Nexus 5 or Moto X?

[cos]

I'm going to replace my Galaxy Nexus, and keep the T-Mobile service I currently have. Given that, do you have an opinion on whether the Moto X or Nexus 5 is better, and why?

Reviews mostly seem to have a hard time choosing one over the other. What I care about:
* Battery life. Reviews are also confused about that, some say the Moto X has longer battery life and some say the Nexus 5.
* Being able to use the unlocked phone internationally (I won't get a locked phone).

* Good, non-jittery GPS that's good enough for navigation/Waze (this is one place the Galaxy Nexus fails very badly)
* Non-laggy app performance
* Easy to read display mainly for maps - but as long as it's not worse than the Galaxy Nexus, I'll like the display.

What I don't care about:
* Rooting. I don't plan to do that.
* Streaming music. I mainly use my iPad to carry music & podcasts around, for the car or for flights. No phone battery is good enough for this use, IMO; iPads last forever.

Edit: Thanks ckd, pir, lizkayl, sariel_t, for bits of helpful info. I ended up choosing Moto X. My main reasons were longer battery life and a smaller more comfortable to hold phone, though I've heard that I'll also really like the "active notifications", and that the camera is much faster.

Comments

[pir.livejournal.com]

Battery life varies between different people's usage. My N5 is lasting me the day.

The N5 is always unlocked, as mentioned. If you care about international use of LTE more than in the US you might want the EU version since they do different frequency sets. The N5 does slightly more LTE frequencies I believe.

My N5 GPS seems fine, but then the GPS on my GN was also fine to me.

Both would be non-laggy I believe (as much as something subjective like that can be stated) either would be fine, as long as you have 2Gb of memory they react fine to me (the difference between the 2012 N7 and 2013 N7 is clearly there).

I chose the N5 and I'm quite happy with it, partly based on availability (the Moto X is only available in the US), things you don't care about (rooting, etc) and clean OS that will be updated very promptly.

[cos]

> but then the GPS on my GN was also fine to me.

Huh, did you use it for Navigation or Waze much?

[pir.livejournal.com]

I don't use Waze. Used it for Google maps plenty including navigation.

[cos]

Maps is really good at correcting for jumpy GPS.

Navigation would've been affected by it though, I've heard.

[pir.livejournal.com]

I played ingress for quite a while, I know about gps jitter. Never had any problems with that on my GN.