Google Nexus 5

[Maverick Jester]

It's a Visa credit card from Discovery, I just used my Shipito address as billing, and ordered from my personal VPN. Nothing special. Discovery did call to confirm that the order isn't fraud though, buy they do that for international orders sometimes.

I'm probably just lucky.

Hopefully I can get just as lucky I have placed another order, hopefully this goes through...

 

[Soprono]

Got mine and wow its amazing

 

[mith]

Got mine and wow its amazing

Enjoy... I am loving mine so far

 

[OGroteKoning]

Got mine and wow its amazing

Enjoy... I am loving mine so far

Care to report type of usage and battery life please?

 

[Soprono]

So far @OGroteKoning my honest opinion and this is coming from a Note2, Galaxy S3 and a Galaxy S4 is that the UI of this Nexus is amazing its so clean, so snappy and really well put together I love it. The new white and smooth fading of kitkat is awesome, Screen is beautiful really stunning along with the crisp interface they fit like a glove.

Overall my build of my nexus is wonderful power and volume buttons are pretty fixed in place not loose like reviews say they actually feel better than my s3 and 4 did.

The device is definatly the snappiest iv ever played with for one. As for battery i cannot report thus far as I unboxed it yesterday and had it on the usb cable charging while i loaded up my pictures and apps and what not. Then had it on and off and forgot to put it to charge full over night. Ill charge it tonight fully and Ill have a real world test tomorrow when im out and about and its on the car bluetooth and all that stuff. It has all my apps on it already so shall definably report for you.

Overall this device is so quick and i dont know if its just me but im really really amazed at the sleekness of the UI and the device. Something about it that im just mad about.

 

[OGroteKoning]

Thanks Michaelmw. I'm looking forward to the battery life test. How does it run on LTE? Which network are you on?

 

[calypso]

This is my life for today, charged to full over usb is that matters. About 3 hours screen time with alot of faffing and playing on the device.
Vodacom reception is really **** at my house, saw 4 hours screen time I was in a better area and less faffing.

 

[OGroteKoning]

/snip
This is my life for today, charged to full over usb is that matters. About 3 hours screen time with alot of faffing and playing on the device.
Vodacom reception is really **** at my house, saw 4 hours screen time I was in a better area and less faffing.

Thanks calypso .. .but oh boy... That is rather disappointing. Did you make a lot of phone calls? In my experience, if your battery is depleted in about 14hrs, you probably have some 5hrs screen on time or spent a long time on phone calls. Apart from the shoddy network (which can cause major drain), what processes are running that sucks the battery like that?

Some other reports here

 

[Soprono]

Can't expect much from the battery size anyways I'm always around a plug or car charger so it doesn't bother me much

 

[mith]

Care to report type of usage and battery life please?

I have been getting about 3 hours screen on time.
This does depend on personal usage though.. I leave my wifi on, data on, gps on, bluetooth on (for connecting to the car), google now on, location reporting and history on....Within Wifi setting switched off network notification and scanning always available.
Frankly my first few days weren't great as I was using the phone a lot playing around with it but I think it is slowly improving or maybe I am just imagining it...lol

 

[Ecco]

I took my nexus 5 off charge this morning. 3.5 hours of use so far and 76% is remaining.

Let see how i fares till the afternoon.

 

[Ecco]

I took my nexus 5 off charge this morning. 3.5 hours of use so far and 76% is remaining.

Let see how i fares till the afternoon.

Seems like there is a Media server process using up most of the battery. Will do some googling to find out what this is.

 

[Soprono]

Just a screeny

 

[Soprono]

So far with heavy whatsapp

 

[Maverick Jester]

I'm not too concerned with "bad" battery life, unless I can't make 12 hours without a charge from fairly moderate usage.

But I do believe that battery life will improve over time.

 

[roldstar]

hey guys..just a random thought/question - will the Nexus 5 work on Cell C?

 

[ebendl]

hey guys..just a random thought/question - will the Nexus 5 work on Cell C?

3G should work. And possibly LTE too if they ever decide to launch a network.

 

[Soprono]

I'm using the nexus on cell c now

 

[roldstar]

3G should work. And possibly LTE too if they ever decide to launch a network.

cool..I live in deepest darkest east london..don't think we'll be seeing LTE anytime soon!

 

[roldstar]

I'm using the nexus on cell c now

sweet sugar beans..wats your signal like? coverage is generally good for me