Nexus with Android 4.4 5 KitKat has been one of the most spoken in recent weeks. The hopes, high expectations and hype created around that Google has made interest were to achieve a never before achieved by Nexus terminals or a new version of Android. We have thoroughly tested the Nexus 5, and now we tell you our experience with this pure Android terminal.
Wefrom a base that important. The Nexus 5 is a high-end terminal for its features, but goes to the midrange if you look at the price as € 349 can get the 16GB version. This fact makes it a unique terminal because rare is the case of a terminal Snapdragon today with 2GB RAM 800 and sells for under 500 €, and below 400 € not think there is any more.
Nexus 5 has its flaws, of course, and we will be reviewing in this review, but be aware that as terminal untouched, as they received it from the store, is the best Android experience offers day Today. And that does it for under 400 €, which many well over 600 € will not get, and this data is important to consider because when talking about their problems must be aware of the price. And it can not have everything.
always said that and with that in mind, we tell you how it has been our experience using the new Google Nexus 5.
Let’s start by reviewing the main hardware features that comprise the Nexus 5:
- True HD IPS Display Plus 4.95 “with 1080 x 1920 pixels
Gorilla Glass
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8974 Snapdragon
On paper the Nexus 5 is a gentleman high end, much as we see sometimes listed in the midrange. But again, that’s for its price, the Nexus 5 will not have any problem to compete on user experience with any of the current high-end market.
put the LG G2, Note 3 and Xperia Z1 at his side, to give some examples, the experience of navigating the phone, run applications and in general everything that has been normal, everyday use, is much higher in the Nexus 5, offering the best Android experience that we can find today.
fluid, fast, simple and very smooth. Using the Nexus 5 is a true pleasure, and the only phone that he had been approached in this regard was the Nexus 4, which is still fully lives up talking about this.
All this is thanks to the hardware of the Nexus 5, but also to offer a pure Android 4.4 experience KitKat, and we will discuss further in a later section.
If we focus on the purely hardware, Snapdragon 800 and 2GB of RAM we offer plenty of power for almost any task that can be performed in Android. No problem with the games more powerful and open an application like Google Maps is immediate, which in other terminals of the same characteristics sometimes takes a few seconds.
The camera is one of the most feared aspects of the Nexus 5 due to the poor record he had with the Nexus 4. Its 8 megapixel met, but fall slightly behind, although this will be discussed later in a section.
One of the figures most striking seeing the rest is low the battery capacity with only 2300 mAh. Although Google is upheld in using Qualcomm technology to increase the efficiency of the battery, this fails as well as we would like. We will also see in the data section devoted to detail the results we have achieved this.
Endclarifying some doubts concerning many. The Nexus 5 features LED notifications in the bottom center below the home button. The card is microSIM. And no, no microSD card slot, have to settle internal memory you have.
Nexus 5 features a front-line hardware at an unbeatable price, see how far this is a winning combination.
change Nexus Nexus 4 to 5 in terms of design is very great. While the Nexus 5 still maintains the characteristic lines of the Nexus range, we see new things that attract attention.
principal over its predecessor is that it has stopped using the rear glass. This favors the weight, which makes it lighter despite being somewhat larger. Also eliminate the problems we had before grip on the back, because they are so smooth rear surface Nexus 5 slipped in almost anywhere apoyásemos it.
The sides have a very similar setup with the volume buttons on the top left and the power button on the top right also. The microSIM card slot now becomes envendido button below instead of below the volume buttons.
headphone output is located on the top side on the left, as neither changes the microUSB connector on the bottom side in the center. What does change completely is the speaker placement, which goes from the back where he could be plugged in supporting the phone face up to the bottom, much better located and where it is more difficult to cover up.
notification LED is in the front of the phone, centered below, as in the Nexus 4.
materials are pleasant to the touch, a rugged plastic that gives a pretty decent sense of completion across the side and rear, leaving the front for Gorilla Glass, of course. It holds great in the hand and is very comfortable thanks to its good balance between screen size, overall dimensions and weight. Overall a simple but very successful.
