- Amazon Sales Rank: #12533 in Cell Phone Accessories
- Color: White
- Brand: LG
- Model: Nexus 5
- Released on: 2013-11-08
- Dimensions: 5.43" h x .34" w x 2.73" l, .29 pounds
Features
- Display: 4.95-inches
- Camera: 8-MP
- Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz
- OS: Android 4.4 (KitKat)
- Design, look and build quality-> I differ here from most reviewers who says its plain or boring and nothing stands out of this. Its as good looking as black (space gray) iPhone 5S. Its all black like iPhone 5s. Though its made of plastic its feels sturdy, well built with precision only known to Apple. And for the people who tell iPhone made of aluminum, Nexus 5 sides appears no inferior to iPhone 5S black sides. The front glass is very well fused with the body with almost no gaps. Now what we are left with? Back? The back of Nexus 5 is though made of plastic it feels very good in the hand and due to its matte finish does not seem to slip off.
- Processor/speed-> Buttery/silky smooth. Neck to neck with iPhone 5s and second only to Note 3 for all practical purposes.
- Screen/display-> Nothing short of awesome. Its better than retina any time as its full HD. The feeling of display being washed up goes away very soon and remember the retina used to have the same problem.
- Ecosystem-> Android eco system is as good as Apple's. In fact I find it better because of Android OS power you have kind of powerful applications which Apple fan boys can never have. Apple fan boys just give a try to 'tasker' (Warning: Only if you can handle Android's raw power.)
- Powerful Soul-> "Fools are those who don't want their souls to be powerful." Its as good as iOS but better why? because its powerful and customizable. You can do the things with it when you need. Its no way comparable to inferior iOS. Apple fan boys! People should not be proud of a system which does not even let them change default for anything.
- Call Quality -> fantastic.
- Network Signal Quality -> Fantastic.
- Volume/Speaker-> Its just touching the boundary of being enough. This seems to be software related issue and should be fixed in future update. I have tested many things and some sounds in some apps are freaking load. With headphones its fantastic. The voice quality is very superior and has no noise in it. Its as pure as it gets.
- Camera-> I have seen all the comparisons of Nexus 5 with all leading phones (HTC one, Nokia Lumia, iPhone 5s, Samsung Galaxy S4) and its competing neck to neck in every department except may be in the shutter speed. But again Google admitted it was software related issue and would be fixed soon through update. Personally I am pretty satisfied with the camera.
- Battery-> No complaints. Nothing great or bad here. It just falls short of only two smart phones right now which are LG G2 and Note 3. But it's battery is comparable to the best smartphone i.e. iPhone 5s. So if iPhone 5S can be the best with that kind of battery I don't understand how we could complain of Nexus 5. For casual usage you will charging it once a day. The noticeable thing is that in idle mode it does not eat battery at all and that's where it will average out better end of the day.
- Reparability-> iFixit has given its 8 of 10 in this department and you should feel comfortable saving your money on costly repair by doing many things yourself and the whole assembly is modular.
Now one step further..
iPhone 5S black (or space gray) seems to have identity crisis of being black or something else, Nexus 5 black is perfectly black and it has got radically different sides (not plain round rectangle which all other smartphones have). The sides are beautifully something else.
iPhone 5S beauty is revealing and Nexus 5 beauty being black is mysterious and never gets boring.
I love this black beauty and don't blame for my taste as they said "beauty lies in the eyes of beholders".
"Simplicity is Beauty and Beauty is simplicity, nothing more, nothing less." - Oscar Wilde. If any phone on the market lives up to the Oscar Wilde's quote its Nexus 5.
In short its unapologetically simple".
Summary-> Even keeping its lower price aside, Its the one of best smart phone and should equal or better any best smart phone on the planet right now. And you add advantage of lower price...
