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Hmm
So have had my Nexus 4 for a couple of weeks now. On the whole I love it and it is a great device. I'm not going to post the positives as they are covered well elsewhere but I do have a few gripes. These are actually with Android (Jellybean) rather than the device.
1) Lack of SD card expansion. This is my major one. Even though I got the 16 gig model it doesn't seem enough. On older devices I stuck in a 32 gig micro SD which allowed me to synch photos / music / movies etc without much regard for storage space. Leading on to:
2) Play Music. I imported everything to the cloud (which took an age and 1 x restart). Great. Except no smart playlists are imported from iTunes. I've used iTunes for an age and rely heavily on smart playlists usually utilising ratings then other meta-data. As Play Music doesn't recognise any of this it's pretty useless to me. I had hoped to store all in the cloud and then import / download to the Nexus 4 a few smart playlists so I can listen offline. The main times I want to listen to my music a) I'm not online b) I don't want to listen / shuffle everything - just the good (smart) stuff. I'm sure Google will fix this but to me it is a major inconvenience. Am back to creating a playlist limited in iTunes by size and then synching using Doubletwist.
3) Google Now. Doesn't quite do what I'd like it to. E.g. I had a calendar entry for a party last weekend where I expected it to grab the address and give me options / map to get there. It didn't. Maybe just need to give it some more time as it could be a killer app.
4) Navigation. Always seems to default to driving unless accessed directly. I'd like it to always default to walking.
Having said that what an amazing thing. It still astounds me how far we've come so quickly. If someone had said 5 years ago I could just talk to my phone and it would tell me where the nearest Poundstretcher is and bring up a map of how to get there and how long it would take I'd have told them to fuck off.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong with the above gripes gratefully accepted.