If I hated the galaxy s3 will I hate the note 3 or nexus 5 ( i have a 5s and love it

[Thomas card]

Ok now back to business , yes I understand apps must be optimized for 64 bit but there has to be a reason it's on par with quad core phones , I'm not knocking them phones just saying the 5s was shown to be faster than most wasn't it , man iv been thinking this 64 bit thing was king now I'm getting disappointed lol

 

[Six8]

Let's address the "poor viewing angles on the N5" lol!!

 

[Thomas card]

Let's address the "poor viewing angles on the N5" lol!!

Yea I heard poor viewing angles and a problem with video playback or something on the nexus 5 I read a lot of bad things about it actually , I'm not concidering that phone anymore I might check out a note 3 though

 

[Six8]

Yea I heard poor viewing angles and a problem with video playback or something on the nexus 5 I read a lot of bad things about it actually , I'm not concidering that phone anymore I might check out a note 3 though

Poor viewing angles on a 5" screen lol. Seriously, ppl complain about the stupidest crap.

 

[Thomas card]

Poor viewing angles on a 5" screen lol. Seriously, ppl complain about the stupidest crap.

The screen is beautiful but tilt it sideways alittle bit nd it blurs out or so I have read , I'm just going by what I read I haven't heals it yet . Lg actually addressed this in a statement saying it's something with the way they arranged the pixels and they wished they had went with the g2 screen setup

 

[Six8]

I'm using one now. I know what they say I just don't get it. Bad angle, maybe move your phone or your face lol. Idgi

 

[AppleRobert]

Let's address the "poor viewing angles on the N5" lol!!

I can easily give multiple reasons why I went with a Note 3 versus the N5.

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/compare/Samsung-Galaxy-Note-3,Google-Nexus-5/phones/7984,8148

Battery life and the camera are for starters.

 

[SlCKB0Y]

The screen is beautiful but tilt it sideways alittle bit nd it blurs out or so I have read

I'm sitting here with the Nexus 5 next to me and it has fantastic viewing angles.

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http://www.phonearena.com/phones/compare/Samsung-Galaxy-Note-3,Google-Nexus-5/phones/7984,8148

Phone Arena gave the Note 3 a 9/10 and the Nexus 5 a 9.5/10?

 

[blackhand1001]

I've had both of them phones and have now come back to the iPhone 5s. I first went to android as I enjoyed the customisation and flashing new roms but after a year it got boring and I like how everything seems more polished with iOS, considering the specs of those phones I can honestly say I haven't noticed a performance drop since I came back to the iPhone ( I don't play games tho)
In addition I began to hate having such a large device in my pocket. Stick with the iPhone, you know it makes sense!!!

The Moto X stock rom is pretty much perfect and needs nothing changed essentially. (excellent battery, butter smooth, low memory usage) Also the Moto X also about the same size as the iphone body wise. Have you tried that one out? If not you should. Probably one of the most underrated phones out there.

 

[Thomas card]

I can easily give multiple reasons why I went with a Note 3 versus the N5.

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/compare/Samsung-Galaxy-Note-3,Google-Nexus-5/phones/7984,8148

Battery life and the camera are for starters.

That's what I wanted to hear , so the camera is better on the note ?

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Is the verizon note 3 unlocked like the 5s from the factory ?

 

[pdqgp]

That's what I wanted to hear , so the camera is better on the note ?

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Is the verizon note 3 unlocked like the 5s from the factory ?

You be the judge. OIS is nice but overall, I've not had a problem with the note 3 and appreciate the added detail.

http://www.phonearena.com/reviews/Google-Nexus-5-vs-Samsung-Galaxy-Note-3_id3482/page/3

 

[AppleRobert]

I'm sitting here with the Nexus 5 next to me and it has fantastic viewing angles.

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Phone Arena gave the Note 3 a 9/10 and the Nexus 5 a 9.5/10?

I linked the chart to show the specs and differences, why I went with the Note 3 was my personal preferences regardless of any review site's ratings.

 

[daveathall]

My last iPhone was a iPhone 5, I sold it in favour of a SGS3, since then I have had a SGS4 a Nexus 4 and currently using a Nexus 5, I would not swap any of them for any generation of iPhone.

 

[DanBurns91]

I've had every iPhone since the iPhone 3G and like yourself tried a few android phones in between (galaxy s3, HTC one x, galaxy s4) and hated them all. However, I just used my girlfriends upgrade for a note 3 and gave her my iPhone 5s, I couldn't be happier. The note is brilliant, no lag, stutters or crashes. Samsung hasn't got the same theory as apple and optimisation, samsung just throw more specs at it to cope which seems to have worked.

 

[Dr McKay]

If you hated the Samsung custom UI, you will dislike the Note 3. It's an amazing device otherwise, and I've managed to hide most of the Touchwiz with a launcher, custom icons and replaced all the stock apps with 3rd party ones.

