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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morejaylesswar:
From my job, I have an extensive in-store experience with all of those, except for the E5. There is a HUGE difference from setting someone's phone up, showing them a bit of cool features, and then having them sign a contract, as opposed to actually owning it and going home with the device to make it your own.

I love the ability to make drag and drop folders that ICS added. I'm hoping to get the same clean experience that I've gotten used to, but I just want more. iOS isn't cutting it anymore.

I will miss the keyboard, though. :(
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morejaylesswar:
"Glorified dumb phone" -- Couldn't have put it better.

Right now, I'm at the point where customizations are so limited with my iPhone. I want widgets and I want to be able to move my icons where I want them and not be locked to this stupid grid. I've also ALWAYS complained about downloading apps and being kicked out of the app store to my desktop to watch the damned thing download and install. Now that they've added the ability to stay in the app store, it seems like "too little, too late."

I haven't even bothered with jailbreaking my 4s, because I know it still won't do the things that I've seen Android OS phones do.

I feel like I've reached my peak with my iPhone experience and I'd prefer so much more. I just don't want it to feel like some huge trade off because of the little idiosyncratic things that iOS has done for me. It's been very intuitive. I only used Android 2.3 for 5 months before going back to an iPhone. I didn't do much with it other than complain for 2 and a half months! LOL!

From what I hear, 4.2 on the Nexus is the best Android experience yet. That's what made me purchase it without even having a handson experience with it yet.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zaimojin:
I came over from iOS, after being with the operating system since my first smart phone, the iPhone 3GS. (I had the 4S just before).

I'm very enthralled by my tech gadgets, and the iPhone is no exception. I jailbroke it, tweaked it to my liking, and have been content with its functionality. However, when I saw the price of this phone--also it's factory unlocked--I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to try out Android. I was a bit apprehensive at first to switch over to something completely new, but for me, the transition has been seamless.

I actually avoid much of the cloud-based systems from Apple because I have been with Google to begin with, so the integration of contacts, email, and music were such a relief, and extremely useful. The widgets in Android are analogous to Dashboard X, if you are familiar, but so much better because of their native integration.

I received my Nexus 4 the week of release, and I haven't run into any problems since then. The customization is just as awesome--if you're into that--and it's actually much better on Android because of the limitations set by iOS.

Hopefully this is useful! I'll be happy to provide any more insight if you need.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morejaylesswar:
Your train of thought seemed to be the same as mine. I saw the price-point and that it was unlocked and figured "what the heck?" This could be my only opportunity to try something new for such an awesome price. I spend that kind of money on my newest iPhone models plus a case to be locked into AT&T (snow Sprint... whew! Don't get me STARTED) to have the same features that I've already had.

The price point is enough trade off for me to buy out of my contract with Sprint and utilize one of the dealer-lines that I get for working where I do. They all require me to provide my own phone, so this is the perfect chance to do so.

As far as customizations, I haven't done anything since my 3Gs because I haven't jailbroken my 4 or 4s. I would LOVE to do more. It's just so hard to get anything done when your have the stock icons and a stock grid. Hell, my Mars Blackmon "theme" is all kinds of ruined (see the attachment). I'm anxious to get into a few more things.

Also, I, like you, have been using google since the days of the invite. So, I'm pretty sure that will be EASY AS EVER to get all of my contacts and stuff over. I'm excited about that. The thing is, I'm so deep into the Apple ecosystem. For example, my iPhone notes automatically update on my MacBook. The same goes for reminders and notifications. I like that. I feel like I'm going to miss that a lot.

Oh, and how's the music player? I'm really OCD when it comes to the organization of the music on my phone.

I don't mind not having expandable memory or LTE. Hell, I haven't had it for this long. LOL! HSPA+ will be a huge improvement over my 0.23mbps averaging Speed Tests on Sprint's network.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zaimojin:
I can empathize with you with syncing of notes/reminders/things Google doesn't handle because I have an iPad as well. It wasn't too huge of a loss for me because I use a Windows laptop, and my school email is integrated with gmail so the tasks work well. It definitely is something to consider though since you have a MacBook.

