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hey guys it's Brandon man I'm in front pocket now calm you know the galaxy nexus was and still is a really great phone but many of you who have the Galaxy Nexus are probably wondering should I upgrade to the Nexus 4 in this video we're going to compare the two and help you decide let's get to it so can you tell these two devices apart they do look very similar because they both have that very rounded edge design although here on the Galaxy Nexus it's even more rounded on the top and the bottom another way you can tell can tell it's the Galaxy Nexus is because you get that bluish glow that's characteristic of Samsung's Super AMOLED displays the Nexus 4 has an LCD panel a very good LCD panel so when it's turned off it's completely black and it is kind of handsome because it's got that nice panel of glass that it's on the entire front of the device and it wraps around the edges whereas on the Galaxy Nexus you also get a curved piece of glass but it doesn't have that really cool effect that wraps around the edges there's a little bit of a taper here but not that much now another cool thing about Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4 both is that there are they are buttonless designs so when they're off they look really cool and something that's kind of new on the Nexus 4 is that because this is flat back here you've got this extra handle to grip the phone with because there are no buttons here the buttons take place right here on the screen so this is a great way to hold the phone if you're reading a book or if you're watching a movie that was possible on the Galaxy Nexus but it's definitely smaller and you get this pump back here which kind of makes it a little bit awkward to hold but that hump actually helps the Galaxy Nexus especially when typing because when you're typing on the Galaxy Nexus you can wrap your fingers around the device and kind of rest them on this huh plus there's some waiting at the bottom of the phone so it just feels pretty darn good on the Nexus 4 you don't get that humped typing is definitely a little bit more uncomfortable on the Nexus 4 it's something to get used to plus the screen sensitivity is worse on the Nexus 4 we're going to talk about why in a few minutes so now that we're on the back let's talk about the differences here the Galaxy Nexus has this plasticy textured design which is very functional it's not the most beautiful thing ever but it's definitely fun because it lends to a really great in hand feel and it also is grippy the next is for kind of goes the beauty route because this backing is definitely beautiful in the way that it catches the light look at that that is awesome but of course it's also a liability because you can get more fingerprints on the back and of course if you drop the phone you're twice as likely to crack something then you were on the Galaxy Nexus now while we're back here we've got some speakers here both of which are firing down if the phone is over on its back they're going to be muted a little bit unfortunately but most phones are like that we've got an 8 megapixel shooter here on the Nexus 4 and a 5 megapixel shooter on the Galaxy Nexus so you get a camera upgrade and in terms of other dimensions looking at thickness the Nexus 4 is slightly thicker than the Galaxy Nexus this is actually the Verizon version so it's at it bit thicker than the GSM version if we set them on the table and try to feel a difference the the Nexus 4 actually in the in the bottom part here is thinner and then as you move to the top and get that tapered design of the Galaxy Nexus the Galaxy Nexus becomes a little bit thinner in terms of width the Nexus 4 is a little bit wider about one millimeter and in in terms of tallness the Galaxy Nexus is just a little bit taller there so let's talk about specifications now the Galaxy Nexus has a TI OMAP 1.2 gigahertz dual-core processor with one gigabyte of RAM it's got a power VR SGX 540 GPU and over here on the Nexus 4 much more impressive spec sheet definitely we've got the Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 pro quad core running at 1.5 gigahertz this is one of the fastest CPUs we've seen so far ever it's running with the Adreno 320 GPU and 2 gigabytes of RAM than one gigabyte of RAM here in terms of storage options you get 16 gigabytes no microSD expansion on the Galaxy Nexus and 8 or 16 gigabytes on the nexus 4 with again no option for expanding storage and also in terms of expansion you can remove the battery on the Galaxy Nexus you cannot remove the battery on the Nexus 4 but the Nexus 4 is a larger battery and has better battery life than the Galaxy Nexus so hopefully you won't have to swap batteries like you might have on the Galaxy Nexus okay so let's boot these bad boys up and see what you want turns on first so we've got power buttons on the sides here we're going to press them pressing pressing vibration on both let's see which gets to the home screen first Nexus logo and the next is for won by quite a bit actually and so while we're waiting for the Galaxy Nexus to start up let's go into display settings turn on brightness to a hundred percent because we're gonna do some screen comparisons so you can see the difference between these two displays and by the way this this background is called because I know a lot of you are maybe asking Mike grid it's a free live wallpaper it is super sweet and you can really customize it to do anything anyway we're gonna wait for the Galaxy Nexus 2 to get to get up into action here alright the Galaxy Nexus is on and work likewise going to turn on screen brightness to a hundred percent and then we're going to talk about the Android version that we're running here so you know what we're working with so let's go back into the settings go down to about the the Nexus 4 really slides around on the table in fact I've witnessed it thaw off the table when it was sitting in the middle of the table and I just had some speakers playing music this thing slides around like you wouldn't believe which is why I think it's great that Google's selling a bumper as an accessory let's go to a bath phone we're actually running 4.1.1 here it's a stack image right from Google the Galaxy Nexus is going to get the 4.2 update it's actually rolling out now but it's not going to increase performance it's just going to add features so we really didn't feel compelled to upgrade it to 4.2 because most people that have a Galaxy Nexus right now are probably running it with 4.1.1 anyway so as you can see on the screens here they look different right off the bat a color saturation you get that super color saturation of the AMOLED panel the blue strip up here is a bluer then the Nexus 4 over here and also this gradient is a totally different color we saw this in the iPhone 5 comparison I'll put a link up on the video that the Nexus 4 has a warm screen now something else that the now something else that the Nexus 4 does differently is that the touch sensor is actually laminated to the screen and so this is going to be really difficult to show on camera but the depth between the actual layer of glass and where the screen starts is bigger meaning on the Galaxy Nexus the screen looks kind of sunk in a little bit and see if you can tell that could look around the edge of the phone here and maybe that's a good place to look over on the Nexus 4 you kind of hear this a lot about modern screens but it's definitely true here the screen is right on the top and if I kind of twist it in the light here maybe you can see that too but there's a downside to that and we see this with the iPhone 5 which has the same insell display technology the screen sensitivity is worse on the Nexus 4 to the point where typing can be frustrating zooming it feels imprecise it might be a software issue but I think it's actually a hardware issue so that's something to keep in mind it's not a deal-breaker but it definitely means you're gonna have to slow down a little bit when typing you're gonna have to get used to the more numb feeling display but if you can get past that the display on the Nexus 4 is incredible so let's talk about the displays here on the Galaxy Nexus we have a 1280 by 720 display it was the second 720p smartphone display the first was the HTC Rezound and it's a 4.6 five-inch screen making for a ppi of 316 and as a result because the ppi is over 300 you can't see pixels I mean this is a great screen and because you have Super AMOLED blacks are just super black colors are oversaturated some people like that some people hate it now over here on the Nexus 4 we've got higher res display going up a little bit we've got that same 1280 down but now seven six eight across does that matter well we're gonna open up some websites and try to note the difference between the two it's a 4.7 inch display making for a PPI slightly higher really not important here 320 PPI versus 316 and again because the PPI is over that 300 threshold you can't see pixels which is which is nice actually that's one of settings and see some text in front of us if the camera will focus that would be awesome and as you can see the text is just super shark and smooth but then again it was super sharp and smooth on the Galaxy Nexus okay so let's see which device is faster we're gonna do a lot of tests here starting with just app launch speed so we're going to try to launch Facebook at the exact same time one two three go faster on the Nexus 4 definitely let's try launched Twitter 1 2 3 go right off the bat definitely faster on the Nexus 4 by about a half a second or so let's launch the Play Store 1 2 3 Play Store faster on the Galaxy Nexus that was really interesting actually alright camera very important let's see 1 2 3 go faster on the Nexus 4 do that again just a double check go yep faster on the Nexus 4 and let's try bad piggies 1 2 3 go faster on the Nexus 4 across-the-board and that's the way it should be going from generation to generation now it's only faster in launching apps by like one second and does one second matter to you well it matters to me but maybe it doesn't matter to you we're really trying to help you decide if it's worth upgrading from the Galaxy Nexus to the Nexus 4 in this video now let's go into the web browser now on the Nexus 4 unfortunately Google has included the Chrome browser as the stock browser and I say unfortunately because the Chrome browser is not as fast as the stock built in Android browser and I don't know why Google would release a browser as the default browser on their flagship phone that isn't as fast as an alternative it's just not as fast ok let's jump into the browser here 1 2 3 go now chrome does have some awesome features it has awesome tab management and has browser sync password sync it's a really great browser it's just not as fast as this browser although it's probably going to be faster in this particular test because we're getting the power of the s4 pro here so what we want to do first here is go to pocketnow.com it went to a search page so we had to to bring it up separately here so now take a look at these screens and you're wondering does a 7 6 8 horizontal resolution matter in terms of how much stuff displays on the screen well let's take a look over here on the Galaxy Nexus we actually see more screen content oddly this is the bottom story that's over here and it's just really a matter of the zoom settings of the particular browser so let's move around on the page on see Nexus very good performance no white at all or checkerboards scrolling down here on the Nexus 4 likewise let's double tap to zoom in tap top pretty much the same there let's zoom out got a little white stuff over here but on on the Nexus 4 it was still clear let's do a pinch to zoom and look what look at what just happened cuz I mentioned that the touch responsiveness is not as good I'm gonna pinch the exact same amount and release at the exact same time you're gonna see that the touch responsiveness is totally out of whack here watch this see look at my fingers it was the same amount of pinch but it doesn't seem that the screen is registering a pinch until like a couple of millimeters