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Re:Nexus 4′s Glass Back, the Worst Idea Since the Last Phone... by nicholassmith on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @08:11AM (#4842300)
It'll be interesting watching how the Android community deals with this, as they poured scorn on the fragile iPhone 4/4S glass back (note, happy, clumsy, ex-iPhone 4 owner, didn't break for me). They're right though, I'm surprised they didn't learn from the example of Apple and how many people did break their back glass.

Although glass cracking from a temperature shift is pretty odd, I would have thought it'd have gone through testing to isolate faults like that.

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Re:Nexus 4′s Glass Back, the Worst Idea Since the Last Phone... by antihero on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @08:45AM (#4842456)
I love Android and want a Nexus 4 but this was goddamn stupid and pointless.
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Re:Nexus 4′s Glass Back, the Worst Idea Since the Last Phone... by cowmix on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @08:57AM (#4842516)
I'm so glad I spent four hours reloading the Google Play store page for the privilege of buying a Nexus 4.

Man, I feel like a jack ass.

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Re:Nexus 4′s Glass Back, the Worst Idea Since the Last Phone... by untog on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @09:36AM (#4842692)
I ended up throwing together a script that pressed the "proceed" button repeatedly until it worked. Took around 45 minutes even then.
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Re:Nexus 4′s Glass Back, the Worst Idea Since the Last Phone... by maayank on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @09:21AM (#4842624)
I bought knowing the hissing noise problem and plan to watch how that (and now this) develop in the 4 weeks waiting period an cancel if it gets too absurd...
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Re:Nexus 4′s Glass Back, the Worst Idea Since the Last Phone... by sardonicbryan on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @11:40AM (#4843408)
The great thing about Android is that I can use the platform on top of the line hardware without buying this phone if I want. Glad I went Samsung Galaxy S3.
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