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Nexus 4 ordering process

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,744 ✭✭✭MyPeopleDrankTheSoup


    Guys over on XDA offering to buy a Nexus 4 and ship it over for $25 delivery and hassle fee. Pretty good. Just got to figure out can you trust these people!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭Nolimits


    Guys over on XDA offering to buy a Nexus 4 and ship it over for $25 delivery and hassle fee. Pretty good. Just got to figure out can you trust these people!
    Unless he's someone with thousands of posts I really wouldn't, for one thing you might end up in a big waiting list, I'd say these are gonna fly out.

    positron wrote: »
    I've asked in Currys & PC World section if they would stock it, will update if/when they know.
    Really don't see why they would.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭emo72


    i take it its not going on sale in the uk?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,868 ✭✭✭thomasj


    emo72 wrote: »
    i take it its not going on sale in the uk?

    What gives you that idea?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭emo72


    thomasj wrote: »
    What gives you that idea?


    okay since i posted that, I've read the entire thread. 279 sterling?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭manu2009


    Can't wait to get one of these.

    For some reason i've a feeling Argos may stock them, they have a few sim free phones for sale at the moment e.g. Samsung Galaxy S3, Htc Desire C.

    If no retailer here or the uk phone sites don't have them at the google play store price then I hope theres some way of getting them through parcel motel using a uk ip address to access the site.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,317 ✭✭✭lafors


    So in the US is the only way to get it through the play store?

    A few of the lads from work are over there until end of nov and I'm over in Jan but I don't think we can use an Irish CC on the US play store??

    If some bricks & mortar were selling it there I'd get one.


  • Subscribers Posts: 32,855 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    lafors wrote: »
    So in the US is the only way to get it through the play store?

    A few of the lads from work are over there until end of nov and I'm over in Jan but I don't think we can use an Irish CC on the US play store??

    If some bricks & mortar were selling it there I'd get one.

    Might be worth checking if bestbuy will be selling them over there perhaps?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,194 ✭✭✭bennyx_o


    manu2009 wrote: »
    Can't wait to get one of these.

    For some reason i've a feeling Argos may stock them, they have a few sim free phones for sale at the moment e.g. Samsung Galaxy S3, Htc Desire C.

    If no retailer here or the uk phone sites don't have them at the google play store price then I hope theres some way of getting them through parcel motel using a uk ip address to access the site.

    As has been stated on the thread already, it's needing a credit/debit card wit ha UK address that is the problem when ordering off the UK Play store. Not sure if it would work, but you could possibly use a prepay debit card and put a UK address in


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭Nolimits


    bennyx_o wrote: »

    As has been stated on the thread already, it's needing a credit/debit card wit ha UK address that is the problem when ordering off the UK Play store. Not sure if it would work, but you could possibly use a prepay debit card and put a UK address in
    I'd been thinking about that, might spend a tenner on a card today and try to use it to buy a book or something and report back.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭tylerdurden94


    I'm correct in assuming Nexus 4 is micro sim? If so do 3 use them as I plan to switch to their €20 a month pay as you go.

    Contacted my cousin in Vegas and she said she would buy it for me and ship it over :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,042 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    I'm correct in assuming Nexus 4 is micro sim? If so do 3 use them as I plan to switch to their €20 a month pay as you go.

    Yes and yes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    O2, Meteor and The Carphone Warehouse in Carlow have no idea what the story is with the 4, it'll be after Christmas before they get it in anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    S.M.B. wrote: »
    Regarding the LTE, it's surely far too expensive at the moment to be a must have? I have little interest in signing up for a data plan like that until costs dramatically fall.

    It would be nice to have a future proof phone but it ain't a must have imo.
    Yeah LTE hasn't been rolled out in Ireland yet and is a year or two away, I think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    Not sure where or how, but a friend has managed to email Google and ask them about availability here in Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    O2, Meteor and The Carphone Warehouse in Carlow have no idea what the story is with the 4, it'll be after Christmas before they get it in anyway.

    was in carphone warehouse today too:

    Nexus 4?
    Who?
    Nokia lumia 920?
    Is that a phone?
    HTC X8?
    Do you kiss your mum with that mouth?!
    So you have no idea about those?
    Nope. though we have iphone 5 and samsung S3!!!
    okay... ( dies little bit inside )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,042 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    was in carphone warehouse today too:

    Nexus 4?
    Who?
    Nokia lumia 920?
    Is that a phone?
    HTC X8?
    Do you kiss your mum with that mouth?!
    So you have no idea about those?
    Nope. though we have iphone 5 and samsung S3!!!
    okay... ( dies little bit inside )

    Yep and when you go back in 6 months they'll be saying "Look at this brand new Nokia phone!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 870 ✭✭✭pedatron


    was in carphone warehouse today too:

    Nexus 4?
    Who?
    Nokia lumia 920?
    Is that a phone?
    HTC X8?
    Do you kiss your mum with that mouth?!
    So you have no idea about those?
    Nope. though we have iphone 5 and samsung S3!!!
    okay... ( dies little bit inside )

    They are ginnets.

