Nexus 5 Pre-Release/Speculation Thread

[jhawkkw]

What's phones that? I haven't seen any company who's marketing budget is higher than their product development budget announce a new phone

* Don't like the iPhone at all, but must admit, the finger print thing looks pretty cool, and it would appear it actually works well.

Too bad it's not new. Motorola Atrix had it two years ago, though it was a failure.

 

[matt999000]

Too bad it's not new. Motorola Atrix had it two years ago, though it was a failure.

yea but now its on the iphone so it'll be a hit, whether it hits off on this version or the next version. I'm still waiting for the N5 for verizon

 

[Orion]

Any day now Google. lol On a side note, I got some kit kat bars and ended up being a winner................of a $5 credit for Google play.

 

[Orion]

Benchmarks leak.....

New Nexus 5 benchmarks leak, reveal stunning graphics prowess

 

[Bratone]

Hi, when it's the release date?

 

[jhawkkw]

Hi, when it's the release date?

Nothing official as of today, but past history point to it being officially unveiled sometime in October with an early to mid November release.

 

[Bratone]

Thanks !

 

[Cronis]

Benchmarks leak.....

New Nexus 5 benchmarks leak, reveal stunning graphics prowess

nice to have a semi confirmed leak that its a adreno 330 but i guess we kinda already knew that just from the fact its heavily based on the G2/800 series.

Unless im mistaken all 800s come with a 330?

 

[jhawkkw]

nice to have a semi confirmed leak that its a adreno 330 but i guess we kinda already knew that just from the fact its heavily based on the G2/800 series.

Unless im mistaken all 800s come with a 330?

So far that has been the case.

 

[Omar Days]

Haven't been this excited of a release of a phone ever. I really hope Google make a 32gb version or higher though. I use a 16gb n4 for work which is fine, but as my main phone it wouldn't be enough unfortunately

 

[Biaviian]

Haven't been this excited of a release of a phone ever. I really hope Google make a 32gb version or higher though. I use a 16gb n4 for work which is fine, but as my main phone it wouldn't be enough unfortunately

Do you keep your entire music library on your phone? I can't imagine needing a 32GB phone. Even with Titanium files and a Nandroid or two I have plenty of room with a 16GB phone. Then again I use streaming services and TuneSync so I don't have to store my whole music collection on my phone.

 

[Rxpert83]

I keep my library on the phone, but the nice thing about listening to old rock is the library doesn't keep growing

 

[stew930]

If the N5 is partly based off the LG G2 which works on all carriers where is the sense in this possibly not working on Verizon? Would Verizon tell a manufacture to not make it compatible with their network?

 

[jhawkkw]

If the N5 is partly based off the LG G2 which works on all carriers where is the sense in this possibly not working on Verizon? Would Verizon tell a manufacture to not make it compatible with their network?

Unlikely, but since the Nexus line is Google's flagship, they want control over it like apple has over the iPhone line. Verizon won't let them as we found out with the Galaxy Nexus (Nexus 3). Google more or less has given up as far as dealing with Verizon, so it told LG to intentionally not make it compatible. As if the gnex fiasco wasn't bad enough, Verizon is at it again with the second generation nexus 7 tablet.

 

[Omar Days]

Do you keep your entire music library on your phone? I can't imagine needing a 32GB phone. Even with Titanium files and a Nandroid or two I have plenty of room with a 16GB phone. Then again I use streaming services and TuneSync so I don't have to store my whole music collection on my phone.

I don't keep all of my music library on my phone (galaxy note), but i'm about 2gb away of filling up my 16gb sd card. I know I could use dropbox and all the other cloud services and i do use them, but for things like music and photos i like to have the files on the phone. There's been plenty of times where I'm not in coverage to receive data connection or access to wifi.

