Not sure why you think this. It is mid range phone by every benchmark (e.g. no LTE, battery life, screen quality) and it gets destroyed by the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S3 in every performance benchmark.
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.
This thread was about Galaxy Nexus, not Nexus 4. Pot, meet kettle.
My Galaxy Nexus has 4G and has excellent battery life. The AMOLED screen is also, of course, gorgeous.
He was talking about the Galaxy Nexus, which does have LTE.
> battery life
That's a function of the functionality - I'd rather be able to synchronize my reading lists in the background and forgo a bit of the battery life. I rarely use more than half of my Galaxy Nexus's battery on a given day, so that's fine for me.
> screen quality
No idea where you're getting this from. Both screens are fine, but the Galaxy Nexus's screen size is the major difference.
