Are you looking for a powerful Android device, something that has a distinct build quality, an HD screen, Good call quality, wireless charging and all the Google goodies that come with Nexus devices? Then I think LG and Google has come up with something for you so today I'm gunna be reviewing the LG manufactured, Google Nexus 4... here's my review.

Last year the Nexus device was manufactured by Samsung and this time Google change their partnership to LG and this thing is build off the Optimus G platform and you can see that it takes some cues from the iPhone4 with the full glass back panel and front. The Nexus 4 feature NFC, wireless charging and an 8 mega pixel BSI Sony sensor with an LED flash that takes 1080p  video. Although I have to say that the camera isn't exactly the best smartphone camera out there, especially when it comes to low light conditions but it is still pretty good, There's also a 720p front facing camera for your video calls which does the job quite nicely.

The Nexus 4 is really really fast. Packing a Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM, this phone is something of a beast, specs-wise, and you can feel it. I'm not sure whether it's better Android integration or just the specs, but the Nexus 4 is the fastest phone I have ever used, It can easily handle installing an app whilst listening to music and playing a game of Real Racing 3, switching between any of these in microseconds. It's made every other phone I use feel slow, It does get slightly warm when you really crank the processor - but this only happened once in the past 10 days I've used the phone, The GPU is fantastic on this device (Adreno 320), the heaviest games on Google play store run flawlessly on it and I haven't experienced any kind of lagging, Check out the video below:

Coming from a Samsung Galaxy Note 2, The Nexus 4 feels very small. The screen is fantastic, you'll love the colour replication, the good viewing angels and you'll defiantly not be disappointed with the sharpness of the screen, It is a fair bit wider than the iPhone 5 and even a teensy bit taller, given it less of "stretched" feel, You will notice that it has no capacitive buttons, They've been replaced with virtual buttons which does take up some of the screen unless you're watching a video. Overall the screen is very crisp, with a PPI of 318, only 8 pixels short of the iPhone - really it's impossible to tell at this level. Made with Gorilla Glass (scratch resistant) and rounded edges, it feels great on the thumb.

It's no gigantic Galaxy Note 2, compared to all the other devices out there currently the nexus 4 is very well on size, it's a 4.7 inch device so it's kind of in that mid range type of phones since phones have gone ballistic, they've gone to 5 inches and above and it does well on thickness as well (9.1mm) in comparison to the other devices, so don't worry about the size of this handset, it fits perfectly in your hand or pocket.

Now the most distinct thing about this Nexus is the back panel, The back is glass too, which is bad news delicateness wise, but great news for the awesome lighting/holographic effect it has. the back panel has this awesome pattern design that is hidden in there and you can see that when the light hits it in a certain way you'll be able to see all these pattern dots in the back and it looks really really cool you have to see this in person, for it really differentiates the Nexus 4 vs all the other phones out there and you'll see that when you're in the dark it just looks black but when you put it out to the light or when the sun hits it. it's definitely different so I suggest that you check it out in person. 

The Nexus 4 has average battery life. I found it running low on battery just a little bit earlier than I would have liked most days, but I was using 3G a whole lot along with several graphically intensive apps and again... coming from a gigantic battery (Note 2) I was a bit disappointed, but compared to other smartphones out there it actually does well since I couldn't get more than 4 hours of battery lifetime on the iPhone5 with 3G on, I think the 5 hours you'll get from the Nexus 4 will seem alright. you can get an entire day out of the device if you switched 3G on only when needed. Bottom line, If you use it constantly as a smartphone - apps and 3G - you might have some issues; if you use it mostly as a phone with apps every half an hour, you should be fine.Sadly, there isn't much innovation on the battery front right now, but a few others phones do have better batteries than this.

This device is part of Google's 'Nexus' line, so it has a pure untouched version of Android. Android 4.2.2 is very fluid and the touch response is fantastic on the Nexus 4 and you'll defiantly will not be disappointed in this operating system. The Android experience on the Nexus 4 is something that you'll defiantly enjoy because you do not have any kind of overlays whatsoever, also you get all the updates directly from Google early early.

Push notifications (tweets, texts, Facebook notifications etc.) seemed to come in a little faster on my Samsung Galaxy Note 2, but Android 4.2.2 organised them in a much nicer fashion, It also comes with Google Now, On a typical day it would show me the weather, the route to work and back home (depending on the time) and my schedule for the day (appointments, events, birthdays etc), It attempts to guess what you are after based on contextual cues and show you "cards" of that content.

Lastly, it doesn't support 4G (or LTE), which Zain and Umniah are in the process of releasing in Jordan. Which means it may feel a little out of date before too long, but most people aren't downloading large amounts of data with their smartphone anyway. 3G is still pretty fast.

Wrap-up





The good:

● High build quality and design.

● The outstanding stability of stock Android.

● First in line to get updates.

● The very crispy HD IPS screen.

The bad:

● Lack of 4G LTE.

● Lack of MicroSD card slot.

● Unmovable battery.

● Very breakable.

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