Nexus 5 and its royal system Android 4.4 "quietly" came to us on November 1, and this time the "Five Princes" had a strong momentum of listing, deeply implementing the idea of "not engaging in futures", which was launched in Hong Kong immediately on the day of release. We also got the Hong Kong version of the Nexus 5 at the first time. Without much gossip, we will start to experience it immediately.

Unpacking

The packaging style of the Nexus 5 is similar to that of the Nexus 7 2013 version. It also uses blue as the main color, which is obviously different from the Nexus 4 last year ▼

Packaging back ▼

Peel off the blue outside and there is a layer of white carton inside ▼

Continue to open and you can see the true image of Nexus 5 ▼

There are accessories and instructions on the lower layer of the package. The accessories are very simple, only the power adapter (charging current 1.2A), USB data cable and card needle ▼

The stylus has a special shape, and the pinhole of the Nexus 5 is much smaller than that of ordinary mobile phones, so pay special attention not to forcibly insert the stylus of other mobile phones into the Nexus 5 ▼

There is a hard protective film ▼ on the front of Nexus 5

Exciting Moment ▼

The protection is in place, and there are soft protection stickers ▼ around the border

The front of Nexus 5 is a 4.95-inch 1080P screen ▼

The earpiece on the top is also very special. The earpiece on the white body is also white, which looks a bit abrupt. There is a 1.3 million pixel front camera on the left, and a light sensor and distance sensor ▼ on the right

The black edge around the screen does not show ▼

The back is made of white matte material. Many netizens laugh that the back of the Nexus 5 looks like soap, while the exaggerated camera shape and the white back cover also seem a bit disharmonious ▼

Nexus 5 uses an 8 megapixel camera with OIS optical anti shake, which is also the strongest Nexus mobile phone with camera ▼

The Nexus logo on the back is striking ▼

The top of the body is a 3.5mm headphone jack. From this angle, it can be seen that the frame is made of bright plastic material ▼

At the bottom is microUSB interface, speaker, microphone ▼

The key adopts the wire drawing process ▼

On the right side of the fuselage is the key switch and SIM card slot ▼

Compared with the Nexus 4 of the previous generation, due to the increase of the screen size, the fuselage looks longer ▼ than the Nexus 4

The design style of the back is quite different. The Nexus 4 is a piece of glass with dazzling silver squares, while the Nexus 5 is much more low-key. In addition, the speakers are also changed from the back to the bottom of the body ▼

Android 4.4

As a "pro son" series, Nexus 5 has used the latest Android 4.4 system without mercy. Its interface and functions have changed a lot compared with Android 4.3. First, the icons of many system applications have been changed from the launcher. The notice bar and virtual key bar also become transparent, and the icon of the notice bar becomes white ▼

Launcher management, more gorgeous than ever ▼

The secondary menu is still maintained, and the icon is much larger than before ▼

The drop down column does not change much ▼

Multi task management is the same as before ▼

System setting, mainly gray ▼

System version Android 4.4 ▼

The Android 4.4 egg, code named Kitkat, is finally not the jelly bean

Cloud Printing Service ▼

NFC payment ▼

The port version Nexus 5 supports FDD-LTE. In addition, CDMA support that many users expect cannot be realized on the port version Nexus 5 ▼

Since China Unicom has no preset configuration file, the new function "mobile package" cannot be used normally ▼

Cell broadcast setting ▼

You can select the default SMS application. In Android 4.4, Huanchat has been integrated with SMS ▼

The new Emoji input method is a bit cute, and I can't stand it

Dial Panel ▼

Ring chat has integrated the system's SMS ▼

Photographing interface ▼

Finally, let's mention the compatibility of Android 4.4. During a short trial run, some third-party applications of the Nexus 5 will automatically jump out (it will be normal after restarting), while the BSPlayer frequently used by the editor will appear a strange phenomenon of black screen ▼

performance

The Nexus 5 uses the current mainstream high-end processor Snapdragon 800 2.3GHz, and how will it perform with 2G Ram?

According to the evaluation of An Tu Tu, the score run was amazing. After several attempts, it was between 24000 and 25000, which was totally inconsistent with the normal level of Snapdragon 800. I believe this is also due to the tradition of frequency reduction in parent-child series ▼

GFXBench 2.7.2， The result is not very good. Although it is not as terrible as Anthuru, it cannot reach the average level of 800 pairs of Snapdragons ▼

3DMark, performance is still average ▼

Basemark X， Finally, one figure scored "can see", and Xiao Bian was moved for a long time ▼

Sunspider 1.0.2， The result is acceptable, but the high frequency in a short time is barely maintained ▼

How serious is the frequency reduction of the Nexus 5? Let's use the frequency detection application trepn to export data (test environment: body cooling, using SetCPU to lock the frequency at 2.3GHz, running the CPU test part of rabbit) ▼

It can be seen from the figure that the frequency of CPU0 is relatively stable, but it can not maintain high frequency for a long time. In just a few seconds, it is reduced from 2.3GHz to 1.5GHz, and even only 1.19GHz at the end. It can be seen that the Nexus 5 still inherits the excellent frequency reduction tradition of the Nexus 4. Of course, in the future, we can greatly improve this problem by brushing the third-party kernel and changing the threshold.

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summary

From this hands-on experience, the performance of the Nexus 5 is still in line with our expectations. Although its appearance design may not be popular with many users, and its workmanship may be a bit "economical", after all, it is a product with the aura of "pro son". The original latest version of Android and excellent fluency really give it a lot of points. In terms of configuration, Nexus 5 is very powerful, but the official kernel obviously cannot play the power of Snapdragon 800. Maybe we can only expect the third-party kernel to "pull the plug" on Nexus 5. In terms of photographing, the Nexus 5 uses an optical anti shake lens, so the effect is much better than that of previous Nexus series phones. We will also test the characteristics of the Nexus 5 in the detailed evaluation.

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