You need to account for shipping within US, tax in US. No tax in Malaysia, but may get held up for SIRIM approval which is RM100.

Has there been any good bumper case out there? Prefer to run my phone naked but realise the need to protect the phone when my fingers grow longer to grip it better.

Droid-life.com review on battery life has not been very good. Reviewer claimed a mix usage between WiFi and LTE. Still, seems worrying. Review contains screenshot of battery usage with SOT.
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/11/25/nexus-5-review/

This post has been edited by tanjinjack: Nov 26 2013, 03:11 PM

The ~2 hour SOT doesn't look good. I know it's a 2,300mAh battery, but I expect better battery life than 2 hour SOT. HTC One can do that better - smaller screen but less efficient chip.

Cruzerlite case, anyone?


This post has been edited by tanjinjack: Nov 28 2013, 03:56 PM

Here's my own research about getting GST refund on Australian set. My friend will process it for me when she's coming back late December. All information is extracted from here:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2050306

Google Asia Pacific, despite operating in Singapore (and have their warehouses in HK), is registered to ABN. Registration to ABN means they are charging you GST under Australian laws. For that, as a tourist, you have the right to claim GST under the TRS scheme.
Link courtesy to QuickFire: http://abr.business.gov.au/SearchByAbn.aspx?abn=54341015381

Despite the clear clause of "good purchased over the internet and imported into Australia", it does not seem to apply for Australian Google Play devices because you are still charged the Australian GST, which you have the right to claim refund of. The clause is to prevent claim from purchases made without GST being charged, say buying something off ebay from US.

Here's what you need to do (and what I will ask my friend to do):
1. Request a tax invoice from Google. My friend got it by getting in touch by Google with this link (https://support.google.com/googleplay/contact/us_tax_exempt) (doesn't matter if information seems applicable to US). Some guy should reply you and tell you bull shit about eligibility of tax refund. What we need to do here is to get tax invoice, not requesting refund directly from Google. Send in the email in the form like:

Usually you should get the tax invoice in email in 24 hours based on my friend and the whirlpool discussion.
Your tax invoice should look something like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7u7hepag758u34d/n5-tax-invoice.png

2. Print the tax invoice out, preferably on a colour printer. On the whirlpool thread, there are people who got rejected the refund on the basis that the self-printed tax invoice is not an "original copy" of tax invoice. So, when you print it out, and got challenged if it's mailed directly from Google, answer "Yes!". I doubt the TRS staff will have ways to prove otherwise it's not from Google directly. (If you request a hardcopy, Google probably also prints out using the same file anyway, isn't it?)

3. Bring the phone with you. You need to show the good to the TRS staff. It needs not be sealed in box as far as I am concerned. You probably have some paperwork to fill, but you should be good to get the refund.

Proof: In the whirlpool thread, a post on 15 Nov 2013 by user Jayau has successfully claimed the refund. Receipt: https://db.tt/LVOlYVoV

All these are from the whirlpool thread and credits to all of the forumers there. You can read them yourself and you are likely to find the same info as me. I can't say mine is the definitive guide until my friend tried it out. Maybe someone can test it out first. So far as I see, it should be fine.

This post has been edited by tanjinjack: Dec 1 2013, 03:53 PM