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hey guys this is austin and staying here with the review of the Google Nexus 4 and Android 4.2 with high-end internals and impressive design and the latest tasty Android treat let's take a look a first glance the Nexus 4 looks similar to the Galaxy Nexus with a single unbroken piece of glass up front without any branding or physical buttons it's a very clean look that reminds me of the iPhone and it works flip the phone over you'll see an all glass back with a very cool looking pattern of dots that appear and disappear depending on the lighting that said again just like the older iPhones you're dealing with two sheets of glass front and back which are easily breakable it feels great in the hand but picking up a case or at least a bumper probably wouldn't be a bad idea in 9.1 millimeters it's reasonably thin but it does feel bulkier in the hand compared to something like a galaxy s3 thankfully all the buttons and ports are in the proper positions with the power button on the top right edge volume rocker and your Micro SIM slot on the left side your headphone jack up top and a microUSB port on bottom around back is the 8 megapixel camera and the LED flash and on the top right you'll find the 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera the screen is a 4.7 inch display with resolution of 1280 by 768 this is slightly wider than a typical 720p phone which does give you a bit more width to the keyboard for example but it really doesn't make a huge difference as with the Galaxy Nexus instead of physical buttons the Nexus 4 sports on screen Android keys which will rotate with the phone in landscape mode and disappear altogether when watching video for example the screen itself is an IPS panel and it's among the best smartphone screens out there with good viewing angles and very impressive saturation and contrast the Nexus 4 is running Android 4.2 jellybean which brings several improvements from previous versions the first thing you'll notice is just how quick and responsive the phone is no matter how fast you try to go through the interface it keeps up and easily matches the best from iOS and Windows Phone you'll also find an improved gesture keyboard that works similarly to swipe allowing you to trace out the letters you want to type and let autocorrect figure out what you mean there's also a new quick settings menu in the notifications that allows you to toggle Wi-Fi brightness and more to quick glance the lockscreen has also been totally redesigned you can select to the right to get quick access to the camera and you can also add widgets such as texting calendar and email and third-party ads will be able to use this as well another somewhat useful feature is daydream which works like a screensaver that displays the time photos or news from Google Currents when the phone is docked Google now seen some major improvements it can now check Gmail to see if you have anything being shipped to you reservations at a hotel or for a plane and much more it also remains as fast as ever what's the weather going to be like in Los Angeles tomorrow tomorrow's forecast for Los Angeles is 70 degrees and mostly sunny when is the Super Bowl the NFL Super Bowl is on Sunday February 3rd 2013 the camera app has also been totally redesigned instead of digging through menus you can just tap and then change whatever setting you're looking for it's quick and makes every other camera app out there look outdated the eight megapixel stills themselves are good colors are accurate and it's quite easy to get a very nice contrast to image as you guys can see here the 1080p video on the nexus 4 isn't half bad now probably my biggest complaint is the lack of autofocus as you guys can see here I was just up close on the Android and I give it a minute yeah there we go it will focus but there's no way to tap on the screen to autofocus if I touch instead of when take a picture which is fine but there's no real way to manually autofocus which is kind of a big deal once you've shot pictures there's a very impressive built-in editor you can add Instagram like filters which are decent but you can also go more in depth with contrast saturation and even adjusting the curves there's also a new photosphere mode that allows you to take several pictures from a single area and then it stitches them together to give you a result like Google Street View the final product is a full 360-degree panorama that you can swipe through and share on Google+ which looks really impressive although it is a bit low resolution powering the Nexus 4 is a quad-core Snapdragon s4 pro processor clocked at 1.5 gigahertz paired with 2 gigabytes of RAM and Adreno 320 graphics this delivers some outstanding scores right on par with other high-end phones like the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and HTC Droid DNA and is easily enough to handle graphically intense games at a reasonable frame rate the phone does tend to get warm when enter long periods of stress but a normal use it isn't an issue one minor downside is the lack of expandable storage with only a gigabyte and 16 by varieties to choose from you're going to be limited on space and having a micro SD card slot would have helped quite a bit speaking of minor Hardware issues the speaker on the back isn't particularly loud and the sound is a bit washed out by far the biggest problem with the Nexus 4 is the lack of LTE if you live in an area with LTE this isn't problem but if you have it available it really is much faster battery life is reasonable with continuous light web browsing you'll see a bit over five hours of use it's on the lower end of most smartphones but it should be enough to get most people through a full day of use the Google Nexus 4 is easily one of the best smartphones period Android 4.2 is extremely smooth and brings some very nice improvements the build quality and design are top-notch and it's packing some of the most powerful specs in any phone yet the lack of LTE is an issue but it only $300 off contract the Nexus 4 is a spectacular phone if you're interested in more videos on the Nexus 4 feel free to check them out here and don't forget to hit that like button and subscribe for more anyway I'll catch you guys in the next one