it's true, also saying it had google cast was a BIG misunderstanding it could like play some audio content from a cloud hosted queue which is not the same at all
That thing was an iconic design in a world where Apple’s iPhones are the only other standard. For the next several years, you could find the Nexus 5 in every piece of media that needed a standard “phone” in it.
This generation of nexus basically made google camera what it is today. At launch photos from an 8 MP camera with a basic app were pretty bad even at the time, but a few months after, Google released the first Google Camera app with enchanced photo processing and HDR. Overnight it became one of the best phones for photos. Pixels photography lineage stems from Nexus 5. Nexus 5 was in all the app screenshot mockups for so many years, and even now it's used from time to time. The front with the bowing top and bottom edges, really thin bezels, coloured round speaker, and an RGB notification light at the bottom is so iconic. And don't forget that it was one of the first phones with a 1080p display, and had a magnetic alignment for Qi charging in 2014. FLAC support made it a great music player, and this was the time android went from Dalvik to ART! Oh, and there also was Cardboard, which was a cheap way to experience 360 videos and some basic VR with your phone. Google Now (RIP, best google newsfeed) and Assistant debuted on it. This phone was a testbed for so many improvements to android as we know today, that it can't be anywhere but S tier. Imagine if a Pixel 5 would have given us a major (2-4x) photo improvement, optimised a core software component or even went away from virtualization entirely, and unlocked a new information medium like AR on it's own. You can't underestimate the legend that is the Nexus 5.
5 was THE phone. Stayed at the top for YEARS until the 5X and 6P came out. Definitely the defining phone of the modern nexus and even pixel series. That getting a B is an absolute joke. Ridiculous!
I had the 5 and loved it The 5x was better then it The 6p was better then THAT So I guess B is technically correct if you HAD TO sit down and make a list
How did the Nexus 5 not get more love? It's one of the best looking phones of all time. KitKat was a massive leap forward for Android. At $350 its performance was on par with iPhone and Galaxy for half the price. This phone is legendary and comes up in conversation more than any other Nexus
@@rup-n7y I held the 6 for longer than any other phone I've ever had. Until the Nexus 2. The first 1440p phone with front facing speakers and fantastic UI. Unless you have baby hands, Shamu is still one of the greatest phones of all time n
Right there with you. I’m really confused by this list. The oldest devices went to the top purely out of nostalgia, and meanwhile the Nexus 5-sitting right in the peak era of the Nexus line, sporting one of the rare iconic non-Apple smartphone designs, and becoming one of the default phone models used in advertising, manuals, and anything else that needed a stand in “phone”-gets a lousy B tier. That thing was absolutely beautiful. They did it so dirty.
The Nexus 5 was the only phone they nailed. Very fast, 32gb aviable, wireless charging, timeless design, rubber exterior you could use without case no problem. Peak rom and mod support. Still lacked in battery life, camera and speaker but thats to expect from a phone in that price range. Used it from 2014 to 2017. Older Nexus devices always had the problem of being limited in storage, because the biggest versions where 16gb. Also the phones after the Nexus 5 where just incredible expensive and quality wasn't really that great. Nexus 6 of a friend had massive burn in issues on the display, Nexus 5x had the bootloop issue and Nexus 6p was the first foldable phone by google.
Having the Zenfone 10 is the closest I've gotten to the feeling of having the Nexus 5 I loved so much. Double the big camera housing, sure, but a nice smaller size with soft-edged plastic back and flat sides. It's also just as infuriatingly quirky in negative ways but I still love the form factor like I loved the Nexus 5.
Where the hell was the Nexus 7 (2013)?? That was the most S tier Nexus product of all time. Most development ever for a Nexus product. You could overclock the hell out of it and almost double the performance.. it was sick as hell..
I thought David not giving the 2012 S-tier was because of the 2013 version. Then they didn't have an S-tier tablet. Also the picture they used in the list is the 2013 version smh
I bricked my original nexus 7, flashing a rom, I took it back to the shop claiming it just died. They sent it back for repair long story short they couldn’t repair it and replaced it with the new 2013 model. Best result ever.
