The Google has managed to improve on both the camera and battery life, but not to an extent which cam make us believe that the company really cares about those two aspects.
The camera is better thanks to the presence of OIS, but the focus has been seen a much slower and to click pictures. Also the saving of pictures after taking click takes a lot of time to saver them and if you go too fast swiping towards left then the picture will take some time to be loaded.
The battery has been bumped up in the context of mAh, but the relative improvement is not that great. I feel like these aspects are been ignored by Google and have only minor refreshes.
The camera UI looks that Google has gone with the minimalist look, hiding settings behind a touch-activated arc menu and not giving user enough to control over finer settings.
camera and battery are contentious issues. Google has admitted that some faults of the Nexus 5 camera are down to the software issues, which will be fixed in future updates but that has not done that good at all.
Battery life is not that great to be boasted about. Even with the kitkat’s various power management features and the energy-efficient SoC notwithstanding, prolonged use of the larger dispplay with FHD resolution will not go through thte entire day work even. Web browsing and video consumption are the worst offenders on the nexus 5, duer to the display being always on.
Camera UI on thte Nexus 5 is very much confusing.