Nexus 4 ordering process

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 05-11-2012 9:12pm

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!

Nolimits · 05-11-2012 10:10pm

georgiecasey wrote: »

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.

emo72 · 05-11-2012 11:00pm

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

thomasj · 05-11-2012 11:02pm

emo72 wrote: »

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

What gives you that idea?

emo72 · 05-11-2012 11:13pm

thomasj wrote: »

What gives you that idea?

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

manu2009 · 06-11-2012 12:05am

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.

lafors · 06-11-2012 12:30am

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.

5starpool · 06-11-2012 1:47am

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?

bennyx_o · 06-11-2012 11:40am

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

Nolimits · 06-11-2012 12:25pm

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.

tylerdurden94 · 06-11-2012 2:36pm

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:

youcancallmeal · 06-11-2012 2:45pm

tylerdurden94 wrote: »

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

Genghiz Cohen · 06-11-2012 3:02pm

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.

BopNiblets · 06-11-2012 3:51pm

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.

Genghiz Cohen · 06-11-2012 4:43pm

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

ShadowHearth · 06-11-2012 4:52pm

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

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 )

youcancallmeal · 06-11-2012 5:14pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

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!"

pedatron · 06-11-2012 6:02pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

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!

3bs · 07-11-2012 1:42am

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.

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

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

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

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

Genghiz Cohen · 07-11-2012 11:54am

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!

Nolimits · 07-11-2012 12:04pm

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

positron · 07-11-2012 12:15pm

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

youcancallmeal · 08-11-2012 10:25am

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

ShadowHearth · 08-11-2012 1:55pm

youcancallmeal wrote: »

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.

bmm · 08-11-2012 3:44pm

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

OmegaRed · 08-11-2012 5:30pm

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).

OmegaRed · 08-11-2012 5:32pm

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

5starpool · 08-11-2012 5:33pm

It was always the 13th.

youcancallmeal · 08-11-2012 5:34pm

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?

Genghiz Cohen · 08-11-2012 5:43pm

Get it delivered to Parcel Motel in Antrim.

youcancallmeal · 08-11-2012 5:46pm

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

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?

Genghiz Cohen · 08-11-2012 5:47pm

youcancallmeal wrote: »

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.

Sinbad_NI · 08-11-2012 6:53pm

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 :-)))

OctavarIan · 08-11-2012 9:20pm

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?

tylerdurden94 · 08-11-2012 10:25pm

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.

Genghiz Cohen · 08-11-2012 10:47pm

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.

Professey Chin · 08-11-2012 10:48pm

TO TUNNEL BEAR!!!!

Gran Hermano · 08-11-2012 10:52pm

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

Professey Chin · 08-11-2012 10:53pm

Gran Hermano wrote: »

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

Ill take the risk :pac:

youcancallmeal · 08-11-2012 11:11pm

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

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?

Professey Chin · 08-11-2012 11:14pm

youcancallmeal wrote: »

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

youcancallmeal · 08-11-2012 11:21pm

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

Tunnelbear is pretty securely encrypted

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

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 09-11-2012 12:36am

youcancallmeal wrote: »

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

Genghiz Cohen · 09-11-2012 12:37am

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.

Nolimits · 09-11-2012 7:14am

[Qutote=Genghiz Cohen;81657119]Email.

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A little worrying they won't honour warranties here.

wayne040576 · 09-11-2012 10:12am

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...

Atomic Pineapple · 09-11-2012 10:47am

wayne040576 wrote: »

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.

wayne040576 · 09-11-2012 11:07am

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.

Professey Chin · 09-11-2012 11:17am

wayne040576 wrote: »

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

Atomic Pineapple · 09-11-2012 12:37pm

wayne040576 wrote: »

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

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

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.

Nexus 4 ordering process

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