There's no such thing as a "perfect" phone. Comparing one to another will never end, just like comparing between Merc & BMW or Toyota & Honda or Ferrari & Lamborgini. At the end of the day u buy a phone that suits to your overall needs.

My first android phone was a Gnex & now on N5, I'm aware of its shortcomings (battery life, camera, speaker, no Micro SD card etc) before buying BUT it doesn't bother me as I'm a light user which battery life can last me for one full day, I don't take photo that much & I don't listen to music with my phone (my other gadjets will do the job for me), now still got 10GB of space on my white 16GB N5 .

At the price of RM1100 what more could I ask, after slapping it with Nillkin glass SP and Spigen casing walla .... whenever with friends most of them will ask "...phone ape ko pakai ni bro?, lain macam la pulak" my answer "rare tak?". This is just my personal reason for using N5 without going too deep with other criteria such as customization bla bala....

I guess once a Nexus always a Nexus.... cheriooo guys...