I think 32gb is the sweet spot if there's no sd card slot on the phone. But that's just my imo. I know some people who get on fine with their 8gb Nexus 4's :-O

 

[nitramus]

I don't keep all of my music library on my phone (galaxy note), but i'm about 2gb away of filling up my 16gb sd card. I know I could use dropbox and all the other cloud services and i do use them, but for things like music and photos i like to have the files on the phone. There's been plenty of times where I'm not in coverage to receive data connection or access to wifi.

I think 32gb is the sweet spot if there's no sd card slot on the phone. But that's just my imo. I know some people who get on fine with their 8gb Nexus 4's :-O

You are like me, I also like to keep stuff on my phone. I think for me that 16gb will be enough since I will use the phone storage pretty much only phone stuff. Even if I have lost of data I don't always like using the could and I have over 60gb of music I want to keep.
You should get a OTG cable so you can use a usb stick and store all your music and more. I only hope that the N5 will not have the same "problem as the N4 (I think) where you need to have it plugged in to a power source. In that case get a Y OTG cable. Connect to you phone, connect the usb stick and a small portable usb power will do the trick.

 

[Omar Days]

You are like me, I also like to keep stuff on my phone. I think for me that 16gb will be enough since I will use the phone storage pretty much only phone stuff. Even if I have lost of data I don't always like using the could and I have over 60gb of music I want to keep.
You should get a OTG cable so you can use a usb stick and store all your music and more. I only hope that the N5 will not have the same "problem as the N4 (I think) where you need to have it plugged in to a power source. In that case get a Y OTG cable. Connect to you phone, connect the usb stick and a small portable usb power will do the trick.

Yeah, I have an otg cable. They're good for what they are, but not really practical in most cases. Not great to have one connected in your pocket listening to music, but on a plane or something i can see why they'd be good.

Just remember, you don't get the full 16gb. After the OS has taken what it needs, you have about 13gb. That was on the nexus 4. Might be more, might be less on the nexus 5 though. So bare that in mind, if you didn't already know!

 

[drbugsmn]

A new set of rumors, speculating on features. One item of interest is the corning gorilla glass 3, and a 2700mah battery

Nexus 5 release date 2013: 8 specs, features, price rumors -iPhone 5, Galaxy S4 killer? | Christian News on Christian Today

Here is a bit of info on GG3
CORNING

 

[Rxpert83]

The FCC filing had the battery size listed on it.

I'd be surprised if they deviated from that 2,300 listing

It also concerns me that site didn't source anything. I'm a little hesitant believing rumors from non-tech websites that don't cite a source.

 

[nitramus]

Damn I can't wait for it to be official. The suspense is starting to be to much. Just hope the price wont be to high.

 

[Cronis]

A new set of rumors, speculating on features. One item of interest is the corning gorilla glass 3, and a 2700mah battery

Nexus 5 release date 2013: 8 specs, features, price rumors -iPhone 5, Galaxy S4 killer? | Christian News on Christian Today

Here is a bit of info on GG3
CORNING

 

[nitramus]

• just a personal observation on the CPU: I would not be surprised if they used a lower binned 800 as opposed to the higher quality one used in the G2. There are 2 grades/Clock speeds of this CPU as far as iv read on qualcoms site.

I have heard the same thing about 2 version of the snapdragon 800 but can't find info comparing them. Can you post a link about that? Thanks

 

[Cronis]

AnandTech went into it in their overview of the Xiaomi Mi3

AnandTech | Xiaomi Announces the MI3 - Tegra 4 and MSM8974AB inside

and another article

Difference between the Snapdragon 800 2.2GHz and 2.3GHz


cant seem to find the qualcom link, had bookmarked it but the links dead now. Will keep an eye out though.

 

[jvillejoe]

Alleged log file and screenshot from Nexus 5 leaked, 1080p display confirmed

hmmm

 

[nitramus]

Very interesting to see the difference. If the benchmark we saw are true then I would presume they use the 2.3ghz. But being the nexus I still would not be surprised they used the 2.2ghz and with the pure google/android OS they would be able to get that speed.

Do you think this could be changed via over clock software/with custom kernel of this is hardware only.