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hello everyone. here we are with thenexus 5. if you're looking for one of these bad boys today you can pop down to carphone warehousethey actually have some in stock so you don't even have to wait for a deliveryfrom google. so, let's have a look at her. well the firstthing that you'll notice is it looks gorgeous and it really is a lovely looking device. camera lens is protruding on the back with the led

slightly recessed for the flash. right, let's take this cover off. there's basically a littlekind of chicklet at the top here for this front cover which we can then peel off. the nexus 5 retails currently for â£299 on the google play store but if you're willing to pop into carphone warehouse they're doing it, a fiver cheaper! hooray! so android 4.4 booting up, we'll have a quick look and see what else we get in the box. i'm pretty sure it's going to be the obligatory kind of stuff. what do we have in here? a sim removal tool

otherwise known as a paper clip! nexus quick start guide another charger and another cable. hooray! i've got so many of these now guys, madeby lg obviously but if you've got the htc one charger, or if you've seen that charger, very similar to that, doesn't take up much space instead the transformer part is effectively pushed upthe barrel much better than some chargers where you obviously have quite a thick base to the charger and that can theninterfere with other systems unfortunately. you know when you're

plugging things into multi adaptors. sojust be aware when you get your nexus 5 that it does require 132meg patch update to android 4.1 or 4.0.1 i think it is. now you will be forced to do that update before you can actually set up any of your google accounts or get into the actual android dashboard or anythinglike that. so just bear in mind that this isn't a device you can go into a shop purchase and put your sim straight into it andget going. not unless you want to incur a 130meg download. so while we'rewaiting for this nexus 5 to update

itself let's take a little bit of a look at the hardware shall we? so one of the first things is a big 5in display. it's basically 4.97 inches i think but it qualifies as 5in in google's world. it's 4g running a 2.26 ghz clocked quad qualcomm snapdragon 800 processor so this is the procesor that found its way into the note 3 and a few other devices released in the last month or so. now the battery is a little on the small side incomparison to other devices we've seen.

it's running a 2,300mah battery which we'll see how that actually performs, bearing in mind that it's not running a lot of the bloat that you get on main manufacturers' handsets as itwere, like samsung and htc perhaps the battery life will be a bit better butalso the snapdragon 800 is a slightly more power-efficient processor anyway. now also on the camera side is 1.3megapixel on the front - not that it really matters that much - but only an 8-megapixel on the back with image optical stablilization or optical image stabilization.

now the main thing there is this isn'tgoing to give as nice a picture as something like the htc one or the samsung galaxy s4. however it does have optical imagestabilization which is a major thing on a handset. it certainly should help in low light conditions and it should overall mean more of your pictures come out looking fantastic. so here we are android 4.4 the erstwhile kitkat. now, the first thingto notice is that the interface has been given a bit of a tweak overall. things are a little bit more rounded for instance the icons here

the access to the app tray and actuallythe resolution of the images feels much higher than it has done oneven the galaxy s4 experience edition otherwise known as the google experience on galaxy s4. very very interesting how the interface feels a little bit more ios. dare i even say that?!! but it does have thatkind of full-colour high-resolution graphics things going on. aand it does, you know, maybe partly it's the wallpaper, but if you just look at the way the icons

are now, you know, fully anti-aliased, they look great, they're high resolution, they're quite big and chunky but they have this lovely curve to them. the phone for instance, hangout icon and even the app drawer. it feels just much moreglossy and there's something very much that, youknow, apple have kind of started the trend with but it's always good to see google responding. now, one of the first things that we reallyneed to do with a brand new device is go and have a look at the model number and android version, there you go, there's the proof as it were, just in case you're thinking i'm using

some funky reskinned device! nexus 5, android 4.4 current build number is 16m. so the system now also offers printing as an option within the actual systemitself . that's a key thing that's been added as part of android 4.4. we'll be going over all of the android 4.4settings and things that are new. there's plenty of little apps and tweaks and so on but let's take a look at the nexus 5hardware.

so the first thing that you'll notice is thisgorgeous 5in screen on the front which is ips 1080p and it just looks absolutely fantastic. it really is up there with the best of the screens that i've used and that includes the galaxy s4 and the htc one which both screens in myopinion offer slightly different experiences but both truly excellent displays. and evenlooking at something like the sony z1 released at the start of the year even thatscreen is fantastic

really benefits from the bravia engine but ultimately the nexus 5 display is very crisp, beautiful colour reproduction and just looks great. camerawise on the back we've got an8-megapixel shooter which is optical image stabilization as well. now that basically means that if you areshooting in low-light conditions if you happen to be someone with shaky hands or if the object is moving quite quickly optical image stabilization will justhelp the image settle down a little bit more allowing the camera to lock onto fast-movingsubjects or subjects that are

shrouded in darkness and you know, like i say if you happen to just have a little bit of shake in your hands, the wind's blowing, you're on uneven ground,or what have you, then that optical image stabilization means you'll be taking less blurry picturesand more perfectly focused and sharp ones. interestingly there's an imei sticker slapped on the backthere lovely and everything is indented so it's verymuch using the nexus fabric as it were, this polymer that justfeels great in the hand, it's not too slippery. it does leave kind of smudge marks off your fingers a little bit but those kind of disappear. it's almost like it has a coating on there.

