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Here's 4 Android smartphones that you can buy right now that are every bit as good (and in some ways better) than the Google Nexus 4.

With a 6.9mm profile, Lenovo claims the new K900 is slimmest in its class. Other specs made available, aside from the Intel Atom chip powering the phone, include a 13 megapixel camera featuring a F1.8 wide aperture lens (a first according to Lenovo).

What if... Google tightened its grip on Android, canned the Nexus brand, and turned in-house to Motorola for a consumer-friendly, incredibly easy-to-use version of an Android superphone?

Here's three ways to protect your new Google Nexus 4. All are under $20, but I suspect none will make your uber Android look as beautiful as Elena Anaya.

As new users unwrapped their new tablets from Santa, throughout the day app downloads measured a remarkable 20 million downloads per hour. By day's end, over 328 million apps had been downloaded.

Nexus 4 battery life. Starting at around 6-7am, I regularly get 12-14 hours of use, per the above scenario, and have about 20-30% charge around 8pm or so. I consider that very good performance.

Thanks to continual upgrades to its Play Store, both in terms of content, and apps along with quantum improvements to aesthetics and usability, Google has erased the wide lead Apple had in years past in terms of user experience.

The HTC Droid DNA "offers the clearest image with the best tone for each of the individual colors" while Google's Nexus 4 (made by LG) "looks washed out."

Ironically, because Google loses money on the Nexus 7, shipping less of them actually has a positive impact on profitability.

UBS forecasts that Samsung will sell 61.5 million smartphones in Q4 - largely in part thanks to the success of large format smartphones, including the Galaxy Note II (5.5-inches) and Galaxy S III (4.8-inches).