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Anyone seen a N5 out "in the wild"?

All my candy bars were in the wild yesterday, ha!
 

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I live in a University town where iPhone's were once the predominant phone seen everyday. In the last two years that has changed dramatically, with Androids taking over

Galaxy's S3, S4 and Note 3 models are now the phone of choice amongst those I see out and about.

Just recently I've seen some Nexus 5's. I attribute that to T-Mobile and their new Jump Program. Of the users I have spoken to, all are very happy with their phones and most are experienced enthusiasts.
 
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I haven't seen any other Nexus devices (not just phones) "in the wild," though I don't really pay much attention to what kinds of mobile devices other people have.

I think people that get Nexus devices likely tend to do a lot more research when choosing a device, while most people follow the ads and what kinds of phones/tablets the people they know use.

At this point, I'd have a hard time running anything but vanilla Android (GEL not withstanding - I do like it a bit more than vanilla, but it's kind of like: more Android than Android) from which stock versions are available out there. Even changing settings on other peoples' Samsung devices makes me grimace on the inside a little. Not as much as configuring Apple products for people does though, obviously. Though with that, I'm likely feeling like being nice enough to offer in the first place, so that gets me through.

Since 4.2, why device distributors/manufacturers running their versions of Android feel like needlessly mucking it up as much as they do, I'll never know. Maybe it gives them an identity and a sense of accomplishing something at least beyond just running vanilla on the OS side of things.
 
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I've seen a couple of N5's out and about. Mostly on the subway and mostly the white version. Keep in mind that the N5 (the black) isn't a stand out device. it's not recognizable from far away.

The white version is very distinct so it catches my attention. The white is also attention getting because of the white earpiece/speaker that is white so that makes it identifiable.

I know most people have the black version so I have probably seen more n5's but just didn't pay attention to the 1,000th black slab smartphone that i've seen today.

I have had a couple of run in with people interested in my n5 and asking how long it took to ship and how I liked it etc.
 
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I've only seen one Nexus 5 in the wild (aside from mine) and that was just on the bus about a week ago.

Although it is not going to be the biggest seller out there something about this phone draws a TON of attention, in school whenever I have it out people always ask me about it (and why I don't have an iPhone). So far everyone has been quite impressed whether it be the dumb blonde or the super geek. Really liking the phone a lot.
 
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now you mention it no besides the guy that worked at rogers that had a Gnex ever one has the Samsung s2 , s3 . im the only one that had a nexus and nexus 5 . i wouldnt ever buy a Sx there like the iphone of android world there to popular i like Nexus there made with googles ideas they have CPU and Ram and get the latest updates fast there what all androids devices wish they were lol
 
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