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one of the hardest things to do in the android market is to choose what device you want because there are just so many different choices luckily Google has got your back because they've created a line of devices that really sits above the rest and are called the Nexus and I'll show you why they're the best because it's Joshua Vergara from Android authority what's going on everybody and Here I am to bring you ten again about why you should choose the Nexus as the Nexus line is supposed to be the standard for all other Android devices we're going to be taking a look at some key aspects and we're going to come out swinging with hardware and performance if the current crop of Nexus devices is any indication all of the future Google official devices will probably blow away the rest of the competition take for example the Nexus 4 sporting a very fast quad-core Snapdragon s4 pro processor this phone packs a wallop and even with 2 gigabytes of RAM these are specifications that a lot of phones out on the market today can only dream of having as such the Nexus 4 is typically at the top of the food chain in whatever benchmark tests you may run on it and for good reason it really is just that powerful of a phone and then in the mid-range you have the Nexus 7 as a smaller tablet the Nexus 7 didn't necessarily have the best specs out there of any device but it did support the NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor which still holds up today even after the long time after the Nexus 7 was released it is still able to handle pretty much anything that I was able to throw at it and that's true for a lot of users out there it is still a fan favorite among a lot of users but the powerhouse of the Nexus family is definitely the 10-inch tablet the Nexus 10 sporting a 10 inch screen at 2560 by 1600 resolution and 300 PPI it was obvious that the specifications underneath needed to be amazing and they truly are a 1.7 gigahertz dual core Exynos processor is backed by an Adreno 320 graphics processor to make this the fastest tablet on the market and that doesn't necessarily just mean Android that means all tablets in general ultimately all of the Nexus devices come with a load of power and usually wouldn't that come at a pretty hefty price well luckily Google has got your back on that as well because all of these devices happen to be very affordable what you're seeing on the Nexus 4 right now is the price of the 16 gigabyte version 349 might still sound like a lot but consider that a lot of phones out there right now have lesser specs but still come in at five or six hundred dollars unlocked on the other hand the Nexus 7 still comes in at $1.99 which is a great price for a tablet as versatile and as powerful as it it is still one of the most of and best bang for your buck tablets on the market today and finally you have the Nexus 10 which comes in at a very competitive 399 given its specifications and the fact that the iPad and other Android competitors are up to a hundred or more dollars more expensive than the Nexus 10 it really is a price you can't beat and with all of the different features that are available on each of these devices the prices that they come in at are all really hard to deny that price will seem like even more of a bargain when you consider not just the hardware and the performance of the software that it powers and as a nexus user you can rest assured that your devices will always be updated with the latest version of Android so tell me what do all of these devices have in common well it's a pretty simple answer all of them sport operating systems that are now out of date Google's already released the latest version of jellybean 4.2.1 and what devices get to run this new OS yeah you guessed right the Nexus devices this reason alone is why a lot of users choose to invest in the Nexus and it really is a hot-button topic for a lot of people when we're talking about any other device there is always that group of people who want to know what version is on and when they hear that it's not the most updated it's usually a turn-off but the Nexus you don't have to worry about that your software is always going to be updated and you will have all of the latest features that jellybean and in the future key lime pie have to offer but that's the great part about it because Android is really getting better and better the once was a time when I wanted my Android device to have certain features that were only available if I either installed customization software apps or I even put custom roms on there after rooting the phones now with the newest version of Android jelly bean I feel like I don't have to do that anymore I actually like Android just the way it is and it's because of these features that you're seeing right now things like a expanded notification drop-down with access to all of your settings is something that used to be a dream in the past but now it's a reality in the stock Android system and then there's Google now which I said in my previous video that really encourage everybody to start using it even more those cards just seems to know exactly what I'm looking for at the moment and it's just a great way of looking at information searching and it's just a wonderful piece of technology underneath the already great Android experience of course these translate very well into tablets as you can see here you can access the settings from the right side of the drop-down and Google now looks just as good on a tablet as you can see here Android jellybean 4.2.1 is really a great example of just how much Android has matured and that brings me to yet another great aspect of the Nexus line of devices the dev community basically if some of the software inside of your phone or tablet is for whatever reason something you don't like there are ways of changing it to make it even better and that was done by a group of developers who are pretty much users just like yourself and they've created a community that really takes advantage of the fact that the Nexus line of devices is very easy to gain root access to now I'm not going to