How many of these Nexus phones do you remember?

• Google Nexus phones had a rich history, with different manufacturers bringing Google’s vision to life.

• The Nexus One, built by HTC, was a capable smartphone but didn’t excel in competition.

• The Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, and Nexus 5 all offered unique features and brought the pure-Android experience to a wider market.

  • @TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19•6 months ago

    I miss the LED on the galaxy nexus. I had AOKP at the time and could customize it to be pretty much any color I wanted. I had a different color per app that would notify me.

    • @cheetEnglish
      12•6 months ago

      Yeah I’m still not over losing my notification led either. Was a staple of the android experience imo

    • dinckelEnglish
      5•6 months ago

      I really used to enjoy these, especially when it had rgb capability. Could customize a bunch of apps to have their own light. But to be fair, now that always-on displays are so widespread, I don’t miss it as much

  • @GarytheSnail@programming.devEnglish
    12•6 months ago

    Nexus 5 was so 🔥🔥.

    I miss mine tbh. Back when all the Google shit actually worked well, like Google Now. That was SO good. It told me exactly what I needed to know.

    • @nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.caEnglish
      7•6 months ago

      Nexus 5 was the best deal on a phone I’ve ever had. If it had a better battery and camera it would have been perfect.

  • @hitmyspot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10•6 months ago

    I still miss the fingerprint reader on the back of the Nexus 5x. And CyanogenMod added the ability to swipe it to see notification shade which was great.

    The position is just a natural place to place your finger when holding a phone so the unlock was more automatic rather than a deliberate action being required.

    • @DannyMac@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6•6 months ago

      Yeah, dedicated fingerprint readers were so nice. On-screen readers are slow, require you to look to align your finger, and unreliable since the thumb gets most of the abuse. Also, I usually have to press the power button when taking my phone out of my pocket to wake it up to bother to scan my thumb. Sometimes, I will be perfectly aligned on the reader and nothing happens… Until I pick up my finger and then it activates the reader and scolds me for moving my finger too fast. These are just neat tech demos, one step forward for the tech, but two steps back for functionality.

      I’m afraid we’ll never see separate fingerprint readers again since it puts the cost and manufacturing burden on the screen manufacturers.

  • dinckelEnglish
    5•6 months ago

    The Nexus One was such an insane device back then. It was comfortable, the display was awesome, it was fast, and both the trackball and the buttons were a considerable improvement over the HTC Hero. Sometimes I still want to get myself one as a memorabilia piece, but they were really hard to get even at launch, let alone so many years later

  • LCPEnglish
    3•6 months ago

    I miss my Nexus 4 :( Loved everything about it.

    Took it to the beach like an idiot and killed it.

    I had the 8 GB version and it was madness. I would have to keep clearing cache from apps every week. Rooting it and installing custom ROMs on it was fun.

    Before that, my dad had the Nexus One. It was kinda slow.