Put some respect on Nexus 5! Up to this point every Android had an aura of desperation surrounding it. Manufacturers were doing whatever they could to beat the big bad iPhone. HTC made a 3d display, Samsung put in a heartbeat sensor, Motorola had 26 colors, Nokia a 48megapixel camera. Everyone was trying something and it was even worse on the software side. Bloatware up to the eyeballs, tacky fonts and endless other options to ruin your phone being added daily. It was awful. The Nexus 5 stood apart in that it was clean and simple. It didn't have anything to proove. To me this was the first phone to proove that Apple was mortal like the rest of us. Steve was dead and Apple's grip was slipping. This phone was able to do everything the iPhone did and more, for half the price. Exterior. Browse around the Play Store and you'll still see the Nexus being used as the model to this day. The front had no logos, buttons or odd shapes. The story continues on the back. This might have been the first matte black phone ever. Every other phone from that era had some tacky plastic design like carbon fiber or fake leather. Software. The thing that really pushed this phone into legendary territory is the software. This was the first phone to get Androids material design and proudly held the title of being a phone with stock Android. This phone showed everyone that Android had grown up.
For sure it was such an amazing design and phone. Only thing that sucked was it was on hspa and not lte yet. If they made an lte ver. it would have sold like hotcakes
Oh wow! I'm genuinely offended that the Nexus 5 got a B grade :) It was so iconic that you can still see its shape in illustrations for app design, etc. Plus, the red color was amazing!
Was looking for this comment, still seeing it in screenshots for apps. The defining phone of multiple generations around it. As HTC Desire/Nexus ONE was for the first generations of Android.
That phone gave me so many memories. I was tweaking the kernel & installing custom roms. You could even enable the secret LED inside the top speaker. One of the first phones with always on display too
You're objectively wrong with the The LG Nexus 5x because of the infamous bootloop fail. Every 5x would eventually enter boot loop due to a hard wear issue. Anyone who used one for longer than a year knows exactly what I'm talking about. Great phone, until it boot looped.
Would be nice, but at this point I would want it to be an actual high-end enthusiast phone. Like $2000 for a 1" camera sensor, filled in camera bump, battery to get through the majority of a week, software defined radio, entire screen a fingerprint reader, etc.
There’s also not a whole lot of partners (at least in the US) to be making the nexus line. It’ll just end up being a Galaxy or OnePlus every other year with maybe Motorola or Sony chiming in from time to time
Hey sorry this is wrong actually. here's the objective correct tier list. SSS tier - Super nexus Project (IYKYK) S tier - 6P, 5, Galaxy Nexus(no people didnt hate it people loved the fuck out of it) A tier - 4, One, 7 b teir - 5x c tier - 6 Hope this helps
Nexus 4 got done dirty... such a jump from the previous designs, and with that price it's easy S tier. Pioneered glass backs which took other companies years to catch on, and they're still the choice today.
Skipping the Nexus 7 (2013) is criminal, that thing was a beast, years ahead of its time. I'd happily buy one today with the exact same design and updated specs
That was my favorite tablet ever made. I legitimately used it for 4 years straight before it became unusable, which is rare for android especially back then.
Man the 6p was absolutely top tier. I miss that phone so much compared to all my pixels since. I got my 6p from the channel as a giveaway with dbrand and it sucked me into the google ecosystem for sure.
Love this video. I had so many of these. My nexus 4 kept on sliding off the table. Nexus 5 was an all time great phone - the ergonomics were fantastic.
the way id buy a phone so easily nowadays if it had swappable battery packs :') i wish the big phone companies would experiment like they used to again
Why is the nexus 10 at d-tier? It's a really good tablet at that time. Front firing speaker + high resolution display and clean android. As someone who had one before, the bezel is not that bothersome because almost every tablet had huge bezels anyway.
I think what makes the Nexus so special is because of the different manufacturers. Nowadays, we just have minor changes to designs and a slight bump in specs.
I remember liking pretty much everything about the 6P… except for the battery. It's by far the worst piece of crap battery I've ever experienced in any tech product ever!
The 6P is still my favourite phone ever, the camera took some of (to this day) my most loved photos. I regretted sanding it down and spraying it gold after watching a Casey video. 🤣
This video made me nod nostalgically with a smile so often. What an era. This video was so much fun though. Great vibe. 10/10 edit to the nexus Q retcon. More of Dave and Adam pls
Android was so exciting back then. I remember when the Nexus 5 was leaked in some Google video when an employee was taking a photo with it. People lost their mind 😂
The Huawei Nexus 6P has been my favourite phone ever. Broke my heart when they didn't come out with the 7P! It was also the phone that got me into my hobby & addiction, photography. And the photos it took are still some of my favorites.
