Retailer cancels Nexus 4 smartphone, due to high price

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A Spanish retailer goes to the Nexus 4 did not sell, because the price is too high. While the phone is in Googles own Play Store for 349 euros costs, he must be in Spain for 599 euros over the counter. The chance is present that the Netherlands is also going to happen.

For an additional charge of 250 euros the user gets anything extra: it comes to exactly the same phone. Google is selling the LG-manufactured Nexus 4 itself for 349 euros in the Play Store, but doing that in many countries they are not. Also in the Netherlands the device via the Play Store sold. In the Play Store is also an 8GB version on sale for 299 euros; the 8GB version is not on sale at retailers.

Retailer The Phone House in Spain cancel now the planned sale of the Nexus 4, so has the on Facebook reported. The retailer takes the price difference is unacceptable. In Austria there is a similar problem: there, the cost of the Nexus 4 549 euros in the store, reports Giga.de. LG has, according to The Next Web not yet responded on the matter. LG is the party that has the Nexus 4 in countries where Google does not.

The chances are that the Dutch buyers also have a lot more to pay than in Googles Play Store: here also sells LG the phone. That happens from the end of november. The prices for the Dutch market are not yet known.

The screen diagonal of the Nexus 4 is 4.7″ wide and the screen has a resolution of 1280×768 pixels. In the casing is a quad-core S4 soc from Qualcomm, which is based on the Krait core, which is typically a clock speed of 1.5 GHz per core. There is 2GB of ram on board and pictures will be taken with an 8-megapixel camera. On wireless, there is support for bluetooth, nfc and dual-band wi-fi b/g/n. The software is based on the new Android 4.2 operating system from Google.