can even get 2 days if you don't use it heavily and follow some battery-saving tips found all over the internet and that apply for whatever phone you have.

To sum up, I'd never been happier with a smartphone until now. All of its features truly live up to expectations and it's a sleek, cool device that will leave you more than satisfied.

I can't really think of any cons about this phone, so there you have it. A superb buy!

16 of 24 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars very overprice, 4 Dec 2012

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Mihai - See all my reviews

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Google is selling this phone at 300 euros and you more than double. VERY VERY EXPENSIVE DEAL.

It is a really nice phone - hardware and looks.

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