I get that some of us are awkward nerds like myself, but why does the dap up and hug from David at 9:58 look like his second time doing it ever and he’s still practicing 😂😭
The Galaxy Nexus was my first android phone and I loved it. Best phone ever. Except for the Nexus 4 which I also had and man... that was peak. Such a beautiful phone. Great video guys!
Fully agree with Miles' reaction on the Nexus 10. It got everything right from a practical use point. 16:9 screen ratio, perfect for streaming videos, which is what I use a tablet for 99% of the time. Highest pixel density in a tablet back then if I remember right. 2x massive front facing speakers.
Oh wow this brings me back... The Galaxy Nexus was my first Android phone after using an iPhone for a few years. I absolutely loved that phone. I kept getting Nexus phones nearly every year after that. I really miss those days. I remember preordering the Nexus 4 the day it dropped, but I was down the shore that day helping clean up a town after Hurricane Sandy. I took a break at 1pm to put in my preorder, and internet was so spotty that I was worried my order wouldn't go through. I have to agree though that the Nexus 6P was absolutely the best of the bunch. I probably won't go so far as to say it's the best phone ever made, but it's definitely the best phone Google has ever designed.
I remember being a teenager and spending half my time on XDA. To many of us these Nexus devices were highly coveted and you'd be lucky if you managed to get one (thanks Google for still not figuring out worldwide availability all these years later...) . It feels so weird seeing them like this almost a decade later as ancient devices being ranked. I still can't see some of them in an "old device light" like I can with other devices.
So nostalgic, thanks for making this video! Btw I absolutely hate the tier list that you guys made haha. Since I never had the Galaxy Nexus (S+ tier Nexus), my favorite Nexus that I owned was the Nexus 4 also the Nexus 5 is super underrated
I have such a long story with Nexus devices! - Nexus 7 2012: my dad bought it in 2013 for 199€ (32 Gb 3G version) and it's still working after 11 years! . Nexus 7 2013: I bought it for myself in early 2014 then sold it in 2016, I used it a lot. Amazing device. Looking back, it was a mistake to sell it (but I needed money back then). - Nexus 5x: my first ever Nexus phone. I bought it 2nd hand few months after it got out, I used it for 2 and a half years. It also got bootloop, but it was repaired under warranty and I still have it at home. Fantastic device with fantastic camera at the time. - Nexus 9: terrible device. I bought it 2nd hand in 2018 but it was awful to me. It seriously overheated and the button feedback was awful. I sold it for desperation.
So many great memories with those phones and lusting after the phones I could not justify to upgrade to. But hey! You missed the Nexus 7 2nd gen. The screen is still good to this day imho
I wanted the Nexus One so bad but was in college and thinking of spending (I think it was $600) on a phone at the time was insane. I did get the Nexus 6 and to this day one of my favorite phones
The nexus 4 introduced tap to pay YEARS before anybody else, when I had it there was barely even anywhere around me who would accept tap to pay. And it was way ahead of its time on wireless charging. It's a massive S tier.
My first (touch screen) smartphone was a Galaxy Nexus, it had an oled screen, one of the best ever at the time. These phones are what got me into tech youtube, trying to learn how to root it
What a memory trip! I had the Nexus 5X. It was a good phone for the price. The camera was awesome too. So good, my brother decided to get one too. Sadly the battery got worse quickly and the SOT was bad and it had this manufacture error, where the phone got bootloop and eventually bricked itself. This happened to my brother and me.
The 4th Nexus phone was peak! Wireless charging, fancy glass sparkly back! I prefer the holepunch camera on the rear of the phone! Please bring that back!
Miles yelling at them for putting the Nexus Q in A tier is the correct response.
Agreed.
I was yelling as they tried to give it an S and settles on an A. Total vindication
100%
it's true, also saying it had google cast was a BIG misunderstanding it could like play some audio content from a cloud hosted queue which is not the same at all
From S to A to *F* real quick 🤣
Giving the Nexus 5 a lowly B just ain't right.... 😭
That thing was an iconic design in a world where Apple’s iPhones are the only other standard. For the next several years, you could find the Nexus 5 in every piece of media that needed a standard “phone” in it.