If I were in your shoes, it would be difficult to lose all those features because of convenient it makes everything. I'm guessing real world testing will be the only way for you to decide if you can be without it or not.

As far as the music player, I'm particularly OCD about the organization as well. It's not bad, nor is it exceptional; it does what it needs to. Since getting the Nexus, I've uploaded my music into Google Music and have been streaming it all since then--I have the grandfathered unlimited data plan from the 3GS--and it hasn't given me much issues.

The

only

thing I can say for certain that I sorely miss is music controls via the hardware volume buttons. I used them all the time to avoid taking my phone out of my pocket, or looking at my phone while driving. Fortunately, the feature should be brought back with ROMs in the near future, so there's not really much encouraging me to go back to my 4S.

I actually bought the 16 gb Nexus 4 because the 8 gb wasn't enough space, and I've sold the 8gb while waiting for the 16 gb to come in. I'm using my 4S again tentatively until the 16 gb comes in, and I can't believe how important screen real estate is. I really don't appreciate the 3.5 inch screen on the iPhone, nor the elongated 4 inch screen on the 5; the Nexus 4 really nice. The bigger screen size is much more useful for watching videos, and all around usage since you can see more.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hung0702:
You've got to ask yourself a few questions. Do I need any advanced functionality? Is it extremely beneficial to be able to glance at my phone and get a lot of information at once? Are there any platform-specific apps that I use?

My father is an older gentleman and only uses his phone to call, text, check email, and check his bank accounts. He occasionally takes pictures, but he's a photographer so he prefers to use his DSLR. I certainly recommend that users like this can use an iPhone and be more content than they would with Android. The iPhone dictates your usage, which can be useful if you don't really know what you have to do. The problem with Android is that the experience from one app to another can be very different. Further, you have so much freedom, it can be difficult to know what to do.

Also, here's a little album that has some of the customizations I made to my phone. Note the navigation bar colors, the widgets, the different dpi (text size) among different apps. I can really do what I want with the phone, however limited phone OSes may be at the moment.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] germanj:
I will put it simply. If you are considering a switch because iPhone feels too locked down, its because it is and you have been spoiled by Android. Android does all iOS does and much more and to a higher level of complexity. I was a former iPhone user and I love that now I am able to use MY phone however I want, not how Apple intended. I can use my phone as hotspot, create an FTP, share any file via NFC or Bluetooth, use whatever ringtone, download whatever typr file I want and being able to open it, sideload apks, pretty much anything I imagine. And no iTunes, either. Good old drag and drop, usable as a pen drive for that matter.

If you are not somebody who is satisfied by simplicity, but rather seeks customizability and expandability, then it's a no brainer. Especially at that price point.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keepittidy:
I have come from a similar position as you morejaylesswar. (iPhone 3 -> 3GS -> 4 -> 4S) I'll give you my quick and dirty opinions after having my Nexus 4 for nearly 3 weeks now. Good and bad.

GOOD:

I love the freedom of android compared to IOS, you can just do so much more. Even more than a jailbroken iphone.

The screen size is great, at first i thought it was maybe a bit big for me but it didn't take long to get used to it, going back to my 4S which i still have seems way to small now in comparison.

Widget, widget, widgets!! i will say no more than that :o

NFC, i love using NFC tags for switching profiles e.t.c like switching bluetooth on, wifi off and launching the music player for when i get in my car.

EQ for the music player, this was one of my BIG issues with IOS. Why they never added just a simple 3 or 5 band EQ to the iphone i will never know.

BAD:

The camera on the nexus is poor compared to the 4S, outdoor shots in good light are ok but anything else is frustratingly bad, slow shutter speed, noisy images and a flash thats WAY too bright.

