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Nexus 5 slips into the Google Play Store

Even though the Nexus 4 was a very nice smartphone, and one of our  favorite handsets of 2012 , it had quite a few areas where it could improve. LTE capabilities and bad battery life were two of the most glaring negatives about the handset, and Google has seemed to fix those issues with its latest smartphone. Many leaked manuals have claimed that the Nexus 5 will have a 2.3 gigahertz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM, 2,300 miliamp hour battery, and a 4.95 inch 1080p display. These specs have yet to be confirmed by Google, but the design has practically been made official by today's Nexus 5 leak. Let's take a look. The Nexus 5 basically looks like a somewhat better version of LG's most recent flagship smartphone, the G2. It has the same thin bezels around the screen, and the screen itself is only 0.25 inches smaller. The back appears to be made of a matte or soft touch plastic, which would feel immensely better than the G2's cheap and disgusting glossy