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The foreign press has new information about the smartphone Nexus 5, which Google must officially announce in the near future: a source close to the company said that the new smartphone will cost about half the price of iPhone 5S . In addition, a new date was known presentation gadget.

price of a new “Google Phone» Nexus 5 will be “half the cost of iPhone 5S», says IT-edition TechRadar citing informed sources. If Apple is the new flagship in the U.S. at $ 650 without a contract with the service provider, the new Nexus 5 can be purchased for $ 300-350, says TechRadar columnist Jay McGregor.

New Nexus will go on sale on Wednesday, October 30, and its official presentation will take place earlier in the week, the source publication.

Gadgets of the Nexus line of traditionally are the first devices fitted with the latest versions of the operating system Android, so that the premiere of the new smartphone will be both the premiere Android 4.4 KitKat, experts expect.

rumors and speculation about what the new generation of smartphones Nexus, go this summer, but with the approach of the premiere is known more details about the gadget.

Nexus 5 will be the first smartphone, by default runs on Android 4.4 KitKat, the next version of the mobile operating system from Google. The company has already completed the development of a platform, but details remain secret. Previous versions of this operating system is also coming out in the autumn, in October 2011 came Android 4.0, in November 2012 – Android 4.2.

also known that the new Nexus again will produce a Korean company LG. That went up rumors were confirmed when bloggers found on the official website of the Federal Agency for the United States (FCC) regulations photos and some characteristics of the smartphone from LG with an index of D820, which, according to experts, is the new Nexus 5. In particular, the location of the camera and flash, and black matte body gadget pictures were the same as that of the gadget, glimpsed in the video of Google about the name of the newest version of Android – KitKat.

expected that the Nexus 5, equipped with a 4.96-inch screen, will be another fabletom – it will be the largest smartphone Nexus line today.

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gadget 1920×1080 Full HD-like display and flagship smartphone LG G2. Thus the new pixel density is even higher Nexus – 444 dpi compared to 423 dpi in G2.

Judging from the photos appeared on the network of the new gadget that looks Nexus 5 will not differ materially from the Nexus 4.

filling gadget is also known in some detail: the gadget is equipped with a quad-core Snapdragon chip 800 c 2.3 GHz and 2 GB of RAM, will run over LTE technology and support NFC. Battery capacity smartphone will be 2,300 mA. According to the results of performance tests new Nexus 5 will work better than all the other gadgets on Android, and Apple iPhone 5S.

Nexus 4 was available with 8 GB and 16 GB of internal memory. The new Nexus will be the same amount of memory, experts predict. In this case, users are unlikely to increase the memory gadget via microSD-memory card – this option is usually not in the line of Nexus.

Nexus 5 could be the first smartphone in the market equipped with a MEMS-camera, which provides ultra-fast focusing. It is well known that the resolution main camera is 8 megapixels, the front – 1.2 megapixels.

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Nexus 5 will be based on the current flagship of LG – Smartphone G2, it can be expected that the camera gadget is equipped with optical image stabilization technology, which has become popular in most flagship smartphones. «Google is often the new camera features along with fresh releases Andoid, and optical image stabilization is not just enough line Nexus», – the editor of the portal CNet.