The Google Nexus 5 smartphone is arguably the most powerful and versatile Google phone yet, and Google Now is one of the best, coolest, most useful features Android has ever developed. You can use your voice (in true hands-free mode) to search the web or place telephone calls, download and launch applications, send text messages and do a million other things. And the Google Nexus 5 is integrated with Google Now better than with most other Android phones.
You can launch a voice search simply by saying, “Okay, Google” or by tapping the microphone icon on your display, and then you simply speak your search parameters. Say exactly what you want, as if you were talking to a human personal assistant. You can say, “Send a text message,” or perhaps, “Navigate to Amazon.” You can also access Google Now by swiping from left to right across your Android default home screen. This reveals several programmable Cards that give quick-look information such as driving directions, birthday reminders and sports scores for your favorite teams.
Announced on Halloween of 2013, the Google Nexus 5 is a collaboration between Big G and LG. The phone offers a very large display with Full HD resolution, arguably the fastest central processor of a smartphone currently available, generous RAM memory and extremely high pixel density. This is also one of the very rare mobile handsets which delivers the Android 4.4 KitKat operating system out-of-the-box, and powers that with a blazing fast Snapdragon 800 system chip.
The 8.0 megapixel shooter on the back of the Google Nexus 5 smartphone delivers optical image stabilization and the ability to record video in 1,080P HD resolution, and is joined in the handset’s camera combo by a front facing chat cam. Despite the powerful hardware package,the Google Nexus 5 is slim, measuring just 0.34 inches (8.59 mm) in thickness. Compared to other 5 inchers, the device is extremely light, weighing just 4.59 ounces (130 g).
The 5.0 inch screen delivers a resolution of 1,080 x 1,920 pixels, with a pixel density of 445 pixels per inch. The processor has been clocked as high as 2.3 GHz, an Adreno 330 graphics processor is on board, as is 2.0 GB of RAM memory and 16 GB of built-in storage space. A single charge last as long as 17.0 hours, and wireless charging is supported. The Google Nexus 5 was recently named to several Top 10 and Best Android Smartphone lists for 2013, and offers Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi, NFC and DLNA wireless connectivity options.