    My friend went in to buy an iphone 5 the other day and they did everything to get him to just leave without one. It was like they were too lazy to do up the paperwork. He just wanted a good tariff and the phone. Money wasn't a problem. They arsed around so much he just walked out and had the phone got off vodafone 30 minutes later!


  • Registered Users Posts: 30 3bs


    Nolimits wrote: »
    I'd been thinking about that, might spend a tenner on a card today and try to use it to buy a book or something and report back.

    Interested to see if this works. Please let us know.
    O2, Meteor and The Carphone Warehouse in Carlow have no idea what the story is with the 4, it'll be after Christmas before they get it in anyway.

    What makes you say that? I might end up just getting it from handtec
    Not sure where or how, but a friend has managed to email Google and ask them about availability here in Ireland.

    Can you please let us know what they reply back. Cheers


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    3bs wrote: »
    What makes you say that? I might end up just getting it from handtec
    That's what they said. They told me they have the list of phones that they will be getting for the rest of the year.

    3bs wrote: »
    Can you please let us know what they reply back. Cheers

    Will do!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭Nolimits


    3bs wrote: »

    Interested to see if this works. Please let us know.

    Having thought it through I decided against it, I'd have the same problem I have when trying to download say the BBC iplayer when using a UK proxy, it won't allow me to put it on any of my devices as it recognises they're Irish devices. This obviously wouldn't be a problem when buying a device, but makes it impossible to tell if it would work


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,418 ✭✭✭positron


    Any one know if this Handtec price is final, or would it change when it becomes available? Approx €420 for 16 GB? That's a bit more than the $ figure we were all hoping for.

    http://www.handtec.co.uk/product.php?xProd=8177


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,042 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    Another fairly in depth review from Android Central and really in depth review from Android Police


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Another fairly in depth review from Android Central and really in depth review from Android Police

    so like allways LTE, no sd card and no removable battery. these things i can live with 100%. my ****y 3gs does not have those functions too, so meh.

    more interesting points:

    * Camera is better, but still **** and cant even compare to S3 camera... and S3 camera is not even great in the first place.
    * Screen is not great too. It has washed out effect.


    So if we will be forced to go with local retailers who will charge us as much as they can, then W8 phones are still in a game for me. I do like that nexus 4 has a stock android, so updates will be fast and easy and i hate Microsoft account system, no way i will be putting my CC details in to MS account since my xbox account was hacked and it took me weeks to sort it out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bmm


    Attached the dreaded Google Wallet Payment screen that will cause much head scratching on Nov. 13th !! :(

    227715.jpg


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭OmegaRed


    So i tested buying on the US play store during the week and it worked fine. I bought the amazing spiderman and used my BOI Visa Debit card. Took the money no problem and even placed the video in my movies gallery. Problem was when i went to play it, it said that the video was unavailable in my country (even though i had my unblock US on). Got around this easily enough.

    Anyways, it still took my money. I am gonna chance buying the phone next week. I have a friend that I can ship it to in the States.

    I even went as far as trying to order a nexus 7 and it seemed like it would work fine (without actually clicking the order/submit button).


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭OmegaRed


    and did the launch date change from the 9th to the 13th? Just looking at the store again... maybe it was just me!


  • Subscribers Posts: 32,855 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    It was always the 13th.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,042 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    I wonder if you have a UK card does the delivery address just need to be in the UK or does it have to be the address that is registered against the card?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    Get it delivered to Parcel Motel in Antrim.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,042 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    Get it delivered to Parcel Motel in Antrim.

    Thats what I'm hoping to do with a friends English credit card but I'm wondering do they check the address registered on your credit card against the delivery address? Guess I'll find out on Tuesday?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    Thats what I'm hoping to do with a friends English credit card but I'm wondering do they check the address registered on your credit card against the delivery address? Guess I'll find out on Tuesday?

    If they do all that will happen is either it takes a little bit longer to process, or worst case is they ring your friend and ask.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭Sinbad_NI


    Just waiting on release day here to enter credit card details.
    At last living in NI has been useful for something.

