Nexus 4 Availibility

[jonathonball]

Google made the Nexus 4 available to purchase again recently. The website says will ship in 2-3 weeks. My confirmation e-mail says 6 weeks. And then this morning, two days after ordering, I have a tracking number: order has shipped.

Looks like Google/LG finally have things on track. Can't wait to have this phone in my hand.

 

[ComputerBox34]

Google really needs to hire someone on Amazon who can actually design an online shopping system correctly.

 

[jonathonball]

Agreed, the whole ordering process for this phone felt duct taped together.

 

[Eshelmen]

See?
Patience is a virtue.

 

[bufodr_T]

I ordered mine monday night and is scheduled for delivery tomorrow.

 

[jonathonball]

Phone came two hours ago. 19835 in AnTuTu benchmark. Phone is awesome. It's literally taking 100% of my restraint to not unlock it and start loading ROMs

 

[ComputerBox34]

Phone came two hours ago. 19835 in AnTuTu benchmark. Phone is awesome. It's literally taking 100% of my restraint to not unlock it and start loading ROMs

You should at least unlock it and get it over with because once you do unlock, it will reset the phone.

 

[Eshelmen]

Is it not already unlocked?
I thought that was one of the pros of having the Nexus 4?

 

[ComputerBox34]

Is it not already unlocked?
I thought that was one of the pros of having the Nexus 4?

Radio is unlocked. Not the bootloader

 

[jonathonball]

if it's like my crespo was it should be as simple as "fastboot oem unlock"

 

[jonathonball]

You should at least unlock it and get it over with because once you do unlock, it will reset the phone.

I'll probably do a full wipe before I load a new ROM anyway.

 

[JayteeBates]

Mine came in 3 days and I ordered it as soon as it came back in stock.

 

[entropism]

I'll probably do a full wipe before I load a new ROM anyway.

A: You should ALWAYS do that
B: You'll need to unlock the bootloader to load new roms.

 

[kllrnohj]

Is it not already unlocked?
I thought that was one of the pros of having the Nexus 4?

It's *unlockable* but not unlocked by default. Google fully supports unlocking it, which is the key difference. However doing so will wipe data as a security precaution (otherwise if your phone is stolen someone could just unlock it and get at all your data)

 

[PureBooYah]

Mine came in 3 days and I ordered it as soon as it came back in stock.

Same. Had mine since Monday and it has already managed to slide itself off of a table onto a tile floor. Got lucky, only a few nicks, nothing too noticable. :/ It's like a small child, you can't leave it unattended.