With your favorite Google Apps, an amazing Photo Sphere camera, cutting edge hardware, and access to your favorite entertainment on Google Play – Nexus 4 puts the best of Google in the palm of your hand.
Purchase Nexus 4 directly from Google Play, with no carrier commitment or contract.
Best of Google
Nexus 4 comes with the latest Google apps, putting the best of Google in the palm of your hand.
Nexus 4 comes with the latest version of Google Now to bring you just the right information at just the right time. It shows you how much traffic to expect before you leave for work, or when the next train will arrive as you’re standing on the platform.
With the latest version, Google Now keeps you even more organized – get reminders about upcoming flights, restaurant reservations, hotel confirmations and even nearby photo opportunities – when and where you need them.
Voice Search allows you to speak your query and get a response immediately. Google can speak back to you, delivering a precise answer powered by the Knowledge Graph.
Get to the places you care about quickly and easily with Google Maps. With turn-by-turn GPS navigation, live traffic info, and integrated driving, walking and public transit directions, getting from A to B has never been easier.
Search for restaurants, businesses and more near you. Get recommendations from people in your circles and from experts, and access full place reviews and summaries from Zagat editors.
3D Maps and rich satellite imagery give you a more realistic sense of what’s around you while features like Street View and Indoor Maps make sure you always know what’s in front of you.
Writing messages is easier than ever with Gesture Typing – glide your finger over the letters to compose emails or texts in a snap. The keyboard can also anticipate and predict the next word you’re looking for. Type with one hand and you can finish entire sentences in a flash just by selecting suggested words.
Gesture typing works best for English. Quality varies for other languages, and some don't support it yet.
Get quick access to different ways to connect with your contacts.
Try the new Gesture Typing keyboard to quickly and easily type when on-the-go.
Nexus 4 comes with the speed and simplicity of Google Chrome, built in. Sign in to sync your bookmarks, view tabs you have open on your computer, send web pages from your computer to your phone, and more.
And browsing the web from your phone has never been faster – a cutting edge quad-core processor means that pages load in a snap – letting you experience the web, Chrome fast.
With Chrome on Android, browse the web at Chrome speed
Take your personalized Chrome experience with you on-the-go.
Gmail gets even better on Nexus 4. Intuitively swipe emails out of your inbox to archive, easily switch between multiple Gmail accounts – and all your email syncs automatically from your Nexus 4 to your computer and tablet.
You can get all your emails, and even read them when you're offline.
Find the email you're searching quickly and easily
Never lose a contact or photo again. Sign in once with your free Google Account and your Gmail, Calendar, contacts, photos and more are always backed up to the cloud. Google works around the clock to keep your data secure and ensure that you can get it when you need it, wherever you need it.
You can sign in to multiple accounts on your phone.
Camera
Nexus 4 comes with a high-performance 8MP camera and takes stunning Photo Sphere images, letting you capture every detail of the world around you. The all new camera lets you quickly view and edit your photos with powerful new tools, and share your favorite shots in a snap.
Shoot video in full 1080p, and snap still shots while you're at it. Continuous focus, real-time zoom, and time lapse mode give you the power to shoot stunning videos. When your footage is ready, create your own movie with Movie Studio and upload it to YouTube.
Quickly switch between taking photos, videos, and panoramas. To help pictures look their best, the Gallery includes a powerful photo editor. You can crop and rotate pictures, set levels, remove red eyes, add effects, and much more.
Photos upload themselves with Instant Upload so you’ll never lose a shot. If you’ve signed up for Google+, you can enable Instant Upload and photos taken with your phone are automatically uploaded to a private album on the web. Easily organize, edit and share photos with anyone you choose from your phone or on the web.
Up, down and all around you, it’s like no camera you’ve ever seen. With Nexus 4, snap pictures in every direction that come together into incredible, immersive photo spheres that put you right inside the scene. View your photo spheres right on your phone, share them with friends and family on Google+, or even add them to Google Maps for the world to see.
Photos and videos come to life with stunning clarity and crisp, natural color on the vibrant 1280-by-768 4.7-inch display. Gently curved glass edges allow your finger to slide smoothly on and off the 320ppi screen, while cutting-edge G2 Touch Hybrid display technology means you feel like you’re touching every pixel. And all of this is protected by scratch resistant Corning® Gorilla® Glass 2.
Cutting Edge Hardware
Made in partnership with LG, Nexus 4 is sold unlocked and is GSM/HSPA+ compatible so it will operate on more than 200 network providers worldwide. Just pop in a supported SIM card and be up and running in no time.
Nexus 4 comes with a cutting-edge Qualcomm Snapdragon™ S4 Pro processor, so you’ve got speed and power to spare. Zip around the web, experience rich 3D graphics and gameplay, and effortlessly switch between multiple apps without ever missing a beat. With 2GB of RAM and the fastest version of Android ever, Nexus 4 is our snappiest phone yet.
Nexus 4 comes with Android Beam so you can quickly share photos, videos, contacts, apps and more with a tap. Just touch two NFC-enabled Android devices back-to-back, then beam whatever's on the screen to your friend.
Nexus 4 comes with the latest version of Android and gets updates directly from Google, so you’ll always have the fastest, most up-to-date software on your phone.
Make Nexus 4 your wallet. With the free Google Wallet app on your Nexus 4, you can carry all your credit and debit cards securely with you on your phone. Just tap your phone to pay everywhere contactless payments are accepted at more than 200,000 stores across the US.
Google Play
Get all the apps and games you love on Nexus 4 – with over 700,000 titles to choose from on Google Play, there’s something for everyone. Find the most popular free and paid apps, explore hand-picked collections, browse by category or simply search for your favorites.
Take your music anywhere with Nexus 4. Browse through the millions of songs available for purchase, or upload your existing music library to Google Play – up to 20,000 songs for free – and stream all your tracks and playlists from the cloud so you’ll never miss a beat.
With the Music Manager, you can easily import your entire iTunes music library* into Google Play. Once your music is imported it automatically becomes available on Nexus 4. You'll also be able to enjoy your music on the web at play.google.com/music and any other Android compatible phone or tablet.
* up to 20,000 songs. Cannot include DRM protected songs.
Google Play puts all your favorite entertainment right in your hand. Explore the world's largest collection of eBooks, the latest magazines, and thousands of movies and TV shows in full HD.
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