    Think I'll order a 4 + 7 at same time :-)))


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    Would there be any problems between a UK Nexus 4 and accessing the Irish Play Store? Straight out of the box would it work?

    I know no-one has the phone yet to check, but have there been any previous cases of this that anyone has encountered?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭tylerdurden94


    When it goes live for sale on Tuesday how long will it take to ship does anybody have an idea?

    Trying to get if finalised for my cousin in Vegas to buy it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    Friend got a reply from Google.

    The Play Store will NOT ship to Ireland.
    We CAN order and have the device shipped to the United Kingdom. (Parcel Motel here we come)
    The device will NOT be repaired under Warranty while it is outside the UK.

    I'm waiting on permission from a friend to post the email.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    TO TUNNEL BEAR!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Parcel motel only insure loss or damage up to 100 euro.
    https://www.parcelmotel.com/liability-and-limitation-section/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Parcel motel only insure loss or damage up to 100 euro.
    https://www.parcelmotel.com/liability-and-limitation-section/

    Ill take the risk :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,042 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    Friend got a reply from Google.

    The Play Store will NOT ship to Ireland.
    We CAN order and have the device shipped to the United Kingdom. (Parcel Motel here we come)
    The device will NOT be repaired under Warranty while it is outside the UK.

    I'm waiting on permission from a friend to post the email.

    Brilliant! Next question is does anyone know a secure proxy to use to access the UK play store? Seems a bit dodge putting in your credit card details over an insecure proxy?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Brilliant! Next question is does anyone know a secure proxy to use to access the UK play store? Seems a bit dodge putting in your credit card details over an insecure proxy?

    Tunnelbear is pretty securely encrypted


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,042 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal



    Tunnelbear is pretty securely encrypted

    Ah I see, I was wondering what you were talking about in your previous post!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,744 ✭✭✭MyPeopleDrankTheSoup


    Brilliant! Next question is does anyone know a secure proxy to use to access the UK play store? Seems a bit dodge putting in your credit card details over an insecure proxy?

    any proxy will do as long as the credit card is entered over SSL which it most certainly is for Google. That's the whole point of SSL, prevents man in the middle attacks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    Email.
    Thank you for contacting The Google Play Team and inquiring about the Nexus 4. My name is Orenthal and below I have provided some information that may assist with your inquiry.

    Purchases from devices on Google Play can be shipped to throughout the United States (including Puerto Rico), United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, Germany, France, Japan and Canada. I'm unable to comment on future country launches, but please rest assured that we're working to make devices in Google Play more widely available.

    For device availability per country, please visit the Google Play Help Center at http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2462844

    At this time our shipping partner does not offer courier services in Ireland. You do have the option of ordering a device and having it shipped to an accessible address in the United Kingdom. In the event that the device is taken to Ireland after being delivered it will not be eligible for warranty repair as long as the device is outside of the United Kingdom.

    Please feel free to reply to this email with any further questions or concerns.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭Nolimits


    [Qutote=Genghiz Cohen;81657119]Email.

    [/Quote]
    A little worrying they won't honour warranties here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭wayne040576


    I was considering getting this. One thing that has me worried is the sealed battery. And not because of the usual battery replacement concerns.
    I have a Galaxy Nexus and I've found some of the updates can make it very unstable. I'm having lots of trouble with the latest (4.1.2 ) lots of crashes.

    Some like yesterday, the screen switches off and the phone won't respond to any button presses. The only way to get it back on is to take the battery out and put it back in...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    I was considering getting this. One thing that has me worried is the sealed battery. And not because of the usual battery replacement concerns.
    I have a Galaxy Nexus and I've found some of the updates can make it very unstable. I'm having lots of trouble with the latest (4.1.2 ) lots of crashes.

    Some like yesterday, the screen switches off and the phone won't respond to any button presses. The only way to get it back on is to take the battery out and put it back in...

    There's a reset sequence for every Android phone where you hold a certain combination of buttons for x period of time and it will reset it for you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭wayne040576


    draffodx wrote: »
    There's a reset sequence for every Android phone where you hold a certain combination of buttons for x period of time and it will reset it for you.

    I know but I wouldn't want to do a reset! Just a reboot. I had to do the reset before and lost everything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin



    I know but I wouldn't want to do a reset! Just a reboot. I had to do the reset before and lost everything.
    He means a reboot not a factory reset


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    I know but I wouldn't want to do a reset! Just a reboot. I had to do the reset before and lost everything.
    He means a reboot not a factory reset

    As above I meant it will reboot the phone as if you had taken the battery out and put it back in.


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