after I do the pitch whereas over here as soon as you put your fingers on the screen it registers a pinch and hopefully you can see that on video anyway it's just a little bothersome but something you can get used to so let's move around on the pH and load something else it's double tap to zoom in alright let's move in on a feature over here Nexus 4 versus iPhone 5 you should check that out and let's see what you gets there first we're watching the progress bar the progress bar and both over Wi-Fi of course and the next thing a liqu see nexus finished first although it looks like the Nexus 4 is finished loading the page and we can move down on the page and let's see which renders this video first gets it ready to go to watch on the screen one two three and we're gonna actually stop this because it seems to be having some problems one two three play that is loud faster on the Nexus 4 there okay now let's go to the verge another image-heavy website let's see which loads it first all right and we're loaded here let's scroll down the page very smooth on both a little bit of white space there that's what I'm talking about on an s4 pro with an s4 pro chip there just should never be any hesitation in the browser and I think that's probably because of the chrome the Chrome browser that we're using here but so it's a double tap to zoom in Nexus 4 cleared up a little bit faster let's get really close to text and bring it in close to see how text looks on the screen again razor-sharp screens on both you can't see pixels on neither device it's just a very very high pixel density experience on both okay so in terms of web browsing performance it's really a draw and I think that if Google had included the stock Android browser on the Nexus 4 it would have smoked the the Galaxy Nexus because it's got a faster processor but chrome slows things down so we're gonna first run quadrant standard here so quadrant standard C which loads at first again the Nexus 4 is ahead on pretty much everything by about seconds we're gonna run full benchmark and we'll come back with the scores and the results are in and the Nexus 4 are finished quite ahead of the Galaxy Nexus we're gonna click yes let's see what we get that is very interesting so very low scores actually on both devices maybe because there's a lot of stuff running who knows your device 2160 that doesn't seem right and 45 69 we're gonna have to run this again that must be an anomaly that is just super weird alright second round is done let's see what we get here alright and this is really the problem with benchmarks is that they can be inconsistent you could run it once I can get a huge score right at the next second and you know those score they're fun we've got some better results here 4800 we were seeing the results in the seven thousands here on the Nexus 4 and over here we've got just 21 22 on the Galaxy Nexus let's do another benchmark we've got Geekbench ready to go here so let's load that up and then we're gonna conclude this video with some closing remarks and the Geekbench 2 results are in and we get pretty much double the score here on the Nexus 4 does that mean that the Nexus 4 is twice as fast as a Galaxy Nexus no in fact you just saw a battery of tests that proved that in most cases the Nexus 4 is about a second faster maybe maybe a 15 to 20 percent faster benchmarks really just calculate they're all processing power of the CPU so in conclusion let's sum up why you should upgrade from the Galaxy Nexus and why you might not want to upgrade from the Galaxy Nexus number one the design is much improved it's a beautiful device with some handsome design elements that is unlike anything else on the market number two the Qualcomm s4 pro chip is fast like real fast and developers probably really haven't taken advantage of it yet definitely the Chrome web browser does it take advantage of it yet so hopefully in the future we will see even further enhancements to Android and third-party apps to take advantage of this awesome CPU next the display it's higher resolution that gap than the Galaxy Nexus it's just beautiful it's more balanced you don't get that extreme color saturation it has fantastic viewing angles it just looks darn good and also there are some niceties like Android 4.2 right out of the box which brings some cool features like photosphere new notification features and some other stuff like wireless charging the the Nexus 4 has wireless charging with the cui wireless charging standard so you can go out right now and buy a wireless charging device and set it on there and have it charge and also early indications is that the Nexus 4 has much better battery life than the Galaxy Nexus thanks to its larger battery and the s4 pro probably has something to do with it now why wouldn't you want to upgrade to the Nexus 4 well it's not that much faster than the Galaxy Nexus and day-to-day performance it's about a second faster when launching apps some that might be significant to others not so much in the web browser it's kind of a tie in a lot of the cases Nexus 4 is just slightly faster sometimes then the new Galaxy Nexus it's not night and day also screen sensitivity is an issue if you get your Nexus 4 or you go to a Best Buy for example and test it out you're going to notice that the screen sensitivity is a little bit numb because of this in sell touch display technology again it's not a deal-breaker it's something to get used to the Galaxy Nexus had awesome touch display sensitivity and finally the Nexus 4 has no removable battery as did the Galaxy Nexus which was really nice then it has no removable storage like the Galaxy Nexus so you're stuck with either eight gigabytes or 16 gigabytes of storage but of course the price on it on the Nexus 4 is so incredibly good at $2.99 or 349 so overall the Nexus 4 is not a sure upgrade for Galaxy Nexus owners there are some trade-offs it's definitely a better phone overall but it's not a huge of mega leap and hopefully this video was helpful in you deciding for yourself if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now you