After I had with my HTC One S extremely concerning a lot of trouble. Crashes, the question for an alternative set. Since the Nexus 5 was just introduced new, I have spontaneously struck and ordered me on the first day in the Google Store the 16GB version for 349 EUR. The technical data I can save time and concentrate only on the locations that for me points.
If one seeks to specify what striking, you are definitely wrong. Unlike, for example, the HTC One with its aluminum enclosure, the Nexus 5 is down to the size really discreet - I personally liked the really very. The front is almost all glass, the back of matte plastic. I find that it is very comfortable to hold - for rather small hands should be closely the operation due to the 5 inch but. Therefore, perhaps more for the men's world.
The Full HD display is just terrific in my eyes - absolutely sharp and great of the color reproduction. I have the brightness in everyday use runtergeregelt to save battery (display draws here quite well) and have 15% felt the same brightness as the HTC at 50%. More than 15% you need really only exposed to sun.
Highly impressive is the performance of the Nexus 5 - the part runs really endless! The structure and scrolling the Internet (with Chrome) has even a few colleagues who themselves must have the newest iPhone ever, really excited. Super is that the pages are somehow summoned. Sure you have to have good network, so that the power does not evaporate - I'm with Vodafone LTE go. Otherwise there is no stuttering, everything is super smooth. What better I have never experienced as real.
Two weaknesses you have definitely accepted. The memory can not be expanded via an SD card. It remains at the 16 or 32 GB. For me personally the absolutely nothing. Who has higher demands on the storage capacity, is wrong here. Something more power could do with the battery - with normal use the Nexus 5 has definitely at least every other day to the electrical outlet. I hang my phone anyway every night off, so that's OK for me. A little more power would have it however, may be precisely because of the 5-inch display already. For me, incidentally, the location services of Google have drawn a lot of juice, so I have issued this (I do not). Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth I activate incidentally only when needed. Whether that makes what, I can not say. Am I somehow lived. Neutral I would like to comment on camera and sound. The camera was rather weak at the beginning, but this was quickly corrected by an update. The sound is OK but of course not as impressive as the HTC One. When the Nexus 5 takes cross (games or movies), it can happen also that one covers with the hand the speaker on the bottom. This is rather inconvenient.
Why abwerte the Nexus 5 of 5 stars originally to just 2, located at the GPS. After about 3 months, massive problems began with the GPS reception and as I discovered after some Internet research, which unfortunately is not an isolated case. Apparently Google has here but saved at the wrong end and fitted with the mounting of the GPS antenna unnecessary vulnerability. Since I use the device also for skiing tracking, it did not work times. I have complained about the device due to the GPS issue and absolutely uncomplicated get Google a new device. Here again works just fine - but again only for 3 months. Then came also the replacement unit to the defect. Even before the defect I noticed in direct comparison that the GPS on Galaxy S2 my wife is again significantly more accurate. But you could live with it.
On the subject of GPS I uploaded also 2 images. Here you can on the example probably right understand the whole good ...
Conclusion:
All in all, it is Nexus 5 is a rather subtle but extremely powerful smartphone with a really fair price-performance ratio. It has quite a few weaknesses (battery and speaker), with whom I could live personally considering the price but. But the topic GPS was absolutely unacceptable for me.
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