Music apps, this is obviously a personal one but if you like using music production apps (Korg e.t.c) you will be disappointed by the lack of apps on the play store, something to do with the lag thats inherent in the android os.

Battery life, my standby time is good but actually using the phone eats the battery like hell, of course this is to be expected with such a large screen but it is just a bit of a shock when first coming over from the 4S.

All in all the goods outweigh the bads for me by a long way, and i can only see me loving android (and my Nexus) more and more as i learn more about android and what i can do with it. I was bored with IOS, i didn't think it had evolved enough in the last few years and had become a bit stale.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Argenist:
Things I miss about my iPhone 4/5.

iMessages (medium issue)

In areas where I have wifi and no cell signal (ie: work), it was convenient for me to communicate with people who had iOS

Size (minor issue)

Some people will argue this, but my i5 was perfect for jogging, I could hold it in my hand, switch tunes, even text one handed.. a little trickier on the N4 but not impossible.

LTE (minor issue)

Yes I do miss it, it's not as big of an issue but I did love the fast speeds that were available in my city.

Screen (very minor issue)

Side by side the i5's screen (to me) is a tad bit better than the N4.

All in all though, I am very satisfied with the N4. I thought I'd be reaching for my iPhone 5 again (I have a nano converter so I can easily switch it back out) but I find myself just using the N4 exclusively now. As people have said the customization will keep you busy for a while, and just the sheer amount of things you can do vs iOS is just night and day.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CrazyPeter:
Just use Google Talk, it's an open platform that's not just locked to Apple users, you can type, voice call, or video call anyone. Be it Android, Apple, PC or whatever...

The reason I would never touch any Apple product is it's proprietary nature that use to lock users in (hardware connectors, quicktime format, iCloud/iMessage etc)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morejaylesswar:
Being that I am a Mac user, iTunes (unfortunately) is a huge part of my life. I hate the time it takes to sync my iPhone. I mean, seriously, there is years worth of stuff in my iTunes. I'm a music hoarder. '

You're right, dealing with Android everyday, I'm a bit spoiled. In my down times at work, I'd rather browse on the Galaxy S III at my job than my own phone. I haven't gotten into messing around with it for more than what I do on my iPhone and that's just browsing, updating my social networks, and watching videos. It's just because I don't know WHAT to do. I know I can do more, but man, that's all I can do on my iPhone. LOL. I haven't downloaded an app in forever while I'm out because Sprint's network is PAINFULLY SLOW. I wish I would've stuck with AT&T.

Google boasts having over 700,000 apps. I'm looking forward to getting into that. I also haven't owned an Android device since it went to the "Play Store." The 'Market' was one of my big complaints when I used Android. It just wasn't my well known 'App Store.' Google Play has come a HECK OF A LONG WAY. Man, I'm impressed at how clean it looks and how user friendly it is.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keepittidy:
Oh yes i forgot one more thing...

The search facility on the Nexus is nowhere near as good as the Spotlight search on IOS. You cannot for example type a name in and have it show all emails, texts, notes, calendar things related to that search. Also there is no option to search within any exchange email accounts you have setup.

To say that google is the king of search engines this is a little disappointing :(
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morejaylesswar:
The music apps is why I have to keep a mobile Apple product. I've already figured that it would be my iPad, since I use that the least. I'm a musician, songwriter, and recording and mix engineer. There are so many apps that make my life easy when it comes to that stuff. I have apps that control my recording consoles, actual mobile DAWs that allow me to sketch ideas out and export them into their full counterparts on my Mac.

I know that I will be having some tradeoff with the Nexus S speaker vs the iPhone speaker. When I'm at home, but not in my studio, I use my iPhone speaker to play the music that I am writing to at the time. I don't use headphones to write, because I need to hear myself as I go over the material.

Damn, another thing I will miss is the ability to control my iTunes if I have something playing there, but am pacing around my workspace while I'm writing. Unless there is an app that allows me to control those kinds of things wirelessly on Android. That'd be pretty dope.

