Hurricane Sandy: 1. Google's Monday Press Event in NYC: 0.

Sorry, tech-heads. Hurricane Sandy has put a crimp in Google's plans for Android.

Following New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's declaratoin of a state of emergency in advance of Hurricane Sandy making landfall later today – and eventually making its way up to New York City on Sunday – Google has (wisely) decided to cancel its big Monday press event. It was originally scheduled to be held at Pier 36 in the city, which isn't the best of places to hang out when the city's even considering shutting down its mass transit system due to flooding.

According to The Verge's T.C. Sottek, Google's event location has now been designated an evacuation zone by the city, which rules any kind of product launches right out. The company hasn't indicated when or where it plans to reschedule its event, which also now leaves the fun situation of Microsoft and Google butting heads with competing Monday press events resolved: Microsoft gets Monday to itself when hosting its press event from the pretty, lacking-severe-weather location of San Francisco, California.

Of course, what Google likely had on tap for its big Monday reveal isn't all that secret right now. It's expected that Google was going to show off three big elements in total: A preview of its Android 4.2 update, which allegedly retains the name "Jelly Bean" despite its numerical difference from good ol' Android 4.1; the Nexus 10 tablet, otherwise known as Google's answer to the iPad; and likely a new Nexus 4 phone from LG.

The UK's Carphone Warehouse allegedly already spilled the beans on most of what's in store for the LG's Nexus 4 as a result of the company accidentally putting up a preorder page for the device a bit too early. It's since been taken down, but watchful Web-hounds have already captured the specs erroneously on display.

The 4.7-inch smartphone, which was alleged to have started shipping on October 30, will pack two gigabytes of RAM and a 1.5-GHz Qualcomm quad-core S4 processor behind a 4.7-inch, 1280-by-760-pixel display. The phone's allegedly limited to eight or sixteen gigabytes of onboard storage and there's no way to up that by way of a non-existent microSD slot.

Oh, and don't forget about Android 4.2 – LG's new smartphone's going to sport Google's latest iteration of the OS, which we'll all be able to see in person at some point in the future, once Google re-announces its press event.

That, or just keep a close eye on the various smartphones scattered around your local bar…

 

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