[Nexus 4 General] dlads:
Spotted this thread from the web and thought i'd put my two cents out there.

I own an S3 i9300 and it's been a stellar phone, rooted from hour 1 old and hasn't had any real issues so far, I've pushed and pushed this phone to the limit in terms of overclocking and what it can run, certain games have come up with lags and glitches (most recently wild blood) but for the most part it has ticked every box, i thought the internal memory was a little low (16GB) but after running the script to switch internal to external, my internal is now 64GB for all apps, plus the 16GB old internal is of use as extra storage, so very happy with that, battery life has been very good too, lasting a little over a day and a half with moderate usage.

As a phone it has been solid and hasn't had any call drops i can speak of, i know a few people came to me with these issues from the first batch that was released but i never had this problem.

The N4 first caught my eye because i've always kept a close one on googles phones and they've all been ahead of the game after each release, i don't know a single person who owns a google flagship who didn't like it.

The N4 is no exception, it feels solid in the hand (something i feel the s3 is lacking), it looks very sleek and the build quality is brilliant (although i feel that the glitzy back cover is a little bit boogie nights for me, the battery appears to last a little longer than the S3, much to my dismay.

Gaming actually felt a little smoother on the N4, possibly due to the games that i was playing being GPU intensive and i think the extra stick of ram played a part, benchmarks were also higher on the N4, bar a couple, having said that i hadn't rooted the n4 so that probably played a pretty big part too.

I did like the screen on the n4 but prefer the s3, it just looks more vibrant to me.

Oh and the price is a drop in the ocean in comparison to the S3 which is always nice :)

However, the N4 has a huge, huge problem, massive to me actually, something that the One X also let me down on...

The Storage!! Why oh why didn't google think about the external storage thing? They appear to be a very innovative company and say that they listen to their customers, I don't know a soul on the planet who prefers to have inbuilt storage without the capacity to add more.

16GB is nowhere near enough for me and a lot of users for apps alone let alone pics, high res videos, music and files, a 32GB version would be nice but I think that 64GB would have just stole the show and made it a no brainer for literally everyone, and versus the rest of the specs, 2GB ram, quad krait, large battery, solid GPU i think it's what they should have went with, 32GB a bare minimum, the 8GB iteration is pointless for me, for some maybe it's great, perhaps someones mum or someone who doesn't want to play Nova 3 after a game of Modern Combat 4, i don't know.

It's this achillies heel that has kept me on the S3, which is a shame because i do like the N4, but it just means that as my main phone i cannot use it, i simply have too much data luggage to carry and the N4 just doesn't have the capacity.

Now google had a chance to rectify this issue by making usb otg readily available but they didn't? I find that strange and confusing, a card connected via a small cable would have looked stupid but would have given you a chance to connect at least something for media, maybe someone would have made a case with an inbuilt sd reader?

Ah and the battery, it's locked in, i understand googles position on this, they want people to buy another phone two years down the line, the battery will have been heavily degraded and forcing people to remove the case and change the battery (something a lot of us would find quite simple) for most people this simply wouldn't happen, almost making them buy another phone, again not a good thing from google, i know they're a big company and of course they want to make money but at least give people the choice off the bat.

So for me, the S3 wins again, and i'm not being biased, i really wanted to like this phone and although i could probably live with it, I don't like being hampered by the limitations it brings like this, it's avoidable and it shouldn't have been overlooked.

Close but no cigar.

:)