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it's the Monday after the Nexus 5 announcement meaning we woke up to a package on our office doorstep this is a Nexus 5 not the one we're giving away even though we are giving away a Nexus 5 this is our review unit I'm Michael Fisher this is PocketNow let's unbox it you heard right folks we are giving away a Nexus 5 not this particular unit but one just like it a 16 gig white edition if you want to win a Nexus 5 if you want a chance to win you should enter the giveaway we announced the winners Wednesday on the pocket now weekly follow us on social media so you don't miss a future content from pocket now and make sure to enter that giveaway let's pop open the shipping packaging here to discover the retail box which is in brilliant brilliant blue we saw leaked images of the of the retail packaging along with the other the rest of the avalanche of leaks surrounding the Nexus 5 now with the tape cut I should mention this packaging is very very minimal as you can tell the barcodes on the bottom we will keep obscured and let's just lift it up here and see a device greeting us front and center in the traditional orientation here a slightly tighter shot with a Nexus branded screen protector on there take the phone out of the packaging and put it aside just for a moment the right colour we did indeed that's that's nice okay let's put it aside for a second to see what's in the box what Google gives us when we invest in the $349 unit if you buy in the States divide elsewhere it and of course get more expensive flap here here we have a suggested procedure for sim installation and a sim removal tool right in the center there instructions on how to power on the unit in different languages of course our safety and warranty guide a microUSB cable like any other it would seem and an LG power adapter for the wall socket nothing else going on no headphones no chamois nothing fancy probably to keep costs down and here we have the device itself all protectors still installed a pretty tricky device to film because this particular model the the backside is all wide the front side Oh black but the protectors are still in place we're going to move our microphone and we're gonna pop up that screen protector for the first time as we pull off the other sort of protective elements here keeping the plastic on the sides pristine I will mention that this device is somewhat cold to the touch having sat on the porch for a bit but we like that because it's not cold and clammy in that glossy kind of way that some cheaper feeling plastic can be this white polycarb this public comment on the white version here let's take off that camera lens protector is smooth reminds us of the HTC One X to a degree the previous several generations old HTC flagship but really really good feeling they're really kind of it's not quite tacky it's not quite soft touch I imagine the black version might feel a little bit different as it did on the Galaxy Note 3 I'm not really sure about that but really really does feel nice in the hand the power button that's right where it belongs we're gonna take it over here but just before we power it on we'll show you that the earpiece hole in our black unit is white so you have a nice little visual guide point for where to put your ear when you do want to talk on this phone we run a slightly different lighting condition here we're gonna power on the unit just showing you what it looks like off the green grid a little bit there's our predicted at Google splash screen what the back cover looks like is this device boots up once again the 16 gig model that camera is 8 megapixels with optical image stabilization Snapdragon 800 powering everything under the hood 2 gigs of ram this display a 5-inch 1080p panel this device does in fact resemble the g2 the LG g2 it's spiritual sibling on the spec sheet not so much in real life this hardware is considerably different and as usual we are prompted to enter our information in order to start making the Nexus 5 our own which we will start doing very very shortly keep in mind folks we do have one of these up for giveaway as I keep reminding everyone stay tuned to the pocket now a weekly podcast on Wednesday for the winter announcement and enter if you are not already entered and please folks we like to keep the venue open for communications so if there's something specific you would like to see and drop us a comment down below we will be spending a lot of time with the Nexus 5 from Google and those giveaway details which have already been posted will appear in the same spot as the comparisons and the eventual review of the Nexus 5 pocketnow.com visit us there toss us a like if you enjoyed this unboxing in the meantime leave a comment down below if you want us to cover something specific in the review and as always thank you very much for watching I'm gonna get to work there's been Michael Fisher with PocketNow we'll see you soon