But overall it was a letdown, maybe the biggest disappointment of the phone. We found our action photos were often blurry, the shutter seemed slow to fire, and night-time shots were usually just a mess. Google tells us that a software fix meant to improve the camera is imminent. We hope so, because its a bringdown.
What did they say? I'm not seeing anything more recent than the Max and the Note 3.BTW, Anand's battery #s are up in bench:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SmartPhone13/516
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SmartPhone13/514
They got taken down. Here are the numbers for the N5 that were posted:
Wifi Browsing: 10.83
2g/3g browsing: 6.436
4g lte browsing: 6.929
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c.../Bench/SmartPhone13+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
I am sure the g2 cost more than 600.I have to wait on LG updates. I can also get a subsidized version with carrier bloat.
I have a Nexus 7 and love it. I want the Nexus experience.
KitKat and stock Android are the big selling points here. You're getting the pure, unadulterated version of Android without the ugly skins that OEMs feel compelled to waste resources on.
The biggest disappointment is that Motorola completely outdid Google on the voice recognition front. The Nexus 5 is supposed to be the best of Google, but we longingly look at that other Google phone, the Moto X, and wish the Nexus 5 was equally as capable.
Well the G2 is the hardware basis for the N5, LG has said the 4.4 update is already in the pipeline and current leaks put it at December, that doesn't seem like a slow update at all...
This is a great way of putting it, which I'm planning to steal from you.Nexus ≠ Pure Android. While Google gets the first upgrade (I don't know how exactly this system works) but with the Nexus 5 Google made it clearer than ever that Nexus devices are basically hardware that run Google's skin/ROM of Android.
Too bad I hate LG software with a passion. Feels like a bad copy of TouchWiz
Between validation, carrier lock-in and refusal to drop vendor customization I don't think quick official Android updates are happening anytime soon outside Nexus devices.
You can add a multitask button without ROMming?you can turn off most of what is annoying
They got taken down. Here are the numbers for the N5 that were posted:
Wifi Browsing: 10.83
2g/3g browsing: 6.436
4g lte browsing: 6.929
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c.../Bench/SmartPhone13+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
They got taken down. Here are the numbers for the N5 that were posted:
Wifi Browsing: 10.83
2g/3g browsing: 6.436
4g lte browsing: 6.929
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c.../Bench/SmartPhone13+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
Is this envelope tracking an s800 feature or exclusive to just that handful of phones?
If true, that shows just how impressive the LTE Envelope tracking really is. It makes sense because the envelope tracking phones (N5, G2, Note 3) blow the doors off other Android phones with LTE.
In the LTE results, the N5 handily beats the SGS4 by almost 1.5 hours, despite a smaller battery, and the Nexus 4 by 2 hours! So much for 1080p being a problem for battery life! Also, for many of us upgrading from the SGS3, the N4 absolutely spanks the SGS3, which gets only 4.3 hrs of LTE browsing.
Also, the WiFi browsing score is the same as the LG G2. WTF!? That is insane.
Sadly, most review sites just don't get it -- they use things like 50% brightness or 100% brightness for all their phones, which is insane because every phone has a different useable brightness range. Of course the phones that go brighter do shittier in reviews like that!
Ars -> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/nexus-5-review-flagship-hardware-for-half-the-price/
Bad review. The reviewer doesn't even have a basic understanding of what Nexus franchise is. Towards the end of the review,
Nexus 5 is many things, but pure, unadulterated version of Android is it not. And it is often amusing when I see someone yearning for some kind of "purity." Religious much?
The reviewer couldn't even put the data together in a coherent manner. On GFX tables,
Same test, but on the first chart the N5's Egypt HD is 44 FPS and on the 3rd chart the same test gives the N5 50 FPS.
And no mention of speakers. I am not linking this review to the OP for quality reasons.
Barely a couple of mentions on Moto X, then out-of-the-blue the reviewer finishes his review with the following:
I think the person might have been under the influence while writing this review.
I think standard brightness is good, but it would be interesting to record a set of data that simulates a series of standard lighting conditions someone would go through and put a phone through that.Actually 200 nits isn't a perfect test either considering most people don't calibrate their phones for a fixed brightness.
I'd argue that since most users use auto brightness, it might be more useful to benchmark under auto brightness under controlled ambient lighting conditions. The fact is, if the N5 screen is too bright as many users are reporting, then it will definitely affect battery life for the average user, and they should be aware.
Likewise, 50% isn't completely invalid. If you use the phone in a bright area and it consistently ramps close to 100% brightness, and you find it too bright, or if you want to save some power, maybe 50% might make sense. Furthermore, when I had an N4, all the screen color calibration junkies would run at 50% because auto brightness will skew your calibration. Calibration should be done at a fixed brightness. So it's not entirely irrelevant. Plus the users who don't use auto brightness set their phones to a manual brightness, and 50% is a reasonable reference point.
Before you bring up the fact that some users use Lux or use CM to modify the brightness curves, that's a pretty advanced user there. Most users don't bother with this. I'm not saying 200 nits is wrong, but I'm saying there's other ways to benchmark too that aren't completely wrong either.