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[acm2000]

Would I be crazy to sell my S3 to get this?

no, sgs3 is a plasticy, cheap feeling phone, infested with horrible touchwhiz

 

[panda21]

my pending order said delivery estimate nov 15 for a while, now its gone back to saying shipping estimate nov 15. wtf is going on?

 

[Blablurn]

my pending order said delivery estimate nov 15 for a while, now its gone back to saying shipping estimate nov 15. wtf is going on?

the next step is probably cancellation. sorry, but no nexus for you

 

[Gummifaust]

ooh, thank you! found it. says shipping date is 15th though

Would I be crazy to sell my S3 to get this?

You would be magical because you can't get it now.

 

[fuenf]

Google Music Match kinda sucks, is there any way to see which songs a matched and which are uploaded?

 

[fluffydelusions]

US launch is at 9am PST, 12EST. I just hope it doesn't go as badly as Germany or sell out as fast as the UK.

Is this confirmed?

 

[FlyingTeacup]

boy am I glad that I'm not part of the 1st wave this time, I learned my lesson with preordering n7

 

[la_briola]

Does any german gaffer has more than one unit of the nexus 4 ordered? Dont care if its the 16 or 8 GB model.

Let me summarize it for you. Google Germany had ~5 devices each and sold out in a 3 minute time frame. Now they say they underestimated the demand.

 

[Hurricane_Chris]

I'd like to get a N4, but after my experience with the N7 -- people who walked into the store and others who ordered up to 3 weeks after I ordered mine got theirs before me -- I'm not going to order anything else direct from Google until they learn how to treat customers properly.

 

[Rayven_king]

smh

 

[Chairhome]

Can anyone else not access the Google play store right now? Maybe cause I'm on my phone, but it's not loading for me. The phone didn't go up at 8am est,right?

 

[mAcOdIn]

Can anyone else not access the Google play store right now? Maybe cause I'm on my phone, but it's not loading for me. The phone didn't go up at 8am est,right?

Still up for me and still not for sale either.

In the US just to be sure you and I are accessing the same store.

 

[Chairhome]

Still up for me and still not for sale either.

In the US just to be sure you and I are accessing the same store.

Yeah, US, thanks

 

[squicken]

Anand just uploaded a few videos to Youtube on Nexus 4's camera

http://www.youtube.com/user/anandshimpi

 

[Blackhead]

AnandTech - Google Nexus 4 Review - Google's new Flagship

NB: Anandtech's new battery testing methodology is bullshit imo. Doesn't represent real world usage at all. And the charts are laughable selectively with the devices shown

 

[criesofthepast]

So no confirmation for 12 EST here in Canada/USA? My god google. I'm in class now and finish at 11:30. I'm staying in the library to order it at noon if it hits then. Don't want to do it on my phone.

 

[Phanatic8390]

Oh boy. I'm buying it today now that it's already selling out.

12 EST? Looks like I'll be ordering on my phone at my desk.

 

[Kinitari]

AnandTech - Google Nexus 4 Review - Google's new Flagship

NB: Anandtech's new battery testing methodology is bullshit imo. Doesn't represent real world usage at all. And the charts are laughable selectively with the devices shown

Reading through this so far, and I feel like such a nerd because I can point out a few issues I have with this review - I'm not even sweating the benchmark test comparisons - but the section on 4.2 feels wanting. For example he mentions Google Music notifications getting an update in 4.2 to allow more playback features - but that happened as an update for Google Music itself, and that update was the one that occurred a few weeks ago.

He then goes to say that Google Now has been given an update for 4.2 - but again, at best he talks about updates that occurred a few weeks ago for Google Now - separate from 4.2.

Did Google Now get a bump for 4.2?

 

[Vyse The Legend]

AnandTech - Google Nexus 4 Review - Google's new Flagship

NB: Anandtech's new battery testing methodology is bullshit imo. Doesn't represent real world usage at all. And the charts are laughable selectively with the devices shown

I'm more curious if this is based on the final 4.2 which just went out last night. I doubt it.