I'm interested to see how the battery performs. Despite EVERYONE saying the 4s had horrible battery life... I've gotten 1.5 to 2 days out of it sometimes. But that's because I don't run many apps because of my network and all I do is read sports news on it right now. I feel so caged, lol.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morejaylesswar:
Google had that on the Galaxy Nexus until Apple sued them over it and made them change the search because "they had that idea patented." (BREAKING: They also have breathing through the nose, walking upright, and the opposable thumb patented, too.) The less informed customers that shop at my location were nervous that Apple would make them forfeit their device over those lawsuits. LOL. It was so strange.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morejaylesswar:
iMessage has saved my life on more than one occasion. Most recently, my brother hadn't paid his half of the phone bill and our phone service was cut off. I had no idea until I was running late for work because of traffic and had to call into my job to let someone know. Long story short, I was able to turn on my hotspot (provided by my job) and iMessage someone to let them know of the situation.

As far as the screen size, most people laugh at me because of how small the iPhone looks in my hands. I'm 6'8" and can palm a basketball with ease. So, holding the Nexus 4 will probably be more natural to my hand than the iPhone is. I'm just used to it.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morejaylesswar:
Yea, I definitely had to do the 16GB, because of how much music I have. I'm certain that my music will overtake this phone... So much so that I'm thinking about just getting an iPod for my car.

Unlimited data is precisely why I chose T-Mobile over AT&T. When I left AT&T last year, I obviously forfeited my unlimited. I don't use much data now (again, blame Sprint) but if I have to do a lot of cloud based things, I'd much rather be on T-Mobile. As well, in my area, when I speed test the T-Mobile phones at my store, I get about 15-20mbps on TMO HSPA+ 42 over AT&T's 3-5mbps on HSPA+ 14.1.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] germanj:
There are hundreds of apps that make your transition from iTunes a breeze. But for perspective, also note there are no apps of this nature in iOS. For example, Kies software from Samsung. A lot of free apps from the market, such as DoubleTwist, easysync, etc. But you don't even need an app for ios->android, once more thanks to the openness (?) of the OS. On iTunes preferences there is a box that let's it organize everything in their own folders (iTunes media folder, Michael Jackson, bad, for example). Its all organized, you would just need to drag and drop into the phone music folder and Google Music takes care of the rest. Not to mention the plethora of music apps.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dollarhero:
i4 to n4

Hi,

I got my first smartphone the iPhone 4 2 years and it was a great phone. But yeah it felt locked down comparing to what other phones could do. However, jailbreak did fill in that gap for me.

I got the Nexus 4 right away as I heard about it and it is a great improvement. My favorite feature has to be Swype.. I cannot go back to my the traditional keyboard anymore since I text A LOT! Besides that, a lot of the features match the iOS(jailbroken ofcourse) but they feel much more smoother on the android (probably cuz this is much a newer phone with awesome specs). The big screen experience is also amazing, just looking at my i4 now feels so tiny. The customization with widgets is also a nice plus, even though i don't use it much.

Other features that may interest you that are only on Android:

Mighty text: Text from your computer from anywhere using your phone service (great at work)!

Multi Live Picture: very nice customization

Launchers: I find it amusing swtiching between launchers and getting the option of so many different looks, comparing to the i4's traditional grid look (even though I ran dream board, it did not quiet feel good)

Thats all I can think of on top of my head. You have to try it out yourself to see.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morejaylesswar:
I prefer drag-and-drop as opposed to sync-and-wait-fifteen-minutes. I've always wished that I could add what I wanted from my iTunes, instead of adding everything that's there. I think I still have DoubleTwist on my computer from when I had my Atrix. I don't mind just dragging and dropping, though. So much easier.

Quick question, though: Can you use Kies with phones other than Samsung? That'd help me out a lot at work when people switch from iPhones to Android. I typically recommend DoubleTwist, but I like Kies better. I thought that was only for Samsung phones, though.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibegary:
You were hit by a block of text for 9235933593 damage.