Nowadays I only get slapped in the face with touchwiz when I go into the settings app, or pull down the notification tray.

 

[blackhand1001]

Ok now back to business , yes I understand apps must be optimized for 64 bit but there has to be a reason it's on par with quad core phones , I'm not knocking them phones just saying the 5s was shown to be faster than most wasn't it , man iv been thinking this 64 bit thing was king now I'm getting disappointed lol

Its only on par with the snapdragon 800 in single threaded benchmarks. In benchmarks that use all 4 cores it gets smoked.



Also 64bit as proven in benchmarks both today and from the initial 64bit switch back in 2003 makes very little difference. It makes even less difference in real world performance.

Heres an actual cpu bound benchmark. As you can see the a7 is still quite a bit behind.

 

[SlCKB0Y]

That's what I wanted to hear , so the camera is better on the note ?

The Note 3 camera software has more options and the Note 3 camera is capable of higher quality video but the N5 has been vastly improved by software updates since the initial problems when it was first released.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/5/5175568/fixing-the-nexus-5-android-4-4-1-improves-camera

I've used Android since 2009 and I simply won't purchase a non-Nexus device these days. The minimalism of the OS, the fluidity and speed, timely updates and fantastic price are all overriding factors for and are things which will be valued by someone coming from iPhone.

I also much prefer the IPS display on Nexus when compared to the OLED. In every single aspect it is superior to the iPhone 5 screen for me.

 

[jaymzuk]

The screen is beautiful but tilt it sideways alittle bit nd it blurs out or so I have read , I'm just going by what I read I haven't heals it yet . Lg actually addressed this in a statement saying it's something with the way they arranged the pixels and they wished they had went with the g2 screen setup

The best thing you can do is just go to a store and use some. It sounds like you've done a lot of reading on the internet, and 90% of what you read will probably be irrelevant to your particular situation.

If you have an 5S and love it, then keep it. You'll lose less money in resale value and you'll have a phone that you're happy with.

The worst possible scenario is that you change handset and don't like it for whatever reason. Far too many people's complaints about handsets or OS's boils down to 'Mobile OS I don't like, and by extension all handsets running said OS, are garbage because I don't like said OS as much as I like my favourite OS'

Go try them. I flick between iPhones and Android phones as and when I choose because I've realised that the ecosystem argument is pure FUD, but both OS's are more than capable of what most people want them for: Social media, internet, games, photos and porn.

 

[The Game 161]

Of course you'll hate them you have already used a iPhone. If the only phone you ever knew to exist was a flip phone and and samsung then I'm sure you'd love the Samsung. But that's only when you don't know there is heaven on iOS.

heaven? haha

 

[rhinosrcool]

I linked the chart to show the specs and differences, why I went with the Note 3 was my personal preferences regardless of any review site's ratings.

But the user ratings were 9.6 for Note 3 users compared to 9.4 for Nexus 5. Nothing more definitive than that, right! Haha...

 

[Stuntman06]

If you are happy with the iPhone 5S (or in your own words, "love it"), I see no reason to switch phones. The 5S is fairly new. Unless there is something you are unhappy with about the 5S and the Nexus 5 can satisfy that need, I'd just stick with the 5S..

I have a Galaxy S3 and I was also tempted to get the Nexus 5. However, I decided to keep my GS3 even though it was over a year old because I was just really happy with my GS3.

 

[the caveman]

If I hated the galaxy s3 will I hate the note 3 or nexus 5 ( i have a 5s and ...

In every single aspect it is superior to the iPhone 5 screen for me.

Except for absolutely terrible viewing angles and light bleeding on nexus 5

 

[Shanghaichica]

Except for absolutely terrible viewing angles and light bleeding on nexus 5

The flagship android phones do have better screens than the iPhone 5/5S. My S4's screen is better than my 5S's, however the screen on my 5S is perfectly fine. It's crisp and clear with good colour saturation. I also don't see the point of having a 1080p display on a 4 inch screen.

 

[biohead]

Seriously, people complaining about these viewing angles on the Nexus 5 - have you ever used one? At around 70 degrees from centre, no matter which direction - its still perfectly clear. Why you'd ever be viewing from more than a 70 degree angle I don't know but if it does happen they'd clearly be a very limited scenarios. And this is a launch day handset - not some newer revision that's been changed.

I'm glad I swapped from the iPhone to the Nexus. Nice to see the little difference between the two as I'd been running iOS since 2.0 - it was getting stale for me. Hardware wise, I would say the N5 has a screen that's ever so slightly too large, and that the iPhone 5/5S is slightly too small. One thing that I would miss if I went back to the iPhone would be the wireless charging - I never thought it would be such a big point but its such a good concept and, personally, extremely useful.

 

[SlCKB0Y]

Except for absolutely terrible viewing angles and light bleeding on nexus 5

You really sound like someone who has never actually seen it OR saw a defective unit.. The viewing angles on mine are extremely good.