Size Matters
Who said size doesn’t matter? Okay, we don’t like our phones too big actually. I’m told that the note is a nice device but after a certain point bigger is not better.
But in the case of the Nexus 5 it’s a good size of big. I don’t have too big a palm and it manages to fit kind of alright in it. Though sometimes I did feel like I had to slide the phone down or up a little to reach certain things, but it’s not that big an inconvenience.
Whether you want to spend time going through the Facebook News Feed, or chatting, or browse through imgur, play games, or watch videos of the teen and adult nature, the big screen with the thin bezel is awesome. It oozes quality and there’s no more worry about breaking the glass barrier cause there is none, at least not on the back anymore. It’s the smooth, matte, quality plastic – the kind you’d want to hold in your hand without feeling like you got a bad deal. It feels better built and oozes more class than other flagships such as the shiny, plasticy cheap feeling Samsung S4. Only thing that can beat it now in terms of ‘feels’ is the HTC one with its metal unibody.

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Thanks to its powerful specs pretty much all operations on the Nexus 5 is super fast and buttery smooth. There is still no app that can cause it any stutter. It’s fun just to keep swiping through your apps knowing that the swiping is happening faster than it did on your old phone, even if that phone was a Nexus 4. And if it’s a T-Mobile G2X, well you would never want to stop swiping through your apps.
Other things such as gaming and web browsing are also smooth and buttery thanks to the powerful hardware but nowhere near as fun as swiping through your apps. Really, try it.
Serial Updated
Being a Nexus device has many perks such as the subsidized price, a large community of users dedicated to tweaking and customizing the ROM. Speaking of ROMs, the biggest perk is that the phone will receive Android updates the fastest. You will never be behind the curve.
Okay, I lied. The subsidized price is the biggest perk of being a Nexus device.
It’s not a DSLR
People get really uppity about cameras on phones there days. The expectation often is that you would get DSLR quality photos from a phone camera. It’s hard to pull off these expectations in reality though no doubt we can all agree, fanboy or no, that the iPhone has an awesome camera. And the Nexus 5? Initially, on release the N5 came with Android 4.4 and with it was a really sloppy camera that had a lot of issues. It had potential but it basically sucked. Within a month Google released 4.4.1 solving a lot of the issues on the camera, vastly improving its quality. 4.4.2 came out and fixed more bugs overall. But the camera still feels a little sloppy. There are some issues to work out with focus but despite that, the Nexus 5 is basically one of the best phones you can buy.

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Why You Shouldn’t Buy

It’s a sleek sexy phone with a big screen that has really powerful hardware, gets the latest updates and only costs $350+taxes.
So let’s talk about why you shouldn’t get this device:
- You already have a Nexus 5
- You are currently satisfied with your inferior phone
- You prefer iPhones or Windows Phones
- You cannot afford an upgrade
- You don’t know what the nice things in life are!

SPECS

Display: 1080 x 1920 pixels, 4.95 inches (445 ppi) True HD IPS+
OS: up to Android 4.4.2 (Kit Kat)
CPU: Quad-core 2.3 GHz Krait 400
ROM: 16/32 GB
RAM:  2GB
Connectivity: Wi-Fi, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, 3G, LTE etc
Camera:  Primary: 8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pix, image stabilization, LED flash + Secondary: 1.3MP
Sensors:  Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer
Battery:  2300 mAh
Price:  16 GB: Tk. 35,000-38,000/-

The writer is Editor-in-Chief of online tech news site Techetron. He spends too much of his time updating his gadgets and visiting all the fuchkka stalls when visiting Bangladesh.