No troubles with my N5. Battery life is not quite as good as my iPhone 5 & 5S were, but not horrible. Gets me though the day with maybe 30% to spare (iPhone was maybe 45%).
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Love my Nexus 5 so far. Switched over to Android at the end of June. Much happier paying lower monthly fees compared to owning an iPhone. Sure there are some trade offs but I'm getting used to everything. Battery life is a little bit less than my iPhone but my Nexus 5 was off the charger at 6AM and lasted till 11PM with I believe 20% battery left so not bad.
My N5's battery life can be better but I have to say that I use it more than I've used any other phone I've owned. I even prefer to do things on it that I can do with the iPad mini that I have lying around. I guess if the N6 ends up being a 5.9" mammoth in a tight body à la LG G3, I'd be a happy man.
I read that there was an update to the speaker grill earlier this year. Does anyone know if the updated phones are louder? I'm thinking about trying the Nexus 5 again and remember wishing the speaker was louder last year.
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When did you order your Nexus 5? I bought one at launch and the speaker wasn't loud enough. Every time I listened to something I'd find myself pressing the button to increase volume because it sounded like it was turned down really low. For comparison, with my iPhone I'd never use it at max volume.
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When did you order your Nexus 5? I bought one at launch and the speaker wasn't loud enough. Every time I listened to something I'd find myself pressing the button to increase volume because it sounded like it was turned down really low. For comparison, with my iPhone I'd never use it at max volume.
With the announcement of the 6 today, they have their website for the 5 updated. Still selling it, same price and with android 5 so we should be seeing that software update available hopefully before too long.
http://www.google.com/nexus/5/
http://www.google.com/nexus/5/
I'm trying to sell my 5, and I've gotten very few bites. I'm not sure if it was due to people holding tight to see what the 6 would be about, but now that pricing and other information about the 6 is out there, maybe I'll see some more interest in my 5.
I'll be keeping my 5 for a bit and enjoying Lollipop, even though I'm not super into the device itself anymore. I was spoiled by my Xperia and it's sd slot and waterproofing.
That was the ticket. I think there was a lull in activity the week before and of the announcement of the 6. Once people saw that the 6 was a behemoth, i had a lot more activity and sold it.
Doubt it since they're still selling it instead of discontinuing it like in the past. And if they were going to drop the price they probably would have done it along with the refreshed website for the 5.
They're still selling it for now. I'm not so sure they aren't just depleting their remaining inventory or just waiting until the 29th and then taking the Nexus 5 off the Play store.
This is what I think will happen. Around the time you can preorder the nexus 6, the price of the nexus 5 may drop by $50ish. They will keep that price until they run out of inventory.
If they were just selling depleting inventory would they have gone to the trouble of creating a whole new updated website for the 5?
And would they have made such a big deal out of shipping the 5 with Android L if they were just burning off existing inventory? Heck, would they even have bothered updating and shipping with L instead of just shipping the rest with 4.4.x and letting people upgrade when it's available?
Seems obvious that the 5 will be around awhile to provide an alternative to the 6 that is way too big for many users. My guess would be it stays until the 7 is announced but we'll see.
And would they have made such a big deal out of shipping the 5 with Android L if they were just burning off existing inventory? Heck, would they even have bothered updating and shipping with L instead of just shipping the rest with 4.4.x and letting people upgrade when it's available?
Seems obvious that the 5 will be around awhile to provide an alternative to the 6 that is way too big for many users. My guess would be it stays until the 7 is announced but we'll see.
You did bring up some good points. Do you remember if the nexus 4 shipped with kitkat prior to selling out? I know it received kitkat, but I do not remember if it ever actually shipped with it.
Random, but do you think it would actually be called the nexus 7? I think it will stay with screen size. (nexus 7, nexus 10, nexus 9)
I didn't even notice that it is out of stock. That could be a sign that it will never come back. I would suggest buying the white before it is gone.
It's probably gonna be out of stock until L starts shipping.
I wouldn't be surprised if we saw the 5 drop to $299 around December. I'm surprised they kept it at $349 for so long.
I wouldn't be surprised if we saw the 5 drop to $299 around December. I'm surprised they kept it at $349 for so long.
Given the re-designed "Lollipopped" Nexus 5 on display on the Nexus 5 page, I'd hope they plan on selling it going forward.
To go to that effort and abandon it would be surprising!
As of right now, all 6 versions of Nexus 5 are We are out of inventory
3 different colors x 2 storage size = 6 versions.
Nexus 5 might never come back again.
Would LG do a Xiaomi and update the Nexus 5 and sell it online only for $299?
LG can't call it the Nexus 5 but it could call it the N5.
3 different colors x 2 storage size = 6 versions.
Nexus 5 might never come back again.
Would LG do a Xiaomi and update the Nexus 5 and sell it online only for $299?
LG can't call it the Nexus 5 but it could call it the N5.
Yeah, the fact that all models are showing out of stock (without warning), probably means they are updating them with android L. Since they are advertising ships with L, they have to literally update those devices manually that they have on-hand.