Google's GOOG -0.18% Android operating system is used on hundreds of smartphones and tablets. But the flagship Android devices, the ones the company calls 'the best of Google,' are labeled Nexus. They are meant to show the world all that an Android device can be, and are designed and sold directly online by Google. Next week, the company will begin offering the latest phone in this line, the Nexus 4.
歌(Google)的安卓(Android)操作系统被应用于数百种智能手机和平板电脑。但旗舰安卓设备（该公司称之为"凝聚谷歌精华的产品"）是以Nexus为品牌的，它们旨在向世界全面展示安卓设备的优秀性能。Nexus由谷歌设计，并由谷歌网站直接销售。谷歌从上周开始销售Nexus系列最新款手机──Nexus 4。
This new phone is part of a Google-designed portfolio that now includes two other devices: the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets. The phone, which features a new version of Android, hits the market at a time when Apple AAPL -0.30% has had early success with its iPhone 5, and as Nokia NOK1V.HE +0.46% and HTC are bringing out devices with a fresh version of Microsoft's MSFT +0.78% phone software, Windows Phone 8.
这款新手机搭载新版安卓系统，属于由谷歌直接设计的产品系列（目前该系列还包括其他两款设备：Nexus 7和Nexus 10平板电脑）。这款手机的面市正值苹果公司(Apple) iPhone 5取得初步成功之际，与此同时，诺基亚(Nokia)和宏达(HTC)也在推出搭载微软(Microsoft)新版手机软件Windows Phone 8的设备。
I found the Nexus 4 more evolutionary than revolutionary. It has some nice features and carries on Google's recent tablettradition of low pricing. But there's no knock-your-socks-off stuff in the new phone. Even the new version of Android is just a further iteration of the current variant, called Jelly Bean, rather than an all-new edition, such as Google introduced last year at this time with the prior Nexus phone.
我认为Nexus 4更多是一种改进，而不是创新。它有一些不错的功能，并且延续了近期谷歌平板电脑的低价惯例。但这款新手机并没有让人印象深刻的亮点。就连新版安卓系统也只是在现有的糖豆(Jelly Bean)版本的基础上做了一些改进，而没有采用全新版本（谷歌去年这个时候推出上一款Nexus手机时就采用了全新版本）。
And the Nexus 4 is missing two important features: the ability to use LTE, the most consistentlyspeedy 4G network in the U.S.; and a memory capacity greater than 16 gigabytes, the amount most smartphones start with. The new phone also lacks a memory-expansion slot. The phone's most touted new capability, the ability to capture 360-degree pictures, worked poorly in my tests.
Nexus 4缺少两项重要功能：首先，它不能使用LTE网络（美国最快、最稳定的4G网络）；其次，它的存储容量未能超过16GB（而多数智能手机的存储容量为16GB起）。这款新手机也没有存储扩展槽。此外，在我的测试中，Nexus 4炒得最热的新功能（即拍摄360度照片）效果也不尽如人意。
Otherwise, I found the latest Nexus to be a solid, reliable, phone and a good value. On Nov. 13, Google will begin selling it starting at $299 for an unlocked version
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