 

[Blablurn]

anyone of u planning to upload 20k songs to google music? lol

 

[FlyingTeacup]

The thermal throttling is a bit of concern, the bit that I like is the reviewer mentioned the n4 was dropped several times with no adverse effect. then again, depends on how it was dropped.

 

[R1CHO]

anyone of u planning to upload 20k songs to google music? lol

I am at 3200 of 9000.

Thanks for that google.

 

[Blablurn]

I am at 3200 of 9000.

Thanks for that google.

im really surprised its the real deal. i was a actually a lil shocked that its really uploading the whole file lol.

 

[thuway]

Has the phone start selling on the US store? I want to order as soon as possible, but I don't have access to internet all the time.

 

[DrFunk]

Has the phone start selling on the US store? I want to order as soon as possible, but I don't have access to internet all the time.

nobody knows

 

[la_briola]

anyone of u planning to upload 20k songs to google music? lol

20k is a lot...

find music/ -type f -iname "*.mp3" -o -iname "*.ogg" -o -iname "*.flac" | wc -l

returns only 6654. :lol

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

2.5 more hours.

 

[Blablurn]

y do you need so long to ship google? apparently my order came through at 9:22.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u613pJSLcfk

 

[Kinitari]

20k is a lot...

find music/ -type f -iname "*.mp3" -o -iname "*.ogg" -o -iname "*.flac" | wc -l

returns only 6654. :lol

God, everyone has so much music. I have like 150 songs.

 

[Blablurn]

God, everyone has so much music. I have like 150 songs.

wat

 

[Shambles]

Just woke up to find it still hasn't launched in N/A and sold out in the UK store as well. So many delicious tears from entitled man-babies. Here's to hoping I make the cut when it goes live in N/A.

 

[la_briola]

God, everyone has so much music. I have like 150 songs.

A lot of it is frome here: http://ocremix.org/torrents/ (its free, legal and mostly awsome).
Go download some... and then upload it to google music, haha.

 

[Kinitari]

wat

Just double checked, and it's actually a bit over 200. Still, not that much!

A lot of it is frome here: http://ocremix.org/torrents/ (its free, legal and mostly awsome).
Go download some... and then upload it to google music, haha.

I'll have to check it out, I need to flesh out my collection.

 

[DeadFalling]

So, did anyone in the US get to buy one yet?

 

[Blablurn]

i asked before: anyone's nexus got shipped yet? do we really have to wait till the 15th? :/

 

[la_briola]

Just double checked, and it's actually a bit over 200. Still, not that much!



I'll have to check it out, I need to flesh out my collection.

List of all albums http://ocremix.org/remixes/ alphabetically ordered.

 

[Phanatic8390]

I'm currently ripping all my music into FLAC and it's taking days. I'm one of those weirdos who still buys nothing but CDs. I don't want to think about how long it's going to take to upload.

 

[la_briola]

Just double checked, and it's actually a bit over 200. Still, not that much!



I'll have to check it out, I need to flesh out my collection.

List of all albums http://ocremix.org/remixes/ alphabetically ordered.

edit: The best start would be to list them by popularity: http://bt.ocremix.org/index.php?order=completed&sort=descending

Some of my favorites:
Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream
Chrono Trigger: Chrono Symphonic
OC ReMix - Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Official Soundtrack
Doom: The Dark Side of Phobos
Xenogears: Humans + Gears
Pokémon: The Missingno Tracks
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: Threshold of a Dream

The torrents mostly are FLAC and MP3.

 

[Divvy]

Oh boy, the NA launch is going to be a disaster

 

[la_briola]

I'm currently ripping all my music into FLAC and it's taking days. I'm one of those weirdos who still buys nothing but CDs. I don't want to think about how long it's going to take to upload.

Best case: You are not uploading any of it IF Google already has the song in their database. The Google music client takes fingerprints of your files and matches it and the files get added to your collection.

