Android phones are not known for their beauty. There have been bright spots here and there, like the Burtonesque originalDroid, the Nexus S and, more recently, the HTC One X. But for the most part, they’re not really known as sharp dressers.

The Nexus 4, coque iphone 7 emoji however, is a bit of a clothes horse. It’s dressed front and back with Gorilla coque iphone se natation Glass coque iphone tissé 2, a tougher variant of the stuff found in the iPhone 4 and 4S. It’s got a deeply intriguing rear face that scintillates in light, and the subtly curved front glass is welcoming. There are pleasant details, like the fact that Google has managed to keep the front face logo free, and that the back is coque iphone 5 playstation limited to just two: The Nexus imprint and the logo of its hardware partner this time around, LG. Yes, it is mildly hilarious that a high point of the design of an Android device is that it doesn’t look like a Formula 1 racer, festooned in sponsorships, but such is the state of things.

Note that the glass front and back are both flush with the edges of the phone, this means that there is potential for it to get scratched, both on the front face and the back. Though no more so than say, the iPhone 4/4S.

More nice details include the camera that is set behind the large rear plate of glass, without any lens cover of its own, that’s slick. The only speaker is a sharply cut sliver in the back that can get blocked if you lay the phone down (which is why Apple puts the speakers on the bottom coque iphone 6 les plus belle on its iPhone), but gets amplified when you hold it in your hand (which is better than it being blocked by your pinky). The chrome edge is subtle, and tinted, rather than raw, in order to blend well with the darker screen and siding. The soft touch rubber of the edges provides grip in the hand, which makes for easy manipulation, but could lead to peeling over time as tends to happen with these.

The overall impression of the phone coque iphone 6s lamborghini is one of schizophrenic polish. Staid and glitzy at once. BlackBerry in the front, party in the back.

But I like it, I like it a lot.

It’s compact and dense. Smooth to the touch, but with friction in the right spots. It feels a lot like a Motorola product in that way, tough and worthwhile. The Nexus coque iphone 7 plus appel S and Galaxy Nexus had a curved banana shape that though striking smacked of Peacocking. The Nexus 4′s screen is directly informed by the software that runs on it. Whatever whip Google was using on LG here, it worked, because the Nexus is better than any device I’ve ever seen come out of that company.

Some very small details do bug, however. The volume rocker needs more definition as it looks like a single bar, with no indication that it is two buttons. The screws on the bottom are ugly, and bring down the build grade of the package. The volume button and power button display slim gaps between the body and the buttons themselves. It makes you appreciate the difficulty in building a seamless device like the iPhone coque huawei y6 2007 5 even more.

Oh, and Micro USB is terrible. I don’t care how universal it is, it’s an awful connector and I would gladly pay Google $20 per cable for a month of Sundays if it could come up with something that feels as good as a Lightning connector. That’s not really a fault of LG’s, and people will appreciate that you can charge it with the cable you got in your cereal box, but once again, it doesn’t match up with the polish of the rest of the package.

The Nexus 4 is an enormous step forward in build quality for Google’s titular lineup. It’s not perfect (the soft touch still worries me), but it’s far better than the Galaxy Nexus, which was a cheap feeling, creaky, thin backed nuisance.

Honestly, it feels like the first real success that Google has had practicing its collaborative design philosophy in smartphones. All while eschewing the auteur approach taken by Apple, Google and coque iphone 7 sasuke now Amazon, who control their designs start to finish.

The screen, however, is too large. It requires a lot of stretch to get out to the upper corners of the 4.7 rectangle. The Galaxy Nexus was at the upper end of usability, and the Nexus 4 scoots out beyond it. You’re going to be adjusting your grip and straining your thumb to reach buttons on the Nexus 4, though the larger screen does mean more viewing area for text and movies. The screen is bright and colorful, though ‘grainier’ than the iPhone 5′s. It also uses a coque iphone 5s ghost rider type of lamination process LG calls ‘G2, where the screen is bonded to the Gorilla Glass 2 cover, similar to Apple’s in cell design. This shows, as it’s a close second to Apple’s best in class screen, and far and coque iphone 5s antichoc darty away better than the punchy, over saturated blockiness of the Galaxy Nexus’ panel.

I’m sure someone will break down the performance of the 1280 x 768 IPS panel in mathematical terms, but it should be enough for most people to know that this is one of the best screens I’ve seen shipped on an Android phone.

