Google Nexus 4 Sells Out In Less Than An Hour (in Australia)

Re:Google Nexus 4 Sells Out In Less Than An Hour (in Australia) by zmmmmm on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @02:34AM (#4776900)

Plus with LTE having very low presence / uptake (and tiny coverage area) the no-LTE disadvantage is meaningless.

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Re:Google Nexus 4 Sells Out In Less Than An Hour (in Australia) by mcbridematt on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @03:18AM (#4777001)

I would disagree. LTE is rolling out pretty rapidly, and there are quite a few places where 3G is useless, even on Telstra. Melbourne CBD has been a long running issue, so has parts of Perth and Sydney, apparently.

DC-HSDPA is great but the lack of uplink speed upgrade to go with it seems to be an issue, IMO. I've seen a few situations where I can pull a few megabits/s on 3G but now the uplink is seriously congested, so interactive applications become very poor.

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Re:Google Nexus 4 Sells Out In Less Than An Hour (in Australia) by kamjam on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @09:08AM (#4778027)

But if you buy this phone now, and you can reasonably expect there to be a new version out in a years time with LTE support... right about the kind of time that you start to get good LTE coverage. It's the same story in the UK. There is only a few trial areas with LTE at the moment.

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