* Nexus 5 THE Official Thread *

Delvis · 2 Aug 2014 at 15:01

Mines locked up a couple of times.....had to leave it for ten mins to sort itself out the other day...

Fallen god · 2 Aug 2014 at 16:35

KiiYzOo said:
My s3s battery I would've classed as pretty bad, my iphone 5 that I had before it was better, but I guess it was almost two years old before it died

Much better, I can get 4 hours screen time on my Nexus 5, straggled to get 3 hours on the S3 to be honest. The Nexus 5 batter is decent, its just the newer devices are better, it is on the smaller side at 2300mha for 5".

KiiYzOo · 2 Aug 2014 at 16:43

Yeah, that's pretty small compared to the 3200mah battery in the z2, I'm finding it really difficult to decide on what phone to upgrade to :/ doesn't help that I can't watch videos of the phones, since I have no Internet at home also my s3 died on me a couple of weeks ago

Ultraman1966 · 2 Aug 2014 at 20:37

KiiYzOo said:
Yeah, that's pretty small compared to the 3200mah battery in the z2, I'm finding it really difficult to decide on what phone to upgrade to :/ doesn't help that I can't watch videos of the phones, since I have no Internet at home also my s3 died on me a couple of weeks ago

Have you considered the LG G2? Same prices as the N5 but has far bigger battery and superior camera. Only issue is LG's crap on top of Android...

KiiYzOo · 2 Aug 2014 at 20:54

I was looking at the g3, but I decided that it wasn't for me as I liked the look of the htc m8 and the xperia z2 more, not to mention the fact that the buttons being on the back would really annoy me

_Jimlad_ · 2 Aug 2014 at 21:31

KiiYzOo said:
I was looking at the g3, but I decided that it wasn't for me as I liked the look of the htc m8 and the xperia z2 more, not to mention the fact that the buttons being on the back would really annoy me

you can turn the M8 into an official stock google play edition very easily

only other phone i would consider tbh.

stock android is worth its weight in gold

KiiYzOo · 2 Aug 2014 at 21:40

Currently it'd be two options, either go for a contract with an m8/z2 (cheaper initially, but more overall (also 4gb data)) or get a nexus 5 and go for a sim free contract (more expensive at first but roughly half the price per month (also unlimited data))

IC3 · 2 Aug 2014 at 22:37

KiiYzOo said:
Currently it'd be two options, either go for a contract with an m8/z2 (cheaper initially, but more overall (also 4gb data)) or get a nexus 5 and go for a sim free contract (more expensive at first but roughly half the price per month (also unlimited data))

Get the M8, I was deciding between N5 and M8. I went with Nexus 5, but it was a hard decision to make...

I noticed that my nexus 5 has very low signal at my house (O2 - Our network is currently working fine ) ... also the speaker and microphone on the phone aren't that great. I'm thinking of getting a new nexus 5 under the warranty as this one might be faulty or are you guys experiencing same signal issues?

grudas · 2 Aug 2014 at 22:44

IC3 said:
Get the M8, I was deciding between N5 and M8. I went with Nexus 5, but it was a hard decision to make...

I noticed that my nexus 5 has very low signal at my house (O2 - Our network is currently working fine ) ... also the speaker and microphone on the phone aren't that great. I'm thinking of getting a new nexus 5 under the warranty as this one might be faulty or are you guys experiencing same signal issues?

your post is seriously confusing

only reason I'd go for m8 is if you don't mind the size, want modified android, don't mind rubbish(IMO BITE ME) camera and want great speakers. Otherwise nexus 5 wins.

Fallen god · 2 Aug 2014 at 22:50

KiiYzOo said:
Currently it'd be two options, either go for a contract with an m8/z2 (cheaper initially, but more overall (also 4gb data)) or get a nexus 5 and go for a sim free contract (more expensive at first but roughly half the price per month (also unlimited data))

I would go with the M8, EE currently have some voucher so you could get 10GB of data for £32.99 a month and only £20 up front.

http://shop.ee.co.uk/mobile-phones/pay-monthly/htc-one-m8-metallic-grey/details

Drag the sliders to pay less ever month and use the below voucher code to get most off the up front changers dropped.

