Google's lifted the lid on two new Nexus devices -- a smart phone and a 10-inch tablet, built by LG and Samsung respectively. Here's what you need to know about these new raw-Android devices, when you can buy them and how much you'll be paying.
LG Nexus 4
The long-rumoured LG Nexus 4 is here at last, and it's mega-cheap. £239 gets you a SIM-free, 8GB, quad-core smart phone with a 4.7-inch, 768x1,280-pixel display -- those are specifications easily on par with the Samsung Galaxy S3.
If that's not enough storage, £279 gets you the 16GB option. There doesn't appear to be any expandable memory -- or 4G -- but those are small prices to pay when you're paying such a small price.
Google says the Nexus 4 is out on 13 November -- we'll let you know when we hear about contract options, though Pocket-Lint reports that O2 will have a month's exclusivity on offering this high-end, wallet-friendly mobile.
If you're on a different network don't despair, the phone is almost cheap enough that you could probably just buy SIM-free and switch to a rolling monthly SIM-only contract.
Samsung Nexus 10
Samsung is getting in on the Nexus fun, with a 10-inch tablet dubbed the Nexus 10. This tablet boasts a stonkingly high 2,560x1,600-pixel resolution screen -- that's higher than Apple's retina display iPad.
It comes in either 16GB or 32GB versions. The 16GB model costs £319, while the higher-capacity option will set you back £389. That's not quite a Nexus 4-level bargain, but it still seems reasonable.
There's a 5-megapixel rear camera and 2GB of RAM, which suggests a healthy amount of power under the bonnet. It weighs 603g and is 8.9mm thick.
We'll know more when we give it the full review treatment -- for now we know it'll be released on 13 November, just like the Nexus 4.
Will you be buying one of these wallet-pleasing Android gadgets? Tell me in the comments or on our Facebook wall.
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georg55 29 October, 2012 18:08
will preorder a nexus 4 as soon as preorder page goes up,unlock 1280x768,adreno 320 cpu, s4 quad core cpu,sweet.best phone on the market and sim free for £279.00 for 16gb ,a no brainer
anonymous 29 October, 2012 18:10
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Truely amazing value for money... I actually can't believe these prices.
anonymous 29 October, 2012 18:16
I cannot believe the price of this. I have the current galaxy nexus and wasn't going to upgrade but at that price I am seriously considering it now. Also their bringing google play music to the UK so it means you can upload 20,000 songs to google play and stream them or download them to your android devices. Nexus devices are going to gain a greater share of the market by the looks of things.
anonymous 29 October, 2012 18:17
£279 for the 16GB one? That's INSANE value! Makes deciding my next phone even more difficult, just not sure if I can wait til then as my current one is near death already lol.
anonymous 29 October, 2012 18:17
I cannot believe the price of this. I have the current galaxy nexus and wasn't going to upgrade but at that price I am seriously considering it now. Also their bringing google play music to the UK so it means you can upload 20,000 songs to google play and stream them or download them to your android devices. Nexus devices are going to gain a greater share of the market by the looks of things.
CaptainPicard 29 October, 2012 18:18
^ Neither can I anon, I hope CNET didn't make a mistake! I should have waited for this phone, instead of getting a contract phone.
Trevor Lewis 29 October, 2012 18:23
I haven't heard but lets hope it has LTE 4G!
Kieran Sampson 29 October, 2012 18:24
The telegraph stats that Google Play music is launching in Europe on the same date. Exciting!
Alastair Mitchell 29 October, 2012 18:30
Great price. Does anyone know if they take micro SD cards? I seem to remembers there was a rumour that they might.
anonymous 29 October, 2012 18:40
Hi Trevor unfortunately it won't have 4g.
Alastair it won't have a micro SD. Although at this price guys its very tempting. Anyway, with Google music coming on November 13th you'll be able to stream 20,000 songs so storing your music won't be an issue lol.
anonymous 29 October, 2012 18:53
I have an S3, saves me getting insurance if the Nexus 4 is this cheap!!!
