[Nexus 4 General] limpopo:
1. LTE

(a) Using Qualcomm's latest modem, MDM9615, you can support a lot of air interfaces, especially if you pair it with the WTR-1605 transceiver (that wasn't quite ready in sufficient volume for iphone 5). Read Anandtech for an explanation, and also look at what Nokia is releasing with the 820 and 920. Multiple LTE band support is not that big of a deal, and the bill of materials for LG/Google would have made no difference to them - they are probably using this stuff semi-crippled anyway.

(b) It's not just about the USA, the UK or any other individual country. Doesn't matter if there are carrier politics etc. Just release a phone with support for 700,800,900,1800,2600 or whatever bands you think are most widespread. It is supposed to be a global phone!

(c) Google wants people to use the cloud? Provide them with the best data transfer speeds - give them LTE.

(d) It doesn't matter how many people right now have affordable LTE plans. LTE is coming, and will have an aggressive roll-out, because ultimately it saves the carriers money. It gives them a more efficient network, and they will soon integrate Voice over LTE, giving them unified voice/data networks. This is all supported in Qualcomm's current silicon. Ship it! Obviously, Google would rather sell you an LTE version next year - but we don't have to like that.

2. Not putting in a micro-SD slot is lame. People like having the option of expandable storage. Go with 8/16GB internal plus micro-SD. Wouldn't cost them anything to do it, and if it confuses people, guess what, they don't have to use the slot. And the internal storage can be fast, so we don't need to hear all that cr*p about "poor user experience" from people using slow cards. If people buy a card, they get to choose how slow of a card they put in.

I seriously don't even think it would hurt Google's business model. I get that they make money from the Cloud, but people with decent storage still use the Cloud, because it is complementary to what they can otherwise do.

3. Some people like being able to remove batteries. Why not allow them to do this? This phone isn't even "unibody" or whatever stupid reason marketing people come up with for crippling phones and reducing their service life. Yes, some will get out the screwdrivers for a DIY-job when their battery can no longer hold a charge.

4. Nexus phones are literally the ONLY phones in the Android ecosystem that get anything like decent support in terms of OS updates. Therefore, if Nexus phones have glaring shortcomings, it is a big problem for people who would otherwise like to use the Android ecosystem. Therefore, they like to complain abut the shortcomings.

5. I do get the fact that Google has to avoid pissing off the OEMs too much, so all Nexus phones have to be gimped in a few ways. I'm sure we could all specify different types of gimping that would better suit our own usage models. I accept the Nexus cannot be too much of an all-rounder, but there is nothing wrong with discussing the implementation here.

6. No 5GHz wifi? Now that is really lame also.

7. I personally will buy the phone anyway, but I don't have to like all of the hardware choices that were made. Nothing wrong with discussing that in a phone forum, and I just don't get all this whiny "delete the thread" BS from all the apologists out there. Do you all work for Google or something? If this debate doesn't interest you, just go away - there's lots of other threads around for you to boast about how great your phone is.