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Alleged Google Nexus 5 Image Leaked Online

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Worthless link-bait. Is this "leak" in any way believable? Come on, the source is an "anonymous source claiming to work for Google"? No reputable publication would publish something based on that. And the specs are just totally random. (A TV tuner in a Google device? How does that make any sense? LG switching to OLEDs on phones?).

The TV tuner is the part that rings the falsest (and the weirdest) to me.

First: I'm not sure it's even possible to get reasonable TV reception with a handheld device, and doubly so for two separate standards (ATSC and DVB-T). Receiving a clear ATSC signal is hard enough with a reasonably sized antenna; with a tiny patch antenna in a phone, you'd have a very hard time picking up a clear signal, especially inside buildings or vehicles, which is where I'd expect a feature like this to get the most use.

Second: The terminology is wrong. The mobile / handheld variants of ATSC and DVB-T are called ATSC-M/H and DVB-H, respectively. That being said, neither of these are in widespread use, so I'm not sure it'd make sense to implement them either.

Finally: Google has not shown any interest in getting involved in OTA television. Adding support for it in their phone would, if anything, undermine some of their other ongoing efforts, like having TV shows available in Google Play, and other video content on YouTube. I've never seen any other mobile phone with this feature, and I see no reason why Google would be the first.

Can you buy an N4 simply yet? :-) I hope that they have sorted out the supply chain and web store before launching a new device.

The specs on that thing look insane for a $300 price point; a handheld device now has more power than a laptop for double the price 4 years previously. I wonder how that power and screen can translate to battery life...

I'd also love to see a waterproof Nexus. As far as I know, only Sony makes a waterproof high-end phone. I have an Experia Go after my GN died in a rainstorm...I'd love to have another Nexus device, but I'd want one that could live in my pockets during an unexpected downpour.

> Can you buy an N4 simply yet?

Yep :) https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_8gb

Nope http://i.imgur.com/JndIYjW.png

I had no trouble ordering a Nexus 4 from the Canadian Play store. It arrived a couple of days after I ordered it. So far, I'm very happy with it. It's a huge upgrade from my Cyanogenmod running Galaxy S1.

> The LG Nexus 5 device features a _5.2_-inch OLED display at 1080p resolution.

I hope that's a typo.

It's not. 5 inches is now considered a "small" Android phone.

? 5" is still considered relatively large. There are a number of 5" phones, but the vast majority are smaller.

If that's internal marketing material, I love that they choose to show a presumed gang member pointing a gun.

I'm really surprised nobody's pointed out how male-targeted the big Android players are. Verizon with their red everything Droid robots and aggressive marketing language.

Android stuff feels more high-RPM than high-fashion.

The "gang member pointing a gun" is actually the main character in Ubisoft's upcoming game Watch Dogs[1]. My guess is that this page / slide was shown in the context of mobile gaming.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Dogs

The S4 launch, as horribly cheesy as it was, definitely broke this mold. They spent about 20 minutes showing off features with a group of 6 actresses playing out a bacholerette party, and 5 minutes with some 8 year old tap dancing. It was about un-high RPM as I can imagine.

But Samsung did have a Mini Cooper on stage. I can't say how being laid on its side affected its RPMs though.

you seem to have missed the whole galaxy marketing.

also, i'd be very sad if the LG continues to churn out low quality nexus.

You think the N4 is low quality?

not even mentioning the lousy production speed of LG on this one and their track record with the worst android devices, xda is full of people complaining about the screen (white dots, yellow blobs, etc) on recently bought ones. and older threads like this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996299

I would never buy a product that promotes gun ownership.

If you don't recognize the character, its not just a random dude. Its a shout out to the idea of mobile gaming, and the (false) mythology that "real gaming" is a perfect and exclusive 1:1 mapping with first person shooters and no other form of interactive electronic entertainment exists, or at least is "real" gaming.

Looking at current gen consoles I think you'd have a lot of difficulty finding a pacifist console.

Although touch as a UI sounds awful for FPS games, for years/decades PC gamers with mouse/trackball and keyboard have been looking down on the console gamers stuck with hand controllers, so I imagine touch screen FPS would primarily result in the console FPS gamers finally having someone to look down on.

What's the deal with headlines these days that any information about even not so popular products that no one cares about are also called 'leaked'? As if all companies care so much about secrecy and as if the whole world is waiting with bated breath just to have a glance of these images?

    The rear camera of the LG Nexus 5 is supposedly a 16MP 
    OmniVision capable of recording 4K video at 30 frames-
    per-second, or 1080p video at 60FPS

Well isn't that impressive. This reminds of videos comparing iPhone4S's camera with top-of-the-line cameras like the Canon 5d Mark ii: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIaa8IM-Auo

My question is: why aren't these uber-powerful camera phones driving down the costs of high-end dedicated cameras, when they are in fact in some cases competing with them head-to-head?

Because you will get much better images out of a larger sensor, which can take in a lot more light than the tiny sensors you get on phones.

Also, a phone isn't thick enough to allow for a physical zoom.

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