Nexus 5 2015 refresh

Definitely going to replace my nexus 5 with something soon and had been thinking of maybe the GS 6, note 5 (maybe even a note 4) or moto style/play but the **** ass slow updates by Samsung and annoying niggles with touchwiz put me of...

I just hope the battery, camera, screen and speakers are really good, I don't expect them to beat the competition in those areas but as long as they aren't much worse then I'll be happy enough, small price to pay for complete stock android and fast/guaranteed updates IMO.
 
Skeeter said:
If that's the case I'm out :(.
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Android M helps a lot with battery life, I've been testing it on and off with my Nexus 5. Standby time is amazing now, with everything syncing and nothing actual disabled it lasts a week pretty easily. I was able to also get 4 hours SOT of pretty heavy usage, as I was playing a lot of games, installing apps non stop, setting up everything.

If they get a nice SoC, and improve things a bit more the future could be amazing.
 
I've had M on my N5 for a few weeks and found it absolutely no better for battery life than Lollipop was.

My issue isn't how fast the battery drains when I'm not using it, its how fast it does when I am! I don't buy a top end Android phone to leave it in my pocket on standby all the time.

To solve this, only a bigger battery will work.
 
Skeeter said:
I've had M on my N5 for a few weeks and found it absolutely no better for battery life than Lollipop was.

My issue isn't how fast the battery drains when I'm not using it, its how fast it does when I am! I don't buy a top end Android phone to leave it in my pocket on standby all the time.

To solve this, only a bigger battery will work.
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Screen brightness?
 
So low its often unreadable. I've got it on adaptive with the setting as low as possible.

Battery was poor on KitKat, then worse on Lollipop and as bad on Marshmallow. I've also swapped the battery. The N5 battery just isn't big enough.
 
Battery life for me was great when I first got my nexus 5, heavy usage across 1-2 days with up to 4 hours on screen time and auto brightness.

Not as good now though, I think lollipop is worse but more so that the battery has worn out.

Despite many people finding the nexus 5 camera very poor as well, I find it to be very good, best thing about it is that it's a good all rounder in my experience and that you don't have to take multiple shots to get a good photo.
 
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Skeeter said:
I've had M on my N5 for a few weeks and found it absolutely no better for battery life than Lollipop was.

My issue isn't how fast the battery drains when I'm not using it, its how fast it does when I am! I don't buy a top end Android phone to leave it in my pocket on standby all the time.

To solve this, only a bigger battery will work.
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The main issue with stock Android is the horrible stand by time. It was the main issue I had, I would go work, leave my Nexus 5 on the desk and in 4~ it would drop a good 10-15%. It also means I could get more usage out of it if less battery was wasted.

Off course everyones milage will vary, but I think most people will see a good benefit from this, the amount of stand by time is normally higher then anything else for most of the time.
 
Nexus 5 battery isn't that hard to replace. Or is it just an excuse to upgrade :)

Ive replaced the battery on mine so I'm happy to wait. I'm more interested to know more about the Sony Z5 compact
 
Fallen god said:
The main issue with stock Android is the horrible stand by time. It was the main issue I had, I would go work, leave my Nexus 5 on the desk and in 4~ it would drop a good 10-15%. It also means I could get more usage out of it if less battery was wasted.

Off course everyones milage will vary, but I think most people will see a good benefit from this, the amount of stand by time is normally higher then anything else for most of the time.
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Sorry but there was something stopping your Nexus 5 from deep sleeping. My Nexus 5 still, 2 years later, loses about 4-5% overnight. It used to lose 2%. Stock Android is perfectly fine on the battery.
 
ultim said:
Nexus 5 battery isn't that hard to replace. Or is it just an excuse to upgrade :)

Ive replaced the battery on mine so I'm happy to wait. I'm more interested to know more about the Sony Z5 compact
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I have replaced the battery, and it made no difference, meaning the initial one wasn't starting to lose capacity.

I don't want to upgrade, my N5 is great (ignoring the battery). I'm just very bored of not having a phone at times because its died and I haven't had a chance to charge it.
 
End of September likely announcement for Nexus 5 2015

5.2" 1080p
SD 808
3GB RAM
16/32GB
2700 mAh
USB C

We've received information from a reliable source detailing basic specifications for the upcoming 5.2" Nexus phone being produced by LG. First things first: we don't even know if Nexus 5 is the name. And because it's probably the most-wanted piece of information: we don't know excactly how much it will cost, other than to say it's likely it will be at a sub-flagship level. Does that mean $300? $400? $500? We really don't know, so your guess is as good as ours here.

