New stocks of Google Nexus 5 features larger speaker & microphone holes and fixed buttons

Google's Nexus 5 is without doubt one of the best smartphone money can buy. Still there are some issues which are clearly visible on Nexus 5. The initial stocks of Nexus 5 comes with smaller speaker and microphone holes and rattling buttons, which LG and Google has addressed, and has started shipping the updated Nexus 5, which features larger speaker & microphone holes and fixed buttons.

These changes are minor manufacturing adjustments that aim to improve upon the build quality of Nexus 5.  The hardware updates were first noticed by an Nexus 5 owner over at the XDA forums, who returned a defective Nexus 5 unit to Google and received a slightly different replacement unit.

The user has posted some photos of new Nexus 5 alongside old Nexus 5, spotlighting the upgrades. As per the images, the power and volume buttons on the new Nexus 5 is no longer loose, and the speaker and microphone grill are larger than before, to give out better sound output/input.

To know whether you have the revised version of Nexus 5 or not, check the serial number of your Nexus 5 box. If the serial number starts with 311, then you are owing the Nexus 5 with upgraded hardware, else not. You can also check the speaker grill for confirmation.

Source - XDA Forum

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