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hey what is up guys I'm Kip EHD here and there's an interesting little battle heating up this holiday season I say little because it's maybe not the most important of all the sales in terms of volume but it's definitely worth looking at it's the Battle of the low cost pure Android smartphones this time around it's the Nexus 5 for 350 bucks 16 gigs off contract black or white or the Moto X 350 bucks 16 gigs off contract in any color customized this is a cyber monday sale and it's one of many Cyber Monday and Black Friday sales I'll be tweeting out on Twitter so if you want to follow me there to check out those that's where I'll be sharing them all but at this point for that price which way do you go all right so if you want the full breakdown of all the pros and cons of each of these smartphones and what's like to basically use one or the other as your daily driver of my full review - both of them right provide a like button so there will be a link to a video you can check out to get a better sense of what it's actually like to use each of the phones but to break things down and sort of make it simpler the pros and cons list - each of these devices is actually remarkably similar on the pro side both of these are really nice devices to hold in the hand or a nice size but hands-down the better feeling device and better ergonomics device goes to the Moto X this is just an area where Motorola spent a ton of time and energy in design to figure out exactly how they should make a device curved like this and has some really interesting curves they look cool it looks cool on a table it feels good in the hand when you're holding it I'm holding up your face to make a call all types of different usage scenarios just feels better holding the Moto X and it's also a bit more compact the bezels are so small that if you're moving from something like an iPhone this only feels a tiny bit bigger than the iPhone which could make it a first time recommendation for a lot of people moving from an iPhone to an Android phone for the first time this is definitely the form factor that I would recommend now I happen to be a huge fan of the Stormtrooper Nexus 5 maybe that's just me but there is also the customization factor that again puts the Moto X ahead you can go through moto maker and apparently with this Black Friday deal you'll be able to get a totally customized Moto X for $350 so the Nexus 5 is we already know only comes in black or white and I've made a video just comparing the designs of these two maybe that's not a bad thing at all you can go with black or white if you want but with the Nexus 5 you can pick from a whole range of a rainbow of different colors of the different backs different accent colors the different fronts and the custom accessory isn't even an engraving on the back and the best part of this actually is is if you order a Moto X and a Nexus 5 today you'll get the custom Moto X first that's how much it's not delaying a shipping process at all the Nexus 5 has advantages on paper in the hardware or physical specs department so you're going to get much better numbers on paper with the Nexus 5 basically what I'm saying here is you get a quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor in here which is way more powerful than on the Moto X and you also getting much bigger brighter 5-inch 1080p display which is much brighter and much higher resolution and bigger than the Moto X so you're going to get higher end specs if you choose to go with the Nexus 5 and it also gives you a slightly bigger chassis it's just a tiny bit thicker and overall a little bit taller and wider and it's a bigger device to use which brings us to the battery conveniently one of the biggest cons to both the Nexus 5 and the Moto X is the battery now if you just look at the pier number is a slightly bigger chassis on the Nexus 5 we'll give it a bigger battery 2300 milliamp hours while the Moto X will give you a two thousand two hundred million power battery now if you stop right there you might think oh the battery life will be pretty similar nothing too big to worry about here but if you keep looking further deeper into it you'll see the Nexus 5 has a much larger much brighter higher resolution display it has very different specs on the inside and a big part of it is the Moto X has an AMOLED display and an active notification system takes big advantage in that and you get the Moto X eight chip in that computing system as I talked about in the full review takes again a whole bunch of more physical optimization into the battery life so you're going to get substantially better battery life on the Moto X then you are on the Nexus 5 now the numbers in the full review will give you a better idea of whether or not you can deal with the battery life for the Nexus 5 but I actually went ahead and picked up the wireless charger from the Google Play Store the official one which has a magnet in the back that helps I guess ease my range anxiety and lets me charge in way more places but not everyone is going to be will to spend the 50 bucks to go ahead and do that anyway another thing on the con side of both of these devices is the cameras on the backs both of them comparatively speaking have weaker cameras but actually since my review video of the Moto X it's gotten a pretty substantial update to the camera software and it actually moved the camera app to the Google Play Store so now they can continually update that quickly and timely and with plenty of updates through the Play Store which is really nice so everyone's Moto X will have the updated camera software but essentially the big difference here is going to be between the speed and the quality of the camera versus the Nexus 5 and the Moto X the speed is way better on the Moto X camera you can take faster shots the delay and time between when you tap to take a picture and actually take the picture is way smaller you have faster shutter speeds it's just an overall faster camera on the Moto X in terms of quality the quality Department is going to go to the Nexus 5 it's going to take better photos and videos in terms of quality especially video it's still passable quality on the Moto X camera right now it's not miserable or anything anymore but it's definitely you know when you compare it to other more expensive six $700 devices both of these you will see have obviously made a trade off to save on price and that shows other than that Google and Motorola are technically one of the same basically as a company right now so the actual experience of using these two devices is going to be very similar but since the Nexus is a nexus and it's the actual flagship for Androids newest version and the Moto X is just a quick half-step behind but it's getting very quick updates right now you're going to have a couple of software advantages to using a nexus 5 they both like I said have Android 4.4 KitKat but you can have some things like the exclusive google experience launcher you're going to have you know a slightly better performance overall in terms of smoothness on the Nexus 5 for sure and you'll be first in line for Android 4.4.1 or whatever the next version of Android is I'm sure you'll get it first on a nexus if you're into that so bottom line when you're weighing the pros and cons it's up to you and well let me know in the comments section below which one you would rather pick up this holiday season for that $350 price tag I kind of already made my decision I still love rock many motox to people because it's a great great first Android phone for sure it's also going to come down to availability because well this is only sold in the Google Play Store and in the areas where you can buy things from Google Play whereas the Moto X is supported in way more areas and on an additional carrier there's a Verizon version so that's a thing but yeah there's definitely differences and similarities that you're going to want a way to make your decision either way this 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