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10 years later: The Nexus 4, revisited
The Google Nexus 4 is a decade old now, but it still holds up in some key ways.
The LG Nexus 4 was the fourth entry in the Nexus series after the Galaxy Nexus. It came at a time when smartphone growth was blowing up globally, and 4G LTE was beginning to roll out in many nations worldwide. Every new Android generation brought faster processors, more RAM, more storage, and higher-resolution cameras with an intensive churn throughout generations. But there was more to the LG Nexus 4 than it just being a slick, glittery powerhouse in the early 2010s.
LineageOS 15.1 now available for the Google Nexus 4
LineageOS 15.1 for the Nexus 4 is now available, though it's currently in nightly status. If you want to give it a try, check this out!
The Nexus 4 was released in November 2012 with Android 4.2, an incremented version of Android Jelly Bean. It has been nearly 6 years since then and we're all the way to Android 8.1 Oreo. Thanks to the Android developer community and old device like the Nexus 4 is receiving the latest version of Android in the form of an official build of LineageOS 15.1. This includes all of the features you've come to expect from Android Oreo, such as Picture-in-Picture mode, notification channels, background app optimizations, the Autofill API and more - that's without even mentioning the enhanced security.
