These upcoming phones really need to prioritize battery life more seriously.
This made me lol. Why, you ask. Well, I think everyone has been saying that since the dawn of electronics. You think with all the optimizations and lower NM in CPUs and just everything that they can do to prevent a huge battery loss, we would have amazing battery by now.
Nope. Only certain devices that specifically have the battery size in it are capable or they're underpowered/underperformers (sometimes).
Anyway, the only way you'll see another Nexus on VZW is when they kill their CDMA network. That's all there really is to that argument.
Someone mentioned how the VZW way wasn't the Google way which is why they butted heads, and I just wanted to touch on that. Listen, Google has a pretty large sum of money and they're one of the largest companies on the earth. Apple has an enormous amount of money and are a large company as well. Apple was able to keep their methods of supplying updates easily since that's what they were accustomed to on AT&T so VZW bent over for them. Since Google really hasn't been a giant player with their devices (their OS is a different story), they don't see any reason why they should let Google control the updates.
It's ridiculous how Verizon is OK with that, but then again, you have to think about how Apple is able to negotiate, and it seems Google is just awful at it. Apple gets everyone to sign onto their technology/whatever. Google creates something amazing and barely anyone adopts it and then it's retired.. >_<
Anyway! So yeah... Nexus 5. I'm pretty stoked for it. One thing I wish it could do is the always listening controls the Moto X has (without that 3rd party app). That would be pretty awesome.