on the bottom we have the speakers aswell as the micro usb jack. volume rocker is on the side here. power on this side and also your sim. now the sim tray, now the sim tray is really easy toget out. you get a tool in the box and all you need to do is pop it into the sideand pop the tray open. you don't need to faff around with pins or paper clips or anything like that like good old apple did not so many years ago. quick and easy to get the sim in and out

and it goes home snugly and it doesn't leave any kind of raised area, raised edge there. it's perfectly flat, which is quite nice. power button again just there and it is slightly raised up, quite easy tohit. on the top we have a 3.5mm jack and a noisecancelling microphone. and i believe there's probably another noise cancelling microphone floating around somewhere as well, not that i can spot it. appears to be only one noisecancelling microphone on this but we'll see later.

we also have the led flash on the backas well, no word yet on the quality of that, i'll be giving that a full test run through later. but overall thehardware is quite exceptional. it's certainly oneof the fastest on paper devices that has ever been released. it's the snapdragon 800 at 2.3ghz. it's not quite 2.3 it's actually clocked at something like 2.78 or something, but, you know, we love rounding numbers up. it's backed up with the andreno 330 gpu running at 450 mhz which is certainly no slouch. it's going to be very interesting to see howthis stacks up against something like

the galaxy note 3. now the screen like i say is a 1080p screen, it's actually 4.95in, they call it a 5in display but that's running at 445 ppi which is pretty high. it's probably one of the highest in fact, and it's also got corning gorilla glass 3 which is a key differentiator there. this is the lighter corning gorilla glass it's also a lot tougher as well. really is their third evolution of that particularmanufacturing process for glass

screens and by all accounts it's incrediblytough. overall there's not a lot here on the hardware side to get really excited about it's not necessarily the fastest overall package of hardware that's ever been put in a mobile phone, that probablyright now goes to the galaxy note 3, but what it is, is an incredible price point to hit â£300, â£295 for the handset with an 8-megapixel shooter 1080p screen, the latest and greatest snapdragon 800processor, the fast android 330 gpu

and just overall for that price point an incredible package and you're gettingthe latest and greatest android 4.4. so let's take a look now at android 4.4. let's have a look at some of the things that have changed. now with android 4.4 on a nexus device it's free from all of the extras that the mainmanufacturers like samsung and htc load onto their devices. instead we get whatdoes google want from its android device. so things are very cut down, you get a slim set of google applications and no extra fluff or bloatware.

now the first thing to notice is you couldalmost call it the candification of interfaces. certainly it feels like it's taken a little bit of a leaf out of the ios play book. but what they've gone for here is somethingthat's fully colourful bright, part of that is being given by thewallpaper that comes as default but in part also if you look at theicons you'll notice they're a much higher resolution and there's really nice anti-aliasing going on. you can't see any jagged lines or any edges or anything like that

and the icons have a kind of pop to them thatwas kind of missing i think in the previous versions of default android asit were. overall everything kind of just feels thatlittle bit more polished and groovy i think isprobably the way to put it. yes, that's it. android 4.4 kitkat is groovylooking. you can debate that one if you like in the comments but i think it's groovy looking. they've also for instance, a few of theseitems have been downloaded just as my system's auto back upkicks in and just starts delivering all my apps to me but they've now added a settings icon within the app tray which i

don't ever remember being there before or if it was, it had a really ugly looking icon for it. there's now anice icon that will take you straight in to your settings which obviously if you long press and you can just drop that wherever you happen to want it to be. standard android stuff. there's nothing new there as it were. there's no pinch mechanism so if youwant to pinch between your home screens forget it that's not part of the androidexperience, when you're looking at the pure google android. one of the things that was interesting is they've released a recording tool

which is apparently available for developers. now i thought it was actually included as part of android 4.4 out of the box but it doesn't appear to be, or at least i can't find it anywhere. maybe you have to go in and turn that on through developer tools. a lot of the stuff you will know pretty well, you know, it's the google services, it's google+, it's the gallery app it's drive, it's chrome, you know the standard stuff that comes withandroid 4.4. unfortunately made a little bit more difficult here by auto back up having kicked in and deciding to drop all of

my apps to me. although on the plus side at least i don't have to go and download them all again. and so one of the things that's always worthlooking at on a new nexus device is having a look at how the settings andnotification shade area has changed so one of the main things is they nowlook quite a bit nicer than they used to, going with this kind of cool black and white vibe and feels like it has more pop to it than it used to do. it looked a bit mucky before in my opinion but also if we come into here we can get into our settings area.

