To those saying Google did a horrible job, I have to agree! This release was not handled right at all IMO! If I had to guess I'd just have to say they weren't prepared for so much response and demand for the Nexus 4, but that excuse is mute to me at this point because I feel that after the demand was so high for the Nexus 7 they should have been much better prepared.
I was one of the East Coasters waiting with a slew of others for the 4 to go live at 12am Tues, then 3am, then 6am, them 8am, then luckily a few posts came up on here at 11:30am that said the page was live...That's when the real fun began!
I'm not kidding when I say the ordering process for this phone was a seriously stressful experience to say the very least, my order was kicked out about a total of 10 times and I can't even tell you how many errors I got before almost saying forget this whole idea. Then after about the 9th time I was greeted with the error of my order saying there was no more stock for the 16 gig model, at that point I was going to just settle for the 8gig, and after that order was kicked out I just Kind of said this is just crazy and way to much time had been wasted! Anyway about 10 minutes later I received an email saying Thank You for your order? Lol, that was the 1st of 3 emails that I would receive saying Thank You for your order, Google placed 3 orders for me somehow even though I kept getting knocked out of the buy it now page?
So now is when I really started to dig into this and thankfully was able to cancel 2 of my 3 orders without having to really deal with 3 separate orders shipping out, I was able to do so because you have an hour window to cancel a Google order! However honestly all this was just botched IMO, who knows how many people had to go though the same process just to place an order, not smooth would be the title for this whole release. Thankfully when I check my google wallet account it says that 2 of the orders were canceled and that my original order is pending, which I would assume will say pending until Google gets around to shipping my phone, which if I had to guess may not be until tomorrow with an arrive date of next Monday most likely, lol...that's a little longer then 2 days if you ask me! Either way I'm just going to get right to it and say it...Google should take some pointers from Apple with this stuff, people may talk a lot of crap about the fruit but one thing they can handle is setting a date and handling a release!
