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Nexus 5
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Do you have a link to it? The one I read on The Verge didn't strike me as awful and biased as posters down thread have said.
I mean it even ended with
"Overall, the Nexus 5 looks like a wildly capable Android phone. It's fast and big with a beautiful screen and all the accoutrements you'd expect on a flagship phone. As we said above, it has a lean, utilitarian aesthetic that doesn't quite feel beautiful, but is certainly workable and isn't without some charm. Like the Nexus 4 before it, we don't expect it will take the wireless world by storm but we do expect a tiny slice of users to be very happy with what Google is offering."
Just wondering what you and others found so biased about it?
It still seems strange to me that the icons on the phone are different than the icons in the screenshots on the Play Store. The dock icons are big instead of small and the camera and phone icons are completely different.
Order Placed. 32GB Black.
I'm sooooooooooo weak.........
UGH! Lucky you...I'm going to wait it out til its out on Sprint...
I hate waiting...especially for this beauty of a phone.
I hope Topolsky is doing the Nexus 5 review.
But ultimately, the review I'm really waiting for is Anandtech's.
But ultimately, the review I'm really waiting for is Anandtech's.
It still seems strange to me that the icons on the phone are different than the icons in the screenshots on the Play Store. The dock icons are big instead of small and the camera and phone icons are completely different.
Someone in their creative marketing department messed up, I guess. In other words, probably a bad and/or old render?
What's way more interesting to me is the Nexus 4 page is still there. What could that mean?
EDIT: Never mind! It's gone:
Oh well. No Nexus 4 LTE. Which leads me to believe even more than Google purposefully leaked errant information to throw us off. What the heck was that FCC device that was smaller than the Nexus 4? Google's new way of "fighting" security leaks? It worked. Kept us all guessing.
It wasn't The Verge itself, it was just the guy who reviewed it. He was very biased and a fanboy, The Verge could have at least gotten someone else to do it but it was just bad. I usually enjoy The Verge's reviews but this one was just the worst.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWD6O53F6yc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I have to disagree with you here. I've been using Android for about a year now. My iOS experience is outdated and based on a 4S, yet I still get annoyed by Androids scrolling lag.
Unfortunately for the most part you won't experience this. It is left up to the developers, meaning it probably won't see widespread adoption for a long time. I'd wager that for the first half of the Nexus 5s life, using most 3rd party apps will be no different.
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Saw this on anandtech:
"Battery is the 2300 mAh 3.8V capacity we suspected, which works out to 8.74 watt hours, although one thing the Nexus 5 has over the G2 that it seems to share a platform with is a QFE1100 envelope tracker which offers 20 percent power savings on the cellular power amplifiers."
That's all nice and good, but the screen takes up the most battery. I'm still waiting to hear if it has GRAM.
Really I just need better standby. The nexus 4 drop about 15% every three hours while sitting in my pocket
Hehe, he's kind of a professional troll that slickly hides his Apple fanboyism by passively aggressively denigrating anything non-Apple.
Anyone else really disappointed in the nexus 5?
There was insane amount of hype about this phone. I remember people saying there might be a feature to activate google now through voice even when the phone was asleep.
It seems almost exactly the same as the nexus 4.
There was insane amount of hype about this phone. I remember people saying there might be a feature to activate google now through voice even when the phone was asleep.
It seems almost exactly the same as the nexus 4.
I've never seen the scrolling lag, I'm actually looking for it right now on my G2. I think it must be one of those subtle things you really have to look for, but I'll be damned if I can find it. I'm not saying Android doesn't lag, it does, but it's usually not reproducible for me and is kind of random except in the dialer app, which is pretty much always.
It's too bad the full screen isn't universal. It doesn;'t bother me much as there is GMD auto hide soft keys and Nova launcher, but it's always nice to install less overhead.