Nexus Madness

Keydogg · Nov 5, 2012

Cookie said:
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 · Nov 13, 2012

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 · Nov 13, 2012

Nexus 4 16GB is out of stock, I think

Tom · Nov 13, 2012

Just says coming soon for me.

sn00p · Nov 13, 2012

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

Still, I got one eventually.

Dan519 · Nov 13, 2012

Tom said:
Just says coming soon for me.

Me too. Was trying at midnight too.

joshie999 · Nov 13, 2012

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 · Nov 13, 2012

Tom said:
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 · Nov 13, 2012

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 · Nov 13, 2012

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 · Nov 13, 2012

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 · Nov 13, 2012

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

Lal B3N · Nov 13, 2012

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

sn00p · Nov 13, 2012

Tom said:
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 · Nov 13, 2012

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 · Nov 14, 2012

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

Tom · Nov 14, 2012

I think Cpw have stock

sn00p · Nov 15, 2012

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 · Nov 16, 2012

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

sn00p · Nov 17, 2012

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

sn00p · Nov 18, 2012

Bootloader unlocked, cwm flashed as recovery and device rooted!

Tom · Nov 18, 2012

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 · Nov 18, 2012

Tom said:
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 · Nov 18, 2012

Tom said:
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 · Nov 18, 2012

sn00p said:
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 · Nov 18, 2012

sn00p said:
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 · Nov 19, 2012

Tom said:
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 · Nov 19, 2012

Dan@519Automotive said:
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 · Nov 19, 2012

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 · Nov 19, 2012

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 · Nov 19, 2012

LOL. Predictable.

Munson · Nov 19, 2012

Indeed

Cookie · Nov 19, 2012

Cocktease, Munson!

Munson · Nov 19, 2012

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

sn00p · Nov 19, 2012

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 · Nov 19, 2012

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 · Nov 19, 2012

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 · Nov 19, 2012

sn00p said:
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 · Nov 19, 2012

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 · Nov 19, 2012

How is not the question, why is more relevant.

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