this stuff is pretty much the muchness.i haven't noticed any major changes in here particularly. the only big one is this printing option down at thebottom. that i do not remember being part of previous android experiences and was mentioned thatit was going to get baked directly into the operating system from here on out. so if you happen to use cloud printing or if you have any of the google cloud print services available or the hp print remote print then effectively you canprint directly from your android device to any printer that

your google account knows about. veryhandy i must say. so we've got our usual thing going on, our wifi bluetooth. one major change they've made in android 4.4 is better support for low-power bluetoothdevices things like fit bit and so on. if we come into more we've got our airplane mode nfc, default sms app, now this is new and this allows you, if you have multiple different short messaging service apps on yourdevice you can pick

which one will be the default app.fantastic and about time too. and one thing they've done with google hangouts is integrate sms and hangouts into one application. so now hangouts becomes your messaging app, you don't have hangouts, google talk, sms app and everything else. you just have one app to do everything. like i say, for manufacturers developers and so on, you can hook into this and if you havean sms app you'll be able to make it the defaultfrom now on. that is really really great news. you can just pick which app youwant to use and you're not constantly fighting

notifications all the time. nfc, some changes to the way nfc works purely from the point of view of makingpayments, that's one of the big things they've done here. so nfc now has an alternative secure mode effectively which makes it work properly with theway that the payment processors and providers wanted it to work. this now should remove a lot of the problems we had with google wallet not being compatible with anything

on the payment side of things. so it will be very good to see that hopefully this year, i keep saying that every year but hopefully this will be the year nfc catches on. tethering and portable hotspot, vpn, you do your mobile networks, plan your mobile broadcasts in there. now, one of the other new areas is home. now in here you can basically set what your launcher is going to be so that's the default launcher and i've also got smart launcher that's just installed as well from my auto backup. and effectively you can now set these ordelete them

as necessary. that is going to make life so much easier for a lot of people me especially who uses a lot of different launchers. no more hacking basically to make sure your launcher always uses the default when you hit your back button. in sound we've got the usual standard kind of stuff, adjust your volume, choose your ringtone, set to vibrate when ringing, dial touch and everything like that. lock sounds, touch sounds which i'm sopleased the've turned off by default. thank you google you have no idea howannoying it is when, obviously i have to reinstall my device quite often for new roms and

updates and fiddling around with it and one of the most annoying things is having to go through the initial set up hearing ker-blip, ker blip, or blip blip blip every time i touch something. so having that turned off by default is fantastic you can of course turn that on if you need to, why would you? display. in here we can adjust our brightness uses the google standard brightness slider nothing special there. wallpaper this iswhere we can set our android wallpaper including new smart wallpapers i'm not actually sure about those yet. live wallpaper is in there,

nothing particularly exciting, gallery just my photos basically and obviously wallpapers at the bottom whichincludes a couple of new ones by the looks of it. yes, very nice, let's have a bit of that shall we? oops, do that properly. set wallpaper up at the top. there we go. there's also your sleep time out and your auto rotate settings. sleep time out this is how long the screen will stay on for before it goes off saving your battery. you've got the daydream which you can set to pretty much all the stuff you could do before. they haven't

expanded that unfortunately. so you've got photo frames that's one of my apps that's added itself in, standard colours and the clock obviously. set your fonts pulse notification light, i always get that one mixed up.get them the wrong way round. effectively whenever you get a message or an alert on your device it will pulse the notification light which is somewhere here i think. where is it on the nexus 5? that's a really interesting point. does it have one? must have.

well, we will find out where the pulse light isbecause actually i'm not sure it's got one, which would beinteresting and you've also got access to wireless display if you want to, which is known as mirror cast i believe, togive it its technical term. if we come into storage this is where wecan do our space as you can see i've only got 9gig available now, 12gig overall this was a 16 gig nexus 5 model and obviously a load of my apps have now installed themselves. interesting to note though, if you gotthe galaxy s4 then you actually only got 9gig of available space because of all of the extra

stuff that samsung had installed. so it's reallynice here that a 16 gig device actually had 12.5 gig available for me toinstall things even now, when i've installed all of my stuff in the auto backup i still have nearly as much space as a samsung would out of the box. kind of shows you how bloated some of these main manufacturers have become with their operating systems. you know, one thing that we really need to see from android is more space as default when you take itout of the box not

less because you're adding more and more useless features so good on google for keeping things slim andmaking sure that you know as many gig as possible is free for us.battery, this is very standard stuff shows you what's running in your deviceright now and what's been using up space over the preceding time period. so you can see here my screen is draining 30% of my battery android os 15% android system etcetera. very handy way of just seeing what's goingon on the device and what might be killing your battery. if we go into apps

