At this point, I'd wait for the next Nexus. I've had Nexus phones since the Nexus One - but since the Galaxy Nexus (which I have now) I believe that I (and by extension, other geeks/nerds) are no longer the target audience for the Nexus line. They're no longer the absoutely Top Of The Line phone, for one, and the cardinal sin is that they don't have expandable memory. The Nexus 4 is limited to 16GB of internal storage, with no way to expand. This makes me sad as I've already filled up the 16GB on my Galaxy Nexus. That said, the Nexus 4 /was/ a lot cheaper off-contract than anything even remotely comperable. On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Mike Miller wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Yaron wrote: > >> I have this firmly in the "I'll Believe It When I See It" category. Plus, >> to be honest, I'm fairly happy with Android on my phones. Heck, I can >> install sshd and login to the thing if I want to. I don't feel the need to >> be running Alpine or compiling code on a mobile device with a small screen. > > I don't know much about what's been going on lately in the smart phone world. > I've had a Palm Pre since it came out and it has not gone well. I'm thinking > of either dumping the phone service altogether (using Google Voice, plus my > wife's cell on weekends is probably good enough), or maybe trying an Android > phone. > > The Nexus 4 sounds really cool. They say they'll have some at the T-Mobile > store next week. It is a lot of money with a two-year contract, but then I'd > be staying with the modern world where everyone has a cell phone. Is that > really worth $2/day? I'm trying to decide. > > Google seems to sell an unlocked contract-free Nexus 4, but they are > currently sold out: > > https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_4_16GB?id=nexus_4_16gb > > Maybe I should be waiting for that. > > Does anyone know if the Ubuntu for Android should work on the Nexus 4, if it > ever comes out? Maybe it's supposed to work on any Android system, > regardless of the processor type, because it will use the Android kernel, but > maybe that isn't even possible and different Ubuntu-for-Android systems will > have to be released for different processors. > > >> Now on my tablets, that may be a different story. > > Coincidentally, I just ran across this: > > The LINUX TABLET IS THE FUTURE - and it always will be > The Penguin Xmas present that'll never be in the present > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/26/year_of_the_linux_tablet/ > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > --