Would you sell a Nexus 4 for a One X+ 64Gb?

[jacktesterson]

Well I did.. (Well - bought the One X+ anyways)

Doing so for the Camera more than anything. Hoping everything else satisfies me

 

[vshah]

i personally would not have made the switch to almost 1 year old hardware, but it sounds like it does everything you want.

 

[jacktesterson]

i personally would not have made the switch to almost 1 year old hardware, but it sounds like it does everything you want.

I was expecting this kind of reaction, honestly.


How I looked at it.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Personally if i was going to sit on a phone from last year it would be the Qualcomm S3 with 2GB RAM. But 64GB onboard is nice, and the better screen of the One X is nice.

 

[jacktesterson]

Personally if i was going to sit on a phone from last year it would be the Qualcomm S3 with 2GB RAM. But 64GB onboard is nice, and the better screen of the One X is nice.

What are you doing with 2GB of Ram? By the time its needed I'll have another phone anyways. I just checked my Nexus 4 I'm using about 450MB of ram right now with most of my regular apps opened in background.

Love the Nexus series - hate the cameras, hate OLED screens (2 previous gens). Just my taste. One X+ suits me the best now.


I would have taken the HTC One anyday as my phone - but its too expensive right now. In a year I might upgrade to it.

I don't keep phones much longer than a year anyways (past year a lot less), so this made sense to me.

 

[jacktesterson]

Kind of a pointless thread - I guess the general point is the Nexus Series still leaves some to be desired - If the camera wasn't so brutal in anything but perfect light I'd be happy to stay with it.

I love Team Venom roms for HTC phones too.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I don't keep phones much longer than a year anyways (past year a lot less), so this made sense to me.

Good point. I keep my phones for two years so I feel 2GB is necessary, but if you are just gonna flip the thing when KLP makes the 1GB phones hit their wall then its a good choice for you.

 

[ChronoReverse]

If only the X+ was 2GB instead of 1GB. Ridiculous that a refresh of the One X still had only 1GB.

The extra CPU power is less noticeable IMO while the extra space, camera and screen of the X+ is way better than the Nexus 4.

Dev is a significantly worse though. You can do some custom work but X+ does not have S-OFF and unlike the One, this has some more serious implications. Well, if it's not the AT&T model it can be bootloader unlocked via HtcDev at least but if it's the AT&T model and has the latest software, it can't be bootloader unlocked (not the same as SIM unlock).

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

As an AOSP lover, no. However, if it was just as easy to develop on the One X+ and I had a One X+ already, I wouldn't switch to a Nexus 4. I don't see how to justify switching back though. I guess if camera is that important to you and storage.

 

[Oyeve]

Yep. I dont know why all the nexus love but I find nexus shit boring. You want clean android I understand, but, imo, nexus branded devices are meh at best.

 

[jacktesterson]

HTC One X+ I have is bootloader unlocked and I already have Viper on it


Some benchmarks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eiAc0cpao4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[QueBert]

using my Nexus 4 for GPS in a window dock while plugged into my car charger on a semi warm day causes it to shut off it under 10 minutes 10/10 times.

Nexus 4 is STOCK ANDROIDZ!?!?! And it has TEH DEVELOPERS SUPPORT! AKOP! WOOP WOOP!?!

it's a phone with a seemingly crazy off contract price. But after owning one for 2 months, I see why it's priced like it is. Apparently Google told LG to cut every corner possible to make it doable at the price point.

 

[jacktesterson]

Will update shortly.

 

[jacktesterson]

After a few days use, here are my thoughts.

I will be staying with the Nexus 4 16GB

Things I noticed the past few days:

Nexus 4 Screen is terribly calibrated out of the box. When using Franco Kernel and his recommended settings, the screen is on par with the One X+. I even preferred it at times over the One X+. Stock - It's no comparison the One X+ is much better out of box.

One X+ Camera wipes its rear with the Nexus 4's camera. It really is that big of a difference indoors. Outdoors in Sunlight, the Nexus 4 is decent - but the One X+ really does smack it around pretty much all around.

The real reason I'm staying with the Nexus 4 - It feels so much faster and fluid in hand. Although the One X+ often outbenches it in CPU/Ram benchmarks, the GPU on the Nexus 4 is much much better than the One X+ and thus the phone feels more fluid. Maybe this is just sense related, but even with Custom Roms I just could not get the One X+ as fluid as my Nexus 4... and this kinda bothered me to the point I'm going to keep the Nexus 4. The Nexus 4 also feels in hand better, and has a more premium feel to it. The Tegra 3 sure does like to eat battery and get hot. It's worse in this regard than the N4 which kinda surprised me. CPU app's were fine, but anything that required the GPU to be utilized, like even games like "Candy Crush Saga" which I play, would make it eat battery like crazy.

The other big kicker is I bought the One X+ without checking out the Dev Scene which was dumb by me. I know I will miss this with the N4


Overall - I do believe the One X+ is an amazing phone and a better featured phone overall. The Camera App alone (and quality) is a huge selling point. But call me OCD but now that I'm used to the S4/320 level of smoothness, It bugs me that a high end phone lags just a smidge. Not enough to say it lags, just little quirks here and there.

Time to re-flip the phone - hope to break even.




DROID DNA Users - How does Sense 4+ perform for you? Just wondering if you notice any little quirks like I did on the One X+ .... I suspect the S4/320 handle it better, even with 1080p?

Don't get me wrong - the One X+ is a fast phone. It just has a little quirk in fluidity here and there that the N4 doesn't.

 

[Bateluer]

Personally if i was going to sit on a phone from last year it would be the Qualcomm S3 with 2GB RAM. But 64GB onboard is nice, and the better screen of the One X is nice.

Really? The Snapdragon S3 didn't really age all that well, and did any S3 based device have 2GB of RAM? Thought they all had 1GB of RAM.

 

[jacktesterson]

Really? The Snapdragon S3 didn't really age all that well, and did any S3 based device have 2GB of RAM? Thought they all had 1GB of RAM.

I think he meant S4 (Dual core Kraits like the S III )

I want a HTC One but its a little pricey at the moment outright.

 

[poofyhairguy]

All US S3s have 2GB of RAM, which makes them the best phone of last year.

In fact OP I believe your difference in experience is due to the lack of RAM compared to the N4, a US S3 with a worse GPU flies.

Hence why I think 2GB of RAM is the must have feature of 2013.

 

[jacktesterson]

Well - I just bought a brand new Xperia ZL for $400 - Going to give that a go again for a while.

damn my addiction to flipping and playing with smartphones.

Got a good deal and there is firmware out that fixes most of the early complaints with camera and battery issues.

 

[dguy6789]

Really? The Snapdragon S3 didn't really age all that well, and did any S3 based device have 2GB of RAM? Thought they all had 1GB of RAM.

Galaxy S3 not Snapdragon S3

 

[Bateluer]

Galaxy S3 not Snapdragon S3

My bad.

Lets blame Qualcomm's poor choice in branding.

 

[RedRooster]

Well - I just bought a brand new Xperia ZL for $400 - Going to give that a go again for a while.

damn my addiction to flipping and playing with smartphones.

Got a good deal and there is firmware out that fixes most of the early complaints with camera and battery issues.

I bought and returned a bell zl last weekend and LOVED the screen, but the bell bloatware and onlockable bootloader (didn't find out about that till after I bought it) turned me off. If I could find a stock zl so I could flash aosp or something on it, I'd take that 10/10 times over an s4. That Sony hardware is nice!