By now you’ve heard the 5″ superamalid display (like Galaxy S5), the superfast cpu (as fast as the A7 in the new iPhone 5S) and the full set of gyroscopes, barometers, GPS, OTG for the USB port (to hook up thumb drives and keyboards), and all the Near Field communication  (NFC) ( for touch-phones-together to transfer files), and wi-fi calling ability (not sure how that’s different from Skype), and of course, LTE and a full band of radio frequencies that let it work with Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile and European providers on vacation. New is an announcement that the rear-facing camera (8Mpixels) will be the first production smartphone with a focusing system that is six times faster, making rapid shots a possibility. Also, there is a communication feature called Miracast which will “mirror” content from your telephone data stream or wi-fi to play what’s on your screen directly to your TV’s wi-fi. To restate, the signal will travel on a peer-to-peer wi-fi network directly from your phone to the TV, avoiding being re-transmitted by your home wi-fi, like Chromcast has to do for things other than Netflix and YouTube. This is actually a big deal. You would have to go into your TV or Internet-enabled Blu-Ray player and connect it to the Nexus 5 peer-to-peer wi-fi network, but you may be able to see anything you can get on your laptop on your TV at a similar quality as Netflix or Hulu+. Of course, I’ll keep you posted….

I would have liked a little bigger screen, but 5″ is still considered “big”. My fat fingers need all the help they can get. I’ve already bumped up the “add” in my glasses because I watch more things on the screen. BTW, I also listen to Audible.com audio books, which are screen-size independant.

The Nexus 5, a vanilla Android device with the (not yet released) Android 4.4 (“KitKat”) operating system is rumored to come out the end of October at a rumored $300-$350 price, about half what the Galaxy S4 still costs.