On every single spec, Nexus exceeds the iDevice equivalent. The Nexus 4 has two NFC radios, a higher res screen, is thinner and lighter and is less than half of the price of the iPhone 5. (edit: That's unfair, I forget about LTE, though I understand why Google skipped that)
Similar things hold for the Nexus 10.
Am I the only one really surprised?
(This is of course not to mention the numerous new Android 4.2 features that everyone except the Verge has ignored)
You're only surprised because you're comparing a spec sheet to another spec sheet. And it's not thinner and lighter. And you don't know if the screen is actually going to look better. And it doesn't have LTE (no matter what the excuse).
Additionally, the Nexus 10 is massive, is ugly as hell, runs Android and thus has like 10 apps designed for a Android tablet.
I own every Nexus device in existence and every iOS device, so that's where I'm coming from. The Nexus 7 was a waste of money.
The tablet certainly is. You're a troll, what are you stalking me? [edit: it appears I did misspeak, the tablet is lighter and thinner, the phone is not, though practically, they're both basically the same-ish dimensions give-or-take nothing that actually matters)
>runs Android and thus has like 10 apps designed for a Android tablet.
Gimme a break, I'm not wasting my time on you. I don't even believe the last line of that post.
I don't have that clear a picture of the mobile landscape over the past couple of years (since the last time I was in the market for a phone), but has this not consistently been the case? I remember hearing as far back as 2010, "Specs aren't everything, android fans are obsessed with numbers". The price of course is rather new, but to my memory, this latest comparison really seems entirely in line with the last couple years of the smartphone landscape.
I think for me it's the seriousness of the tablet, more so than the phone.
Anyway, yeah, Nexus phones have always been competitive, but they've always skimped. PenTile display, or low memory or low ROM, or a shit camera on the Galaxy Nexus. This looks like PREMO nearly best you can source parts across 4, 7, 10.
I did indeed misspeak, the tablet is thinner and lighter, the Nexus 4 is a smidge thicker than the Nexus 4, my apologies, I mushed those together in my head.
On every single spec, Nexus exceeds the iDevice equivalent. The Nexus 4 has two NFC radios, a higher res screen, is thinner and lighter and is less than half of the price of the iPhone 5. (edit: That's unfair, I forget about LTE, though I understand why Google skipped that)
Similar things hold for the Nexus 10.
Am I the only one really surprised?
(This is of course not to mention the numerous new Android 4.2 features that everyone except the Verge has ignored)