EEHTCM81707

IC3 · 2 Aug 2014 at 22:52

grudas said:
your post is seriously confusing

only reason I'd go for m8 is if you don't mind the size, want modified android, don't mind rubbish(IMO BITE ME) camera and want great speakers. Otherwise nexus 5 wins.

You pointed out what I wanted (camera and audio), but as you said I didn't want all that rubbish from HTC.

Still, am I the only one here suffering from signal loses and rubbish call quality?

KiiYzOo · 2 Aug 2014 at 23:04

Fallen god said:
I would go with the M8, EE currently have some voucher so you could get 10GB of data for £32.99 a month and only £20 up front.

http://shop.ee.co.uk/mobile-phones/pay-monthly/htc-one-m8-metallic-grey/details

Drag the sliders to pay less ever month and use the below voucher code to get most off the up front changers dropped.

EEHTCM81707

Do you know how long that'll be going for? As my contract will be up for upgrade on the 8th iirc

Fallen god · 2 Aug 2014 at 23:15

KiiYzOo said:
Do you know how long that'll be going for? As my contract will be up for upgrade on the 8th iirc

Its been up for awhile, maybe 2 weeks now so I think your safe till the 8th. You could also just order now since its only a few days difference.

KiiYzOo · 2 Aug 2014 at 23:25

How would that work in regards to upgrading though? Would I need to go through the upgrade page?

Fallen god · 3 Aug 2014 at 00:07

Are you currently on EE? I'm not sure how it happens with upgrade, but you could see what they offer through the upgrade.

KiiYzOo · 3 Aug 2014 at 00:13

Well I'm on orange currently, but I've upgraded for my mum through the ee site before, need to set up my account to properly allow me full access so I can see the upgrade stuff

physichull · 3 Aug 2014 at 09:12

EE don't offer the Nexus in their range of phones, but you could do what I've just done and negotiate a really good 12 month deal, sim only, then buy a N5 from somewhere else.

Terrier_Jimlad · 3 Aug 2014 at 09:43

DAnDan said:
You can literally just turn the device off, swap the SIM and boot up as normal. I was doing this quite regularly when I was testing networks, never had to update the APNs, it was all done automatically.

I'm not sure how quickly it will update your phone's network on the play store, but I can't imagine it would take too long.

Got the Three sim yesterday, as soon as the phone rebooted with the new sim, fired up Play store and it was instantly up as a Three and could install the app. Swapping back over to GiffGaff sim with reboot and the phone is back to O2 on Playstore so it must be a real time check everytime you fire play store up which is quite good ... App hasnt uninstalled now back on GiffGaff. Need a bit more playing around with the InTouch stuff as it could end up draining my battery quite quick

RockSteddy · 4 Aug 2014 at 10:40

I'm thinking of selling my 2 month old 32Gb Nexus 5 along with a couple of cases. What would you say is a reasonable price to offer it for?

Nexus18 · 4 Aug 2014 at 12:23

KiiYzOo said:
Would you guys who have a nexus 5 still recommend one as a contender with the current top end phones? considering getting it sim free

Without a doubt!

Still loving mine. Battery life has gone back to being great possibly even better since I also switched to ART runtime instead of dalvik.

Camera is better than what a lot of people say too, just make sure you use HDR+ mode for 99% of the photos, still have yet to take a blurry photo, even in low light!

Remove the "h" before ".jpg" for a larger version.

Here is the same photo but modified specially for the glorious 2560x1080 res. of your monitor

http://i.imgur.com/XnOXX5H.jpg

Main reason for owning a nexus device though is stock android and guaranteed updates without delays.

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