You guys can try to talk down the price but LG will not care two hoots. You have to understand that google's price is base cheap but only applicable to the countries where they already have the regulatory approvals and certification tests all done. To do this in all other countries is practically impossible and costly, which is why they rely on their suppliers in countries where they are not represented in play store.

So, in order for these suppliers to sell into these countries, they will procure these certs and approvals at their own cost, tweak accesories e.g. Adapters , logistics etc and provide local warranty. Also, most Importantly, there are physical brick and mortar stores and all these costs money.

So, yeah, dream on in trying to get it below $1500. You'll be lucky to be able to get it below $1800. Be realistic.

The cheapest method is buy from google store via vpn, and then thru hopshopgo, pay $300 for sirim cert services (up to 3 units) OR wait till newegg makes it available on their web and buy thru them. I've also asked newegg Malaysia and they confirmed that any gsm device brought into the country requires sirim cert which will cost around $300 including runners fee.

To those people saying that they will not buy the Nexus 4 because of the jacked up price,

Will you buy any other phone now, knowing that those phones are also being sold at jacked up prices?

Let's assume Google Play is selling the Nexus 4 at cost price. The rumored LG price is retail price. From here we agak agak know how much an average flagship phone is jacked up by.

Having that knowledge, will you still buy an S3, or a Note 2, or whatever ~Rm2k flagship device?

You'll be a hypocrite if you say you'll consider other ~Rm2k flagship devices, because those devices are jacked up by about the same amount as well. Just that the cost price was not publicly known.

so we go for smuggle version...

This post has been edited by kpsia518: Nov 6 2012, 01:42 PM

those argue why price cheap in US and expensive in UK... it's rumoured to be subsidised in US.

and also most european country have 20% VAT(GST) included.

We could all just wait a few months for the price to come crashing down, like the gnex

or just get it from overseas or wait for AP set.

it could be similar scenario to N7... where Asus is selling at RRP of rm999 whereas AP dealers can sell lower. APs were supposedly getting their sets from US, which is again, rumoured to be subsidised.

Erm, I don't think Google is subsidizing ANY Nexus devices. Dan Morrill, who works at Google, asked "I admit, I LOLed. What on Earth makes you think Google subsidizes the Nexus devices?" to a post by Linus Torvalds criticizing Engadget's piece on the iPad Mini, which the author replied to the post saying something about Nexus devices being subsidised.

https://plus.google.com/1021506932251300029...sts/8KBkzumMEc1

Ctrl+F "Dan Morrill" to get to that specific comment.

Someone just bulk order in Trade Zone, the price seem reasonable.

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2407663

they probably not susidising. but they sold with very little margin.
iPhone sells for 3 times the cost to build 1.

looks to me...

but warranty claim is an issue

---

Added on November 6, 2012, 3:16 pmlooks to me...

but warranty claim is an issue

---

Added on November 6, 2012, 3:16 pmlooks to me...

but warranty claim is an issue

This post has been edited by karwaidotnet: Nov 6 2012, 03:16 PM

seller mentioned he waive it the shipping cost for the first month and the rest 12 month he asked us to pay RM90...

It seems a valid charges for me the only turn off is the duration of waiting for it to came here... huhuhuhuhu...

But from others complain that LG service is not good as well... might be same duration...

Any LG shops that might be selling it here?

Of all of them, you are using Apple as example. Come on...

Coz they just dont cut their price,

Usually u see other brand will drop after certain period but iPhone only drop price after the new generation comes.

now U can buy S3 ori set about RM 1.8k which equal to last year iPhone 4S.

Im not comparing Apple as whole, just comparing iPhone. The iPad have a very good price for the specs.

This post has been edited by soulseeker6187: Nov 6 2012, 04:32 PM

For such a specs,I can still say 2k is cheap,1,5k very cheap already lor,some people still complaining bout price,please tell me where can you get such a good specs within 1,5k?

Probably they expect LG to sell it at the direct conversion of Google Play's price. Either that or, they are just plain cheapskates who can afford to pay 2.2k for S3 when it first came out and not the same amount for the phone which may be better than the S3.

Kiasulogic.

I think mainly because they knew the USA price is so tempting and feel that all other price was being cheated~

Tax,postage,insurance and more would cost over dollars,what do they expect?exact same price?