for the past few weeks we've been seeing
product releases from all the big
hitters Microsoft Apple Amazon and now
it looks like Google wants in on that
action on Thursday Google announced the
release of the new Nexus 5 it's the
biggest screen yet in the Nexus phone
line and of course we've got it on our
teardown table so let's jump right in
hi I'm Gwendolyn with iFixit and today
we're looking at Google's brand new
Nexus 5 maintaining the Nexus is
no-nonsense sleek and minimal design the
new Nexus measures in at 137 point 84
millimeters by 69 point 17 and is eight
point five nine millimeters thick the
Nexus 5 weighs in at 130 grams the
screen is up from the Nexus 4's 4.7 inch
to an impressive four point nine five
inch full HD IPS panel with a resolution
of 1920 by 1080 and a pixel density of
445 pixels per inch opening the device
was a nice change of pace for us this
time
after the slew of tablets we've been
tearing down we were extremely happy to
give our eye-opener a break and get into
the Nexus 5 the old fashioned wave with
just an opening tool plastic clips
instead of glue makes us very happy
campers oh no we may have spoken too
soon we found a tad bit of adhesive at
the bottom of the phone but our opening
pick makes quick work of that and we're
in on our way to the battery we got our
first look at the Nexus 5's wireless
charging pad this is a great feature
that allows you to charge your phone
without using those pesky charging
cables this battery is a three point
eight volt 2300 milliamp hour battery
that Google is claiming will give you 17
hours of talktime 300 hours of standby
or seven hours of LTE web browsing
fortunately for us Google use the bare
minimum of adhesive for holding the
battery in place making it easy enough
to remove while still holding it in
securely Thank You Google with the
battery out we turn our attention to the
motherboard with the twist of our spider
the motherboard comes right out attached
to the motherboard is a wireless
charging control and NFC board
interestingly enough this daughterboard
is serving dual duty acting as an emi
shield as well the Nexus 5 has been
given lots of upgrades starting with the
Snapdragon 800 2.26 Giga
processor we also see that the five is
capable of 802 11 AC thanks to this
Broadcom chip and while the nexus 4 did
not officially support LTE it looks like
the Nexus 5 will thanks to this Qualcomm
chip when we get all the way down to the
front panel we're sad to see that Google
is back to its Nexus for bad habit of
fusing the LCD to the front glass it's
such high hopes for you Nexus 5 we've
come to the end of our teardown which
means it's time to talk repairability
and iFixit it's our mission to teach
people how to repair everything so we
give every gadget we tear down a repair
ability score between 1 and 10 10 being
the easiest to repair and 1 being the
most difficult the next is 5 got a 8 out
of 10 and here's why on the upside the
modular design allows for independent
replacement of several we're prone
components there's only mild adhesive
holding the battery in place making it
fairly easy to remove and replace
standardized screws simplify repairs and
reassembly and the one and only major
downside is the glass and LCD are fused
to the display frame fixing broken glass
will be either expensive or very
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