Google wanted to reverse completely tortilla with Android 4.4 KitKat and change the user experience of Android with the Nexus 5. Navigating the phone is now closed something compact and gives a sense of stability and uniformity throughout the entire phone. There are still loose ends to tie up, but certainly this is a job where you have measured the details in a very high degree, and it shows the new Google Experience, the name we have given to the launcher.
And if we want to understand the new Android, Google Now we have to understand. For a long time we have seen how Google has been focusing its efforts on two services: Google+ and Google Now. The former also has its importance in the new Android, but it’s mostly that highlights Google Now.
As you know, Google Now is the new way to offer Google results without finding we have done before. It is based on the information we provide to the seeker in his services as Gmail, Maps or search and our location, use the phone, etc.. With all this and covering the services offered, shows results on content that we might be interested, such as the time it will do, what will it take to get to a location that we consulted in Maps or information about points of interest close if we are out of our city.
main example of the importance of winning this search system is that the main desktop screen has always left Google Now as another desktop screen. That is, the left main only have Google Now, and is right where are the rest of desktops to which we are used to in the order our folders, programs and widgets.
Of course we still have access to Google Now sliding up the home button or by clicking on the down arrow that appears on the lock screen of the phone. Google Now was present in Android, is now one of the main parties, and no doubt that over time more and more weight gain.
An important function that incorporates Google to 5 with Android 4.4 Nexus KitKat is always listening. This name is a bit bigger for what it actually offers, but it is a way of understanding. What we have is a phone that is listening and detects when we say “OK Google” to open the voice search in Google Search. That is, we do not have to click on voice search, we just have to talk to the phone saying “OK Google” and know that we want to search by voice.
But as I said, always call listening is probably overkill, since we only hear if you are in one of the main desktop (including the Google Now on the left), but not if the phone is locked or are in the application menu. Latter it does the Moto X with a similar function, but apparently is more advanced than Google, or simply they have not always wanted to be available to save battery and prevent unwanted use. Also keep in mind that for now this feature is only available in U.S. English, but we look to other languages.
The operation of this tool is very good, and we always hear (at least whenever you’re listening to, as we have explained). That is, not fail, which is much appreciated in these systems. Accommodation is very limited we are always on the desktop, but it’s still useful. For example, comes in handy to call someone while driving without touching the phone, but the downside is that we are required to unlock the phone before. Good but could offer more, but when we were leaving set to be active to make the user decide.
GoogleBut experience is not limited only to Google Experience. Android 4.4 KitKat has much to offer, and enjoy pure Android on Nexus 5 is an absolute blast. What I mean by that is as simple and obvious as that when we open the agenda is there, when we make a call and open the Phone dialer appears instantly, and when we navigate the application menu it moves from one screen to another without symptoms of lag. It seems logical that it is not so in the past, but the Nexus 5, as did the Nexus 4 Android allows us to enjoy without having to worry about what it takes for things to appear.
undoubtedly the phone more fluid than now exists on Android, and is only comparable with Nexus 4. Remove all unnecessary features, customizations and finish rid of the extras that only take care of memory and system resources is what gives us the Nexus 5, and a great base to build what we want from there.
When Google introduced a year ago the Nexus 4 did something very important, we showed a terminal with high-end features for the first time stood around 300 €, unthinkable before. But of course, sell at that price must have its drawbacks, and some things were not up to it. While the processor and RAM were to last, the camera was slightly behind.
is why the expectation with respect to the chamber of the Nexus 5 was huge. The Nexus 4 is a great terminal that offers unrivaled user experience until the Nexus has appeared 5 but fails much the. Does this mitigate the Nexus 5?
We can summarize and say that the Nexus camera 5 is much better than the Nexus 4, but once again falls below the current high-end cameras like the Xperia Z1, Note 3 to LG G2. That is, we have a good camera, but not the best. This is logical considering the price, but you’re left wanting more watching what others offer.
