Samsung Galaxy S5 vs LG Nexus 5: Ultra-Affordable vs Smartly Sophisticated

Are you trying to choose between the LG Nexus 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S5? Both are great handsets, but which of these two comes out on top?

You can pick up the LG Nexus 5 for around $365, while the Samsung Galaxy S5 comes in at $588. You can get the former with AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, the latter is available with AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Virgin, Boost Mobile and Metro PCS. Both are $199 if you take it on contract.

Both the LG Nexus 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S5 comes with KitKat 4.4, the S5 also has TouchWiz. The Nexus 5 offers wireless charging, GPS, HD playback and Graphics accelerator. The S5 comes with SD card support, replaceable battery and all the other features of the Nexus 5.

The Nexus 5 offers a display of 4.95 inches and 455ppi, the display is IPS LCD. The Samsung Galaxy S5 has a display of Super AMOLED at 5.1 inches and this is 432ppi Super AMOLED.

The battery on the Nexus 5 is 2,300mAh and this should offer around 17 hours talking and 300 hours on stand-by. The Samsung Galaxy S5 offers a battery of 2,800mAh giving around 29 hours talk time and around 290 on stand-by.

The Nexus 5 is 8.64mm depth and 130 grams in weight, the Samsung Galaxy S5 is 8.1mm in depth and 145 grams, it is also water resistant and dust proof. The former has a CPU of 2.26Ghz with 4 cores and 2,048MB RAM and has a camera of 8MP and 1.3MP while the latter comes with a 2,5GHz CPU, is 4 cores and offers 2,048MB of RAM, with a camera of 16MP and 2.1MP.

The Nexus 5 offers 16GB of storage and the Samsung Galaxy S5 comes with 16GB and can be expanded to 128GB.

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