You have died.

LOADING. PLEASE WAIT.

In all seriousness, I came from a iPhone 4S. I was with Android a little bit at first but I hated how laggy it was and how apps didn't look high quality. They look poor (sort of how the internet looked back in 1995).

When I got off my iPhone 4S I was thinking of switching to an iPhone 5 but this turned me off:

1) Apple's strict app policy - they wont allow Google Maps probaboly because of competition.

2) No Widgets, was tired of a junky looking home screen

3) iPhone 5, yay LTE but booo that it only gave you an extra row of icons.
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I figured I would try android again (cause this phone was cheap in comparsion) and I knew I could re-sale and make my money back if I didn't like.

I love this phone but I did have a few bumps/scars:

1) The battery life after it was all said and done was HORRIBLE. I had to use CPU Spy, No Frills CPU and GSAM to monitor my battery and processes to find out what was killing it. After I got those straightened out - I get better battery life than I did on my iphone 4s.

2) I miss the Do not Disturb feature.

- I use NFC Task and do this by scanning an NFC tag. Still I wish I could put it on a schedule.

3) I miss facetime with my wife (who wont leave her iphone 4s for nothing)

4) No sleep timer in the google music player.

- I had a widget that would do sleep timer, but it kept the phone from deep sleeping (which killed battery).​

5) Had to turn off Latitude Location Sharing. I use to share my location with friends but anything with GPS just eats the battery. I hope they can fix it in the future.

6) I miss the lock screen notifications but this really is a light point with me

What I like:

1) Buttery smooth.

2) OS and Apps look 100x better than what they did in Eclair/FroYo.

3) Love love love love the widgets

4) Notification Bar is so much more organized than it is in IOS.

5) I dont have to 'design a nuclear generator' just to add a notification tone or a ringtone.

6) Google Play on the cloud is a hell of alot more friendlier and easier than the iCloud (dont have to shell out $$$ for iTunes match)

7) Got rid of the damn bubble SMS app. I like the SMS app in here cause it doesnt have the stupid bubbles.

8) Web Browser auto fits text. I dont have to scroll left to right like I did on the iphone when I zoom in on text.

9) I get more screen area than I would have with an iphone 5 (IMHO).
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Hope this helps.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morejaylesswar:
Thank you!

I've tried to use Swype, but I'm more of a pick-and-peck kind of texter. Swype just feels wrong. LOL. I can type with my eyes closed and upside down on my iPhone keyboard. It hasn't changed in 5 years, besides adding the voice-to-text button. I'm nervous about having to learn the Nexus 4 keyboard. Muscle memory is a mother-effer. My thumbs are too used to hitting a certain spot on a screen to get to the punctuation. I always mess up when I'm typing on an Android phone.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morejaylesswar:
LOL @ THE RED. LMAO.

A lot of the stuff you've highlighted are the things that I use, but I do think what you've added has given me an ease of mind with the transfer.

Has anyone rooted Android and customized it enough to add those little homescreen notifications? Lord, it'll take forever for me to get used to that. I just like knowing who texted me or what my phone is going off for. ESPECIALLY ScoreCenter. I like having it right there. I don't have to unlock my phone and go into the app to see what's happening while I'm at work.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dollarhero:
If i'm not mistaken, you can have many different styles of keyboard on the android. One of them which even has the iPhone keyboard layout look if you prefer ( from the google play store).

I personaly like the N4 keyboard over Iphone. and it has been 2 weeks now, I can swype with eyes closed!!, you should try it again!! it makes texting 10x faster (and more fun!!) for me anyways :D hehe
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morejaylesswar:
I'm going to try the Gesture typing with an open mind. Lol, I hope I don't hate it. I can tell you what I WOULD hate: An iPhone keyboard on an Android device. Aesthetically, it'd probably be extremely ugly.