I have a Nexus 4 and it's beautiful. I love it. But I don't really consider it an "LG" phone because look at how strikingly different it is from their other models. It seems that because they carried the Nexus brand, they had to follow the Galaxy Nexus' design, which might be a standard for Nexus phones now. I wouldn't be surprised if the next Nexus phone looked the same.

Definitely not at the cutting edge of phone design either.