Real, it's S tier in my eyes
This generation of nexus basically made google camera what it is today. At launch photos from an 8 MP camera with a basic app were pretty bad even at the time, but a few months after, Google released the first Google Camera app with enchanced photo processing and HDR. Overnight it became one of the best phones for photos. Pixels photography lineage stems from Nexus 5.
Nexus 5 was in all the app screenshot mockups for so many years, and even now it's used from time to time. The front with the bowing top and bottom edges, really thin bezels, coloured round speaker, and an RGB notification light at the bottom is so iconic.
And don't forget that it was one of the first phones with a 1080p display, and had a magnetic alignment for Qi charging in 2014.
FLAC support made it a great music player, and this was the time android went from Dalvik to ART! Oh, and there also was Cardboard, which was a cheap way to experience 360 videos and some basic VR with your phone. Google Now (RIP, best google newsfeed) and Assistant debuted on it.
This phone was a testbed for so many improvements to android as we know today, that it can't be anywhere but S tier. Imagine if a Pixel 5 would have given us a major (2-4x) photo improvement, optimised a core software component or even went away from virtualization entirely, and unlocked a new information medium like AR on it's own.
You can't underestimate the legend that is the Nexus 5.
Nexus 4 and 5 should both be S tier
S tier for sure!
5 was THE phone. Stayed at the top for YEARS until the 5X and 6P came out. Definitely the defining phone of the modern nexus and even pixel series. That getting a B is an absolute joke. Ridiculous!
For real!! I remember it being so cool back in the day!
I completely agree! It was THE phone! I wanted to get it soo bad!
I had the 5 and loved it
The 5x was better then it
The 6p was better then THAT
So I guess B is technically correct if you HAD TO sit down and make a list
the 5X was junk. I had both the 5 and 5X. I missed my Nexus 5 the whole time.
@@B-RaDD Me and my wife both had the 5X, it was a buggy mess compared to the Nexus 5. I missed having the Nexus 5, while using the 5X.
How did the Nexus 5 not get more love? It's one of the best looking phones of all time. KitKat was a massive leap forward for Android. At $350 its performance was on par with iPhone and Galaxy for half the price. This phone is legendary and comes up in conversation more than any other Nexus
Exactly, it is THE Nexus and nothing else should be S-tier if the 5 isn't
The 5 was game changing and the 6 took it to another level.
and the 6p was foldable aswell
6 was absolute trash, what I even blabbing
@@rup-n7y I held the 6 for longer than any other phone I've ever had. Until the Nexus 2. The first 1440p phone with front facing speakers and fantastic UI. Unless you have baby hands, Shamu is still one of the greatest phones of all time n
Nexus 4 not being S tier is a crime. It was 299
EXACTLY
And had the best back panel aesthetic of any phone ever. I had 2, used them for like 5 years combined
@@onobonono you miswrote 699$
The screen was super prone to breaking. It was a fragile phone.
If Nexus 4 had LTE, it probably would've been S Tier.
this list is a war crime. Nexus 4 and 5 as B tier? Shamu as C tier?!
Their tier list is just horrendous
@@DiZZiEntertainmentI mean they know the value.
Right there with you. I’m really confused by this list. The oldest devices went to the top purely out of nostalgia, and meanwhile the Nexus 5-sitting right in the peak era of the Nexus line, sporting one of the rare iconic non-Apple smartphone designs, and becoming one of the default phone models used in advertising, manuals, and anything else that needed a stand in “phone”-gets a lousy B tier.
That thing was absolutely beautiful. They did it so dirty.
Travesty
The Nexus 5 was the only phone they nailed. Very fast, 32gb aviable, wireless charging, timeless design, rubber exterior you could use without case no problem. Peak rom and mod support. Still lacked in battery life, camera and speaker but thats to expect from a phone in that price range. Used it from 2014 to 2017.
Older Nexus devices always had the problem of being limited in storage, because the biggest versions where 16gb. Also the phones after the Nexus 5 where just incredible expensive and quality wasn't really that great. Nexus 6 of a friend had massive burn in issues on the display, Nexus 5x had the bootloop issue and Nexus 6p was the first foldable phone by google.
Nexus 5 not being S tier is criminal.
Nexus One is also NOT S tier IMO. If you wanted the one that started it all, why not the G1?
Having the Zenfone 10 is the closest I've gotten to the feeling of having the Nexus 5 I loved so much. Double the big camera housing, sure, but a nice smaller size with soft-edged plastic back and flat sides.
