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it's drops regard from Android 30 what's going on everybody and yes it's finally here an extra day felt like an eternity but at our doorstep today we finally got the Google Nexus 5 and now it's time to unbox and give my first impressions on it so it's worth mentioning that the version of the Google Nexus 5 that I currently have right now is the white one we're gonna see how the white version fares I'm definitely excited to see this one especially since the white version of the Nexus 4 was really short-lived maybe common knowledge by now but there is a system update that is required when you first get your Nexus 5 to power on it's a bit of a bummer because we're gonna have to wait but luckily I'm using Wi-Fi on a very fast connection so this shouldn't take too long I'm actually a little bit surprised that the lightweight for a 5-inch phone this is definitely very nimble feeling it feels almost like a samsung galaxy s4 in that regard but the more rigid lines and definitely the less rounded look definitely give this a little bit of a better feel in my opinion and the buttons are incredibly rigid you can really feel that there they're the same thing with the volume rockers on the side so we're just gonna wait for the google os or android 4.4 kitkat to come up here while that update is going we're just gonna take a gander over on the back one thing I said before in the in addition of Android Weekly was that if the Nexus 5 is like a smaller Nexus 7 that is something I can definitely get behind and this is for sure taking from the design philosophies of the Nexus 7 of course this one comes in white but what I mean here is the Nexus logo is landscape on the back denoting that this can be used obviously in a landscape format and really just has that nice material again this is not really a soft touch material but it's also not glossy it's just sort of I guess the best way I can put it for now is it's like straight plastic then of course another design element is the camera module up here which is surrounded by a nice large circle however inside of there is optical image stabilization so that's what a lot of that girth probably means another thing to mention is that the sides as you can probably see in the reflection of the light the sides are actually glossy plastic so that is something to keep in mind I believe on the black Nexus 5 the soft touch plastic kind of wraps all the way around so that is definitely a difference one thing about the glossy plastic on the sides is that it can take fingerprints so that might be a bit of a blemish no pun intended in terms of the design choices on the white one however since it's only relegated to a very specific portion of the phone that might not be that big of a you this white speaker grill up at the top is really intriguing probably aside from the camera optics this is probably one of the few parts of the phone that actually tries to dare to be very very different and okay I guess for me I actually do kind of like it as far as Android 4.4 kitkat goes and pleasantly surprised at how much I already fell in love with it the moment I saw it I did already get the Google experience launcher for my Moto X and to be honest I did not feel that it necessarily fit on that screen and I say that screen because obviously it's a smaller screen but for a 5-inch screen this I wouldn't I'm not gonna say that the launch right here in 4.4 kitkat is bloated by any means however it does have more of like a bubbliness to it if you will there's definitely a lot more of color going on here that might make you feel it's not quite as professional or quite as simplistic as it was before but rest assured it all still fits on this five inch screen it all looks really great okay Google is the phrase oh there you go okay Google is now the phrase that you're going to be using and you can actually use it from the home screens like you saw me do just there so these little enhancements among other things are going to be covered in the full review obviously and we already have a great video outlining all of the new features of Android 4.4 kitkat but obviously I'm going to be seeing how they work in real time in real life on the Nexus 5 now of course this is just the start of our Nexus 5 coverage so stay tuned over the coming days for all of the great videos that we'll have in store for you including the full review of this new Nexus smartphone all in all keep it to to Android Authority for all of the great Nexus 5 coverage we have in store for you stay here for our future comparisons the full review of the phone and for a whole lot more because Android Authority is your source for all things Android