Nexus Madness

[Keydogg]

Seems to have done the trick, cheers fella. I still want a Nexus 4, but Jelly Bean is pretty on the S3

Glad you're enjoying, JB is awesome. PM Me if you notice any extra battery drain from ICS.

 

[Cookie]

4 and 10 available to order now.

So tempted to get a 10. Might see if mummy and daddy will buy it for me

 

[joshie999]

Nexus 4 16GB is out of stock, I think

 

[Tom]

Just says coming soon for me.

 

[sn00p]

That sucked more balls than Apples ordering system. I f**king hate "ajax" shopping carts.

Still, I got one eventually.

 

[Dan519]

Just says coming soon for me.

Me too. Was trying at midnight too.

 

[joshie999]

Isn't that what it says when it's sold out though? The 8GB is available

Edit: 8GB not available either now, it was earlier

 

[Cookie]

Just says coming soon for me.

Did say In Stock earlier (and the site sent me an email)

16gb 10 is in stock, but 32 must be sold out already

 

[Lal B3N]

Yeah the Nexus 4 8gb was available to buy for about 5 minutes at like 7:55 for some odd reason. Then went back to coming soon.

Should be live sometime this afternoon apparently, already gone live and sold out within 22 minutes in Australia.

 

[BigDaveRotary]

Nexus 4 sold out within an hour according to Techradar.

I am still waiting to be able to Order a Nexus 10 32 GB!

 

[sn00p]

I got through the second it went live, it went to place the order but rejected it because my postcode was in lower case! By the time I'd changed it to upper case all hell had broken loose and it was impossible to get an order through, ajax would timeout or the cart would just empty.

Eventually managed to get one through.

 

[Tom]

I doubt they have much stock too. 2-300,000?

 

[Lal B3N]

I'll wait until my S3 has sold. Need to put it up for sale first.

 

[sn00p]

I doubt they have much stock too. 2-300,000?

Who knows...maybe they'll tell us all - then again, maybe not.

I suspect it was probably much lower than that.

The americans are going to have fun in a few hours time.

 

[Tyler@Ultimate]

I was gutted, went on sale at half 8 when I was on the train. Got to work at 9 and both sizes were sold out. Waiting game again now. FFS

 

[Lal B3N]

I would say get one off ebay, but the prices are ridiculous.

 

[Tom]

I think Cpw have stock

 

[sn00p]

Mine has been delivered.

However, thanks to the google checkout flicking my home address back to my card address during ordering, it's gone to my parents house rather than our house.

I thought I was going mad, I was sure I'd picked the correct address. I ordered a bumper afterwards as well and I watched it flick the address back when I clicked buy.

Oh well! Will meet my Dad somewhere on Saturday to pick it up!

 

[EngineerD]

Had my Nexus 4 since yesterday, much nicer than the Galaxy Nexus it replaced - camera is still s**t though.

 

[sn00p]

Awesome....love it, fast as f**k too!

 

[sn00p]

Bootloader unlocked, cwm flashed as recovery and device rooted!

 

[Tom]

Finally got my hands on a 4 today, nice hardware however it's a bit boring to look at. Camera is s**t, but the camera interface is amazing. Was surprised how smooth the OS was along side an iPhone almost on a par, few stutters but nothing major.

Browsing the web was interesting, significantly slower than a 5 when loading pages which surprised me.

King of the Androids now. Deffo in the top 3 with the iPhone 5 and 8X.

 

[sn00p]

Finally got my hands on a 4 today, nice hardware however it's a bit boring to look at. Camera is s**t, but the camera interface is amazing. Was surprised how smooth the OS was along side an iPhone almost on a par, few stutters but nothing major.

Browsing the web was interesting, significantly slower than a 5 when loading pages which surprised me.

King of the Androids now. Deffo in the top 3 with the iPhone 5 and 8X.

Chrome is known to have less than ideal performance, that said I've not seen any pages that rendered slow, they've all been quick.

