| > no LTE Fair enough. > battery life Benchmarks never demonstrate typical use cases, which is especially true for battery life. Unless all you do is load web pages for hours on end at fixed intervals. Personally, I have better things to do with my time. Based on what I've witnessed with my Nexus 4 and iPhone 5s in my family, battery life is very comparible. > screen quality When compared to the iPhone 5, the Nexus 4 has better blacks, better contrast ratio, but poorer whites. Color reproduction could be calibrated better, but hey, this is just a mid range phone, right? http://www.anandtech.com/show/6440/google-nexus-4-review/6 > gets destroyed by the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S3 in every performance benchmark. Geekbench measures CPU performance, and the quad core Krait bests both the Galaxy S3 (quad core Exynos) and the iPhone 5 (dual core "Swift"). Galaxy S3: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1488418 iPhone 5: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1488555 Nexus 4: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1488266 In fact, the quad core Krait is arguably the best CPU you can find in a smartphone, performance wise. The only existing (ARM-based) CPU that is better is the Exynos 5250 found in the Nexus 10 (dual core A15). The GPU is the Adreno 320, which absolutely wrecks the Mali GPU in the Galaxy S3. It still isn't as good as the PowerVR SGX543MP3 found in the iPhone 5, but calling it a mid range GPU is laughable. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6440/google-nexus-4-review/3 Seriously. You have no idea what you're talking about. |