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Nexus 5

I'm more worried about screen issues than the battery. The Nexus 4 I returned had a horrible screen.

When viewed from straight on it was yellow, but when turning it away from my face it looked normal. Also the backlighting was really bad. I saw a lot of complaints about bad backlighting. I hope they've fixed it with the new LCD. The G2s I've looked at didn't have any issues that I could see, but sometimes having something at home gives you more time to evaluate quality than just a few minutes in the store. I'm hopeful, though, that the Nexus 5 will be better.

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Lava Lamp Freak said:
I'm more worried about screen issues than the battery. The Nexus 4 I returned had a horrible screen.

When viewed from straight on it was yellow, but when turning it away from my face it looked normal. Also the backlighting was really bad. I saw a lot of complaints about bad backlighting. I hope they've fixed it with the new LCD. The G2s I've looked at didn't have any issues that I could see, but sometimes having something at home gives you more time to evaluate quality than just a few minutes in the store. I'm hopeful, though, that the Nexus 5 will be better.

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You know, now that you mentioned it my reasons for returning my nexus 4's were the noises in the ear piece. Although, I wasn't too happy with the battery life I probably could have dealt with it.
 
THE JUICEMAN said:
Speculating is half the fun! But that article had an update to it where they received a new unit from google with better battery life. Still not as good as the G for some reason. I can't believe LG does software battery optimization better than google but something is going on.
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Ya, it seems odd that stock Android has actually provided worse battery life in the past. That is why I really hope the 32GB 3000 mAh rumor is true, but I seriously doubt it is.

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Lava Lamp Freak said:
I'm more worried about screen issues than the battery. The Nexus 4 I returned had a horrible screen.

When viewed from straight on it was yellow, but when turning it away from my face it looked normal. Also the backlighting was really bad. I saw a lot of complaints about bad backlighting. I hope they've fixed it with the new LCD. The G2s I've looked at didn't have any issues that I could see, but sometimes having something at home gives you more time to evaluate quality than just a few minutes in the store. I'm hopeful, though, that the Nexus 5 will be better.

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/17203681/
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I've had multiple Nexus 4 replacements with major backlight bleeding issues.
 
I'm reading Oct 31 as the date for the nexus 5 and 4.4 KitKat.
I would be very interested in a 32gb Nexus 5 as long as the battery life and camera are decent.
Hopefully they keep fairly close to the prices of the Nexus 4, although I do expect the N5 will cost a bit more than the N4.
Let's hope the Nexus 5 launch goes smoother than that of the Nexus 4! Don't want to have to wait months after launch to get one. Although Google's Nexus 7 launch this summer went pretty smoothly, so maybe they're learning.
 
strausd said:
Could not agree with you more.



Before I respond to all of this nonsense, let me take a moment to quote something specific from your earlier post:


Hmm, interesting. Too bad you don't follow your own words. Here are some points you clearly missed or ignored.


Clearly I am just speculating as to what will happen. Not saying anything for sure.



And I'm sorry you constantly think I am negative towards the Nexus line. I didn't know you looked down upon people wanting to see products they like improve. Geez.

It is perfectly fine for people to be critical of the devices they own. That helps them look for better products. If the people who make a phone are never critical of it, how will it ever improve?!? You are allowed to be critical of the products you enjoy. You need to stop looking down on people just for being critical of the products they use. This is a serious problem you continually make.



Yes, for the price it will be awesome. No disagreement there. The problem I am having is that an LG G2 with a 2300 mAh battery produces decent battery life. But we may not be getting the battery life of an LG G2 with a 2300 mAh battery.

Look back at the Optimus G and Nexus 4. Same exact specs on CPU, GPU, screen, RAM, and battery capacity. Yet very different battery life. Taken from Engadget:



Same test, same internal hardware. Nexus 4 gets 5 hours and 18 minutes, Optimus G gets over 8 hours. So sure, we can speculate that a Nexus 5 might have decent battery based on an LG G2 with a 2300 mAh battery. But we must also consider the fact that a Nexus 5 can still get significantly worse battery life compared to an LG G2 with a theoretical 2300 mAh battery as that is what happened last year essentially.

I did an earlier post on the Nexus 5 and G2 battery life. At first, it looks promising. But I forgot the fact that last year battery life was vastly different despite the same hardware. So battery life could be even worse than in that post. Although it could be better or the same. We will find out. But apparently some people on here really hate when others speculate. I quite enjoy it :)
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Yes I know you were speculating. I am arguing that your speculation is not fair because the phone has not even been given a chance yet. Sure we can talk about the storage, or things like that because there is nothing that can be different about 16g, or 32g. A battery can preform very different based on the software it is running.

All your speculation is based on 2 devices. The N4 and the Optimus G. Google has made 3 other phones that all had battery like to compete with all the other phones of the time. Sorry, but basing your speculation off just what the last generation of phones did is foolish.

You can call what you are saying just being critical all you want, and last time I checked Google could careless what you are saying on Macrumors. If this is what you call being critical go for it.
 
