Android has definitely been aimed at the male market for a long time... although under Matias' direction and with the Holo/Card UI progression, that seems to be changing rapidly.

Welcome to the Moto X. It's not a Nexus... but the added features were (quite obviously) designed in partnership with Google. They act like stock Android features, they look like stock Android features. Assist, for example, really struck me as something I was certain to find in 4.4, and I'm a bit shocked it isn't…

I don't think you'll find much agreement here, and you seem to misunderstand some of the argument. EVERYONE knows carriers will sell you unsubsidised devices— but none of the carriers will sell you any of the devices you namechecked for less than $600, even though they're months old. That— irrespective of the Nexus'…

I'm over wireless charging. I went to the X from the N4, and I found the N4 with the Orb to be an exercise in frustration. Not only was the Orb poorly designed, 4.X handled wireless charging poorly as well. The phone would frequently fall to indicate audibly that it was charging, Daydream would hardly ever start up…

No.

The phone recognizes your voice. Ambient voices won't trigger it.

Agreed, although for reading financial analysis .PDFs... hurry up with the refresh, Google!

Yeah, different devices for different usage cases. It's not uncommon for me to be away from any charger for twenty hours on end, so I had to jump from the N4 to the X. Hope you love the N5 when it arrives, though. Cheers!

The Snapdragon 800 has a low-power core available for purposes like this, so the N5 has it. However, it seems like the 'always listening' function on this device is limited to when it's awake and unlocked (homescreen or in apps), and not when the phone is otherwise asleep. At least according to the hands-on at The…

This is actually smaller than the Nexus 4. It's got a larger screen, but the overall size of the device has been reduced.

The X's camera— which got an app update today— is super bipolar. In good light? It's sharp, well-saturated, and gorgeous. In poor light? Yeeeeesh. It's noise city. There's not a lot of middle ground (although to be fair, it's still better than the N4's camera... which itself doesn't seem far removed from the N5's…

I finally left the Nexus family (One, S, 4, 7) for the X... and I really can't see myself going back for the N5. Kit Kat, while neat, looks a whole lot like the (very slight) modifications Motorola's already made, more so than it resembles AOSP Jellybean. And the battery life is fantastic. 2300mAh MIGHT be enough to…

Glass uses low power Bluetooth to grab data over your phone's connection. Doesn't have room for a separate cellular radio... as it is they need to miniaturise everything to increase battery capacity. And it doesn't require a separate data plan, or a tethering plan.

I've found (as I've gotten older) that money isn't as scary as it seems when you're starting out. Yes, it's crucial to have enough savings to cover emergency changes in your life, and to maintain an automated plan for covering things like insurance and stuff... but the investing and saving for retirement? I find it…

To be fair, her article added enormously more to the discussion than does your comment.

That's a bizarre way to state it. The X, as designed, supports button-area transparency exactly the same way the N5 does (as seen in leaked videos). Using a third-party launcher (which redraws the button area background the same way old launchers used to offer different dock area backgrounds) doesn't change the phone…

There have been mods to enable button-area transparency for a while, but I'm not aware of any that do it in the same way (that is to say, any that just display another part of a contiguous wallpaper).

I really hope it does manage to get such long battery life. I know a tremendous number of people who'd be intensely gratified to finally be able to combine completely stock Android with a battery that can keep up with power users. It's definitely been a long time coming, to say the least.

I'm still going to pay attention to the N5 launch— and I'm looking forward to playing around with 4.4 on my N4— but I picked up an X the other day and I can't imagine I'll see anything revealed that will make me give it up. The size on the X is perfect for me— same size display (4.7") as the N4 and the One, but it in…

You're right, it's definitely apples to oranges— and honestly, it's the one trade-off I thought I would mind about the X. But considering it's 4.7", I'm actually completely OK with the panel being 720p. It's definitely easier on the eyes than the horridly calibrated IPS on the N4 (at least until you fix the…