again whole standard stuff. they've not made many tweaks here really. i think be a lot easier you know everything'sgonna be grey so we've got the nice black background, grey status bars etcetera. but the interface generally hasn't changed that much on the android 4.4 update. location we can turn our location serviceson or off and we can also now change how accurate we would like that tobe and it gives a bit more information over 4.3 on what's really going on there. if you drop into battery saving mode it will just do wifi and mobile networks to estimate location put it on high and it will kick in

the gps as well. do device only, use gps to pinpoint the location. so you've got a few choices now as to how you want location to work and more importantly thank you google, it actually explainedproperly how that works and how it really relates to saving your battery etcetera. security, it's your screen locks it's your widgets on your home screen encrypting your phone passwords everything like that and would you allow unknown sources always worth killing in my opinion

and install from internal storage so if there's anything security-related you will find it in there. language and inputthis is where your keyboards are kept. as you can see i've got quite a few including google hindi input opinion even. which i've definitely never installed previously, and google korea, definitely never installed that one but presumably that is just defaulted in for us which is nice. now with backup and reset what they've allowed you to do is to back up absolutely everything into the cloud now up to google services so you can go into there and it just has your

standard options in there basically. date and time, accessibility and the aforementioned printing tool butt overall there's not a huge amount of newstuff for android 4.4 in the settings. a lot of it really is under the hood withandroid 4.4 it's the little things that they've done to really tweak it. much better memory use onlow-powered devices with 512 ram, new options for the nfc. a few new tweaks here and there and newstuff for developers but overall android 4.4 probably doesn't offer anawful lot to the average end user.

it doesn't suddenly make this the nextbig phone release or anything like that. what it does do is incrementally updateandroid providing newer hardware specifications for thingslike low-power bluetooth etcetera and all that is really really welcome anyway and what it ultimately means is that you know the next generation of hardwarecoming out over the next 12 months will be able to work with all of the latestgadgets but doing so in a lower power profile as possible. everything really with android 4.4 feels a lot like when they released the first iteration of butter, which i think was 4.2 or 4.2.2 and it's almost about let's tweak this, let's fix this, let's

update this, there's no big revolutions here necessarily in android 4.4 but overall lots of little tweaks that add up to a very welcome set of changes. one of the thingsthat we always have to do when we get a new device is check out one ofthe latest games on it. so i've just quickly thrown this on. it's obviously the starting level of dead trigger 2 so you'll see lots of littlepop-ups but the interesting thing here is i've turned it straight onto the highest detail settings and straight away i canfeel that this is faster than the galaxy s4. there's lessframe rate drops when i move around

really quickly and everything just feelsvery very smooth. the galaxy s4 on high could occasionally feel a little glitchy and twitchy in some of the more kind of fast-pacedelements and certainly i've seen some initialslow down, just little stutters, that was all, in some of the early parts of this level and so it'squite interesting that the andreno 330 gpu you along with the qualcomm snapdragon 800 cpu are obviously very very fast bits of kit, even to the point where it's making thesnapdragon 600 just feel

a little bit on the sluggish side. we'retalking a very small amount and at no point does it ever kind of impact the gameplayas it were. you just feel the occasional stutter from the galaxy s4 which so far at least i've not seen any of that on here. let's have a quick play of thenext level. so here we are inside and certainly sofar absolutely no slowdown everything is just absolutely rocking along. the qualcomm 800 and the andreno 330 are nice and fast.

i've given up using syntheticbenchmarks really to test the latest devices after the shenanigans withsamsung cheating on their benchmarks. it really does feel to me like we might as well not bother and reallythe best thing you can do is put on a leading game and see how it performs inyour hands. synthetic benchmarks unfortunately are just a little bit too easy to cheat but you know, the hardware companiessamsung, htc and so on you know it's difficult to cheat a new game that's just come out and that they weren't aware of where with the synthetic benchmarks unfortunately quite a lot of companies at different

times over the years you know this isn't just in mobile but in 3d graphics, cards, cpus you name it, there's a little bit too muchtemptation to optimize your software to trick benchmarks intoperforming better by effectively, you know, if you see a benchmark is running clock your cpu and gpu higher temporarily so you get a better score. with a game that's just been released it's very difficult for manufacturers to do that, next to impossible in fact. and so you know we can actually geta decent sense of how

these games are going to run by actually playing them in a real world setting. there was a little bit of a slowdown there did you see the framerate just dip out a tiny bit similar to what i was seeing on the galaxy s4 in fact so it may very well be an issue with the game itself and the fill rates are just a little bit too high. overall a really nice experience on the nexus 5 from google, a really solid bit of gaming.

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