[Nexus 4 General] DrunkFuX666:
Haha... yes i did say it looked hideous... i mean... the original blue and white were horrendous... i think the new colours are more palatable... esp the grey and maroon... tho the finishing on the initial phones was soooooo frikkiinnngggg bad... seemed like they gave a kindergarten student a paintbrush and said jaao beta... paint karo, paint... but the new ones are better i admit... love the note2 in titanium grey... its awesome...

having said that... some calculations to put forth... i ordered the nexus from the canada play store the other day... not sure if i mentioned... total amount being $422... canadian... which is about RS.41k... thats accompanied by a 4 week wait and then later waiting for shipment to pakistan with someone...

on the contrary i may be able to get the nexus for $450 from the US... which comes to about 43.5k... with immediate delivery and should have it in the next few weeks in hand... so im probably gonna go with the US and pay the extra 2.5k... its still better than the 49k pakistani pricetag...

but the fact of the matter remains... i think saying it will sell for 18k after a few months is really going out on a limb... the galaxy nexus wholesale atm is at 31k new... which is not bad... and its selling alot... the reason why it flopped here was the extremely high price tag... while being blatantly obvious that its inferior to the s2 in terms of specs... hence noone thought twice when it came to deciding between a s2 and a nexus... the s2 always won... it only started selling when its price came down to the 38 range while the s2 stayed at 42... then it became the cheaper option hence began to sell... so at the end of the day... its all about the numbers... but at the same time i think the pakistani population gives the camera more imp than anything else...

in the case of the s3 vs the nexus4... its a much more balanced fight compared to the galaxy nexus vs the s2... last year it was a 1ghz dual core with a 5mp camera and no expandable memory to a 1.2gh dualcore with a 8mp camera witth expandable memory...

this time its a 1.5ghz quadcore with 2gb ram and a 8mp camera vs a 1.4ghz quadcore with 1gb ram and a 8mp camera... memory issues being as of last year... but as you can see... because the cameras are at the same MP's... the paki population really doesnt bother getting into the nitty gritty of whats actually better... all they see is "8mp"... hence balances the 2 out... over here the ONLY thing not in the n4 favour is being a LG... its the curse of a Good Life... but i think it will do alot better than its predecessor... tho yes the pakistani population doesnt seem to understand $350 is exclusive of tax and shipping and ends up being more... but they probably wont be willing to pay more than 35k for it... which i guess is fine... because looking at the way things are going and the backlog of phones... there wont be a surpluss of nexus stock for atleast another 2 months... and untill that doesnt happen... the nexus probably wont drop more than 45k... as the s3 is also down to 45 without warranty new... hence i think i can still digest the nexus pitch at 44k and get it NOW... rather than wait for months to see what it may have in store...