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Maybe repair, or buy something else

What to do

  • Roll the dice on the screen repair

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Buy the Nexus 4

    Votes: 2 100.0%

  • Something else, please tell me in comments

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    2
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pappabacon

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I have a i9250 that I dropped a few months ago. One day the screen just wont come on. The notification light will flash, but no backlight at all. I plug it into wug's toolkit and it is recognized. I think what happened is the crack finally went through the other screen and it is done.

So now I am at a conundrum. I could buy a new screen for around $160 and install it, and hopefully that is all that is wrong with it or I could buy a Nexus 4. Obviously the Nexus 4 is more expensive than the repair but the repair is no guarantee that the Gnex will work again. So I am worried that I would basically throw the $ away vs getting a new phone.

What would you do?
 
You can also wait one month for any potential announcement at google IO. Usually the next nexus device will be announced then.
 
gtbarry said:
You can also wait one month for any potential announcement at google IO. Usually the next nexus device will be announced then.
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Crap. Yet another option. I'm running my old blackberry bold from sprint right now and I'm dying. Very little EDGE available where I'm at.
 
gtbarry said:
You can also wait one month for any potential announcement at google IO. Usually the next nexus device will be announced then.
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My guess is that the next Nexus device announced will be a tablet, since it was the Nexus 7 that was announced this time last year. I would expect the new Nexus phone to be announced in the fall, when the Nexus 4 becomes a year old. Then again, you never know.
 
Latest rumor suggests that an upgraded Nexus 4 with 32 gb of storage and LTE and maybe cdma radios could be announced at IO next month.
 
mogelijk said:
My guess is that the next Nexus device announced will be a tablet, since it was the Nexus 7 that was announced this time last year. I would expect the new Nexus phone to be announced in the fall, when the Nexus 4 becomes a year old. Then again, you never know.
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If that is the case, proceed with caution. I've read both goo and bad about the Nexus 4 and the one thing that pops is:

The Nexus 4 is possibly the most fragile smartphone ever built (and I wont bother replacing it)

You can always wait for the next best thing. But at some point you just have to pull the trigger.
 
I wouldn't use money on repairing a phone. I would buy a refurb or used GNex instead or go ahead and get the Nexus 4. Just my opinion.
 
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