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by sannee
2606 days ago
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The soft plastic casing definitely cracks easily. On the other hand it does not fail catastrophically. I have dropped my Nexus 5 on the floor more times than I can count and while it has miniature cracks around the button/power connector it's nothing that prevents the phone from working. |
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So my two complete failures due to the crack were not "catastrophic" then?
The case cracking is common, and those two failures were common enough: most users would consider the phone uneconomic to fix, and not everyone has my tenacity or skill to waste time fixing their phone.
I also think it was that phone where the flash slowed enough to make it barely usable.
Back on topic.
The only Nexus I have had that hasn't had a problem was a Samsung Nexus 10 (still goes, but stuck on insecure Android 5.1).
The only Samsung phone I have had was the original Galaxy Nexus, which was still going when I gave it away last year. It's problems were: 1. screen burnin (OLED) and 2. Google didn't release Android 4.4 (due to TI dropping OMAP4 support?) even though 4.4 came out within 2 years. That phone cost more than an iPhone 4. My colleagues got iPhone 4 phones at the same time, and they got updates for twice as long and their phones remained useful for far longer.
So my experience with Samsung hardware has been good. I have always avoided buying Samsung because I hate their modified Android versions and lack of updates.