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Nexus 4 teardown: Easy-open case hides LTE hardware surprise

I'd like to see a company like Republic Wireless, use this device, along with Ubuntu Mobile.

Its $350 on the Google play store.

I was definitely looking at this as my next phone upgrade. I was even set to live with the non-replaceable battery. But when I read many reviews mentioning many cases of the back cracking, and Google refusing to do anything about it, I decided against this phone.

"Fused front panel, display, and internal frame: At one time, I criticized manufacturers for fusing a devices LCD panel to the front glass. If one component broke, you had to replace both. But having spent too much time removing tiny pieces of dust from between the two, Ive changed my mind."

Not to mention that cementing the two components together noticeably reduces loss of image contrast caused by reflections off of any air-glass interfaces inside the screen. One of the first devices in which they were fused was the Nook Color, which is known for having an unusually contrasty display.

Nice to know you can at least replace the battery.

I agree on the price, good deal for what's in the box but there's no MicroSD. Why does Google persist in it's policy of no external storage for it's devices.

I would love one of these but the lack of MicroSD is a game breaker.

Couldn't agree more. Every phone I've ever bought has had a memory card slot, save for the pre smart phones from the late 90's and early 2000's.

LG fusic, microSD slot (not even really a smart phone)
Galaxy i7500 microSD slot
Motorola Atrix 4G microSD slot
Motorola Razr V GT885
Wife's phones
Samsung reclaim microSD slot
Galaxy 510 microSD slot

It's pretty much ludicrous to make a phone these days without one. The only reason ends up being blatant marketing/pricing BS like apple and their ridiculous price increases for the different amounts of memory in their Iphones.

Smarten up Google, your phone meets the bill on all other hardware specs.

Not having LTE is the reason I will not even think about this phone. If it had LTE, I would have one already.

Two "pros" I would add to the list are NFC and Induction charging.

While I look forward to experimenting with the former, I'm enjoying Induction charging much more than I thought I would...

...although I had to "level" the Energizer charger to keep the slick backed Nexus4 from crawling off the smooth slanted charging surface.

Another plus is the apparent improvement in voice recognition and/or microphone... the recognition is far better than on the Nexus7 and reliable enough to use for almost all text input needs.

Beverly Howard

Unlike any other phone I've owned in many years. Drop it once and it's a paperweight... The screen is as Detwiler points out fused to the case and when it hits the ground it cracks worse than any old Palm after being left in your backpack for a month.