It's also just as infuriatingly quirky in negative ways but I still love the form factor like I loved the Nexus 5.
Nexus 5 is easy God tier. Man, these dudes know little. Does Marques even review this videos before posting?
Where the hell was the Nexus 7 (2013)?? That was the most S tier Nexus product of all time. Most development ever for a Nexus product. You could overclock the hell out of it and almost double the performance.. it was sick as hell..
I thought David not giving the 2012 S-tier was because of the 2013 version. Then they didn't have an S-tier tablet. Also the picture they used in the list is the 2013 version smh
I bricked my original nexus 7, flashing a rom, I took it back to the shop claiming it just died. They sent it back for repair long story short they couldn’t repair it and replaced it with the new 2013 model. Best result ever.
@@EMPeter Yeah they forgot about it.
The most shit-hot Nexus, and easily the best android tablet to this day. How dare it be ignored!
I loved that tablet but I had the digitizer issue where it wouldn’t register taps because it wasn’t grounded properly
5:09 the sudden cut was peak comedy for me
I was crying 😂😂😂😂
Put some respect on Nexus 5!
Up to this point every Android had an aura of desperation surrounding it. Manufacturers were doing whatever they could to beat the big bad iPhone. HTC made a 3d display, Samsung put in a heartbeat sensor, Motorola had 26 colors, Nokia a 48megapixel camera. Everyone was trying something and it was even worse on the software side. Bloatware up to the eyeballs, tacky fonts and endless other options to ruin your phone being added daily. It was awful.
The Nexus 5 stood apart in that it was clean and simple. It didn't have anything to proove. To me this was the first phone to proove that Apple was mortal like the rest of us. Steve was dead and Apple's grip was slipping. This phone was able to do everything the iPhone did and more, for half the price.
Exterior. Browse around the Play Store and you'll still see the Nexus being used as the model to this day. The front had no logos, buttons or odd shapes. The story continues on the back. This might have been the first matte black phone ever. Every other phone from that era had some tacky plastic design like carbon fiber or fake leather.
Software. The thing that really pushed this phone into legendary territory is the software. This was the first phone to get Androids material design and proudly held the title of being a phone with stock Android. This phone showed everyone that Android had grown up.
Truly one of the GOATs. I owned every Nexus phone but the 4 and 5 i kept coming back to them.
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Nexus 5 is easy God tier. Man, these dudes know little. Does Marques even review this videos before posting?
Where was the 2013 Nexus 7 tho, that one was definitely S tier
The picture on the tier list is of the 2013 Nexus 7 even though the one they showed was the 2012 Nexus 7. I guess they counted them as the same
But the first one had shitty memory chips and became garbage very quick. The second nexus 7 did not have the issue and was a solid choice.
First Nexus 7 had that Nvidia Tegra chip so it wasn't an absolute slouch but it also aged very poorly...
Yeah that was my first Nexus device. Sold me on them for years
The 2013 nexus 7 was so much better than the 2012 one. should have had both imo
Pretty sure the second USB port on the Nexus 10 was actually a micro HDMI port.
The 6p is the most gorgeous phone I've ever owned.
Nexus 4 definitely should've been S tier
exactly, the 5 too.
For sure it was such an amazing design and phone. Only thing that sucked was it was on hspa and not lte yet. If they made an lte ver. it would have sold like hotcakes
Oh wow! I'm genuinely offended that the Nexus 5 got a B grade :)
It was so iconic that you can still see its shape in illustrations for app design, etc. Plus, the red color was amazing!
Was looking for this comment, still seeing it in screenshots for apps. The defining phone of multiple generations around it. As HTC Desire/Nexus ONE was for the first generations of Android.
Still miss my 6P 😢
That phone was legit. Another reason why I wish Huawei was still supported in the US.
Did battery issues kill it?
@@David.Murdoch Yup!
I still have mine and I will never ever sell it. Most iconic smartphone ever. 😍
The Nexus 5X getting a higher score than the Nexus 5 is criminal.
This phone died on so many people. Devs at xda had to come up with ways to disable sone cores so it could live.
The 5x was the worst ever
Nexus 5 not being in the S tier is crazy.
Nexus 6 was insane. First massive phone I owned. Loved the curved back and front facing speakers
That phone gave me so many memories. I was tweaking the kernel & installing custom roms. You could even enable the secret LED inside the top speaker.
