“I feel about my phone the way horror-movie ventriloquists feel about their dummies: It's smarter than me, better than me, and I will kill anyone who comes between us.”
Yes, we have come far from where we started and No, it hasn't been that long. Yes, our phones have become part of our lives and No, it isn't because we are materialistic fools. There is perhaps no other way in which technology has touched our lives as directly as the revolutionary change in mobile phones has. Today, a smartphone encompasses all our needs of worldly entertainment from listening to the radio to watching movies, keeping in touch with the match score to clicking candid photographs with our loved ones- Smartphones know it all.
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| The evolution of the phone: getting smart (Source) |
Yes, we have come far from where we started and No, it hasn't been that long. Yes, our phones have become part of our lives and No, it isn't because we are materialistic fools. There is perhaps no other way in which technology has touched our lives as directly as the revolutionary change in mobile phones has. Today, a smartphone encompasses all our needs of worldly entertainment from listening to the radio to watching movies, keeping in touch with the match score to clicking candid photographs with our loved ones- Smartphones know it all.
And what’s more? This is one dimension of technology that is repeatedly teaching us one of the basic fundamentals of life- evolution. It all started when Google gave the world the Android and look at where we are now. Smartphone brands over the world are throwing in tremendous innovations every other day, leaving us, the consumers spoilt for choice. Last month only, I was faced with choosing a smartphone for my Dad and the dilemma while doing so was more complex than ‘Inception’ J. What really poses problems is the clash of similar specs between models of different brands when choosing a phone. There aren’t really any deal-closing features on them and so one is just left for the want of something more.
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| The all new LG NEXUS 5X (Source) |
It is times like these that the true champs finally come up with the big guns. As we like to call it playfully-
“baap baap hota hai aur beta beta”
Google, the founding father, the ‘baap’ of Android phones, has come up with a talismani new model – THE LG NEXUS 5x, to crush the competition in the higher end segment of the market. And this time, we are in for a real show with the Oh so awesome features and distinguished specs on this device.
The device has a 5.2-inch display and runs on a hexa-core Snapdragon 808 processor with 2 GB RAM. The key features include a USB Type-C to charge, On Tap features, Doze Mode and a bunch of other supercool ones, thrown in to enhance your user experience.
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The top three of these however, taking into account the variegated usage requirements of a customer like you and me, would surely be these-
1-The Stock Android 6 Marshmallow experience featuring Nexus Imprint:
With Google having given a No-No to partnering with various OEMs in launching Google Edition devices, the NEXUS devices may very well be your final resort for getting a stock android experience. And with the Android 6 Marshmallow, things do get pretty awesome on this front. Also on this device, the user would get the fastest software and security updates making sure that he/she always has the freshest environment on the device.
Another ace in the hole is the Nexus Imprint which learns more about your fingerprint over time, so your phone safety gets faster and more secure the more it’s used. Courtesy of this, the OS can be used across the system, securing the device, and authorizing payments. This Nexus Imprint feature is lightning fast, and has a response time of less than 600ms.
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| The nexus Imprint feature on the back of the LG Nexus 5X (Source) |
But having just the Nexus Imprint isn’t something that would keep the LG NEXUS 5x ahead of the competition. With its massive applicability and liking, it is poised to become a standard feature on many future Android phones too. But just like Frodo and Sam make and impeccable duo, this feature coupled with a stock android experience is what brings the rings home.
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2- A powerful camera to lighten up your low-lit memories:
This month, we, the big beautiful family of ours, have decided to visit our town in Dushehra to see the Dushehra fair after 5 years. No doubt, there would be moments all of us would likely cherish and there would be moments that we would want to keep with us forever.
Few shots in low light and daylight taken on the LG NEXUS 5X (Source)
But no matter what you have heard, the pictures that you may take at a night-fair are only as good as the feeble prints you remember by memory. At times like those, you just wish you had a camera on your phone that could lighten up those low-lit moments of your life. Now as you make that wish, the LG NEXUS genie hears you and so it incorporates a 12.3 megapixel primary sensor with a pixel size of 1.55 microns. Courtesy of this, the camera can capture more light to facilitate taking pictures in poor light conditions and can give you surprisingly vivid and vibrant shots.
Also, when you reach to the top of the giant swing and want to capture the scenes and the screams from there, you can make use of the 4K video recording capability of the phone that can take 120 fps slow motion footage. So when you return home and look at the video, you will get to know who among all the cousins was the most scared stiff when the wheel suddenly stopped while you were at the top J.
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| The 1.55 μm pixel sized primary camera with 4k video record capability (Source) |
Now, if you really look good enough multiple times a day so as to take selfies using your phone or if you are a forever alone sort of personality and your phone is your only refuge, the 5 megapixel front camera is a haven for you, capturing detailed pictures along with the freedom of taking group selfies.
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| Taking cool selfies on the LG NEXUS 5X |
3- Doing away with the bloatware:
Putting in alluring features one after the other in a phone might look like a nice idea at first but sometimes, it’s not what you put in but what you throw out that counts in making the environment truly classy. With the LG NEXUS 5X, Google has put in a calm mind to the user experience and what actually a customer wants in a phone. And so, it has done away with a lot of bloatware that usually accompanies Android phones and some of which also resided in the earlier Nexus phones.
The LG NEXUS 5x comes with fewer Google apps installed out of the box and includes pretty much the optimum combination only. Also, over a quarter apps on the device are post set-up and so they can be easily uninstalled.
Among all the features that this talismani smartphone has to boast of, I personally find this one the most alluring and deal-closing in the context of user experience available to a high-level user.
Apart from these top three features, Google is throwing in some bundled offers with the device that includes a 90-day free subscription to Google Play Music All Access and a $50 Google Play Credit (in US only). There is another extended warranty scheme for 2 years which can be availed by spending an extra 69$ with the device. The warranty covers mechanical breakdown apart from accidental damage.
All this and more makes up in making the LG NEXUS 5X a dream smartphone for any kind of user requirement and the device seems to be a major improvement over the Motorola-made Google Nexus 6. It looks like this device will recapture the markets soon enough and would be able to crush the competition in its high end device segment.
The only thing left to do is to experience the NEXUS 5x in all its glory, sitting on the palm of my hand. And to realize this dream, I am participating in the#ChampIsBack activity at BlogAdda. Hope that this time, I win and grab this talismani smartphone soon enough.
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