Nexus 5 With Android 4.4 and Snapdragon 800 Challenges Apple A7 In Benchmarks

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One of the hallmark features of Google's Nexus 5 flagship smartphone by LG isn't its bodaciously big 5-inch HD display, its 8MP camera, or its "OK Google" voice commands. That has all been done before. What does stand out about the Nexus 5 is Google's new Android 4.4 Kit Kat OS and LG's SoC (System on Chip) processor of choice (http://hothardware.com/News/Google-Nexus-5-Super-Fast-Android-Phone-Challenges-iPhone-5s-In-Benchmarks/), namely Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 quad-core. Qualcomm is known for licensing ARM core technology and making it their own; and Qualcomm's latest Krait 400 quad-core along with the Adreno 330 GPU that comprise the Snapdragon 800, is a powerful beast. Google also has taken the scalpel to Kit Kat in all the right places, whittling down the overall footprint of the OS, so it's more efficient on lower-end devices and also offers faster multitasking. Specifically memory usage has been optimized in a number of areas. Couple these OS tweaks with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 and you end up with a smartphone that hugs the corners and lights 'em up on the straights. Putting the Nexus 5 through its paces (http://hothardware.com/News/Google-Nexus-5-Super-Fast-Android-Phone-Challenges-iPhone-5s-In-Benchmarks/), it turns out preliminary figures are promising. In fact, the Nexus 5 actually was able to surpass the iPhone 5s with Apple's 64-bit A7 processor in a few tests and goes toe to toe with it in gaming and graphics."Ars Technica has a similarly positive view of the hardware aspects of the phone, dinging it slightly for its camera but otherwisefinding little to fault (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/nexus-5-review-flagship-hardware-for-half-the-price/).

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