If you want blistering performance you can stick the old android browser on as long as your device is rooted

 

[Keydogg]

Finally got my hands on a 4 today, nice hardware however it's a bit boring to look at. Camera is s**t, but the camera interface is amazing. Was surprised how smooth the OS was along side an iPhone almost on a par, few stutters but nothing major.

Browsing the web was interesting, significantly slower than a 5 when loading pages which surprised me.

King of the Androids now. Deffo in the top 3 with the iPhone 5 and 8X.

I agree one of the weakest parts of android is the web browsing. Pinching/moving around still isn't smooth enough, it's not bad, it's just not as good as iOS.

 

[Tom]

Chrome is known to have less than ideal performance, that said I've not seen any pages that rendered slow, they've all been quick.

If you want blistering performance you can stick the old android browser on as long as your device is rooted

Not slow, just slower.

Rooting, just like jailbreaking in the old days of iOS is a massive pita. Seeing as desktop chrome seems to be so rapid (seemingly down to software) I expected better from the mobile equivalent, it's by no means bad, just needs to be better.

 

[Dan519]

Chrome is known to have less than ideal performance, that said I've not seen any pages that rendered slow, they've all been quick.

If you want blistering performance you can stick the old android browser on as long as your device is rooted

are you sure you need to root? should just be able to change a setting to install from non play store sources which will let you sideload

 

[sn00p]

Not slow, just slower.

Rooting, just like jailbreaking in the old days of iOS is a massive pita. Seeing as desktop chrome seems to be so rapid (seemingly down to software) I expected better from the mobile equivalent, it's by no means bad, just needs to be better.

Rooting really isn't that bad or difficult, certainly much easier than maintaining a jailbreak.

Unlock boot loader
Flash cwm recovery
Boot into recovery
Install from SD card (installs busy box and su binaries)

On my nexus 7 it automatically went into cwm after an ota update and as all I had to do was install from SD to maintain the root.

I don't why mobile chrome appears to be slower than is expected, other than its still early days for it.

 

[sn00p]

are you sure you need to root? should just be able to change a setting to install from non play store sources which will let you sideload

Apparently it needs deeper integration with the is, hence root. I could be wrong though, it was just something I read the other day.

 

[Keydogg]

Sod rooting, can't be arsed any more and I can't see the advantage in it nowadays. For me personally anyway.

Stock FTW.

 

[Munson]

Decided against the Nexus 10. I don't think I'd be able to live with the less than premium feel that some reviews mention. Collecting a white Wi-Fi 32GB iPad 4 later on.

Maybe next time Google.

 

[Tom]

LOL. Predictable.

 

[Munson]

Indeed

 

[Cookie]

Cocktease, Munson!

 

[Munson]

If they hadn't made it out of recycled Lego bricks, I'd have bought one.

 

[sn00p]

Rooting is nothing more than installing su and busy box binaries, in all other respects its stock.

Google messed up by not making (by forcing Samsung) the nexus 10 just a bigger version of the 7. The 7 feels and looks quality whereas the 10 looks like its something that you'd find stocked in toys r us.

 

[Munson]

I agree. It seems they've entered the premium tablet market with a sub-premium product in terms of how it looks and feels.

 

[Cookie]

I <3 Lego bricks, so I still want one.

I like the build quality of my PlayBook, I wonder how close to that it is.

 

[Keydogg]

Rooting is nothing more than installing su and busy box binaries, in all other respects its stock.

Google messed up by not making (by forcing Samsung) the nexus 10 just a bigger version of the 7. The 7 feels and looks quality whereas the 10 looks like its something that you'd find stocked in toys r us.

Didn't Asus make the 7 not Samsung? Or am I missing something? I agree with what you are saying though, stupid Google missed a trick there.

 

[sbridgey]

How are google making these phones so cheap, think I might buy one to replace my god awful sensation XE when they come back in stock. For £240 its rude not too!

 

[Tom]

How is not the question, why is more relevant.