Tech specs wreck: Details of Google's Nexus 5 smartphone leaked over internet A leaked manual for Google's next flagship phone, the Nexus 5, shows a filled-out screen, a faster CPU, more memory and full 4G support, but no shocks, in the ongoing evolution of Android. The manual, leaked to Android Police, is an engineering tome packed with technical specifications and debug procedures, enough to show that …
Well, the guy that leaked that won't stay is his job for long (or shouldn't do). That's a serious failure in security. One does wonder whether he/she has actually broken the law as well.
As for the phone - well, doesn't take a rocket engineer to figure bigger screen, wireless charging, faster CPU and bigger RAM.
>Everyone already knew it was pretty much a re-hash of the LG G2.
The G2 has some nice features... none that would cause people to go 'Wow!, but nice nonetheless, such as the screen that saves the GPU power (although others use this too), the bi-wiring that saves on bezel space, and the high definition audio playback. The LG G2 seems to have suffered (in terms of media exposure) from being the 4th entry to a race that already included the S4, HTC One, and Sony Z variants.
You're right Phil... I don't have one. But I've had the GS2, GS3 and have daily access to the GS4... Touchwiz is 'orrible, compared to stock OS (I'm talking design not features) Also, if you take Samsung's ROm off off and flash a stock Android 4.x ROM, both the S3 and S4 are much quicker and smoother. Samsung must code their overlay in Visual Basic or something.... Plus it's nice to have quick access to Google Now, one of the best software innovations in years, but surprise surprise Samsung make it harder to access.
....What's your problem with 'swipe up' Samsung...?
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Try NoLED. It puts notification symbols on your screen that tell you what kind of notification it is (e.g. e-mail arriving for a particular account, txt message, etc). These are customisable for colour and symbol set. You can set it to supress the screen display if the case cover is closed and set 'quiet times'.
For the sake of comparison, I went n900->xperia mini pro (which was awful)->xperia pro
I couldn't live without the physical keyboard. Even with the screen size of these latest phones, the lack of tactile feedback from a screen just confuses my fingers. It's a failing. If I could get some sort of clip-on bluetooth keyboard that suppressed the on-screen keyboard I'd switch in a heartbeat.
OK I'm fairly sure I have the right leaked service manual in front of me and i can see "16Gb(SDRAM DDR2)" which I'm quite certain is wrong, unless they are using 14Gb of it for the baseband, which would be wasteful.
One thing I particularly appreciate is they list how many bars in the signal strength == what dBm.
I would paste the table here but I'm sure that would draw the ire of the moderator.
I for one salute LG for there attempt at ending the bullshit that is random uncalibrated signal strength meters, and I shall be happy in the knowledge that if I am ever using LTE and have 4 bars I have better than -85dBm±3dBm signal strength.
So does my HTC 8X windows phone.
Must say I prefer the Nexus pale grey light though.
Then again as soon as this is availabel my mint nexus 4 and the HTC will be sold to but the 5......
Also notice no mention of the camera in the article that most others are making a big thing about being miles better than not only the current Nexus but pretty much anything else out there.....
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/nexus-5-lytro-like-mems-camera-outed-in-leaked-files-1185946
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/124145-nexus-5-details-leak-in-service-manual-32gb-storage-8mp-ois-camera
>Also notice no mention of the camera in the article that most others are making a big thing about being miles better than not only the current Nexus but pretty much anything else out there.....
The two links you gave contradict each other. The first says it's a MEMS camera with no OIS, the second one says it has OIS and doesn't mention MEMS. The second one sounds more likely but that doesn't say it's miles better than anything else! It's got OIS - could be nice but not ground breaking.
> One can be certain that engineers from every other phone manufacturer are already delighting in the insights offered.
This is the type of thing that every other phone manufacturer will ban their engineers from seeing.
Any manufacturer that solves the problems in similar way to LG and had their engineers look at this could find themselves at the wrong of a losing lawsuit.
Any company that was really interested would buy one and take it apart? What have LG lost really? Nothing. They have the interwebz talking about the Nexus 4 2013 model, and that's what really matters.
In fact I wouldn't be surprised it this was the latest form of "phone found in bar", which got old a while back.
It seems that Google is, like Apple, realizing that the best way to know what everybody is doing all of the time is to not allow storage upgrades. You can't have people downloading OpenStreetMap databases and breaking Google's realtime tracking and marketing analysis. You can't have people loading their phone up with music files or you don't know what people are listening to. You certainly can't have people storing images and videos in their phone because then you don't know who they're with. Send it to the cloud, process it, and see how far you can push the "creepy line."
Utter tripe/. You know Nexus phones have EXTERNAL storage right? Sure it might not be removable, but it's accessible like a SD card, so you can copy music and OSM databases to it just fine.
Just another idiot that's ranting without realising what an idiot he is making of himself. I guess you bought a Samsung and are pissed that a Nexus4 is half the price and twice as good?
Guys, just 4 years ago was when the first mainstream quad-cores made it to market. Back then 2.3 ghz meant a hefty cooling fan.
Nowadays they're in a phone (I understand the exaggeration but bear with me).
So have we got successful parallelism that so plagued early x86 code to make the most of the extra cores?
Is parallelism handled differently on ARM and is easier to leverage?
At the end of the day I recall from the x86 camp that twice the cores!=twice the power. How is it on ARM and Android?
(Funnily enough the phone's specs albeit with a little more RAM has been the "good - enough" setup that slowed pc sales down the last 5 years).
Still surprised Motorola are not making the Nexus for Google.
tbh I preferred the previous Samsung Nexus. the LG version does not seem as responsive, I don't like the glass back seems bulkier and you can't put it down without it sliding off, and the battery is poor, my Samsung nexus would last 36 hours the LG sometimes only manages 18 hours.. (My usage has not changed.) and without a removable battery, that is very poor.
I'm tempted to swap back..(if the wife will go with it...) and If google cant be arsed to make decent nexus's I may end up considering a non-nexus like the htc one.. but I really hate the operator OS modifications with slow/poor updates.
"One can be certain that engineers from every other phone manufacturer are already delighting in the insights offered."
I'm going to give you a caution there.
Everyone knows how litigious this business can be.
If it could ever be shown that engineers had in fact read such a contraband manual, LG & Google would OWN the manufacturer involved, and all their products, in court.
I don't think it will it. I'm sure that engineers will be told to stay well clear of it. Companies do not want any hint, even the slightest, that they used a competitors information as it would provide ammunition in court cases. They will reverse engineer stuff that the public can get hold of, but they can't short cut the design by using the manual - the lawyers will be saying no.
Sorry to sound like a spoilsport but there is nothing, *nothing* that any known handset manufacturer doesn't already know.
If a maker found any new knowledge in there then they are behind the curve by some years.
And as for the intel value of knowing the competition's products before launch, any half decent marketing department would have worked it out from its market intelligence.
So, to the makers at least, this is a non story.
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