Today the update from 4.4.2 came. the Android version 4.4.3. It has changed the call interface. The Speed dial screen is added to the most frequently interacting contacts. Choosing key surface is now instead of black now white. The power consumption has become more noticeably smaller. More visible changes on the surface, I could not recognize. WLAN problems as they say in forums, I can not determine. Overall, the update makes on me the impression that everything would run on my Nexus "round" quasi flowing.
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UPDATE 12/12/13:
Last night I got my first update of KitKat 4.4 to 4.4.2.
A 54MB big file. In addition to security updates and camera improvements finally is a very important point has improved and that is the volume and the sound itself.
The term strength is now finally run properly adjusted and the sound of the speakers when music play much better! No clinking and scraping more!
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I decided to buy a Nexus 5 in white and with 16GB of memory. The decision was anything but easy. I have previously always been obsessed Samsung devices. Finally, the Samsung Ace. 2
Transferring a smartphone user to a Nexus device is very difficult. I have about 3 weeks to get used to transform completely and switch. Just as spoiled Samsung Nerd is the software cuts initially very difficult to accept and to bear.
Those who opt in mind that he has to get the pure Android OS for a Nexus device. Have Samsung, LG and Co. as the basis for your software development the free Google Android as the basis for their proprietary, free development.
To make a long story short, the pure Android is greatly slimmed down, if you had previously always familiar with Samsung, LG, and so on.
Here are some examples that have driven me to despair, as I have tried the first few weeks to get used to the Nexus 5:
- There is only one wallpaper. Both for lock screen, as well as the menu and home screen
- There may be no mp3 files as easy to use as ringtone. You have to insert the desired song in the folder "Ringtone" only on the PC
- The volume can not be set separately for ringtone and notifications
- The icon for Mobile Internet is not easily monitored visually, as in Samsung top of the tab, but must be sought in the settings each time only
- GPS and location query, you can not activate or deactivate separated
- There is no synchronization software or data backup software, such as in Samsung Kies or LG
- There is no different fonts and no background color schemes to choose from. Background while texting is always very bright white and the font just Standart
- The icons are ordered alphabetically always in the App-Sammlung! The icons can be moved in any personal order. They can only move in the home screen area and then arrange there as you want. What soon as you install or uninstall all icons where they were no longer lived there to find them!
- The email app is unfortunately not always to the left. This means that in some mails, in which a link has been copied from the browser, this can not click on the cell phone. But do not worry, normal links with .com or @ ... or normal links to newsletters can be opened super fast
- The app collection can not simply continue to mop up early. When you arrive back, it no longer goes on also, but then you have to give back to the left until you wipe the beginning again is.
- All OS's own graphically sterile and not fancy, or completed, as one would expect with Samsung or LG
- The calculator has only basic functions and extended only when surrounded cumbersome menu, instead of the phone holds as Samsung simply cross
- The memory is expandable via SD not
There are a lot more, but unfortunately to me no longer an all the other inconveniences after 3 weeks of intensive use.
Why do I still give it 5 out of 5 stars?
Very easily. I now understand all the advantages that brings such a stripped-down operating system with it. It is similar as if you switch from the MS Windows XP to Ubuntu. In XP ever was something not as it should be. Quick was not something more. You had the system always wait and check. Ubuntu makes to you and it always works and is fast and as usual. One need not even an antivirus program, let alone a firewall.
All of the above in a sense speak against purchasing a Nexus 5, have been put into perspective for me and found to be void. I use the phone very intensively in everyday life. I need a good calendar, which is clearly and quickly adjustable. This works with Nexus much better than with Samsung. Because everything can be synchronized online on your PC via the Google Account. You can enter your appointments on the PC and has them immediately on the phone. Just with all Google products, as well as the memo app Google Keep.
I read a lot pdf and doc files on the Nexus. What also really better this is than initially perceived. The Internet is extremely fast, which is very important when using newsletters and Facebook links. If you always have to wait, then "learns" one involuntarily to renounce links. I use Opera and Chrome and have to say that Chrome is extremely well woven into the Google mobile and much faster, of course, like all Google software products!
As an ex-Samsung Nerd I had to learn to do without in order to appreciate the advantages of a slimmed-down OS first. I was forced to programs in the App Store search for containing the features that I miss in the Nexus device, I was but stayed with Samsung. In this way I found programs that fit much better to me than the default of Samsung.
Now the completeness sake a few more positive points to Nexus 5:
- 16 GB is more than sufficient: I have about 4000 photos on my phone, 100 apps, 2 GB of music on it and I still have 7 GB free
- The Appsammlung contains per List window 4x5 Apps so beautiful clear close detail and Stark
- The display is amazing. 445 ppi (pixels per inch) Full HD. Even with the sun on the screen you can see all super
- The sound and voice quality when making calls perfectly, as if you make calls via the fixed network.
- I bought it in white, so the complete back is send in a very noble kept white and the front is only the ear speaker white. This is very positive, because the front would also be fully aware that the brightness would be distracted by the events on the screen. I read a lot and plan to the Nexus, this "shortcoming" as some write, very well thought out and clever
- The LED light on the camera is extremely bright and definitely a lot brighter than my old Ace 2
- The Benauchrichtigungs light glows blue during Facebook notification, green in messenger news, white with SMS and Dropbox Upload
- The multitasking is a boon. I can leave quickly once an elaborate game and do something else, and then go in again sometime.
- The battery lasts me a long time, no idea what the other users for things to do with. Yes ... when I play PvZ 2, then the mobile phone is very, very warm and released in keeping also a lot of energy and the battery is down nimbly. But when I do normal things without playing, then I come almost to 3 days !!! And my calendar ringing me many times and I'm always in the telephone network and Wi-Fi!
- The camera is very neat for a mobile camera. Especially the Photo Sphere feature I really like. The photographing in low-light designs is really much better than my old Ace 2. I fotographiere especially pages to read from or any documents and attacks. Everything can always be read perfectly and take pictures from without flash in dim light!
- The ultra-fast Internet is amazing and also a blessing
- The perfect integration in the online synchronization of Google software products like Calendar and Google Keep!
- And finally, I would like to tell all smartphone nerds of the extremely pioneering voice control. I use the voice control function now as often as possible. It taps the mike up in the Google search bar and says what. For example:
"Who is Emiliana Torrini", or "What's Everybody Loves Raymond", or "How far away is the Venus" ....
And immediately a female voice answers and gives you the answer to your questions !!! The madness for all Star Trek fans like me. Yes ... there are no speech answer to everything, but still very appropriate links and websites to choose from as suggestions for helpful answers.
In this area there will be a strong and permanent development.
- You can also set up direct commands to the Nexus itself, WZB. "Write down, I click this review to be helpful" and then a voice says: "Saving note" and bang, Google has the note in Google Keep stored on the phone and on your Google online account!
Or "Wake me at seven clock dreißig" Zack ... voice says "alarm is set '!
Or even very ingenious: "Show me a map of New York City." And whoosh, the voice says: "This is a map of New York, New York City, USA"!
Meanwhile, I can not live without my Nexus 5. It has become my Life Companion!
[...] Thank You Very Much.
