LG Google Nexus 5

The Nexus 5 is an LG-manufactured flagship phone from Google in 2013. It improves upon its predecessor, the Nexus 4, in many ways. Starting with the display — its got a 4.95-inch 1920 x 1080 pixel Full HD IPS panel covered with Gorilla Glass 3. That’s a whopping 445 PPI pixel density. It is powered by the latest-and-greatest Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core chip grunting at 2.3 GHz with an Adreno 330 graphics chip. There’s 2GB of RAM onboard and the Nexus 5 comes with either 16 or 32GB of internal storage (as with all recent Nexus handsets, there’s no microSD card slot). Connectivity-wise, the Nexus 5 overcomes one of the shortcomings of the Nexus 4 with support for 4G (LTE) along with the latest WiFi 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.0 support. There’s NFC and Wireless charging built-in as well.

In the camera department, the Nexus 5 sticks to the same 8 megapixel resolution of the prior model, but adds Optical Image Stabilization (OIS). Google also touts ‘HDR+’ which takes better High Dynamic Range images and Google’s automatic image editing features. The phone also packs new sensors apart from the typical motion and light sensors; that include sensors for pressure and “hall effect”. Powering the Nexus 5 is a non-removable 2300 mAh battery. Lastly, the Nexus 5 comes with the brand new Android 4.4 KitKat which, other than feature additions, is optimised to use less resources than before. This is the 16GB variant of the Nexus 5.