Iphone 5 vs Nexus 5
iPhone 5 or Nexus 5
A huge argument in the smartphone industry is the debate as to whether Android or iOS is superior. This debate can lead to heated arguments and even using colorful language. A good comparison of smartphones is to compare the Google Nexus 5 to the Apple iPhone 5. Although the iPhone 5 has great features, the Nexus 5 is superior in various ways because of the freedom to control your own devices software, ease of use for media formats, and hardware specifications. Google’s Android software that runs on the Nexus 5 is the stock version that all Android phones use without any added themes or bloatware the individual manufacturers add. The Nexus 5 always has the latest version of Android just as the iPhone always has their current latest software. The Nexus 5 has the ability to be themed and made to have any custom look you desire to have. There’s plenty of free software that allow you to customize every aspect of the software which include a plethora of custom launchers, custom icons and even custom themes that change the entire layout of the software. The iPhone 5 on the other hand only allows you to arrange your icons into folders and that’s about all the customizing you get. iPhone 5 doesn’t allow any custom launchers or custom icons to be installed. The Google Nexus 5 is also extremely media format friendly, while the iPhone 5 is very limited as to what media formats it can use. Google Nexus 5 can play every popular media format which include mp3, mp4, ogg, and flac to name a few. The video formats the Google Nexus 5 also supports every popular video format which include avi, mkv, m4v and mov amongst plenty others ("Google Play", 2012). The Apple iPhone 5 is limited to using their proprietary media formats which is very restrictive. In order to use other formats, the user must have Apple’s iTunes installed on their computer and use that to convert the media to Apple’s proprietary format which includes a great amount of time depending on the
A huge argument in the smartphone industry is the debate as to whether Android or iOS is superior. This debate can lead to heated arguments and even using colorful language. A good comparison of smartphones is to compare the Google Nexus 5 to the Apple iPhone 5. Although the iPhone 5 has great features, the Nexus 5 is superior in various ways because of the freedom to control your own devices software, ease of use for media formats, and hardware specifications. Google’s Android software that runs on the Nexus 5 is the stock version that all Android phones use without any added themes or bloatware the individual manufacturers add. The Nexus 5 always has the latest version of Android just as the iPhone always has their current latest software. The Nexus 5 has the ability to be themed and made to have any custom look you desire to have. There’s plenty of free software that allow you to customize every aspect of the software which include a plethora of custom launchers, custom icons and even custom themes that change the entire layout of the software. The iPhone 5 on the other hand only allows you to arrange your icons into folders and that’s about all the customizing you get. iPhone 5 doesn’t allow any custom launchers or custom icons to be installed. The Google Nexus 5 is also extremely media format friendly, while the iPhone 5 is very limited as to what media formats it can use. Google Nexus 5 can play every popular media format which include mp3, mp4, ogg, and flac to name a few. The video formats the Google Nexus 5 also supports every popular video format which include avi, mkv, m4v and mov amongst plenty others ("Google Play", 2012). The Apple iPhone 5 is limited to using their proprietary media formats which is very restrictive. In order to use other formats, the user must have Apple’s iTunes installed on their computer and use that to convert the media to Apple’s proprietary format which includes a great amount of time depending on the