News - Google Nexus 4 and Google Nexus 10 officially announced

[Obscurity]

Almost certainly getting the Nexus 4. Although i would like either a larger storage or SD card compatible edition to be released.

[drakioned]

a) Cost
b) Yield issues. Ask Apple.
c) GPUs powerful enough to drive games and similarly demanding software at those resolutions are lacking. iPad 3 owners often complained that games ran better on the iPad 2.
d) !!!

I don't accept the cost, if they can put it in a £300 tablet, they can put it in a £1200 laptop.

Yield, again, surely that resolution on 15" or 17" must be easier to make than a 10".

GPU powerful enough... eh, again, if a Tegra 3 can power it, a 680M or a 7970M definitely can... if we have to turn down the AA, I'm okay with that.

!!! is right!

[Doherz]

£279 for the 16gb Nexus 4 is a bargain. No 4g isn't brilliant but now EE has priced 4g into uselessness I think I have found my next phone.

[kingpotnoodle]

Almost certainly getting the Nexus 4. Although i would like either a larger storage or SD card compatible edition to be released.

It's not gonna happen I think, there are plenty of apps that improve automatic sync/backup etc - use one and setup your phone to offload your latest photos and sync the recent tunes etc when you get on your home WiFi... 16GB is a lot of storage for apps, mp3 and 8MP photos, you have to be a serious HD movie freak or audio nut to have real problems, in which case I suggest this isn't the device you are looking for as the screen is too small to appreciate full HD and the audio circuitry is probably not up to the job of doing justice to FLAC rips and high end cans. It is only £239-279 after all.

[Singh400]

Sub-300 is a frigging steal. I'm getting one. It's the perfect upgrade from my HTC Desire!

[neonplanet40]

Nexus 10: If the 32GB one was cheaper or it had an sd slot id buy now. But not at the current price as 16GB isn't enough.

[Caveman]

Id order the Nexus 4 if it had a memory slot. 16Gb isn't enough for me and 8GB should be unacceptable now 'n days.

I know the price is cheap however charging £40 for an extra 8gb when you could buy a 64GB SDXC card for the same price seems a little unfair. I was looking to upgrade my HTC IS but for now i'll wait for something else.

[Singh400]

Id order the Nexus 4 if it had a memory slot. 16Gb isn't enough for me and 8GB should be unacceptable now 'n days.

I know the price is cheap however charging £40 for an extra 8gb when you could buy a 64GB SDXC card for the same price seems a little unfair. I was looking to upgrade my HTC IS but for now i'll wait for something else.

I've never ever understood this argument. What the heck do you carry around that you need more than 16GBs?

[3dcandy]

I have 16 gig of music on my Galaxy S 3 - I see no need to have an mp3 as it's really good sound quality wise. I take some HD video's when I'm out too - huge filesizes there as well...

[dcwt2010]

The Nexus line is really for techs and developer types, as in not for usual media consumption. That's how I see it anyway. You get what you pay for, aside from memory storage there isn't a single phone out with the same specs and same price tag.

[Singh400]

I have 16 gig of music on my Galaxy S 3 - I see no need to have an mp3 as it's really good sound quality wise. I take some HD video's when I'm out too - huge filesizes there as well...

And you listen to 16GBs of music daily do you?

[Biscuit]

who can be arsed to change it daily :/

I like to have a fair amount of selection because who knows what i will fancy

[crossy]

(And you listen to 16GBs of music daily do you?) who can be arsed to change it daily :/ I like to have a fair amount of selection because who knows what i will fancy

Plus if you've got kids then you can arrange to have selections suitable for each of them. So if you're in the car and the radio's crap you can pair/connect your S3 to the stereo and they can listen to Paramore, One Direction, Alice Cooper, JLS, whatever. And there's still sufficient space for a selection suitable for ME.

And note that the sheer size of a 64GB card means that you don't get into the "Ooow, how come you don't have XXX by YYY" disappointment/argument because you're carrying your music library with you. And no, cloud services AREN'T the answer - due to 3G patchiness and carrier imposed data limits.

[Funkstar]

^^ That's really why my iPod classic lives in the car. complete with about 2,000 albums

[Caveman]

I've never ever understood this argument. What the heck do you carry around that you need more than 16GBs?

Well my maps folder is around 2GBs in size, I have a fair bit of music and I carry a few films for when im on the train.

Pictures taken on my phone came out at around 1-2MBs, and general recording @ 720p comes out at around 0.6MB/s a sec, a 3min recording is 100MBs give or take.

Being limited to 16GBs means I will have to constantly delete or transfer films and whatnot from phone to computer because im out of space or getting very close to it which becomes time consuming and inconvenience.

Why do you need 5TBs of storage on your PC. Do you watch that many BluRay films? No, you probably have it for convenience of not having to constantly move/delete/transfer etc.

[eunoia]

"Does anything in the new Nexus line-up particularly entice the readers?"

Actually yes. Anything and everything!