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LG to ramp up production of Google's Nexus 4

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http://www.zdnet.com – Demand for the new Nexus 4 has exceeded Google's expectations, and now LG is ramping up production to keep up with demand. But how much of this demand is down to the low price of the handset? (General)

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As many Nexus 4 customers are being forced to wait until 2013 to get their hands on the new device, eBay has found it necessary to impose sales restrictions on the stock Android 4.2 smartphone.

The Nexus 4 has been pretty hard to come by and, if LG is to be believed, Google’s terribly inaccurate sales predictions are the biggest reason. According to Cathy Robin, head of mobile communications for LG France, demand has been 10 times higher than what Google expected.

Finally, some official news has come out of the Google/LG camp regarding the stock status of the hot Nexus 4, albeit not groundbreaking news. Per LG, the massive shortage of the hottest device this year is due to – huge demand. Wow LG, you don’t say.

It was only a couple days ago that Google’s Nexus Q was finally listed as “in stock” from the Google Play store and in a blink of an eye she’s gone again.

A few days ago, rumors were circulating that LG was halting production on the Nexus 4 to focus on its own new smartphones and a revamped version of the Nexus 4. Today those rumors come crashing to a heap. In an interview with a Korean website today, an LG official stated that production was going on without a hitch and that there is no issue regarding supply.

Production will almost double from 54,000 to 90,000 per year

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Is a Google Nexus 7 with 3G joining the traffic jam of tablets?

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Paul O'Brien of the tech site MoDaCo started a thread in a post Saturday that Google will offer a 3G version of the Nexus 7 in about six weeks:

"There's not a huge amount to say... a 3G version of the Nexus 7 is coming, with no other hardware changes.

Amazon Pricing on Spot Instance Inconsistencies

This is something which will be best explained through screenshots of a historical chart of instance pricings.

If you look at a lot of the instance prices for spot instances, you will notice regular patterns of spikes. See here:

As you can see, the price for this compute medium instance, regularly spikes above the on demand price.

Consumer demand for mobile data is exploding beyond market expectations, fuelled by new smartphones, apps and services, with the greatest demand coming from iPhone 4S users who have shown their huge appetite for information, demanding twice as much data as the iPhone 4 and 3G users.