One of the first phones with always on display too
I’m so happy miles spoke up
david is SO excited he's giving A's to unshipped products
This was basically David rating the devices lol
The Nexus 4 and 5 in B tier is crazy. They're two S tier phones, that price for flagship devices was just the best.
You're objectively wrong with the The LG Nexus 5x because of the infamous bootloop fail. Every 5x would eventually enter boot loop due to a hard wear issue. Anyone who used one for longer than a year knows exactly what I'm talking about. Great phone, until it boot looped.
used it for years never had a boot loop, still boots to this day
@@lucasdevaan I went through 3, wife went through 2. All under warranty. You got lucky.
It was the worst phone I've ever owned. Overheated as hell and eventually got boot loop. Also battery was shit. Mine was replaced for free.
Yeah mine did that but it was still in warranty and they changed out the logic board. As far as I know it still works but it's deep in a cupboard.
Can confirm, had boot loop and heating issues.
5:15 When a mommy what.. WHEN A MOMMY WHAT. TELL ME ADAMMMMMMMMMM
Nexus should come back as a high end enthusiast brand alongside Pixel. I miss those phones.
Naaa it's taken Google years to even get a tiny bit brand recognition. Don't wanna make things murkier.
Would be nice, but at this point I would want it to be an actual high-end enthusiast phone.
Like $2000 for a 1" camera sensor, filled in camera bump, battery to get through the majority of a week, software defined radio, entire screen a fingerprint reader, etc.
There’s also not a whole lot of partners (at least in the US) to be making the nexus line. It’ll just end up being a Galaxy or OnePlus every other year with maybe Motorola or Sony chiming in from time to time
I rather have Google 100% focused with the Pixel devices.
@@Mr_Battlefield Rather than having them release actually high end devices with Snapdragon CPUs and enthusiast features?
Miles unclipped his mic like he was about to throw hands. Also Nexus 7 in anything less than S-tier is disrespectful. lol
Hey sorry this is wrong actually.
here's the objective correct tier list.
SSS tier - Super nexus Project (IYKYK)
S tier - 6P, 5, Galaxy Nexus(no people didnt hate it people loved the fuck out of it)
A tier - 4, One, 7
b teir - 5x
c tier - 6
Hope this helps
Skipping the 2023 Nexus 7 and putting the Nexus 5 that low is criminal
You mean 2013.
Nexus 4 got done dirty... such a jump from the previous designs, and with that price it's easy S tier. Pioneered glass backs which took other companies years to catch on, and they're still the choice today.
the nexus 4 had a good design, but the storage options were bad.
Agreed!! I loved that phone so much. Still have mine in a drawer.
5 was Legendary made the cleanest OS in the history of Android also had a design that held up for 5 years. Should be A tier.
Skipping the Nexus 7 (2013) is criminal, that thing was a beast, years ahead of its time. I'd happily buy one today with the exact same design and updated specs
You forgot the Nexus 7 2nd Gen
That was my favorite tablet ever made. I legitimately used it for 4 years straight before it became unusable, which is rare for android especially back then.
Where is the HTC One Google Play Edition?
@@gabenorman747 my kids still use mine, still going strong after 11 years (with a lot of commuting involved)
Nexus walked so the Pixel could fly!
Man the 6p was absolutely top tier. I miss that phone so much compared to all my pixels since. I got my 6p from the channel as a giveaway with dbrand and it sucked me into the google ecosystem for sure.
Saying the Nexus 9 was a good tablet is a crime. that Tegra processor CRUMBLED so fast.
Same with the 6p. Garbage.
@@Gupes 6P was okay for a while, but stock google android gave it a run for its money later in its life i think
@jayatflyt there was a giant class action because so many peoples failed. Mine included :(
@@Gupes OMG you’re totally right i spaced on that fully!! I guess mine was one of the survivors, i’m sorry for your loss :(
We need more of these nostalgia-tech videos!!
The Nexus 5 not being at least “A” tier is insane.
Love this video. I had so many of these. My nexus 4 kept on sliding off the table. Nexus 5 was an all time great phone - the ergonomics were fantastic.
the way id buy a phone so easily nowadays if it had swappable battery packs :') i wish the big phone companies would experiment like they used to again
Samsung Galaxy Xcover6 Pro
@@username65585 People want to pretend that phone doesn't exist for some reason.
