So recently I decided to sell my Nexus 4 in favor of buying Galaxy Nexus(Maguro). They are many reasons for this and I wanted to share these with you. Remember I have owned both lol.
1. Price. I sold my Nexus 4 for $425. Galaxy Nexus was $200.
2. Build quality. The nexus 4 feels terrible. The back is slippery and breakable. The sides of it make it feel cheap. The front digitizer is also terrible. It is very unresponsive. The galaxy nexus has a solid plastic and feels nice in the hands. The screen is very responsive and bright.
3. Performance. The new 4.2.1 builds feel smoother on Galaxy Nexus. Idk why. It could be the digitizer or lg hardware but the optimus g is faster so idk
4. Battery life is about an hour longer for display time on the Galaxy Nexus.
5. Screen. We all know the Samsung screens are the best.
6. Real official fastboot files. I don't know why but the Nexus 4 doesn't have 4.2.1 fastboot files.
7. I'll add to this later.
Why I choose Galaxy Nexus(Maguro) over Nexus 4
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, Jan 19 2013 01:55 PM
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 04:14 PM
A Google search gave me 2 things: No explanation as to why Google took the Occam's images off of their factory image site and for the Occam 4.2.1
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 04:26 PM
Ya I found those. But they aren't "official" anymore
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 04:39 PM
I don't think they were official, they were just a mirror of the images Google took down.
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 04:56 PM
Lol now you have me interested again of why they out pulled
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 05:12 PM
Lol now you have me interested again of why they out pulled
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 11:21 PM
The real reason why:
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 11:25 PM
Naw lol thats a plus really!! But I am wondering how the galaxy nexus will be on the high end version when the specs arent high enough
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 01:28 AM
Their standards aren't as high for a testing phone maybe?Naw lol thats a plus really!! But I am wondering how the galaxy nexus will be on the high end version when the specs arent high enough
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 06:25 AM
I had the nexus, my beef with it was the battery, its just as bad if not worse than og razr. Was a nice phone. But battery sucked for me
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 06:27 AM
The Verizon version had terrible battery life because of its radio
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Posted 24 January 2013 - 09:03 PM
Lol now you have me interested again of why they out pulled
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Same reason anyone does
they don't want to get screwed over
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Posted 31 January 2013 - 09:12 PM
The Verizon version had terrible battery life because of its radio
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I have a Gnex (Toro) because I got it for $50 - I have no radio issues at all. Although I do have an extended battery. Get about 24 hours or so off of a charge, with moderate use. I don't like it quite as much as my Bionic overall, but I like being able to boot a JB kernel.
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