[Nexus 4 General] danielsf:
I noticed that endgadet was the only reviewer who said the nexus 4 screen looked washed out and not good, others said it was very similar to the iphone 5 and htc one x (which even-though I had an s3, I though the one x has the best screen to date, just couldn't live with a tegra 3 chip in a £500 phone :P ) Anyway opened the box and looked at the phone, but the screen looked bad. I thought it was me overreacting to the screen due to all my past smartphones having AMOLED screens. But I then noticed it looked worse than my nexus 7, which is known to have a slightly dull screen. Went to O2 (phone shop) and to my shock they had a nexus 4 on display. I compared the screens on both and mine looks so much less bright on max, contrast was significantly worse so things looked a lot less sharp. Finally the colors, especially greys, I have never seen looking so bad, and man I know about bad grey reproduction... I had a galaxy s2, which had horrendous color artifacts and yellow tint on greys and the htc desire which displayed anything grey as pink :eek: The color reproduction looked so wrong and way washed out on my screen. Also the washed out problem was much worse on low brightness, but for the play store the photo's attached below had to be both at max brightness so it doesn't show through the images quite as well.

So after seeing the shop nexus 4 which looked the same quality as the iphone 5 and htc one x. I phoned up google play to ask for an advanced replacement (new whole replacement process thanks to 3 faulty nexus 7's :crying:) and they asked me to send a a few photo's comparing O2's and my nexus 4 so the technician who will look at my phone can see why I though it was faulty and if lg say that my device is fine, we have something to show them to argue that it isn't so I won't be charged. Basically it gives me some protection. :) Anyway got sent a link to buy a nexus 4, which I won't be charged for. Just waiting for that to come in the post.

I really hope my next device isn't faulty like that but using deduction we can deduce that the dull screen to nice screen ratio is small if Engadget out of the hundred or so reviews I have watched are the only ones to say it has a bad screen. So I remain positive that my next one will be alright because if google can fix the low battery life for the devices hardware it will be my main phone. Because the screen on the shops nexus 4 was nicer than my galaxy s3's and the performance is night and day better, the multitasking is just... wow on the n4. I want the n4 to be my main phone so much, but the battery difference between the s3 and n4 is just too much to ignore. Who knows if my screen is bad, hopefully my battery is too. Wishing for a fault, there's a new one :P

Lastly, sorry about this post being long, it has been a very long day and I'm, struggling to collect my thoughts so I have just waffled a lot of this post. My aim of this is just to highlight to anyone there are a few devices out there with a iffy screen and I hope this post helps someone in noticing it so they can get a new one :) Anyway I hope this post helps someone :)

Edit: just attached an image of the nexus 7 vs my n4, as you can see my n4 look horrendous next to my n7 and the nexus 7 is supposed to have the worse screen of the two. Both are at lowest brightness.