Review of My Yet Another New Phone - Nexus 5

[Gurrala74]

Regarding the smoothness you mentioned in comparison to apple products, yes you are right and you will be right for long long time, I dont think any time soon android is going to beat apple in that section

I just got a doubt, is this smoothness or fluidity is related to the OS or screen type ?? How do we define this

 

[dharmesh]

I just got a doubt, is this smoothness or fluidity is related to the OS or screen type ?? How do we define this

Screen defines the technology used for display and type of glass. OS defines the responsiveness of the action. For example, when you slide your finger over the contact list, what is the time it takes to respond to your action, how much lag is there and and what is the amount of smoothness with which you can slide through the contact, does the contact list scrolling stops abruptly or it slows down the scroll and eventually stops.

Well many would come up and say there are many factors, such as processor, RAM, etc. But I think if OS is optimized enough like WP and IOS, it will work great even on lower spec mobile.

I hope I have answered your question.

 

[Gurrala74]

^^Thank you Dharmesh for a good explanation. I am just trying to understand this with various factors as you have mentioned will play a role and at the same time I am also looking the screen quality issue which may add to this fluidity feeling. Fluidity, smoothness, responsive, lag are different things but inter related I think which finally gives out a feeling to the user.

 

[simplysam.singh]

Raja Bhaiyaa: I think you totally satisfied with clarity of the camera

 

[Indian]

Screen defines the technology used for display and type of glass. OS defines the responsiveness of the action. For example, when you slide your finger over the contact list, what is the time it takes to respond to your action, how much lag is there and and what is the amount of smoothness with which you can slide through the contact, does the contact list scrolling stops abruptly or it slows down the scroll and eventually stops.

Well many would come up and say there are many factors, such as processor, RAM, etc. But I think if OS is optimized enough like WP and IOS, it will work great even on lower spec mobile.

I hope I have answered your question.

+1, very well explained dharmesh, thank you.
Add to that android OS allows you to add the themes and most importantly the widgets. These widgets to do lot of things in real time. In consequence they put the additional load on the processor as well as screen rendering. Because of these additional overhead, I said 'android would never be able to achieve the smoothness of apple'. But in my case I am ready to scarifies little bit of smoothness in exchange for nicely displayed information on the widget. I know die hard apple fans do not agree or accept this. Its just a compromise IMO.

 

[Kichu]

Good review.

If possible get some low light pictures without flash. If you have little bit more time then also get some low light pics from the other mobile phone from the same position for making a camera quality comparison.

 

[Raja]

Congrats bro on the new phone and truly said it's an underrated phone but actually a very nice device.
I had my hands on it in Feb when my sister bought it before she left for UK.

+100

Nice pics. [] waiting for entire review

Thanx

Great Pics Congrats.

What is that app from the 4th Pic from last ?

It's not a app it's a launcher .

Nice pics man and nice phone. :-)

I also heard about the 360 degree view pics that you can capture using nexus. It was possible in Nexus 3. Could you please throw some light on it, if you have used it?

Yes it is called " photosphere and it comes inbuilt in the camera I have not used it so far , but when I do I will explore it and post a pic here .

Congratulations on your pure google experience with nexus, awaiting to hear the full story behind this purchase, and how much you got it for, which version, 16 or 32?
Seems this one is for the lady.

No this is for me 16gb .

what happened to you BB10

nexus 5 is an awesome device , powerful yet elegant. assured updates and vanilla android make it a charm to own unlike the rest who love to put bloatware and eat precious memory.
off late only moto g and moto x have come closest to stock android that too coz they were from google's stable apart from the Google edition moto G, S4's and HTC one.

how much was the damage :)

BB my sis in law will use . I paid 28,500 for the device .

Raja ban gaya androidman. Congrats bro for Nexus. Will wait for your full review.

Iam a apple man , windows man and a android man to be more precise

^^Raja, nexus 5 looks to be a great choice within that price range and camera seems be excellent!!.