LancesUK 29 October, 2012 18:57
Amazing price, very good specs. No 4G, but I don't think it will be much of an issue for anyone during the next 18 months at least. At that price, it is well worth buying. The whole Nexus range (4, 7 and 10) is looking pretty good.
anonymous 29 October, 2012 19:39
Samsung Nexus 10 ""dual-core"" . what is that? when LG Nexus 4 is ""quad-core"".
give me same spec as Nexus 7 for Nexus 10 and that would be a great deal.
anonymous 29 October, 2012 20:21
Nexus 10 is dual core but the processor is not the Tegra 3 ARM but the MALI, and apparently should give ipad (4) beating performance; I have confidence in Samsung to pull this off! The screen will be eye popping, Retina beating too, and will need something powerful to move all those pixels around. I sent my ipad 3 back last week, as they brought a new one out within 5 days of me taking delivery of it. Was going to buy the ipad4,but this is looking too good to miss; £389 for the 32GB version of Nexus 10? That money won't even buy the ipad 16GB. Apple have been getting stick, with too quick upgrades of new hardware, premature, buggy releases of operating systems (Lion) and bad publicity with their sweat shop style Foxconn chip factories. If Google Nexus 10 is a good as it looks, Apple could be going rotten quite soon......
anonymous 29 October, 2012 20:59
I can't believe the price I really can't. One thing that did really stand out is the fact that this phone is not made out of cheap plastic it's glass on the front and the back so there is quality materials. I have a iPhone 4S that is useless as a phone I call it the beautiful paper weight. So I can't wait to go
Back to android I thought lets trying something different I have been crying about it ever since. This runs stock so it's what I am looking for 16bgb here I come
Takeshima 29 October, 2012 21:29
I don't trust LG when it comes to making Phones. My last lg g2x phone had constant blackSOD and Fell apart in 3-4 months!!I can not be unbiased against LG. I hate their products so much. From the chocolate to a 50 inch lcd tv to the G2x, they always dissappoint me. Remember when they were called goldstar? everyone knew they were cheap generic korean dog company so the changed their name in order to rebuild their image. the only problem is they still make sub par quality products.
Also the the non-removable battery on this plasticy android phone is a nonstarter for me.
No 4g?! GOOGLE release their a flagship android phone with no 4G? FAIL!
Also the BASE nexus 4 is a FAIL.No sd card support and only is 8GB [4.7gb usable after formatting and android os] ?LOL enjoy your 20 apps and 50 songs...
HELLO this is 2012 not 2010! obviously google are losing a ton of money subsidising this device so they release the nexus 4 with almost NO storage and lack of sd card to force people to use their privacy abusing cloud services [Google drive] so they can farm and pimp all your data...
google are a business NOT a charity, they are selling this device for a loss for a reason! be warned!!
anonymous 29 October, 2012 21:55
Looks like the nexus 5 will be the true flagship then, with 4G and a 1080p display. Still, the price on these and pure android puts them well ahead of anything out at the moment.
Takeshima 29 October, 2012 23:15
the base 8gb nexus 4 has got 5.2 gb user storage and NO sd card slot?! FAIL!
I know the ulterior motives why Google releases a phone with tiny storage capacities and omits a $0.55 SD slot...
What I hate about google is that they deliberately designed the phone to have to have low storage capacities and NO sd card slot to encourage consumers to use their cloud services [google drive]no thanks goggle i don't want you data mining and pimping my personal files when i use your various 'cloud' services. go back to 2010 the Nexus One with Android 2.1 had 4 gb storage and sd card slot...thats before google started to hard-sell the cloud to data mine user files...........
Takeshima 29 October, 2012 23:16
to have to have typo...
Takeshima 30 October, 2012 00:04
the base 8gb nexus 4 has got 5.2 gb user storage and NO sd card slot?! FAIL!
I know the ulterior motives why Google releases a phone with tiny storage capacities and omits a $0.55 SD slot...
What I hate about google is that they deliberately designed the phone to have low storage capacities and NO sd card slot to encourage consumers to use their cloud services [google drive]no thanks goggle i don't want you data mining and pimping my personal files when i use your various 'cloud' services.
go back to 2010 the Nexus One with Android 2.1 had 4 gb storage and sd card slot!!...thats before google started to profit from data mining user files and a POS 5.2gb nexus phone with NO expandable memory is the result...,
google are a business NOT a charity, they are selling this device for a loss for a reason! be warned!!
Noorur Choudhury 30 October, 2012 01:32
I thought it was a hoax when they said the 16GB was gonna be £280. This is literally the Samsung Galaxy S3 killer which is priced for almost double this. Oh and RIP Apple iPhone 5!! This will just increase Google's marketshare in the mobile OS market by a huge margin. The price is just too good!!
anonymous 30 October, 2012 08:49
Will the Nexus 4 really harm the Galaxy S3 ?
Nexus phones are rather niche and have never sold in large numbers, where as the S3 is in every mobile phone shop and featured by all the networks and online shops. They're even giving the S3 out for free on a £21 pm contract, with £70 instant upfront cashback.
iucidium 30 October, 2012 09:49
@Takes him a - SHUP UP!
The main reason there is no SD slot is while Google still supports removable storage with the Android OS they are not using it for a few reasons. One major reason is that the file system on the devices use EXT instead of a combo of FAT and EXT. The reason for this is that with a combination of FAT and EXT you sacrifice speed and safety causing more errors and permission problems.
