Month: March 2015

I know a thing or two about com­pro­mise — I bought a Nexus 5 a few months ago. It’s not the phone I want, but it’ll do. For now.

It’s been years since I bought some­thing that wasn’t the lat­est and great­est Nexus mod­el, but this time I think it was the right call. Like oth­er Android fans, I await­ed the an­nounce­ment of the Nexus 6 with every bit as much ex­cite­ment as the en­tire world does when it’s new-iPhone-time. (Yes, this is a thing peo­ple ac­tu­al­ly do for Nexus de­vices.)

I found my­self ut­ter­ly un­der­whelmed by Nexus 6. Price, size, bor­ing, etc. But I knew I need­ed a new phone, so I im­me­di­ate­ly or­dered the fan-favorite Nexus 5.

Continue read­ing “Compromise and Nexus 5: a re­view”