 

[Phanatic8390]

Best case: You are not uploading any of it IF Google already has the song in their database. The Google music client takes fingerprints of your files and matches it and the files get added to your collection.

Oh wow. I had no idea it does that.

 

[Vinterbird]

Does anyone know the price of the wireless charging dock in Germany?

Also, I'm jumping ship to Android from iOS. Whats the must have stuff, and how do I make it look all clean, pretty and like Google Now across the entire interface?

 

[The Faceless Master]

AnandTech - Google Nexus 4 Review - Google's new Flagship

NB: Anandtech's new battery testing methodology is bullshit imo. Doesn't represent real world usage at all. And the charts are laughable selectively with the devices shown

new battery test is awesome!

choice quotes!

The Nexus 4 charges from fully discharged to completely charged in 3.033 hours on the Qi mat, which is basically the same charge time as I saw off of microUSB on a BC 1.2 charger.

damn, guess i was wrong about wireless charging, looks like it's already on par with wired.

The result is battery life that isn't really chart topping, yet in my time with the Nexus 4 I haven't really been want for more battery life at any point. I'm able to get through a single day with the device set on auto brightness.

*does bad on Battery Life stress test*
*doesn't do bad in anecdotal real life usage by same reviewer*
awesome test, A+++

best in class performance.*

Another new toggle is a force 4x MSAA checkbox for OpenGL ES 2.0 games. Tick this and, no surprise, you’ll get 4x MSAA forced in OpenGL ES 2.0 apps if the GPU on your SoC supports it.

nice!

My other main gripe with the Nexus 4 camera UX is a big one, and it’s something I felt very passionately about in our iPhone 5 camera review. The Nexus 4 makes the same annoying UX decision as the iPhone 5 and shows an aspect-crop in its preview instead of the full field of view. Put simply, the top and bottom of the image are cropped off in the preview, but appear in the image.

GOIN' IN on those invisible margins!

Nexus 4 also has the latest and greatest Qualcomm transceiver onboard, WTR1605L, which we’re going to talk at length about in another piece. It’s actually somewhat surprising to see the latest and greatest here considering the Nexus 4 doesn’t include LTE support, even though it does have the hardware for it on bands 4, 2, and 1 in theory.

more salt in the wounds of people who want an LTE Nexus 4. or more hope?



* = in the freezer. ICE COLD!!!

 

[Mecha_Infantry]

Does anyone know the price of the wireless charging dock in Germany?

Also, I'm jumping ship to Android from iOS. Whats the must have stuff, and how do I make it look all clean, pretty and like Google Now across the entire interface?

Talk to Faceless- I'm sure he has some good apps for you

 

[DeadFalling]

Best case: You are not uploading any of it IF Google already has the song in their database. The Google music client takes fingerprints of your files and matches it and the files get added to your collection.

In FLAC?

 

[GK86]

Does anyone know the price of the wireless charging dock in Germany?

Also, I'm jumping ship to Android from iOS. Whats the must have stuff, and how do I make it look all clean, pretty and like Google Now across the entire interface?

Go here for gaf app recommendations.

Go here for gaf customization tricks and tips.

 

[la_briola]

In FLAC?

This is a good question.

edit: It seems that Google music converts/stores everything as MP3. Don't take my word for it, they may be an option.

 

[DrFunk]

Nexus 4 also has the latest and greatest Qualcomm transceiver onboard, WTR1605L, which we’re going to talk at length about in another piece. It’s actually somewhat surprising to see the latest and greatest here considering the Nexus 4 doesn’t include LTE support, even though it does have the hardware for it on bands 4, 2, and 1 in theory.

This gives me hope for an LTE version, at least a couple of months down the line

 

[abunai]

This is a good question.

FLAC gets transcoded to 320k CBR on google music iirc

 

[The Faceless Master]

Does anyone know the price of the wireless charging dock in Germany?

Also, I'm jumping ship to Android from iOS. Whats the must have stuff, and how do I make it look all clean, pretty and like Google Now across the entire interface?

stay onboard.