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<h1 style="text-align: center;">REVIEW - @ arsTechnica</h1>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">by Ron Amadeo, Andrew Cunningham</h3>
<h2>[WHAT]</h2>
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<li><strong>SUMMARY @ <a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/nexus-5-review-flagship-hardware-for-half-the-price/" target="_blank">Review @ arstechnica</a></strong></li>
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<li>] &nbsp;<span style="background-color: #00ff00;">"Mature, all-black good looks without any "faux" nonsense. Real care was put into things like the contrasting matte/glossy materials and round earpiece"</span></li>
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<h2>[WHY]<span style="background-color: #00ff00;">&nbsp;PROs</span></h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;will be compared to high-end phones from every other OEM. A 2.26Ghz Snapdragon 800 processor; 2GB of RAM; and a 5-inch, 1080p screen is certainly worthy of any company's flagship.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] At only $350 off contract, the Nexus 5 comes in at around half the cost of other high-end phones&mdash;an off contract iPhone 5S is $650, an HTC One is $600, a Galaxy S 4 is $640. It's almost hard to be critical of something that delivers so much value for the money.</li>
<li>]&nbsp;&nbsp;the Nexus 5 is an extremely good piece of hardware. Google and LG have taken the G2 hardware and made a few changes that appear to be mostly for the better.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] It's half the price of everything that competes with it.</li>
<li>] The gorgeous 445ppi display has bright, accurate colors.</li>
<li>] Mature, all-black good looks without any "faux" nonsense. Real care was put into things like the contrasting matte/glossy materials and round earpiece.</li>
<li>] The Snapdragon 800 SoC, LTE connectivity, and 802.11ac Wi-Fi are all nice speed upgrades from last year.</li>
<li>] KitKat is fast, sleek, helpful, and pretty</li>
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<h2>[WHY-NOT]<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0;">&nbsp;CONs</span></h2>
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<li>] Unspectacular battery life. You can kill the phone in six hours, but it will happily sit in a pocket all day without draining much.</li>
<li>] So-so storage speeds.</li>
<li>]&nbsp;he Moto X has a much more capable voice recognition system than Google's new flagship.</li>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<li>] NEW @&nbsp;<a href="http://www.google.com/nexus/5/?feature=ha-text-sem_bk-n5&amp;utm_source=ha&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=sem_bk&amp;utm_content=n5&amp;gclid=CKDwi8qyzroCFQR6KgodYXQAAA&amp;gclsrc=ds" target="_blank">google play</a>&nbsp;usa - 16 GB $349 32 GB $399</li>
<li>] USED @ ....</li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li>] 2013-11-15&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2>
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<h2>[HOW-TO]</h2>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li><strong>] <a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/nexus-5-review-flagship-hardware-for-half-the-price/" target="_blank">Review @ arstechnica</a>&nbsp;</strong><strong>by Ron Amadeo,Andrew Cunningham</strong></li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="/view/article?id=1795" target="_blank">nexus-5</a>&nbsp;- an overview of this model, list of features, reviews from multiple sources, analysis,&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="/view/article?id=1898" target="_blank">android 4.4 kitkat</a>&nbsp;- an overview of the mobile operating system on this phone, features, pros, cons, native apps &nbsp;and links to reviews, analysis&nbsp;&nbsp;and more ...</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">smartphone guide</span>&nbsp;-</li>
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