Getting back to the major specifications, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 808 will be powering the whole show, and that's no real surprise - the 808 has been consistently rumored to feature in one of the two alleged upcoming Nexus phones. The 808 packs most of Qualcomm's cutting-edge LTE portfolio and other "flagship-level" features, but has only two high-powered A57 processing cores instead of the four found on the 810, in addition to four low-power A53 cores. The Adreno 418 GPU in the chip is respectable - its rated performance is roughly on par with last year's Adreno 330, featured in Snapdragon 805 devices like the Nexus 6 and Galaxy Note 4. The 808 will be paired with 3GB of RAM on this upcoming Nexus phone.

Moving to the display, we're being told it's a 5.2" full HD (1080p) panel - an interesting choice, indeed. The lower display resolution should cut back power consumption and keep the system running more smoothly and quickly generally, perhaps suggesting that Google is taking battery life at least somewhat seriously on this device. Modern 1080p LCD screens (then again, we don't know it's an LCD) also tend to look quite good when properly tuned, and given that LG is the manufacturer of the phone, it's possible they're also building some kind of trick IPS LCD display for it - but that's speculation. 5.2" and 1080p is all we know for now.

Speaking of power, the LG-made Nexus will indeed have a type C USB port, but we don't know if it's just a reworked USB2.0 configuration or an actual USB3 device. The battery is a 2700mAh pack, which may sound small today, but remember - the 5" Nexus 5 shipped with a tiny 2300mAh battery back in 2013, and even the Galaxy S6's battery isn't all that large, at 2550mAh. 2700mAh on a 5.2" device sounds solidly average, though that's likely to disappoint some Nexus fans if it doesn't come with a promise of greatly-improved power consumption characteristics.

The rear camera will use a 12.3MP sensor, and a 5MP sensor will be out front - unfortunately that's all the detail we can get on the cameras at this point.

On the list of slightly more mundane aspects we have storage - the phone will come in 16 and 32GB models only. Given that the price will be "sub-flagship," those tiers are at least understandable, if not necessarily ideal. The phone will also come in three colors: black, white, and blue.

As for when we can expect the phone? The end of September is probably a good bet, and that timeframe has been corroborated in the last week or so elsewhere, so we feel pretty good about that general area. But as with any Google product, delays could happen, so don't get your heart set on it - we'll only really know when the invitations to the launch finally go out.

That's all we've got for now, but we'll let you know if we hear any more exciting upcoming Nexus news.
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http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...splay-3gb-ram-2700mah-battery-usb-c-and-more/
 
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Praying its an OLED display, I would be happy with a solid 1080p OLED panel. Camera could be great, I think 12MP is a decent balance of detail and pixels size. Battery sounds okay, overall an interesting device. I'm going to sell my iPhone 6 off before the announcement so I get the best value and I will hold on too see how this does.
 
mccarf said:
Sounds nice, but I think it definitely needs an SD card slot if they're shipping with 16gb models.
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Based on previous Google devices I think there's virtually zero chance of that. I get the impression that Google want people using the 'cloud' and specifically their own online services rather than storing data on a memory cards.

I've always felt they were really only 'tolerating' SD cards and removable storage on Android phones and devices rather than actually making an effort to support them.
 
silvagti said:
Based on previous Google devices I think there's virtually zero chance of that. I get the impression that Google want people using the 'cloud' and specifically their own online services rather than storing data on a memory cards.

I've always felt they were really only 'tolerating' SD cards and removable storage on Android phones and devices rather than actually making an effort to support them.
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That's a shame :(

Honestly I don't really think of cloud storage as a viable option unless you live in a big city with a good connection (London for example). I've been in to many situations where I've had pretty much no internet connection because I'm out in the countryside/some other dead connection area. If all my stuff was stored on the internet rather than on my phone then it would be fairly useless in those situations.
 
MichaelAwkward said:
2700mAh isn't big enough? Batterys should get smaller over time as efficiency (hardware and software) improves.
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i agree but unfortunately not much improvement has been made all new phones g4 and s6 still dont last a day of good use (waits for comments of how peoples phones last 2 days ect when they dont) companies seem to be more interested in quick charge which i find pretty useless as most people have to charge their phones at night and have a good 6 hours time to charge
 
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