get into the whole process of rooting and flashing in this video but essentially rooting a device means that you get full system level access to the root directory where all of the system files are which allows you to take advantage of apps that require that root access or to even install whole new operating systems that were built from the ground up by the devs in that community now there might be a small degree of difficulty to this whole process there might even be a little bit of danger because if it fails for whatever reason you have a fancy paperweight on your hands but with the right amount of research and the backing of a community that is honestly really helpful and developers who have made the process easy you could be routing and flashing your Nexus device as well this next reason to choose the Nexus focus is on the floor and the fact that it is unlocked now what exactly does unlock to mean well we can illustrate that by looking at the box what do you get when you buy a Nexus 4 well you get the box and everything inside of it and that's kind of the beauty of it you own that phone when you buy it for only $2.99 compared to five hundred and six hundred dollars for other unlocked phones out there you get to have the Nexus 4 and it's not shackled by any two-year contracts one-year contracts and it's not even shackled by the kinds of plans you would need to get on those contracts essentially you can find the GSM carrier that you want with the services that you want and once you get that prepaid or monthly plan set up you just get the SIM card popping into the Nexus 4 and it's ready to go and then you power up your device for the first time and what do you see on your home screens a bunch of free stuff that's another great thing about the Nexus line let's take the Nexus 10 for example the first time I booted it up these widgets are right there and in these widgets they're not just listing things that you can have they're listing things that you already have because Google with every new device gives you a number of different things already installed and already available in your Play accounts that you can have fun with from the get-go Google wants you to have fun with your device and see its capabilities like the Nexus 10 playing planet Earth or if that's not your style then you can go for Transformers Dark of the Moon which originally came with my Nexus 7 there's all this free stuff and who says no to free stuff now this one's a little bit more tablet centric and it's the multi-user support the newest version of jellybean brought in the new feature of adding multiple users to the same device now if you are the sole owner and user of your particular device let's say the Nexus 7 or the Nexus 10 then this probably isn't the most practical feature however there are plenty of situations that I can see this being very handy for example if you're a parent and you have some kids and they would like to use the tablet as well maybe you don't want them getting into the work that you've been doing or any of the files that you have so you create a new user for them and what you're greeted with is a setup screen so that they can create their own account on the same device and once they get past that setup what they're greeted with is a screen that looks just like the one that you saw when you first powered on the device it is essentially a clean slate that the next user is able to pretty much customize that their delight they also get their own set of apps and they can install their own apps in order to make the experience on that particular user quintus for them and it's kind of a great way of sort of making one device very easy to use for let's say a small family and it's just a really nice feature to have on the Nexus 7 in the Nexus 10 it's also a very easy feature to navigate because if you want to go back to your user simply click the user icon in the notification drop-down settings and you'll be brought back to the lock screen where you can select your accounts and when it changes the wallpaper to show that it is your account you can just go through the lock screen and jump right back in here's one that I feel people forget sometimes Nexus devices don't come with bloatware take a look at these devices again not only is their software out of date but they also come with especially if shackled to another phone carrier they come with a lot of useless apps like NFL apps and you don't watch football or carry your specific ringtone apps I mean who uses those on the Nexus device what you need is what's included aside from the free content from that Google gives you which really doesn't even get in the way anyway you're given a blank slate you're free to do with your phone exactly anything that you want install the apps that you want all the clutter that the phone company's apps would have taken up is free for you to clutter it up with your own apps obviously but at least that was all on you and finally we put together all of our reasons to get the final one and that's freedom because that is what having a nexus is all about here we have three different devices all competitively priced with wonderful specifications and killer performance and the promise of updated software for at least the foreseeable future right now they have software that no other competitor has yet if you have a nexus 4 you have the freedom of picking a carrier any one that you want if you have a nexus 7 you have portability flexibility that most tablets don't have and when you have the Nexus 10 you have a powerhouse of a tablet that will remain so for quite a while when you become a nexus user you open up a world of possibilities that might be akin to those found in other Android devices but I guarantee you aren't nearly as great in number or more importantly as great in quality as that found in the Nexus when you choose the Nexus you choose value performance and flexibility but just as much as all those qualities you choose freedom let us know what you think in the comments below and for the written version of this edition of ten again head on over to Android authority dot-com your source for all things Android