LG Electronics Nexus 5X 32 GB UK SIM-Free Android Smartphone - Black

Love it, bye bye Apple and Microsoft. I was always an Apple fan but at £600 I decided to see what was on offer, bear in mind I am all Apple it was a big thing for me to look elsewhere however I wanted something new, different. I am a gadget person, nuff said!I hate contract tie ins and aside from that you are cheaper buying a phone than suffering the extra cost of getting one on a 2 year tie in deal, and oh yes you do pay more you slaves to monthly contracts! Appreciate however not everyone can afford to do so when you want the latest and greatest handset out there.At £200 it was worth a punt, when it arrived I was immediately put off by how lightweight it was, of course it's plastic so it would be lighter than an iphone 6, HTC and so on. However I quickly liked how light it was. The build quality for the price you pay is not going to be equal to a £600 device however don't be put off. It's sturdy and the build is good.The screen is nice, clear and crisp. Swiping tapping is smooth, No delays and the screen does not get overly clouded with smudges.The finger print sensor was interesting, unlike most phones the sensor is on the back of the phone, however I really like it, when I pick up the phone my index finder is always at the back and a quick side over the sensor and it's unlocked. A good decision on the placement.Camera is solid, very clear images, 12mp rear camera and 5mp front, 4k video all mean it holds it's own against other more expensive units.Android is a solid operating system, in the phone market it's got a large share now than Apple, there will be differences in the apps you can get between the two however the popular and common apps are found on both.One of the best things about buying an android phone by Google is that updates are very swift and you always get the latest version of the OS right away.Buy yourself an expensive Samsung or HTC and it has been known that you will need to wait up to a year for the latest OS update. Why? Well other phone manufacturers tend to make Android their own by modifying and adding things to it, that is fine however when a new version comes out, such as Android Marshmallow they need to test it and modify it again to make sure it works with their handsets. Great having the Samsung Edge S7 with an out of date OS and you miss out on great new features. Older phones tend to miss out as they don't update them so you run a crazy old version.Google are to produce a name and shame list of the manufacturers still running very out dated Android software on their phones, it's actually pretty shocking how outdated some are. Not trying to put people off any particular brand, just appreciate that your phone itself is not a mark of how up to date the Operating System will be.Anyway, at 5.2 inches the screen is a good size, not to small and not stupidly big like the 6 inch screens which of course is personal preference.With a hexa-core processor and plenty ram it will perform well for a long time to come, I get near two days out of the battery, that is with constant alerts, reminders and some listening to the radio. The USB C connection is still relatively new and you will find it difficult putting your hands on a spare one lying around the house however it's the future so it will become common enough soon.I don't have any great music or file collection so 32GB is way more than I will ever need, if you are the same then 16GB is probably fine however the current pricing suggests you save nothing so as well to get the bigger storage as you cannot upgrade later.A fine phone overall and given the number of devices I have had I don't say that often.There are lots of other phones that are really good and cheaper, the flagship Wileyfox is a good phone for those on a tight budget, the One Plus is also a good effort. Unless they have a particular feature or design you want then I would suggest sticking to the Nexus, again these other phones use a modified version of Android such as Cyanogen. You might like it or you might not. It's more likely going to be something that will affect existing users of Android on phones or tablets other than new.

After dropping & smashing my Sony Xperia Z3 and foolishly buying a Z3+ (which was dreadful) I decided to return to my old favourites; the Nexus line of products. Having previously owned (and loved) a Nexus 4 and Nexus 5, I have to say this is the best Nexus handset I've used to date. The screen is the perfect size for me at 5.2", and although not LED assure you the colour reproduction and quality of images is superb. One point to note, I don't understand why Google push active display on a non-LED device, but that's not a big issue and can be alerted in the Marshmallow settings.The fingerprint sensor is lightening fast, rivaling if not out-shining my brother's iPhone 6 and hardly ever misses my print.The camera is easily the best of the Nexus lineup, sharing it's credentials with the highly acclaimed Nexus 6P. The images are sharp, well balanced and captured with ease, as is the 120fps slow motion video.32gb is adequate storage for a host of apps and games, considering photos, music and files can all be backed up to Google's numerous cloud offerings free of charge. Speaking of apps and games, I've experienced no stuttering or lagging whatsoever in the couple of weeks I've used this handset and find it blazingly fast with a nice clean Nova launcher setup as my home. Although a hex core with 2gb RAM seems pretty underpowered, the beautiful relative simplicity of stock Android Marshmallow requires nowhere near as flashy hardware as more complex and resource-heavy flagship devices.Stock Android needs no evaluation, leaps ahead of other sluggish manufacturer overlays such as TouchWiz, Sense, etc. and in my opinion far superior to any iOS based device I've yet to encounter.I can't recommend this phone enough, it absolutely suits my requirements and can see it doing so for a good couple of years as Google keep it first in line for the latest and greatest that Android has to offer.

I've had a Nexus 5 for quite a long time and I found the Nexus 5 to be a very flawless phone it works it's nice to use it's very fluid it's not buggy everything is extremely stable on the Nexus 5However in contrast to the Nexus 5X the opposite is true.In my short time with the phone I found it to be very slow very juddery it was also un-responsive at times s well as running extremely warm all the time in basic tasks like browsing the Internet.Regularly after short usage this phone would be incredibly warm to the touch making your hands sweaty and if you put the phone in your pocket it was easily warm your pocket and your leg up at the same time.This phone has 6 cores and on my phone I noticed that none of the cores ever went into the stop stay as they do on my Nexus 5, all the cores remained active and the CPU utilisation remind incredibly high when I wasn't asking the phone to do anything.I also had a lot of issues getting the notification light to work on the Nexus 5x.I also found some times when tapping the screen you had to tapped an application multiple times to get it to actually open.Finally with the fact that there is no wireless charging you get no more RAM in this phone means I don't think it's a worry upgrade to the Nexus 5.This phone uses the Snapdragon 808 processor this is also shared with the HTC M9 and weirdly that also overheats if you read the reviews as well so I think there might be an issue with that CPU chipset running extremely warm.I have return mine to Amazon as I find the performance very unacceptable