first it isnt an LG guy making the statement, it is some guy making a hypothesis but lets go with what you have.
"no big holes" --How big? How Many? does the sequence skip every other number. How about every 10th?
next, there is quality control. Some are just thrown back to the recycling bin.
How many pre-production model numbers were used, you know just testing the line?
Made is not equal to sold
Post #40 brings up another question mark.
Finally where did they start? looking at that thread, it started at 200K but was that because of what I stated above, or is that just the start date?
I honestly am not pooping on the parade, it could be right. We will not know for sure until someone at Google or LG says 500K have been made and the numbers line up. Until then it is just speculation
Robin is not a random guy making a hypothesis. And she is the LG Mobile France director.
Today, an interview with LG Mobile France director Cathy Robin could give us our clearest indication of what's actually going on behind the scenes with supplies of the LG-made Nexus phone. Speaking with French outlet Challenges.fr,
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Robin denies LG is selling the Nexus 4 at a loss, but says there's an agreement in place with Google to sell it at a "very attractive price."
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On reports that only 375,000 or so Nexus 4s had been sold (based on analysis of serial numbers on Internet forums), Robin describes this number as "much lower" than the actual sales figures.
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A Little Sleuthing Leads Nexus 4 Enthusiasts To Estimate About 400K In Sales Of The Device | TechCrunch
However, a little sleuthing by some Android enthusiasts and Nexus 4 owners suggests that LG produced about 400,000 devices going into the end of last year.
How did they do it? They?ve taken the IMEI numbers of their phones and backtracked the production number of their devices using an LG mobile link that?s usually used for finding new firmware. An IMEI number, or International Mobile Station Equipment Identity number, is usually printed on the battery compartment of the inside of the phone. It can be used to prevent stolen phones from accessing a network.
If you take this link and put your IMEI number at the very end, this LG site will spit back out the IMEI followed by a long string of characters that looks something like this: ?LGE960 ACAGBK 212KPHG188745 20121206 GLOBAL/GLOBAL N N?
If you break this string apart, you get:
LGE960 = phone model
A = ?
CA = Country where the device was sold. (Others include ?US? for the U.S., ?HK? for Hong Kong, ?AU? for Australia and so on.)
G = Storage (G = 16GB, 8 = 8GB)
BK = Color
2 = ?
12 = Production Month (November)
K = Production Country (Korea)
PHG = ?
188745 = The line or production number, showing that phone was the 188,745th device made.
2012121206 = The production date in YYYYMMDD format
A number of Nexus 4 owners have been sharing and compiling the production numbers day by day (see below). It suggests that LG made about 70,000 devices in October, 90,000 in November and 210,000 in December.
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If you have a NEXUS 4, look for the IMEI number and put it to at the end of this link, it will you all the info.
http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/csmg/b2c/client/auth_model_check2.jsp?esn=
EXAMPLE: (i took out the hyperlink)
[csmg.lg(IGNORE)mobilecom:9002/csmg/b2c/client/auth_model_check2.jsp?esn=(IGNORE)
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