Great,straight,sharp,crisp review

Look forward to read your android experience and also the camera comparison. This thread looks become a great information on android plus wide comparison on camera performance hence felt to rate it 5 star

Thanx man

Amazing pics raja your review pics looks like it comes from a professional reviewer so you have all the phones now ( bb - windows - android) all with amazing camera. Can't wait to see a conparison of low light between 925 and n5 and thanks for your kind words. Happy to help :)

Ofcourse will be doing them soon , first will be lumia 925 vs nexus 5 .

Welcome to the android club Raja.
Nice professional review, basically that's what one has to check when buying the phone, not those nitty bitty things and numbers. Definitely good choice considering the Nexus line as there is not garbage from the OEM provider and dont wan to wait for courtesy of OEM for updates. Probably my next phone would be Nexus.

Regarding the smoothness you mentioned in comparison to apple products, yes you are right and you will be right for long long time, I dont think any time soon android is going to beat apple in that section. But android has lots and lots advantages for the power users.

As time goes you will understand the capabilities and shortcomings better as you are having all flavors of the OS offered now. Keep updating your view on all the 3 devices in comparison and surely that will reduce the confusion of most people while deciding a new buy.

Thanks for the wonderful review, BTW you have hired a professional model to showcase your phone

No it's my wife whom I requested to hold the phone while I clicked the pics . And thanx a lot for your compliments .

Raja Bhaiyaa: I think u totally satisfied with clarity of the camera

Ofcourse yes . And you ? I think we bought the phone on same day . Post some pictures from your phones camera too .

Good review.

If possible get some low light pictures without flash. If you have little bit more time then also get some low light pics from the other mobile phone from the same position for making a camera quality comparison.

Thanx .

All the above pictures are clicked in low and tricky lighting and flash was not used for any of the above pics . Infact I never click any pic with flash on I hate the result with flash on .

Yes day light , tricky light ( typical mall lighting ) and low lighting comparison pics will follow soon with iPhone 5s and lumia 925 .

To start with first comparison will be between nexus 5 vs lumia 925 .

 

[dharmesh]

+1, very well explained dharmesh, thank you.
Add to that android OS allows you to add the themes and most importantly the widgets. These widgets to do lot of things in real time. In consequence they put the additional load on the processor as well as screen rendering. Because of these additional overhead, I said 'android would never be able to achieve the smoothness of apple'. But in my case I am ready to scarifies little bit of smoothness in exchange for nicely displayed information on the widget. I know die hard apple fans do not agree or accept this. Its just a compromise IMO.

Thats where IOS and WP scores, they dont allow customization, so u have to use only OEM provided UI and what they provide is optimized to the fullest. If you remove all widgets only single screen. No major background service running and then see even Android can be smooth.

 

[Indian]

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No it's my wife whom I requested to hold the phone while I clicked the pics . And thanx a lot for your compliments . ..
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I knew it Raja, that'ts what I meant

 

[Raja]

+1, very well explained dharmesh, thank you.
Add to that android OS allows you to add the themes and most importantly the widgets. These widgets to do lot of things in real time. In consequence they put the additional load on the processor as well as screen rendering. Because of these additional overhead, I said 'android would never be able to achieve the smoothness of apple'. But in my case I am ready to scarifies little bit of smoothness in exchange for nicely displayed information on the widget. I know die hard apple fans do not agree or accept this. Its just a compromise IMO.

Thats where IOS and WP scores, they dont allow customization, so u have to use only OEM provided UI and what they provide is optimized to the fullest. If you remove all widgets only single screen. No major background service running and then see even Android can be smooth.

You guys know better since you are software experts . I understand that apple and wp don't allow widgets but background tasks are going on same like what they are going in android . Or is there some more story here ?

I think widget and live tiles are basically same with different implementation . The widgets give you live updates of the apps you have installed as widgets in android , so does live tiles in wp8 weather , news , Facebook , whatsapp . Infact now in 8.1 windows phone if I pin a website say like Engadget and new articles posted there on the original site will get a notification on the pinned website . Inspite of this scrolling , transitions are extremely butter like in wp8 compared to android .
Since you guys know better is there any difference here which iam missing ?

 

[simplysam.singh]

Ofcourse yes. And you ?

