[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bitdomo:
By specs galaxy s5 have to be faster, since it has the newer snapdragon 801 it is locked to a higher frequency than snapdragon 800 by default. Both has the same gpu, adreno 330. I know the gpu in nexus 5 is at 450 MHz. But MHz and newer hardware does not means that you will feel faster the galaxy s5 or the nexus 5 than the other device. The term "fast" can mean so many things. It could mean faster webbrowsing, boot up time, opening apps, doing tests with float numbers, camera shoots between pictures and etc. But speed does not rely on better hardware. Let's the android os is not well optimased on galaxy s5, or tne camera software, or the samsung browser, or the touchwiz framework. You would see the galaxy s5 slower than nexus 5, even if galaxy s5 has better hardware specs. In short, better hardware does not means that everything is faster.

In theory, if nexus 5 and galaxy s5 would have the most well optimased android os, drivers and softwares then galaxy s5 will be faster, but would you notice the fastness? No.

You said that you do not really care about tha camera. S5 has 13 MPixel camera and has no OIS, while N5 has a 8 Mpixel camera with OIS. Btw I think both devices makes really stunning photos.

I cant really speak about the sound quality on speaker, because I could not test in on S5, but I have heard that people are complaining about S5 speaker because it has a membrane which gives water restiance to the phone, but makes the sound more muffled compared to S4. Nexus 5 has just an ordenary speaker by sound quality. Since you listen to music I have to assume that you will use headphones more often instead of the speaker. I have to say that the sound quality through headphones on nexus 5 are impressing. I use a stock galaxy s4 mini headphones.

From music we get to storage.

Nexus 5 does not have sd card slots. It has 12 gb (16GB version) or 26 (?)(32 GB version), while galaxy s5 has sdcard slot supporting up to 128 GB sdcards. If you that kind of persone who stores all his/her music on the phone, then make chose 32Gb version of nexus5 or galaxy s5 with sdcard slot.

Move on to features.

Galaxy s5 has planty of features which nexus 5 does not have. Like fingure print scanner, multiwindow, pulse measure, air gestures and many others I could not remember.

Galaxy s5 has 2800 mAh battery while nexus 5 has 2300 mAh battery. I cant tell how long can a galaxy s5 survive a day with that extra 500mAh. For me my nexus 5 survives the whole day, from 8 am to evening 8 pm the goes between 20-30%. I normaly surfing on the web on 3G data and wathcing a few yt videos when there some Open wifi hotspots. Surfing the web on 3g or 2g are more power hungry than on wifi. I cant speak of LTE since my operator ask for extra money to allow me to connect to LTE network.

Battery usage depends what do you do on your phone and how well the OS is optimased.

Consider my following words about root and custom roms.

S5 has Knox, if you root or flash custom rom a warranty void flag will set from 0 to 1 which means you lost your warranty and samsung will not repair your phone under warranty even if your phone clearly have a hardware issue. That flag cannot be reseted when it gets changed.

About nexus 5. I am sure if you buy your n5 from any google playstore or from offical retails in EU you will not void your warranty even if you have root, custom android and unlocked bootloader. If you buy it from somewhere else I cant guarantee that your device will be fixed under warranty if you have custom android, root, and bl unlocked, but you can lock your bl anytime and reset that tamper flag anytime you want.

Bootloader can be unlocked easily on nexus 5 because it is meant to be like that, while for galaxy s5 samsung tries everything to make hard to unlock your bl.

About android update.

The reasone I chose nexus 5 is the fact that nexus devices are the firsts which gets an android update. it takes time for samsung to implement the new android os and port touchwiz to the newest android and if you bought your s5 from carrier then that can add some extra time for the upgrade because carriers have to implement their carrier apps to the newest android and etc. A carrier can also deny to upgrade their carrier devices to be updated. On the nexus side, carriers cannot add their apps or deny the update. There is no carrier variant nexus devices and allow them are sim unlocked.

Galaxy S5 has removeable back cover and battery while nexus 5 does not. Nexus 5 has support for wireless chagging while on s5 you have to buy the wireless charger backcover.

I dont really like the design of S5, the shiny fake chromed midframe, but I have to tell that it looks much better in real life than on pictures and the back cover has a nice soft material.

I like more the black nexus 5, it looks more serious and elegant for me, but this is my own opinion.

I advace you to try nexus 5 and galaxy s5 before you make your choice.

Check these videos:

Galaxy S5 Review: "All You Need To Know": http://youtu.be/kDTMYsFnM-8

Nexus 5 Review: All You Need To Know: http://youtu.be/qSDI4u2Yq7g

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