You can take a look at this first article we published more than 60 pictures taken with a Nexus 5 and a comparison with Xperia Z1, Note 3 and iPod Touch 5G. They can see that the Nexus 5 gives us good results, but almost always below the rest. The funny thing is that in some situations the overall picture looks even better than the other, but generally not.
greatly improves
What is HDR mode that Google has called HDR +. Penalizes hardly time to take the picture or in the processing, and instead get images with very good dynamic range, which eliminate totally black shadows and show much more detail in the lighter areas. Not a HDR filter into the realm of art, if we simply expands on dynamic range in certain situations enhancements. In other lose naturally, as would be the example of a sunset, but sometimes we will serve to greatly improve the picture quality of the Nexus 5.
panoramic modes and Photo Sphere have greatly improved. Both use the technique of stitching together different photographic capture overlapping at certain points, creating a larger image from several. The view shows a horizontal path and Photo Sphere spherical sweep 360 º horizontal and vertical, that is, a sphere of all that surrounds us. It’s still not perfect and has many problems with objects less than 10 meters, but has improved a lot.
In conclusion, the camera of Nexus 5 is good but not the best in the high range. Here we would have to go to the midrange or upper-competed for being among the first, but after all something has to see penalized for the total price of the smartphone.
Here you can see our collection of pictures taken with a Nexus 5:
battery case is very similar to the camera. We can not say it is bad, and less if we take into account the price of the handset, but falls somewhat behind what we offer other current high-end terminals.
If we stay with the current high-end and focused environment at 5 inch screen, Sony has integrated 3000 mAh battery in the Xperia Z1 and LG one with the same 3000 mAh in G2, the Nexus 5 is limited to 2300 mAh, 23% lower.
usually something most affected when we increase the battery is the total size of the device. Consider the following comparison in this respect between these three terminals:
| height=”20″/> | High | Width | Thickness | Weight | Nexus 5 | 137.9 | 69.2 | 8.6 | 130g | LG G2 | 138.5 | 70.9 | 8.9 | 143g | Xperia Z1 | 144 | 74 | 8.5 | 170g |
lime and sand. On the one hand you see the Xperia Z1 lost in all categories except in thickness, but it certainly is a very tall and heavy phone which is offset by other advantages. The downside I see here is that, despite having a much lower battery LG G2, the Nexus 5 is not much smaller, and is that the screen is limited in this regard. That is, these minimum measures required would have been interesting to see more battery.
Where if is very noticeable reduction in battery weight, which as you see is much lower than these other two models that we have compared. The Nexus 5 is a pretty lightweight phone in hand it feels really good, and that is appreciated, because the 170 grams of Xperia Z1 are somewhat excessive, but its great to offset their outstanding battery and camera. But he appreciates the lightness of Nexus 5.
In the last two images show six sacks that correspond to the actual use of the battery tests we did. We see that the battery lasted 14 hours and 20 minutes to 2 hours and 16 minutes of display, GPS 32 minutes and 33 minutes of calls.
UndoubtedlyNexus Terminal 5 is the best Android experience offers. Keep in mind that a 5 16GB Nexus costs € 349. We talked about a Snapdragon 800 with 2GB of RAM and a fluidity that has no other Android. Saying that only camera and battery fail considering all this I think is a lot about the Nexus 5.
phone is spectacular. On hand is firm, resilient, it shows good finishes and luxurious works, very fast, has no lag and is very fluid.
The camera is good, not bad. They are better the the Note 3 LG Xperia Z1 or G2, but I can not say it’s bad, far from it. I never expected to get a smartphone with the photos that I do with the Xperia Z1, and although the Nexus 5 is not made up aa very decent photographs.
The battery is regular if compared with almost any high-end current (and even medium). But keep in mind what I have written here, is a € 349 phone that offers a unique user experience, we can not ask for much more. Is what we might expect from a battery of 2300 mAh, have achieved a miracle of this (although many would have liked).
In summary, the Nexus 5 Android I think the best that exists right now in the market. He does not have the best camera and the best battery, but are decent, and the experience is unmatched.
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