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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocket now calm despite having a terrible pre-order experience the Nexus 4 is likely to be one of the best Android smartphones for a while to come so in this video we're gonna unbox it and give you some first impressions let's get to it now the reason people are so excited about the Nexus 4 is really for three reasons number one the Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 pro has proven to be the fastest chip available in a mobile device it smashes everything in the benchmarks in day to day usage it is fantastic and it sips power so it's great for battery life number 2 the display we saw it on the optimus G and now it's coming to the Nexus 4 LG's amazing display it's got 1280 by 768 resolution so higher than 1280 by 720 720p it's got fantastic color saturation great contrast and overall it just is a fantastic display and number three Android 4.2 brings some awesome new features like widgets on your lock screen and photosphere and unfortunately the Nexus 4 doesn't have LTE but iFixit found that there is actually an LTL to each chip on the board with seven bands of LTE support we're going to talk about what that actually means in this video so let's get to the unboxing all right so we're gonna unbox this here so I'm going to come back on and give you some first impressions and I mentioned that this has LTE support well not really it's got the Qualcomm chip that enables LTE but doesn't have the antenna or the amplifier to make that happen so while you might sort of be able to get out to eat even if you did something with the software you still couldn't actually get LTE because you don't have the other parts to do it so here we have the Nexus 4 a really cool box 4.7 inch screen a little bit smaller than we're seeing on some other devices makes it a little bit more friendly in the hand and at the core this is just an optimist G and actually that's a great thing because as mentioned we get the s4 pro we get a really good camera and an amazing screen and this is running unadulterated Android just stock Android with jelly bean 4.2 so it's going to be real all right so let's take this out of the box all right go this very nice very angular very light that is impressively light see if there's any goodies in the box no I don't think that there are going to be in good job anyway so let's take a look at the Nexus work let's do the screen protector peel off Michael Fisher style let's listen to it oh yeah I did a little too fast there oh well sorry Michael so let's let's look around the device I think we've got some plastic around here oh yeah you hear that good stuff there so this is the Nexus 4 it is a lot lighter than you think it would be it's got a battery integrated so you can't take that out and we've got glass on the front glass on the back and that's kind of a liability because like with the iPhone 4 and 4s when you drop it you have a two times more likely chance of cracking something but Google is selling a bumper interestingly for the Nexus 4 so let's uh let's do a first boot here let's actually take a look around the device so we've got camera can focus got the power button really which om will do a dedicated camera key got to go to windows 28 for that secondary mic 3.5 millimeter headphone jack this is the Micro SIM slot standard charging here and this does have wireless charging it will work with the cui hope I'm pronouncing that right Qi wireless charging standard so let's turn it on I'm not very excited to get HSPA+ data but I think the speed of the device will make it sort of be a fair trade-off we've got a really interesting tapered edge here it kind of goes around which apparently won't make it much easier to do gestures with very nondescript front here we've got on-screen buttons and again the resolution is 1280 down by 768 across so you're getting about 48 more pixels then you get on the Galaxy Nexus and the galaxy s3 and all those other phones that are 720p so that's nice so anyway we're going to set this up and come back in a minute with some four depressions alright een I've spent a fair amount of time here with the Nexus 4 just want to give you some first impressions the first person impression is that this screen is tremendously smooth in fact it feels like there's a coating of butter on it not sure if that's a good thing actually it's just so slick and maybe it will get less slick as it gets used and there's more oil and grease on it and other dirt particles but right out of the box this is the silica screen I've ever seen and felt and I don't know if that's a good thing but it's a really nice taper that they have going on here and just the entire front is a piece of glass something else to notice is that when you turn on the device you get a ledge here that you don't get on the Galaxy Nexus as much and you can actually hold the device from that ledge without doing a mist press of the button so that's kind of cool if you're watching video we're doing something in landscape mode you can have another point to hold on to it in addition to around the earpiece like you normally do another observation is that there is an LED notification light down here in the center it's really small this time it's a lot smaller