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| With their Nexus 5, LG succeeded in
creating a convincing smartphone. What you get is a seriously quick
device, which features a surprisingly modest price. Other than that
build quality is great and the coating makes the phone very grippy.
Apart from that there is the fact, that Nexus phones are the first ones
to receive the latest Android updates from Google and this alone can
already be reason enough to choose the Nexus 5 from LG. |
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- Build Quality
- Price
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Design / Bild Quality |
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LG chose to make the Nexus 5 a high-end
device therefore it's important, that this smartphone features a well
thought and decent design as well as flawless build quality. The matte
finish looks just great and the fact, that this device received a
rubberized coating makes it very grippy, as we already mentioned. Since
the Nexus 5 is very well built there are no squeaking whatsoever even if
you bend the device. In case of the display, there is Corning's Gorilla
Glass, which makes it almost impossible to scratch it.
On a slightly different note: there is no headset inside the box, which
is one of the few spots, where LG was saving a few bucks in order to
achieve very competitive pricing. |
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- High quality materials
- Gorilla Glass 3
- Finish |
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Performance / Battery |
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Since there is a Snapdragon 800 SoC
working inside the Nexus 5, there is definitely nothing to complain when
it comes to performance. Althought it was quite surprising to see, that
the phone started to throttle in for example 3DMark. Testing the phone
in the cold revealed better performance numbers. We would love to see LG
paying more attention to cooling the SoC and apparently this also shows,
that 2.3 GHz with this manufacturing process as well as with four cores
seems to be the maximum, which can be squeezed out of this formfactor.
When have a closer look at the battery we notice, that especially talking
time is rather high. Although it's not the battery with the largest
capacity, there is still plenty of juice. Overall battery life is on a
competitive level. |
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Throttling |
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| Display / Camera |
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| In case of the display there is a panel
that measures 4.95 inch diagonally. Since there is an IPS panel colors
are life-like and also contrast as well as brightness are really good.
One point where LG was saving a few bucks concerns the camera. There is
an 8 Megapixel sensor on the back of this phone. Nevertheless this
camera is everything but bad. One thing that is really practical is the
image stabilization feature. Especially, when there is bad lighting
conditions, this really help. Taking pictures outside in full daylight,
resulted in sharp images with rich and life-like colors. The same that
goes for foto functionality also applies to taking videos. They are
sharp and feature life-like colors. |
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- IPS Panel
- Image stablization
- Life-like colors
- Sharp images |
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Strong
noise under bad lighting conditions |
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| Recommendation /
Price |
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| The Nexus 5 from LG is a great and very
well built smartphone. According to Geizhals.at prices for this phone
are starting at 395 Euro within Europe. For that price, you get a
state-of-the-art smartphone, where the manufactuere had been saving a
few bucks by not providing a headset as well as putting an 8 Megapixel
camera into the case instead of a 13 Megapixel sensor. Should you be
looking for a new phone for under 400 Euro, then the Nexus 5 from LG
should definitely be considered. |
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Rating |
| The Nexus 5 from LG receives very good 4.5 out of 5 stars. |
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Test: Samsung Galaxy Player 3.6 