Another area where the Nexus 4 gets a massive leg up is the 8 megapixel camera. It’s better in low light, bright light, every kind of light than the Galaxy Nexus, with quicker firing action and more accurate coque iphone 4s bayern color. In the unit I tested, however, the autofocus was extremely jumpy, re acquiring every couple of seconds in a blurry, jerky motion. It seems like it’s a software thing, and if so will hopefully be fixed. It’s a great experience for an Android phone’s camera, but coque huawei p8 lite chat et poisson it’s still eclipsed by far by the speed and image quality of the iPhone 5.

Which makes this as a good a time as any to talk about Android 4.2.

The future of Android is Google Now

There are about 10 new features in Android 4.2, most of which can be used on the Nexus 4. These include mostly minor things like a new swipeable keyboard that is competing with Swype and Swiftkey, lock screen widgets, screensavers, accessibility improvements and improved notifications. But there are several marquee bits that are worth discussing further.

I couldn’t test the Miracast AirPlay alternative as I don’t have a compatible device, but lets assume it works coque iphone support aimant voiture as Google says it does. Since the feature is a cross manufacturer standard, it should end up showing its face in a variety of external boxes and TV devices, much in the way you can find AirPlay in a variety of Apple partner hardware. The difference here is that, though there is a regulatory standard any manufacturer can get novago coque huawei p10 lite en gel souple transparente et solide anti choc in on the deal. Nexus 4 maker LG has already said it coque iphone 6 mr robot will put the feature in its TVs.

I’ll believe it when I see it. Since this is a universal standard, it’s a bit of a different game than when Google’s Eric Schmidt said that almost every TV sold this past summer would have Google TV in it (didn’t happen). But the situation is remarkably similar and I’d love to see whether this one actually happens.

The Photo Sphere panoramic feature uses similar technology to how Google stitches itsStreetView stuff together, to make pano images that can be wrapped to a sphere and virtually toured in Android 4.2 or on Google+. The viewer code can be implemented by anyone who wishes to, so you may see other viewing locations pop up.

The actual shooting of the images is quite slick, and very, very fast, likely due to the top notch 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro processor. It works fine, though very few people will use it more than once.

Thankfully, whatever irritating sloth was left over from Jelly Bean’s ‘Project Butter’ updates seems to have been polished out, at least on the Nexus 4. It’s simply not anything to crow about, however. This is one of the most powerful processors ever to ship in a mobile device; if you can’t make your OS run smooth on it, you’re doing everything wrong. The problems with performance typically stem from the fact that much of Android is still built using Web technologies, coque iphone 5s zoro as it was in the early days. Now, however, much of the UI and coque huawei y6 2018 gold many popular third coque huawei p20 pro mickey party coque iphone 6 air max apps use the new hardware acceleration frameworks in Jelly Bean, so the experience is a lot smoother than it has been in the past.

I’ve been (I feel) justifiably hard on Android performance in the past, but the Nexus 4 presents a smooth and powerful version of the OS that appears to have left its jankiness behind on other devices like the Nexus 10.

Still, many small Android irritations still exist. The inconsistency of the back button behavior has yet to be corrected in Jelly Bean. Installing a previously purchased app requires four taps for every app, rather than the one it should. The software rotation of Jelly Bean feels hard and the tolerances are weird, leading to some back and forth trying to get it in and out of landscape.

There’s afantasticnew little button in the upper corner of theNotificationspane that lets you access quick settings. This needs to come to iOS, it’s brilliant. For quicker access, pull down with two fingers.

But the jewel of Android 4.2 is absolutely Google Now, and its brilliance overshadows the still lacking aspects of the OS as a whole. If you doubted that Google Now was the future of Android, 4.2 should clear that up for you.

Google Now is classic modern age Google. coque iphone 5 john deere It combines a spare interface that sits somewhere between its ‘page of 10 blue links’ and Microsoft’s Metro language. It features the Voice Search component (Google’s Siri competitor), mixed with Google’s Knowledge Graph information and auxiliary bits like location data and personal info. You access it with a swipe upwards from anywhere on your device, locked or unlocked.

It’s clean, information rich and incredibly useful. It presents contextual information in a series of cards that fall into categories like weather, traffic, next appointment, travel, flights, public transit, places, sports, public alerts, movies, stocks, news update, photo spots away from home, concerts and birthdays. All of those categories deliver cards based on contextual information that Google gathers from your location, your habits, your searches and more.

Search for your favorite sports team a few times Now will start to tell you when they’re playing and what the score is. Spend a lot of time in one place and then move coque iphone 5s raph coque huawei p8 lite 2017 livraison gratuite lauren a distance away quickly and Now will know you’re traveling and recommend photo opportunities nearby. It’s breathtakingly brilliant and invasive all coque iphone x mandala at once. But it’s also extremely useful…