*** Nexus 5 THE Official Thread ***
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They're two different gen devices, the S600 processor is no rival for the S800
Not the CPU, its the software, at default touchwiz has far too much bloat, I'm sure Samsung could make a Mac Pro lag with their touchwiz if they added enough crap.
A good example is my dads Note 3, with everything enabled my Nexus 5 is faster, everything is just snappier, opening apps is quicker. When you turn off most of the crap its a lot closer.
Again here is a nice example of the M8 vs the S5, just opening apps and see how long it takes. The M8 after 3mins~ of usage is 15 seconds faster, over a day that could make a huge difference. I'm sure if Samsung crap is disabled the difference wouldn't be much.
They're two different gen devices, the S600 processor is no rival for the S800
Like I said above, I was just referring to the actual quality of the screen. Text and web pages in general appeared so much nicer on the Nexus
.But yeah, the S800 is a lovely upgrade over the 600.
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They need to sort out touchwiz. Causes too many little crashes and lags. I don't think it's that ugly though compared to some skins...
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Awful. I hope it's fake. But yes 4.3 dialer sucks exdialler is far better.
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haha
How exactly would you measure that? Surely that's just nitpicking that maybe the M8 opens apps a fraction faster. I had the M8 prior to the S5 and honestly there is no real world difference in the overall usage of the phone, whether it be opening apps or the time taken to get from one page to another. Touchwiz is a heavy skin but on the plus side these new processors can handle it with ease tbh. At the same time you get an array of more features with Touchwiz than you do with stock android, something your average joe bloggs would probably favour.
It seems like Samsung have become the new apple and everything they release gets bashed upon lol, forget the fact they are one of the few manufacturers who tick a lot of boxes in what accessibility and customization you're offered.
If users are after the best of both worlds iOS is probably the best optimized OS you can get.
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With the new dialer i am thinking they will make it a general release and save for June 
Wish they would just push the bug fixes out for us nexus peeeps
Wish they would just push the bug fixes out for us nexus peeeps
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I bash whats not great, if you watch the video some apps have clear lag, and every time the multi tasking button is pressed it pauses, I personally thought this was something to do with S voice but its not. Over time these little things add app.
I don't really care who makes the device if something is not right ill point it out, the S5 has a pretty meh build, they didn't try and they clearly have the talent when you look at their TVs and laptop such as a the series 9. Touchwiz is getting better, I actual like the design of some of the apps but it is just too heavy at default, too much crap enabled, when your settings page has over 100 icons somethings gone wrong. Even small things like swipe right to the 'My magazine' is pretty laggy, I'm not sure if it was the animation just being done badly but it wasn't very fluid.
The S5 has a the best screen bar none, I love it, Displaymate rated it as the best display, Anandtech who hated AMOLED panels for a long time rated it highly and said it will be better then LCD next year. Colours are pretty on point, whites are better then most, viewing angles like always are prefect and a IPS or not LCD just doesn't measure up. And in sunlight it pretty epic how clear the screen is.
Battery life is awesome, Samsung has dropped the amount the screen uses by a lot, S801 is great on battery. Camera in daylight is solid, the M8 is faster to capture but the difference is tiny, and it capture much better images. Due to the tiny pixel is meh to useless in the dark, hopefully they balance pixel size and megapixels in the future. It also lacks OIS, but the M8 dropped that too.
Overall S5 is a solid device, its not the device for me but I would easily recommend it too anyone.
iOS is nice but I hate a lot of gripes with the OS still, simple things like proper background tasks are still in shambles and is something that once you get used too is hard to go backwards. Its a solid OS, but today Android is just as good if not better. Even WP8.1 is serious contender.
Some parts of the dialer in 4.4 are amazing, I love how it picks up numbers from Gmaps, the amount of recruitment agencies I can just avoid these days is amazing. Some parts are a bit confusing and need a lot of fixing.
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What colour did you go for ?
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Black
I have white and I like it. But wished I went black. Red is a bit OTT for me
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Glossy side FTL .
.I was thinking of going with white for a change (really like the white one tbh, reminds me of the white one x a bit) but knowing me, I would have regretted my decision after a few days!
And yeah, I don't like glossy plastic......
The "bright" red looks horrible imo.
And yeah, I don't like glossy plastic......
The "bright" red looks horrible imo.
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I'm glad that I got black, especially when I saw a red one - it was fluorescent.!
I am still running stock with Exposed and Gravity Box, along with the updated camera app, Faux Kernel and Display Controls for colour adjustment.
All is well with the above and it always has been but I sometimes take a read over at XDA to note just how many custom ROM's they are and wonder if anyone finds them in any way "better" or enriched over and above of what I'm running..? Reading some of the posts over there I do note some comments on how fast and smooth the N5 is since using ROM x etc but I seem to find stock, with the above combo, pretty fast, is there that much of a difference when using some of those custom ROM's...?
I am still running stock with Exposed and Gravity Box, along with the updated camera app, Faux Kernel and Display Controls for colour adjustment.
All is well with the above and it always has been but I sometimes take a read over at XDA to note just how many custom ROM's they are and wonder if anyone finds them in any way "better" or enriched over and above of what I'm running..? Reading some of the posts over there I do note some comments on how fast and smooth the N5 is since using ROM x etc but I seem to find stock, with the above combo, pretty fast, is there that much of a difference when using some of those custom ROM's...?
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As your post was written just after midnight, I hope that by "tomorrow" you actually meant today (i.e. Friday) as tomorrow is of course Saturday, when I don't think ParcelForce (whom I assume are the carriers) actually deliver!
Being posted by royal mail, went with super saver delivery on amazon