LG - Nexus 5 4G Cell Phone (Unlocked) - White

I'm a systems engineer, and i purchased this phone to make pentesting, & regular use. I love their hardware, very robust and excellent image quality. Their camera is really good for the price. It's really fantastic. Very fast & reliable. Best cost/benefit relationship. Recommended 100%!

I've had this phone for two and a half years. That's no typo... 2.5 years. I've never had a phone this long. It still performs with very few flaws. Yes, the camera has never been the best, but they did improve it about six months after release and blurry photos were much less common after that. Usually, I'm in the market for a new phone after a year because something goes wrong, but not with this. In fact, the only reason I'm considering a new phone now is because I've run out of space on this one. It still loads apps quickly and lag is still almost nonexistent. The screen is fantastic. The battery has degraded a bit since new, but it still gets me through the day. Wireless charging has been extremely convenient. None of the Google stuff bothers me (Hangouts in particular). And hey, if you're getting a Google phone, I would think you should be prepared for Google apps. In any case, when this came out it was probably the best value in 4G phones and the amazing thing is that it still meets all my needs over two years later.

Mixed bag of hardware. Great display, very very fast, NFC, Google voice commands are great. However the camera sucks. I get blurry pictures all the time and when I don't I get grainy pictures. Just annoying. My HTC HD2 takes way better pictures. Even the iPhone 4s takes better pictures. I don't take many photos but when I need to take one, I want to take one I can Print or look at on my computer with thinking I need a tripod next time. I updated the phone's software and did that HDR option to get better photos, but still its grainy or blurry. But what made me return the is Google Hangouts. Google hangouts is ... annoying. The phone will invite you to Google+, but you can decline. Then the phone will let you know that Google hangouts is the default SMS and MMS system. To my understanding Google hangouts is a part of Google+ so technically you have to have Google+ to get text messages. I'm like uhh okay? But get this you cant send out pictures to your text messages unless the recipient has Google Hangouts. So instead of texting a photo you will text a person a Google hangout request, Then if they get google hangouts you can text them a picture. But it will default a picture message as a group message with your "friends" based on how you organized your "Google+ circles"... I think? So all of my contacts that have gmail, google+, google hangout, would all receive the same picture text message. Even though I wanted to send out a picture of a part to my co-worker it would send it out to 10 people. Then the enter button when texting is "hidden". You have to hold the "shift" key and the "emoticon" button will change to the enter button. It doesn't tell you this so texting a grocery list took 30 minuets. I had to google this and search nexus 5 forums. I know what your thinking: But Zeebo101, why didn't you change your default texting app to something else. Because it a "flagship phone" and how can Google over complicate Texting? It's stupid. I shouldn't get a new phone and then spend time setting it up and then uninstalling (in my opinion) bloatware that that makes such a pinnacle part of smartphones stupid, hard to work with, and makes me feel that I'm jumping over hoops. I don't want to custom ROM it, change this, that... I just wanted it to answer call, take good (not great... I'm realistic) photos, send picture texts, and get emails out of the box. This phone doesn't do that.

I like to use a lot of apps, so this phone is a perfect fit of me. It has 2 GB RAM and a qualcomm processor, so there is literally no hanging and it's pretty fast. Camera though cannot be compared to iphone 5s or Samsung S4 but it's decent. Go for it if you love using a lot of apps.