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On January 21 2013 00:11 Littlemuff wrote:and LG are already getting ready to slow down production of the 4s for the Nexus 5 (being the 5" Nexus not the next "4")

On January 21 2013 08:49 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Well look what Google did with the Nexus 7...

On January 21 2013 09:20 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
The Nexus 7 was introduced and the 16, and 32GB were popular and of course had production and order delays few months later lo and behold a 32GB was introduced with HSPA+; pissed a lot of people off who were just getting the 16GB & 32GB originals after delays.

Google has blamed LG for Nexus 4 shortages, and an LG spokesperson has said that production is proceeding as planned for its hard-to-find Nexus 4 handset, but Cathy Robin of LG France is telling a still slightly different story — at least for the French market. In an interview with Challenges, Robin said that the predictions Google had given LG France — based on previous Nexus sales — turned out to be lower than demand, causing a shortage. Now, she says production will ramp up, and that hopefully "market strain" will be gone by February. She also denies that the Nexus 4 was sold at a loss, though she did say LG and Google had reached an agreement on a "reasonable price."

Though it's tempting to assume the same faulty predictions happened in other countries — the phone sold out within minutes in the UK and is still out of stock in the US Play Store — Robin reports that estimated demand in France was much lower than elsewhere: "Predictions for the UK and Germany were ten times higher than for France," she says, "therefore we shipped a lot more to those markets than to France." Overall, though, she's still (rather politely) pointing the finger at Google, as well as giving potential Nexus 4 buyers a ray of hope.

On January 22 2013 06:07 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
France gets all the breaks



Source

Google to Issue Nexus 7.7 First, Key Lime Pie on Motorola X-Phone before Releasing Nexus 5 – Report

We'll get to see first the second generation Nexus 7 and the Motorola X-Phone, likely the bearer of Google's Key Lime Pie, prior to the anticipated release of the Nexus 5 smartphone, a new report said.

Despite the widespread rumours that Google intends to battle it out with Apple and Samsung in Q3 2013 via the Nexus 5, Stephen Schenck of PocketNow is convinced that the internet search giant will hold its punches and stick to its game plan.

That plan includes a major refresh of the Nexus 7, its screen and CPU set for bump ups that will dwarf the planned spec upgrades of Apple's iPad Mini 2 and Samsung's Galaxy Note 8.0, and the global rollout of Key Lime Pie or Android 5.0.

Mr Schenck believes Google will allow the X-Phone to become the first handset that will flash the new mobile device prowess developed by Google engineers and to be flashed with the KLP.

Experts are in agreement that the new Motorola smartphone will be previewed by Google using its I/O Developers Conference on May and KLP will be part of the whole package.

This is a high possibility, Mr Schenck said, adding that "Google is not a company that needs to rush things."

On March 31 2013 02:19 ThomasjServo wrote:
One step closer to Skynet, but in all fairness I have been looking into a tablet and Google tops my list atm. Seems like it may be worth waiting a longer though.