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perhaps one of the more awesome parts about the Nexus 5 is that you have a choice between two different colors black or white especially when the nexus floors white edition was really pretty short-lived so it's Josh regard from Android thority what's going on everybody and this is a comparison between the two colors of the Nexus 5 so obviously I've already had a little bit of time with the white version of the Nexus 5 after all it was the one that I did a drop test for but now that I have my hands on the black version we're gonna take a look at it in comparison to the white version however before I get into that why don't you just enjoy this little montage showing you the two phones side-by-side starting with the front you have the black slate look so there's really no change in the screen experience and either phone however it is at the top of these screens that there is a difference one cool feature of either phone is that the phone speaker grille is perforated so it's got a nice kind of unique look but it's even more unique on the white version because it's white it's the only white spot on there unless you're looking at the notification LED that is all the way down at the bottom and it's almost as if the white version really wants you to know that it's white hey yo I'm the white version yeah we all know that yeah just look I'm up front you can even tell when you look at my front okay it's when you make it over to the sides that you begin to see more substantial changes on the white version like I mentioned before it uses a glossy plastic so there might be some finger printing that happens there and it may be the only blemish in an otherwise nice design of course when you're looking at the black version of the Nexus 5 you get the soft touch plastic that is also on the sides as well as the back however I do need to make another distinction here I said in the drop test for the white Nexus 5 that the back panel and the glossy plastic sides have a separation to them there's a separation in the panel's that could make the back cover sort of snap off and in the drop test it kind of did luckily I was able to snap it back in I did not think this was going to be the case for the black version I figured it was going to have a soft touch plastic that would wrap around the phone that's not the case here so the back cover could still snap off if you drop it the way that I did with the white version of the phone and finally we make it over to the back where the most obvious changes are you do still get the same large lens unit in the camera and then of course the Nexus logo in the middle that is in landscape mode much like the Nexus 7 which is something I really liked however it's not just black or white there's actually a bit of a material change here just like you saw on the sides the black version like we keep saying has that soft touch plastic which is very reminiscent of the Nexus 7 and it actually feels really nice in the hand not only is it soft touch it's nice and smooth but it also provides a little bit of grip when you have it in your hand while it won't necessarily show fingerprints to easily like glossy plastic if your hands happen to be oily they're definitely gonna show on on the phone once we make it over to the white version you'll notice that yes it's not soft touch plastic but it's also a far cry from glossy plastic it's really somewhere in the middle the best way I can put it is that it's a straight plastic that is pretty reminiscent of early HTC One S or X devices and also the thing about the white plastic is that even though it looks cleaner and it won't take fingerprints nor will it take the smudges that the soft touch plastic might take if you track it on dirt or something kind of dark and if it's kind of scratches if you scrape it on a surface it's definitely going to show a lot easier on the white version so that's a quick look at the white edition versus the black edition of the Nexus 5 it is kind of hard to argue against black soft touch plastic it just makes the phone look really good it happens to give it a little bit more grip and also it's just a sleek look all around that appeals to the all black everything that I love on my devices however I have to give props to the white edition because to me it actually still looks really nice there's a real contrast you look to it with the black front and the white back and even if the speaker grille on the front is white and that is a little weird it's still unique and I have to give it credit for that but honestly if the black edition was not available I would still be happy getting the white one instead as always thank you guys very much for watching while you're dropping us a like down below why don't you tell us in the comments what version of the Nexus 5 you prefer the for review of the Nexus 5 is almost here so make sure you stay tuned to Android authority and to tide you over why don't you check out our unboxing and first impressions or 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