The second benefit of using a pure EXT file system is that when connecting your machine to your computer you can’t mess up the file system since you will not have block level access. Instead you will now have a FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) system is used to mount a virtual SD Card that you can write to. This way you don’t get the common errors of unmounting incorrectly.
'Privacy abusing cloud services' you wouldn't have a problem if you actually read the privacy policy...you sound like a butthurt iOS fan, yes.
@anonymous (bottom comment) this looks like Google's first mainstream Nexus, all those specs AND Android system updates first? People should queue in their droves.
anonymous 30 October, 2012 10:36
any news on when are the pre-orders going live?
anonymous 30 October, 2012 10:57
@iucidium 30 October, 2012 09:49
[ @anonymous (bottom comment) ...."this looks like Google's first mainstream Nexus, all those specs AND Android system updates first? People should queue in their droves."]
It depends on how much promotion there is through the main sales channels and how much it is pushed (or not) by the mobile phone companies.
If it isn’t promoted particularly well, then in sales terms it’ll just be another also-ran phone.
People will go with price, affordability and awareness of the product; that's why Android has taken off and is the OS on so many smartphones.
Even today the vast majority of Android phones are of the budget and mid-priced variety and not the flagship top-end models. Although the S3 has been a big sales success, it is still the only top-end Android phone to have sold in significant numbers and is outsold by Samsung’s own cheaper and lower spec phones
Amazingly, phones running Gingerbread still account for nearly half of all Android phones being sold.
The Nexus 4 has a great price on its side, but unless it’s “pushed” by a decent sales drive, it’ll be one just for the geeks.
anonymous 30 October, 2012 13:51
That tab is iPad killer
anonymous 30 October, 2012 14:50
Although Takeshima comes across a bit too strong, I have to agree that I am somewhat nervous simply because this phone is made by LG. I've had a couple of LG phones over the years (not smart phones old school phones) and they were both pretty unreliable, losing signal, freezing up, bad user interfaces etc. On top of that I used to work in a "The Link" (remember them :D ) call centre and it seemed like 8 out of 10 calls regarding faulty phones were LG ones.
Couple this with the low price and it all seems suspicious to me. Think I might give it a month or two and let early adopters find out the reliability of the phone before I commit myself.
anonymous 30 October, 2012 14:51
I can't believe the price on this, I heard the specs for this, and then someone told me the price was going to be amazing, so I was thinking around £350 for the cheapest model, but it's £100 less than that.
Oh and Takeshima, stop moaning about the storage on the 8gb model, they've made a 16gb versions for people who need more. And 50 songs and 20 apps, are you kidding, do you know how much 8gb is? I'll give you a clue, I've only just filled up my old 4gb mp3 player, it took over 800 songs.
billfred 30 October, 2012 15:59
@ Takeshima - ok, STFU now.
anonymous 30 October, 2012 17:32
If only Takeshima had been in Fukushima a while back :)
anonymous 30 October, 2012 17:51
I think the right decisions were made in putting this handset together. In the UK I believe that Lte will take about 18 months to get off the ground. At the moment it's just to expensive in the UK 500mb for £36 a month is just not a good deal coupled with the fact by time you have ended your 2 year contract you may end up paying twice for the phone. Also is having Lte a good use of battery? The phone networks would control the updates as they always do. And there were a major pain in the ass with the last updates with the Nexus I the states. As to build quality I'm thinking that the worst thing that will happen with a glass front and back contruction is that you drop it and the glass shatters. If Google can get it into Curry & PC world and phone stores I think it will do really well. It's a great price count me in
CaptainPicard 30 October, 2012 18:39
Takeshima your an idiot. The positives out way the negatives on this phone by a landslide.
anonymous 31 October, 2012 07:02
Nexus 7 sales are really rocking in the market. I really impressed with clarity of devices.
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anonymous 1 November, 2012 00:46
No SD Card - Where The F**K Im I going to save my 10GB of Music, 10GB Of Games & Movies... Well I know that this phone just ain't for Me
anonymous 8 November, 2012 09:17
Any one know what time you can order the Nexus 4 on 13th November? will the online store open at 00:01am? if so I am gonna stay awake till that time and do some midnight shopping :-)
anonymous 10 November, 2012 21:59
@ takeshima you are right about the cloud, but not about selling this device for a loss.
what most people don't understand is the real costs to assemble a phone in china , the nexus4 has no latest technology, all parts are widely available. If you don't believe me take a look at this website, run by someone like us who happens to live in China, see the amazing phones that come out Chinese factories these days! and you will understand that Google is not selling for a loss.
ps website does NOT sell anything , only info.http://www.gizchina.com/