Strangely though, the Nexus 4 comes of being super slippery in the hand – attributed to the handset’s front and rear surfaces being covered in glass. In fact, it’s so very slippery that when we place it on a surface with a slight incline, it begins to slowly slide down, and in many instances, we’re always left to remind ourselves to keep an eye on it. Additionally, it’s a magnet for all the nasty baddies out there that dirty up its beauty – like fingerprints and smudges. With the help of a cloth, though, they’re relatively gone in one quick wipe, thus, bringing it back to its pristine appearance. Compared to other recent handsets, the Nexus 4 doesn’t attempt to push its construction to the limits, which is evident by its 0.36-inch thick profile and 4.9 oz weight – making it still somewhat unwieldy to hold in the hand. Ultimately, if it weren’t for the glass casing and enchanting pattern design of the rear, this would’ve been a bland looking handset.
Display:
Overall, it appears as though there’s nothing anew in the Gallery app at first glance, but upon diving deeper, it’s so uplifting to find that it’s now laying claim to an extensive set of photo editing tools. In addition to some basic things like cropping and resizing, the updated gallery packs a ton of cool Instagram-ish filter effects and borders to appease our hungry need of spiffying our shots – and it’s nice that we don’t have to download a third part app for it!
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The razor sharp and awe-inspiring 1080p display of the HTC DROID DNA, there isn’t much wow factor seen with the Nexus 4’s display anymore. To tell you the truth, though, it’s the same one used by the LG Optimus G – so it’s been done before already! Regardless of that, there are some noteworthy elements seen with its 4.7-inch WXGA 768 x 1280 True HD IPS Plus display.
Processor and Memory:
Showing off its closeness to its distant relative in the LG Optimus G, the Nexus 4 is powered by the same chipset – so it’s very much high-end by today’s current standards. Under the hood, it’s running a quad-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor with the Adreno 320 GPU and 2GB of RAM. No doubt a powerful item, its presence is felt as it’s able to handle all operations with minimal fluff. However, we’re a bit surprised to see that it doesn’t match the same level of snappiness we’ve seen on the LG Optimus G, which is made stranger considering this is a stock Android experience we’re dealing with here. Regardless of that, we’re satisfied with its overall performance, despite the so-so benchmark scores, which can be due to them not being fully optimized for Android 4.2. Yet, we do come across a few pauses every now and then.
Internet and Connectivity:One of the biggest surprises with the Nexus 4, has to be none other than the fact that it doesn’t support LTE.
Showing off its closeness to its distant relative in the LG Optimus G, the Nexus 4 is powered by the same chipset – so it’s very much high-end by today’s current standards. Under the hood, it’s running a quad-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor with the Adreno 320 GPU and 2GB of RAM. No doubt a powerful item, its presence is felt as it’s able to handle all operations with minimal fluff. However, we’re a bit surprised to see that it doesn’t match the same level of snappiness we’ve seen on the LG Optimus G, which is made stranger considering this is a stock Android experience we’re dealing with here. Regardless of that, we’re satisfied with its overall performance, despite the so-so benchmark scores, which can be due to them not being fully optimized for Android 4.2. Yet, we do come across a few pauses every now and then.
| Quadrant Standard | AnTuTu | NenaMark 2 | |
| Google Nexus 4 | 4757 | 10188 | 58,6 |
| Samsung Galaxy Nexus | 2000 | 5503 | 24 |
| LG Optimus G | 7669 | 11245 | 60,1 |
| Samsung Galaxy Note II | 5715 | 13579 | 58 |
Camera:Multimedia:
Overall, it appears as though there’s nothing anew in the Gallery app at first glance, but upon diving deeper, it’s so uplifting to find that it’s now laying claim to an extensive set of photo editing tools. In addition to some basic things like cropping and resizing, the updated gallery packs a ton of cool Instagram-ish filter effects and borders to appease our hungry need of spiffying our shots – and it’s nice that we don’t have to download a third part app for it!
Software:
Being the pure Google smartphone it is, there is no bloatware on the handset, but as usual, it’s stuffed with all the customary Google apps – like Google+, Google Maps, Movie Studio, News & Weather, Play Books, Play Movies & TV, Play Store, Google Talk, Google Wallet, and YouTube. Peering at all of them, they’re the same ones we’ve been familiar with this entire time.
Being the pure Google smartphone it is, there is no bloatware on the handset, but as usual, it’s stuffed with all the customary Google apps – like Google+, Google Maps, Movie Studio, News & Weather, Play Books, Play Movies & TV, Play Store, Google Talk, Google Wallet, and YouTube. Peering at all of them, they’re the same ones we’ve been familiar with this entire time.
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