than the Galaxy Nexus a few other observations in terms of hardware here's that around the entire device this is a soft touch plastic so while this front is very slick and so is the back at least you get that rubbery feel when you hold it in your hand that you cleanse - a pretty good in hand feel well it's not the thinnest device ever it's it's thin just not the thinnest on the back here we've got this really cool pattern no I'm not talking about all these fingerprints I'm talking about these little circles that catch the light in a really interesting ways if you get it just right the back kind of glistens and glows unlike any other phone out there and again you're getting a lot of fingerprints there that's what's gonna happen if you have a shiny surface but these little circles are super cool anyway so let's turn on the Nexus 4 here I've got it set to 75% screen brightness I turned off auto brightness because it didn't seem to be strong enough it didn't seem to put the back light levels up high enough and perhaps that's just a matter of getting used to it but I really want to see this screen shine because it's a nice nice screen of 320 PPI screen you cannot see pixels on this guy in color saturation you can probably tell in a video is just fantastic everything looks really sharp and clear now in terms of performance bouncing around we've got a combination of jellybeans in addition to the brawny Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 pro quad core and it's just navigating around it is fast and there's a lot of cool Android 4.2 stuff that we'll cover later like photo sphere and widgets on your lockscreen one of them in particular is that if you do a two-finger swipe you should get these quick toggles the reason why it doesn't come up with two fingers is because I think there's a notification in progress right now so it doesn't allow you to go into the quick toggles well the quick toggles are actually kind of ugly they're useful but they're had a little bit ugly it would be nice that they were a little bit more attractive and especially if you can move them around maybe you want to have your brightness in the upper right corner so you can toggle it quickly so if you tap in an old thinking that they move around it just doesn't happen that way let's jump into the web browser who will of course went with their Chrome web browser which we're not too fond of we found we find the Chrome web browser to have worse performance than the built in stock Android browser and of course Google wants to push their Chrome browser because it's theirs they built it from the ground up it's their thing and so let's go to a web page so we're gonna go to pocketnow.com or over Wi-Fi you might be wondering how data speeds are on AT&T over HSPA+ we're gonna test them out in a minute this is probably gonna be the longest first impression video ever anyway so here's pocketnow.com the Snapdragon s4 pro just just rules let's see how long text takes to clear up almost instantly we're gonna do a lot of comparisons just to see exactly how fast this browser is but you know first impressions are that it's it's quite good and we can go into landscape here and as mentioned you can hold it by the bezel now on the right because you've got this nice chin over here where you don't have to worry about doing a Miss press of the of the on screen buttons okay so let's turn off Wi-Fi and run speedtest.net on AT&T HSB Plus Network here so now with quick toggles we can go into Wi-Fi and that's not actually a quick toggle it's a shortcut to the settings okay so Wi-Fi is off we're waiting for the eight to appear and it's likely we're gonna get h which means HSDPA not h plus which is HSPA+ depending on where you are at that moment in time it will vary so strangely we were not having any luck testing the bandwidth speed with speed test on that nor with the FCC test so we found this Qi P speed test which actually does work very strange that the other tests are not working so let's quick start test it says wherever HSPA not HSPA+ kind of know the results we're going to get we should be a little bit slower here than let's see what the results say so of course on 18 t 3g you'll get anywhere from 1 down to as high as 10 11 down depending on where you are and how many people are on the network at the time these are pretty poor results we're gonna have to test this more extensively later when we have better a better signal over HSPA+ you're not going to get out to east speeds but you might get bursts of LTE like speeds so first impressions of the nexus 4 are quite favorable is it better than the galaxy s 3 should you consider the Droid DNA instead time will tell we're going to take this out into the field out into the real world and actually spend some time with it one things pressure for 299 bucks or 349 bucks this is undoubtedly the best value in Android right now and with such a fast processor and with a fantastic screen this might be the best Android phone ever to come out we're gonna find out if that's the case for you in our upcoming review we're gonna a lot more videos so be sure you subscribe to the PocketNow channel here on youtube to find out when the next video hits if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and of course thanks for watching that's it for now you