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what's up everyone John renter from technobuffalo here's a full review of the latest google nexus phone this is the LG built nexus for tracking a quad core glass back all kinds of other goodness and it's teeny tiny package let's put it through its paces and let's see which should be the phone you pick up and hold with you the next couple years so let's start the Nexus 4 review with hardware so I was pretty underwhelmed when I first picked up the nexus 4 not because its design isn't solid because it already sort of been treated to a look at it with the Optimus G which is pretty similar design the front is dominated by an incredible 4.7 inch display that went off appears to switch from edge to edge I love the bevel top which slopes down to the sleek and sparkly backside it feels super solid it's easy to hold isn't too heavy I really do like sparkles back reminds me a bit of the texture Samsung used to put on insomnia line way back in the day I don't really like the plastic border running around the phone think it takes away from the otherwise pretty premium look there's a volume rocker that's easy to reach the left hand I 3.5 millimeter headphone jack up top and a very easy to reach power button on the right hand side and of course a micro USB charging port on the bottom alright so let's go ahead and jump right into the specs the Nexus 4 packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 pro processor which is arguably one of the more powerful chips in the market right now multiple reports have confirmed lt's and port is actually on board but the phone itself don't use it instead you are stuck with HSPA on AT&T hspa+ on tmobile which isn't necessarily the worst thing in the world other hardware specs include 2 gigs of ram slim port hdmi it uses a micro USB port and 2100 milliamp hour battery to keep that gap power it on and working my biggest gripe with their hardware is that are you're locked into either 8 or 16 gigs of storage it's not enough for all my music videos photos and the rest of the goodness out to put on my phone but clearly it's a bit from google to get your lime or on cloud and streaming based services so i'd be pretty remiss if i didn't talk about the Qi wireless charging support both with the nexus 4 that's Qi Qi not queer quite pronounced chee we had a look it up to make sure it's actually the same system that used in the Lumia 920's if you've got one of those Lumia 920 charging ports lying around you can actually pop the next four right on it or he's gonna energize your pads throw it on and get your charge on so next let's talk about software the stand out feature the Nexus 4 is its OS it's the first phone on the market to lunch with Android 4.2 jelly bean that's right point2 is also Jay Buhl's and it's the best version of Android I've really ever used despite having a really odd bug won't let use December as a month for an event inside the People app but that'll get fixed everything is super smooth in feels natural and there aren't any weird software hang-ups I've experienced on any other devices although I bet the quad core processor two gigs ram certainly help make up for any sort of bugs that might be in this code so there's a few enhancements over android 4.1 jelly bean but nothing super major its pod why Google stuck with the jelly bean name notable enhancements include better camera controls a pretty cool 360 degree panorama option better notification management and they'll decent amount more although out of all the new features my favorite option is a new keyboard which allows you to sweat from letter letter and create a word just like swype third-party app my find it's actually much smoother deep down though I'm still a tap tap tap tappity tap it tap it a writer I'm just gets out of the way I totally loved a new lock screen it can now be customized with widgets yeah I can't afford my gmail inbox to my calendar appointments about unlocking the phone this is so useful and actually curious why hasn't been included on earlier releases of Android Google now on google search have also got and refined it I couldn't notice a huge difference who it was offered Android 4.1 Google now quickly tells me the weather in the trailer before I head out for the day and their support for identifying flight times other notifications in your email Google search that you use your voice look up anything and actually prefer at the Siri I found it to be extremely accurate and really good understanding voice inputs to I also love that google added a small icon notification schaefer quickly bring it up commonly used settings I can tap it anytime I want to view my own Google profile change the brightness access more settings turn Wi-Fi on or off check battery level percentage and turn airplane mode and control the bluetooth all right so next let's talk about performance of that beastly quad-core Nexus 4 as I mentioned as a Snapdragon s4 pro chip similar to one used in the HTC droid DNA I ran our standard quadrant benchmark received a pretty whomping score 4775 which is actually below the square of the droid DNA received of 7460 one but overall user perspective though don't get too caught up in the scores if the phone is extremely fast and feels really snappy but fills you folks that want to know the numbers there I let's talk about the camera this guy's packing some pretty cool camera tricks Nexus 4 is equipped with an 8 megapixel camera on the back side a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera on the front for taking all your duck lip photos that I know you're taken photos aren't amazing and I saw better shots from a iphone 5 Lumia 920 they're just okay the new 360 degree panorama feature is pretty neat brothers can only view their shots with the Android 4.2 device or from google plus it's kind of frustrating to use it snap five different panorama so get the picture most accurate represented and one time it said I was moving too fast even when I followed the guidelines they make a bristle camera can record 1080p video but turned out to be loaded with artifacts line play the clip back on my computer also from what I could distinguish alive continuous autofocus which is a pretty big staple on most smartphones now all rights next to talk about data call quality and battery life call conan nexus 4 was on par with pretty much every other high-end smartphone up test recently there aren't any relief standout features here I was easily able to kill the other color didn't have any drop calls no white noise on either ends I thought the speakerphone is loud enough to use during a conference call again for GL to use an active on Nexus 4 even if it's been laying dormant so when we ran our test i received a pretty average download speed and about 1 megabit on AT&T 3g network which is pretty terrible grades LTE speeds I test with the tmobile sim and reseal download speed Department of 1.3 about an average upload speed of 1.18 against t-mobile's hspa+ 42 megabits per second network however those just my speeds anywhere you go you might be able to get much faster one somebody to keep in mind though you want to pick up a nexus 4 it's best to test an unlock device to see if you're gonna get decent speeds 20 100 million power battery was able to get me through a full day of usage but i found it drained really fast now shooting pictures went outside of eight percent left and after about 15 minutes a phone turned completely off i generally ilde pretty well too so i wasn't able to pick that up in the morning with a bit of charge left overall though even though it doesn't run on a 4g LTE network it does have a power-hungry quad-core processors you're gonna want to keep your charger by on long trips so what's final verts on the nexus 4 it's a great phone missing some things we'd love it to have if you're looking for a device that's going to get the latest android update for the next few years and look no further than the nexus 4 but if you want LTE you want more storage you might want to look at the droid DNA the 1x the 1x plus or a bevy of other right options out there galaxy s trigger even the little bit older galaxy nexus 4 right now I'm John render from technobuffalo check us out for latest and greatest tech news I'll say the next video bye bye you