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OK, so the question isn't if the N5 will be coming out today or at the end of the month, the question is how imminent is 4.4? Google doesn't know apparently, otherwise they wouldn't have left their store without at phone for sale for weeks now. They obviously don't want to release the N5 with 4.3 and 4.4 seems to not have been finished. Then you got the time to flash the phones with the OS and ship and stock and release but this you can calculate.
 
If the price remains the same, and the phone is hot, I'm seriously considering switching from iPhone 5 to Nexus 5.

C'mon Google, do something great.
 
At this point I'm starting to wonder how many of these things they've already made. If the assembly line was up and running, and had been long enough to support a roll out surely there would be pictures or some kind of information from there. Even a picture taken from someone's mobile of stacks of boxes of the things.
 
lighthouse_man said:
OK, so the question isn't if the N5 will be coming out today or at the end of the month, the question is how imminent is 4.4? Google doesn't know apparently, otherwise they wouldn't have left their store without at phone for sale for weeks now. They obviously don't want to release the N5 with 4.3 and 4.4 seems to not have been finished. Then you got the time to flash the phones with the OS and ship and stock and release but this you can calculate.
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You could be right. Maybe 4.4 is not ready, but it seems they would have been planning this for a long time before release.
 
bmac4 said:
Yes I know you were speculating. I am arguing that your speculation is not fair because the phone has not even been given a chance yet. Sure we can talk about the storage, or things like that because there is nothing that can be different about 16g, or 32g. A battery can preform very different based on the software it is running.

All your speculation is based on 2 devices. The N4 and the Optimus G. Google has made 3 other phones that all had battery like to compete with all the other phones of the time. Sorry, but basing your speculation off just what the last generation of phones did is foolish.

You can call what you are saying just being critical all you want, and last time I checked Google could careless what you are saying on Macrumors. If this is what you call being critical go for it.
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Since I'm only speculating, there isn't an issue of me being fair or not. That only comes into play if I say "it for sure will have bad battery life" which I have not said. How can I be unfair if I have yet to make any concrete statement?

Speculation has been based on more than 2 phones. Go back and read my earlier posts.
 
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bmac4 said:
Really jrswizzle. How about read our entire discussion about this before posting about it. You of all people I thought would do that. I never once took his assumptions as fact. I am arguing that he thinks the battery will not be very good. I am only arguing his opinion. Not that this is fact set in stone. Please read what he and I posted before.
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Relax pal - I wasn't speaking about you. Just making a wider statement about these forums.

I haven't read your entire exchange and am making no judgement regarding your conversation ok?
 
jrswizzle said:
Relax pal - I wasn't speaking about you. Just making a wider statement about these forums.

I haven't read your entire exchange and am making no judgement regarding your conversation ok?
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Well when you quote him when he was quoting and talking about me. I would assume you were referring to me. I am sorry I jumped the gun on you, but every single exchange I have had with this guy has been bad. I should not have jumped on you ad I did. I just felt since you were quoting him, and he was talking about me. You were doing the same. Again my bad. I have had it with him.
 
bmac4 said:
Well when you quote him when he was quoting and talking about me. I would assume you were referring to me. I am sorry I jumped the gun on you, but every single exchange I have had with this guy has been bad. I should not have jumped on you ad I did. I just felt since you were quoting him, and he was talking about me. You were doing the same. Again my bad. I have had it with him.
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Nah, I'm really specifically referring to a post of mine in HTC One Max thread that's been quoted a thousand times (different people, though they all respond the same way) with responses calling me for things I never said in the post. Too much assumption, not enough simply taking the post for what it says. People are too quick to jump the gun around here - me included.
 
bmac4 said:
Well when you quote him when he was quoting and talking about me. I would assume you were referring to me. I am sorry I jumped the gun on you, but every single exchange I have had with this guy has been bad. I should not have jumped on you ad I did. I just felt since you were quoting him, and he was talking about me. You were doing the same. Again my bad. I have had it with him.
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I'm sorry you're so against speculating on a website dedication to speculation and rumors.

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Back on topic. If Google's event is the 31st, anybody think it might get overshadowed by the new iPads coming out?
 
strausd said:
I'm sorry you're so against speculating on a website dedication to speculation and rumors.

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Back on topic. If Google's event is the 31st, anybody think it might get overshadowed by the new iPads coming out?
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I was just thinking about that too. PR wise that would not be a good move to have it on the same day as apple. Before would be best especially if they plan on releasing a new nexus 10 to compete with iPad.
 
If the "Always Listening" rumor is true, sign me up for the Nexus 5.

I probably use Siri more than the average user, and not having to hold the home button (and the general responsiveness of Google's voice servers) would be amazing.
 
SeenJeen said:
If the "Always Listening" rumor is true, sign me up for the Nexus 5.

I probably use Siri more than the average user, and not having to hold the home button (and the general responsiveness of Google's voice servers) would be amazing.
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This feature alone has me considering the Moto X. I'll probably end up getting that if they ever let the developers edition come in different colors.
 
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