Me too brother I am completely satisfied and happy with clarity of the camera.

I think we bought the phone on same day.

When you bought the phone? I bought Nexus 5 last month

Post some pictures from your phones camera too.

ofcourse bhaiya i will do post pics clicked by phone's cam

 

[Indian]

You guys know better since you are software experts . I understand that apple and wp don't allow widgets but background tasks are going on same like what they are going in android . Or is there some more story here ?

I think widget and live tiles are basically same with different implementation . The widgets give you live updates of the apps you have installed as widgets in android , so does live tiles in wp8 weather , news , Facebook , whatsapp . Infact now in 8.1 windows phone if I pin a website say like Engadget and new articles posted there on the original site will get a notification on the pinned website . Inspite of this scrolling , transitions are extremely butter like in wp8 compared to android .
Since you guys know better is there any difference here which iam missing ?

Valid point Raja, but I feel there is a difference between widget an the live tiles. If i take a example of facebook widget vs the facebook tile. Facebook widget is basically the whole facebook application which is live and keeps updating on a page on the launcher also it has to take care of launcher page movement which is graphic intensive work, in case of tile though, the notifications or counts are updated based on the tile setup, so tile would be less cpu intensive than widget.
But having said that, windows 8 really introduced better memory and processor management, I feel Microsoft has done excellent job fine tuning the whole OS(keeping the mobile devices in the picture). As a result you see WM performing better than Android for sure. You are right that all other services should be almost similar, but I feel android does much more work in the background as there are lot of Google related services are interlinked.(for good and bad reasons) I feel on a WM or Apple these services are used less in comparison to Android.

 

[dharmesh]

You are right that all other services should be almost similar, but I feel android does much more work in the background as there are lot of Google related services are interlinked.(for good and bad reasons) I feel on a WM or Apple these services are used less in comparison to Android.

Exactly the point I was going to post, N numbers of google services run behind the scene as compared to what runs on WP or IOS.

 

[Raja]

Valid point Raja, but I feel there is a difference between widget an the live tiles. If i take a example of facebook widget vs the facebook tile. Facebook widget is basically the whole facebook application which is live and keeps updating on a page on the launcher also it has to take care of launcher page movement which is graphic intensive work, in case of tile though, the notifications or counts are updated based on the tile setup, so tile would be less cpu intensive than widget.

Exactly this is what I mean Microsoft has done a better job , I as user I do get update on what is happening on my Facebook page via tile which updates dynamically plus if I need direct access then I go and open a application too .

But having said that, windows 8 really introduced better memory and processor management, I feel Microsoft has done excellent job fine tuning the whole OS(keeping the mobile devices in the picture). As a result you see WM performing better than Android for sure. You are right that all other services should be almost similar, but I feel android does much more work in the background as there are lot of Google related services are interlinked.(for good and bad reasons) I feel on a WM or Apple these services are used less in comparison to Android.

Exactly the point I was going to post, N numbers of google services run behind the scene as compared to what runs on WP or IOS.

I think wp has equal amount of services constantly working in the background too for example Nokia maps , Nokia drive , SkyDrive , city lens , Nokia transit, the camera uses location , outlook.com , bing location , news , sports , health , Facebook and twitter are baked right into the os ,

What's app , vibe, Skype , Facebook , line all are also constantly running in background too . even wp has auto upload of documents pictures and other stuff happening in SkyDrive . in wp 8.1 IE tab syncing too will come .

Even Cortana will be running constantly in the background in windows 8.1 like Google now .

This article will maybe shed some light on this topic

Microsoft: Windows Phone is an operating system for low-end hardware at heart.

Anyway such discussions helps us to understand stuff better plus the readers enjoy too, rather then arguing endlessly over mundane stuff .

Btw Nokia Lumina 925 vs nexus 5 sample pics will follow soon

 

[Raja]

Guys what is the correct way of doing a comparison you suggest , to be perfectly even for both the cameras . is it ok I down size the original resolution so they can be uploaded on our forum or you have a better idea of having a right comparison ? I have clicked pictures from both the phones but want readers to see a proper unbiased compassion .