Why is the nexus 10 at d-tier? It's a really good tablet at that time. Front firing speaker + high resolution display and clean android. As someone who had one before, the bezel is not that bothersome because almost every tablet had huge bezels anyway.
This!!!
I remember it getting quite poor reviews at the time. I think the software/app support for tablets that size wasn’t there yet.
The should use the Nexus 6P design again
The design certainly looks a lot more subtle and stylish than the recent Pixel phones.
Nexus 6P was elite. I cry every time I remember the squeeze for assistant feature. It was so underrated
The nexus 6P didn't have that feature. You're thinking of the later pixel phones that came out.
I think what makes the Nexus so special is because of the different manufacturers. Nowadays, we just have minor changes to designs and a slight bump in specs.
TBH phone space is basically stagnant these days...
Nexus 4 and 5 were the absolute best of their times. This tier list is criminal 😂
No 2013 Nexus 7? That thing was incredible.
Agreed! I had both of those tablets. The 2013 model was an amazing device.
Exactly the same two S-tiers I would have picked. Awesome and very nostalgic video. Thanks guys!
I remember liking pretty much everything about the 6P… except for the battery. It's by far the worst piece of crap battery I've ever experienced in any tech product ever!
gotta say that the nexus 5 was AMAZING! The size and weight of the phone are just right! I really wish google can keep making smaller phones.....
Lumia, Nexus, HTC phones! Those were the times.
Dude david just nerding out the specific date is mindblowing
Younger me would've wailed if he saw Nexus 4 and 5 not getting an S tier
8:40 They look like disappointed siblings who knows they did something wrong being lectured by their dad.
The 6P is still my favourite phone ever, the camera took some of (to this day) my most loved photos. I regretted sanding it down and spraying it gold after watching a Casey video. 🤣
The camera is better than many phones today
This video made me nod nostalgically with a smile so often. What an era.
This video was so much fun though. Great vibe. 10/10 edit to the nexus Q retcon. More of Dave and Adam pls
Love the 4 and especially 5. I bought the 6p but ended losing it somewhere :(
Android was so exciting back then. I remember when the Nexus 5 was leaked in some Google video when an employee was taking a photo with it. People lost their mind 😂
But what about the Nexus 7 2013 (my all time favorite tablet)
These are so nostalgic for me. I had a friend in high-school that had a Nexus One and I thought it was so cool how they had a "Google Phone."
That second "micro usb" port on the Nexus 10 tablet was actually a micro HDMI output port.
The Huawei Nexus 6P has been my favourite phone ever. Broke my heart when they didn't come out with the 7P! It was also the phone that got me into my hobby & addiction, photography. And the photos it took are still some of my favorites.
That second port on the Nexus 10 looks like micro HDMI, not micro USB.
This video is so nostalgic! I used to own a Nexus 5, then Nexus 5X, and I loved them so much even with all of their flaws.
The Nexus 9 overheated in like five minutes of regular web browsing, it got so hot, no way it’s A-tier.
Just watching them pull out the 6p, the muscle memory came back and I touched my current phone right where the finger print reader was on that phone
Miles taking off his mic was giving "I am NOT arguing about this with you".
It’s crazy to think my first MKBHD video I ever watched was the galaxy nexus review 😮😅
I get that some of us are awkward nerds like myself, but why does the dap up and hug from David at 9:58 look like his second time doing it ever and he’s still practicing 😂😭
Nexus 5 is one of the most solid I’ve had because they solved a lot of the issues previously especially with speed and network
you know the tierlist is fucked when the car guy knows more than the phone guy 😅
I had the Nexus one and the Nexus five. Still two of my absolute favorite phones I’ve ever had.
the nexus s was good just for nfc payment. the cashier at mcdonalds was so blown away when i used my phone to pay for food.
The Galaxy Nexus was my first android phone and I loved it. Best phone ever. Except for the Nexus 4 which I also had and man... that was peak. Such a beautiful phone. Great video guys!
Fully agree with Miles' reaction on the Nexus 10. It got everything right from a practical use point.
16:9 screen ratio, perfect for streaming videos, which is what I use a tablet for 99% of the time.
Highest pixel density in a tablet back then if I remember right.
2x massive front facing speakers.
Great episode! No love for the Nexus 7 (2012) dock? . . . 🤓
(Yes, I still have one.)
