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powerful stylish and yes once again very affordable Google's flagship phone of the season is finally here hello everybody I'm Lynn LA from CNN and today we're gonna check out the unlocked Nexus 5 at four point nine five inches the five has the biggest screen of all past Nexus handsets the display features 445 pixels per inch and like the Samsung Galaxy s4 and HTC One it has a 1920 by 1080 pixel resolution images and videos are bright and vivid and look razor sharp now even though the display is bigger the device is still comfortable to hold and pocketable in fact it's actually thinner and lighter than the previous Nexus 4 the phone comes in two colors black and white and features the smooth matte soft touch coating I personally prefer this over last year's design since that models glass back panel fractured quite easily inside the Sansa is a powerful 2.2 6 gigahertz Snapdragon 800 processor from Qualcomm this is the same blazingly fast CPU featured in the LG g2 with this processor the Nexus 5 is a piece of a handset especially when you consider that both the GS 4 and the HTC One are speed demons themselves and run Snapdragon 600 processor 's the v also has a non-removable 2.3 ampere hour battery which yields a reported talktime of up to 17 hours with data turned on now one issue the previous Nexus 4 had was that it didn't feature LTE support this wasn't quite a big deal in other countries but for US consumers LTE is more widespread when it comes to highly anticipated top-tier phones at least LTE is a standard so the lack of it was a letdown with the Nexus 5 however it's great to see that it does support LTE bands it will work on 18 t t-mobile and Sprint networks but unfortunately Verizon users are left out from the nexus party as a Google branded device the handset will get OS updates as they roll in and not surprisingly it runs the latest mobile OS Android 4.4 KitKat Kit Kat comes with a number of new features you can move entire home screens now and there's a deeper more seamless integration with Google Voice Search okay Google what's today's weather you can also search and directly call from the dialer businesses or companies not in your contact list Google also brings new features to the handsets cameras which by the way included 8 and 1.3 megapixel shooter for instance it has optical image stabilization which cuts down motion blur that may result from an unsteady hand and there's hdr+ which fuses together several exposures and shots to make one ideal picture additional features include two gigs of RAM wireless charging and NFC despite having all these components though the Nexus 5 is still very affordable the 16 and 32 gig models cost 349 and $399 respectively for an unlocked phone of this calibre that's an incredibly competitive price point not only would Andrew purists find this attractive but just anyone looking for a solid handset as well again I'm Lin and you've been checking out the Nexus 5 from Google