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alrighty welcome back to Android QA my name is Jace and today is all about the Nexus 5 and I know what some of you are thinking Jase you're not funny and you're hella late on the Nexus 5 that may be true but I'm going to talk about things that have not been talked about before and i must confess i think i found man's new best friend ah i mean i love you and everything but you know the drooling and and the shedding and she's just smarter than you are your dog is due for a vet appointment see yes i have found the phone that i have been the most happy out of all smartphones that i've ever used and i've used a number of them that doesn't mean that it doesn't have its downsides so let's start with the downsides first at least from my perspective number one battery life now it's better than the iphone and it's even better than ipad mini but it's not great in fact if i were to be out and about away from home in my car and i was using it just moderately it would not make it through a full day i'm pretty sure that but on a you know real world case-by-case basis I'm not away from a charger the entire day when I'm at home at my desk it's charging when I'm in my car it's charging so it's not a deal breaker so the next up is sighs it's too big now I know some of you are like too big what are you talking about well I think it's not just my personal preference i think that the 4.5 to 4.7 inch sized phone is going to be the future in 18 to 22 18 months to two years most flagship phones are going to be you know sub 4.7 inches not the five inches which is currently now the bigger and better craze is going to end and let's talk about why nomos we're going to say Jace what are you talking about the Nexus 5 is a great one handed device well consider how most people use it if i'm texting i'm not holding the phone up here with my thumb up here on the side and texting down here I'm holding it like this do you see how when I do that I have to change the way to the phone right so if i'm texting down here and I got to go up top now I have to change the weight of the phone I have to change where the weight is in my hand and that changes things on a 4.7 inch phone I can hold it here in this manner and reach pretty much everything without major finger gymnastics now I know some of you might be thinking I'm exaggerating but unless you are David Ortiz with gorillas form it's this applies to you you see how do you use your phone most people use their phone when I have my hand in my phone the other hand is holding a drink keys to get in my car the dog leash I'm separating twins were fighting that kind of thing and I want to be able to use a one-handed device to get done what I need to get done this keeps my life organized it keeps my phone calls going I text I keep connected that way this is not a media device when I have a tablet and most of the world is going to have a tablet and a phone least that's my educated prediction so again these are the reasons why I think most phones are going to be smaller than 5 inches well technically this is four point nine five inches but it's going to be sub 4.7 inches to be a true one-headed device and the minute a you know oppo one comes up with a phone for example that's a flagship power than it's under 4.7 inches or Nexus comes out with a 4.7 inch foam I'm going to sell this and go for that because it's that important it is a deal breaker it will change your life on a daily basis how you interact with your device now let's talk about the things I love about this phone when you buy an electronic device whether it's a phone tablet or a laptop for the most part the value or usefulness of that device is slowly decreasing over time especially from a hardware perspective but also true in a software perspective but with the nexus 5 because Google always has improvements in the pipe the software is improving over time it's able to maximize battery management over time it manages resources better over time and each time Google puts out a big marketing push about a new camera app for example I get it right away I don't have to wait like the rest you have to wait for 18 months or two years to get an update when I had the galaxy note I got two updates the Ice Cream Sandwich and jelly bean and it took four BRR I had it for three years and I only got two updates I love it now next up is power and it comes in spades with the Snapdragon 800 and the Adreno 330 the phone can do just about anything you can throw at it now and for the foreseeable future it's about future proofing your phone and I'm very happy with it now let's talk about price and it is pretty sweet because other than the one plus one this is the most powerful affordable phone you can possibly by the 16 gigabyte version is 349 and the 32 gigabyte version is 399 and although I got this as a gift this is a fantastic phone for the price you simply can't beat it if you look at other phones of comparable power and function there you know almost double the price it's a fantastic deal now the last big bonus I wanted to talk about what many people don't talk about when it comes to Nexus 5 is the huge developer community that supports the Nexus 5 if you go to XDA developers com there is a plethora of developers out there who love to make wonderful toys software toys so you can customize your Nexus 5 experience it's fantastic go check it out XDA developers com so last up I just want to talk about the experience with the Nexus 5 that's really allowed me to fall in love with Android again to remind me why I loved it to begin with the last two android phones that i had weren't the best user experience but this is fantastic so androids incremental improvements over time are really paying off the the speed with which it works and Google now is so intuitive I mean it actually works now on the galaxy note it just didn't work very well at all it's helpful i was at my my son's archery practice and it told me that there was increased traffic and you know it was going to take me x number of minutes longer to get home than it normally was like crazy practical stuffer reminds me when my next appointment is when the other app crashed it's fantastic love it but it should be said to get all those benefits of android you really need flagship power or at least close to it so that's something to consider and you can't get better flagship power for this price than a Nexus device let's hope pray to God that they kept in they keep the Nexus line alive because this is a fantastic deal thanks for watching android army my name is Jace I'd love to connect with you here on Google+ or Twitter you also may want to check out the video i did regarding the top five or top four questions that people have regarding the nexus 5 these are technical questions you can also check out my brothers in android Josh Joe and the tech ninja Kevin Chris and lon is now with us he's doing a great job if you have any other questions put them in the comments below I read all of them answer them all but I will read them all talk to you next week on Android QA