Both 8GB and 16GB variants of smartphone sold out.
Google's Nexus 4 smartphone, which launches globally today, sold out in just a few minutes after its launch.
Visitors to the Google Play store are now shown a "coming soon" notice for both the 8GB and 16GB versions of the handset. A variety of customers have reported that they've had trouble accessing the store or checking out successfully.
Elsewhere, the UK Google Play store also had its inventory of the Nexus 4 sell out in less than an hour of the order page opening. Dutch blog AndroidWorld, meanwhile, reports that a planned Netherlands launch for the device has been cancelled for now due to high demand in other regions.
The Nexus 4 was commended for its $299 starting price, with the device itself shipping with the latest Android version, Jelly Bean 4.2. Along with the 4-inch smartphone, Google also launched its Samsung-developed Nexus 10 tablet today.
Yeah, with the fastest CPU available on a phone, best screen around and 2GB RAM, suuuure it's obsolete.
Why post twice for the same comment? There are plenty of people that have noticed the lack of LTE radio and there are also reasons for that, also made available by Google for those that like to keep informed. Also, there have been tests ran with the 42Mbs HSDPA that made LTE almost irrelevant. The difference of a few ms shaved off by the LTE when loading a page is more than nullified by the inconvenience of having to build a few different models of the same phone for different LTE networks (because there are no truly universal LTE phones out there, not even the iPhone you mentioned). The LTE bands are so divided, it was not really worth the effort and the expense at this time, and Google made a brilliant move here, which was to make ONE device globally available on frequencies that are used worldwide.
Besides, the device if GSM, made for the majority of the world users, and not only for the Verizon LTE market. Could this be followed by a CDMA/LTE variant? It could, but Google wanted to show the networks the middle finger by letting the world buy unlocked phones and putting them on pre-paid plans.
And all that for an unbeatable price.
If anything, this is how the future should look like, with the consumer in charge of their devices, not the greedy networks, and this is the beginning of it.
Obsolete? ha! Think again.
Still don't like the decision of no SD in there though
Not to mention the Nexus 10 tablet... yeah, the one with the best screen in the world. He dropped it like a hot potato in the last half of the last sentence.
Lame reporting from a biased reporter.
I ordered one after about 4 hours, randomly hitting reload.
It's a last gen device as far as I'm concerned with no LTE. Even the iPhone has it now.
Can "the iPhone" sell at this cheap price and unlocked? Don't think so!
Yeah, with the fastest CPU available on a phone, best screen around and 2GB RAM, suuuure it's obsolete.
Why post twice for the same comment? There are plenty of people that have noticed the lack of LTE radio and there are also reasons for that, also made available by Google for those that like to keep informed. Also, there have been tests ran with the 42Mbs HSDPA that made LTE almost irrelevant. The difference of a few ms shaved off by the LTE when loading a page is more than nullified by the inconvenience of having to build a few different models of the same phone for different LTE networks (because there are no truly universal LTE phones out there, not even the iPhone you mentioned). The LTE bands are so divided, it was not really worth the effort and the expense at this time, and Google made a brilliant move here, which was to make ONE device globally available on frequencies that are used worldwide.
Besides, the device if GSM, made for the majority of the world users, and not only for the Verizon LTE market. Could this be followed by a CDMA/LTE variant? It could, but Google wanted to show the networks the middle finger by letting the world buy unlocked phones and putting them on pre-paid plans.
And all that for an unbeatable price.
If anything, this is how the future should look like, with the consumer in charge of their devices, not the greedy networks, and this is the beginning of it.
Obsolete? ha! Think again.
Lack of microSD is however regrettable. Any mobile device these days should have an HDMI, USB, and microSD slot as a general rule. I really wouldn't even mind paying Google for their streaming services, except again limited by the bandwidth caps. People are trapped in an era where offline storage is a necessity. Cloud dependence will never happen with these shackles on data plans.