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it wasn't the best phone even during its time but I have to admit after using it for a couple of days I really did miss this little device Haeju Tasha Vergara what's going on everybody and this is why we still love the Google Nexus 5 now over at Andrew authority calm Scott Gordon did an article saying why the Nexus 5 was still so fondly remembered even until today and you should head on over to Andrew 30.com or use the link in the card or in the description down below to read that great article but I wanted to take that and kind of use the Nexus 5 for a little bit so I got lon Z units which is actually still in pretty good condition and I used it for the last few days and I have to admit I kind of missed it now of course the Nexus 5 is the successor to the Nexus 4 if you guys even remember that phone it was one of the first phones that I ever reviewed and it kind of signified a bit of a shift in the Nexus program the Nexus 5 was supposed to be the way that Android KitKat in all of its vanilla glory was supposed to make it out to the masses and it did a pretty good job of it especially when you consider its 349 dollar price point and for that money you got some pretty good specifications the Snapdragon 800 which yes doesn't even sound like that old of a processor I was able to power the phone really well and with the streamlined version of stock Android well it was a very speedy and snappy device unfortunately for the rest of the specifications they might make a lot of you spec hungry people out there today well kind of sad the 5-inch 1080p display was really nothing to sneeze at but it still is going to make anybody who wants to K display is really pine for the higher resolution and also you get 2 gigabytes of RAM 16 gigabytes of on-board storage without any expansion and of course that small 2300 milliamp hour battery even with the capacity that seemed ok back then this phone was not going to be powered on for much more than maybe about a day maybe even less and I'm also going to talk very briefly about the camera now the optics looked really great on the back a nice addition to the aesthetic however this 8 megapixel shooter ended up not really being all that great when you compare it to other shooters like the Samsung Galaxy s4 of its time however the Android 4.4.1 update did come out and it did up the picture quality a little bit but it wasn't going to make this phone anywhere close to the best camera of 2014 much less the best camera of really any phone so what did work well overall the aesthetic did the Google Nexus logo right here was actually a really bold choice by Google and LG as they partnered up to make this film and it signified that the Nexus program was not only different from the rest but it was also kind of here to stay after all we got this design aspect in pretty much every Nexus device that followed and if you know me as a reviewer you know that I love devices I know exactly what they're about and they wear them on their sleeve with the design of the Nexus 5 you got not only a device that looked different from the rest but even until today with all of the glass and metal devices this is still an aesthetic that you don't really get in flagships or even mid-range devices a whole lot today this black soft plastic with the Nexus logo again is definitely one of the more iconic phones that has been out there and thanks to Google and LG it is also one of the most memorable but I will admit that this material wasn't necessarily the sturdiest if you remember my drop test in front of the Android statues at the Googleplex I was actually able to get the screen to shatter pretty easily and the circuits were exposed underneath and of course the soft plastic body would get scuffed up incredibly easily now of course the Nexus 5 also benefited from one of the best marketing campaigns for Android ever KitKat now you're able to get KitKat on this device out of the box but when it came to updates we were able to get this phone updated to Android marshmallow now I will admit I thought that I was going to be able to get nougat on this phone but it took me a while to remember or really to figure out that Google already stopped updates on the Nexus 5 so it was only going to get to Android marshmallow but that said Android marshmallow has been working just fine on this phone I was able to get to all of my different applications especially for work without any problems and since the phone was very fresh out of the box with marshmallow there was a pretty speedy experience I was even able to play Final Fantasy 9 without too much trouble even if it loaded pretty slowly and there were some slowdowns in the middle of gameplay so the phone was pretty easy to update at least in Long's case as he sent it to me with Android marshmallow on it but it's also really easy to mod roms are still really popular with the Nexus 5 and there are people all over the XDA forums and also even in the subreddit that still mod this device and found ways of getting features at least of Android new get onto the Nexus 5 and they're still using this phone proudly to this day and we can't really blame them so after using this phone for the last few days I will admit I had a lot of fun with it and if you're still using a Nexus 5 unless you're a huge ROM er I would probably say it's still time to upgrade there were plenty of great found after the Nexus 5 including the Nexus 6p which only came a couple of generations later but there really haven't been that many phones since the Nexus 5 they have been that memorable and with this type of aesthetic with the type of performance that it had for its time and also with its price point it's kind of something that we haven't had since that and that's why we still very fondly remember and in a way still really loved the Nexus 5 I was very happy and kind of privileged Thank You LAN to be able to use this one for the last few days and I might hold on to it for a little bit I'll send it back to you a little bit later on buddy but until then you can keep it tuned to Android authority and watch our old coverage of the Nexus 5 we actually had a lot of it including my drop test my review and you can even take a look at the color comparison as there was a white version of this film that actually did look pretty awesome but you can head on over to Andrew 30.com for all of that coverage look back in our youtube channel to find that stuff and then subscribe to the channel if you haven't already so you can keep up with the rest of all of our coverage and remember to drop us some likes on this video and again subscribe to the channel if you haven't already because we are your source for all things Android