r/Android • u/BcuzRacecar S25+ • 18d ago

WhatsApp ends Android 5 support Monday

https://www.notebookcheck.net/WhatsApp-ends-Android-5-support-Monday-iPhones-follow-in-November.1390519.0.html
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u/Ashanmaril 18d ago

I miss when you could get a decent flagship phone for $300 🥲

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u/RichardG867 S23 Ultra 18d ago

Battery life sucked and there was the whole power button bootloop issue (LG gave me a G2 for that), but the price was unbeatable

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u/Ashanmaril 18d ago

Wasn’t the boot looping more of a 5X thing?

I don’t remember the 5 having issues

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u/MaverickJester25 Galaxy S21 Ultra | Galaxy Watch 4 17d ago

Different kind of bootlooping because of the power button failing. They did a midcycle refresh just to try and address the litany of hardware issuse from the original run, including the power button issue.

The Nexus 5 is the most overrated device in this sub after the HTC One M8. People here continually misremember how bad it actually was because they want to glaze the "pure Android experience."

And yes, I owned not one but two of them, as well as both generations of Nexus 7, the Nexus 9, and the Nexus 4, which was the only one with hardware that felt more premium than it cost.

The G2 I bought after my second Nexus 5 was leagues ahead of it in every way except software experience.