Oh wow this brings me back... The Galaxy Nexus was my first Android phone after using an iPhone for a few years. I absolutely loved that phone. I kept getting Nexus phones nearly every year after that. I really miss those days. I remember preordering the Nexus 4 the day it dropped, but I was down the shore that day helping clean up a town after Hurricane Sandy. I took a break at 1pm to put in my preorder, and internet was so spotty that I was worried my order wouldn't go through. I have to agree though that the Nexus 6P was absolutely the best of the bunch. I probably won't go so far as to say it's the best phone ever made, but it's definitely the best phone Google has ever designed.
Loved this and definitely want to remember all the ways you could play around with devices.Great Video Guy's Enjoyed.💯✌️
I remember being a teenager and spending half my time on XDA. To many of us these Nexus devices were highly coveted and you'd be lucky if you managed to get one (thanks Google for still not figuring out worldwide availability all these years later...) . It feels so weird seeing them like this almost a decade later as ancient devices being ranked. I still can't see some of them in an "old device light" like I can with other devices.
Love the chemistry between these two guys 🤗
16:00 those think pieces were right to talk about that tiny bump! it set the stage for the horrible camera bumps we have now! haha
So nostalgic, thanks for making this video! Btw I absolutely hate the tier list that you guys made haha. Since I never had the Galaxy Nexus (S+ tier Nexus), my favorite Nexus that I owned was the Nexus 4 also the Nexus 5 is super underrated
Nexus Q A is an insane take, thank the heavens for Marques lite
9:58 Miles just exiting the video because the first ever 10 inch android tablet gets a low grade
YES!!! Another studio video! ❤
13:35 I had the original Google TV, that thing was awesome and way ahead of it's time
I have such a long story with Nexus devices!
- Nexus 7 2012: my dad bought it in 2013 for 199€ (32 Gb 3G version) and it's still working after 11 years!
. Nexus 7 2013: I bought it for myself in early 2014 then sold it in 2016, I used it a lot. Amazing device. Looking back, it was a mistake to sell it (but I needed money back then).
- Nexus 5x: my first ever Nexus phone. I bought it 2nd hand few months after it got out, I used it for 2 and a half years. It also got bootloop, but it was repaired under warranty and I still have it at home. Fantastic device with fantastic camera at the time.
- Nexus 9: terrible device. I bought it 2nd hand in 2018 but it was awful to me. It seriously overheated and the button feedback was awful. I sold it for desperation.
So many great memories with those phones and lusting after the phones I could not justify to upgrade to. But hey! You missed the Nexus 7 2nd gen. The screen is still good to this day imho
Great video as always! Keep up the good work guys ❤
9:50 Dude the way Miles takes his mic off, you know hes just done with you guys LMAO. Bro cant even put up with the takes anymore
NEXUS 5 WAS MY FIRST TRUE PHONE LOVED EVERY SINGLE BIT FROM IT STILL HAVE IT IN MY DRAWER WORKED LIKE DREAM BACK IN THE DAY
I wanted the Nexus One so bad but was in college and thinking of spending (I think it was $600) on a phone at the time was insane. I did get the Nexus 6 and to this day one of my favorite phones
The nexus 4 introduced tap to pay YEARS before anybody else, when I had it there was barely even anywhere around me who would accept tap to pay. And it was way ahead of its time on wireless charging. It's a massive S tier.
My first (touch screen) smartphone was a Galaxy Nexus, it had an oled screen, one of the best ever at the time. These phones are what got me into tech youtube, trying to learn how to root it
What a memory trip! I had the Nexus 5X. It was a good phone for the price. The camera was awesome too. So good, my brother decided to get one too. Sadly the battery got worse quickly and the SOT was bad and it had this manufacture error, where the phone got bootloop and eventually bricked itself. This happened to my brother and me.
I remember opening my nexus one and feeling the cool metal touch, that phone was one of my favorite phones I've ever had
I loved the Nexus One, the Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus…the Nexus 5 and the 6P. The 6P was amazing.
The 4th Nexus phone was peak! Wireless charging, fancy glass sparkly back! I prefer the holepunch camera on the rear of the phone! Please bring that back!
Nexus 6p and the 2nd gen Nexus 7 will always be my favs!
Here in Europe Slovenia we didn't get Google/Nexus phones since about month ago😂😂😂
Great video MKBHD team ❤
I was a loving Nexus One owner back in the day - what a great device it was!!