up until 6 months ago I was a semi average smartphone user when it came to cases. I had pretty thick, probably overkill, cases on my phone. I started with Otterbox defender cases and after being very disappointed with the quality, I began using a Sedio convert case which I cant say enough good things about. however about 6 months ago I was cleaning the outer rubber layer of the Sedio and carried it with just the slim inner layer and after only a few hours fell in love with the new thinner feel. I did a bit of research and after hearing many good things I settled on a cruzerlite case. I now have 3 cruzerlite tpu cases for my 2 phones.
my first cruzerlite case was the any splat case for my galaxy s3 and I love how it looks and feels nice big (but not excessive) cut outs for the buttons and micro USB port. the phone has suffered a few bumps during my time with this case and has always come away unphased. I've tried using the phone naked as well but I actually refer it with the case as the hyper glaze coating on it makes the phone feel to slick.
so when I decided to buy the nexus 5 i searched for cases and again found myself back at cruzerlite. my first case for the nexus was the black bugdroid circuit case. my only complaint about this case is the button cutouts on each side seemed a tad small making it hard to press buttons. I eventually used a exacto knife to open up the button holes about 1 mm all the way around. this completely changed the case and made it perfect.
after trimming the hole
before trimming the hole
after a month or 2 with the bugdroid case I decides to try to blue androidified a2 case. when I ordered the case I figured it would have the same button cutout issue as the other case, but upon recieving it and trying it on I found the button cutouts on the a2 case seem to be cut to a nicer size. I've been using this case for about a month now and I think its my favorite so far. I love the molded grip style ridges on both side edges. and I'm very glad I got it in blue. it looks great and adds some nice color and style to the phone. when I first looked at the case I was a bit concerned about how much protection it would provide, but this drop test video from zedomax solidified my faith in this brand. check it out. this video could be a cruzerlite commercial.
so on top of all that I've had awesome customer service everytime I've dealt with them and when I recieved the blue a2 case I even got a $5 gift card with it as well. I'm planning on using this to buy a print style case offered by cruzerlite to try out. hope you enjoyed. have a good day.
Ok so I've had my Google/Lg nexus 5 for roughly 3 weeks now and i figured id posts some of my thoughts and opinions on it. to start with ill give a brief background of my previous android devices to shed some light on where I'm coming from with this.
my android journey started back in about 2009 or so and my first phone was a Motorola cliq. my mother and brother had both already had the phone for 6 months and i had been hesitant to jump on the wagon. however after messing with there phones i decided maybe i could justify it and pulled the trigger. i don't remember much about the phone other then it was painfully slow. about a year later i inherited my brothers 2 month old cliq 2 as he quickly found out his duty station at that time had poor coverage from t-mobile. the cliq 2 was worlds better then the cliq 1 and towards the end of my time with it i rooted it and did a major update to android 2.3 that was not available OTA. the microphone on the cliq 2 eventually gave out and that lead to me buying a Samsung galaxy s3 in pebble blue. at the time the phone had only been out for a few months and was considered to be one of the best. this phone served me very well and still does for that matter however I'd like to dedicate a different post to that phone so I wont go to far into it here.
all that brings us to my nexus 5 which ive had for around 3 weeks now. im not gonna review the entire phone so much as give my opinions. after coming from a heavily modified version of Samsung's bloated touchwiz i was craving a more aosp experience and after much research and visiting stores i settled on the nexus 5 . over all it got very good reviews and i liked the price point. i love the way the phone looks as well. infact the looks was one reason i settled on it. i bought the 32GB black edition and am very happy with it. I love the white but since I'm a mechanic by trade i figured white was a bad idea. plus i knew the phone was gonna end up in a case. i have had the phone in a cruzerlite bugdroid case since it came out the box and it looks great.
the nexus 5 is buttery smooth and very fast and i have no complaints. my s3 was a none LTE model so I'm sure that also adds to the speed of this phone too. the phone was already on android 4.4.2 when i got it. the camera has been a topic of much debate on this phone but for my average joe shooting style this phone seems equally as good as my s3 and thats all i really need so no complaints there. the cameras controls did take some getting used to compared to Samsung's complex settings but im liking it.
battery life is another area of debate and again it seems to be comparable to my s3 witch although it could be better is at least good enough. i also got the wireless charger with the phone and have grown to like it a lot since i hated using my s3 while it was plugged in. when i first got the nexus 5 the battery life semmed a bit weak but as time goes on it seems to have gotten better and may actually be slightly better then my s3 was.
hello all, my name is Scott. this is my first post on my first blog. this is all kinda new to me and i'm still actively learning so bear with me if this sucks. i guess to start with ill just tell you a bit about myself and the sort of stuff i'm interested in as that should directly relate to the stuff that may end up here.
I'm a hardcore gear head first and foremost. i first started getting into motorcycle when i was about 12 and cars came at about the age of 15. today i am a professional automotive technician with 10 years experience in the industry. I've owned more cars then i can remember in my time with a drivers license although only a handful of them ever made it to the road. i pretty much live, eat , sleep ,and breath anything with an engine. i grew up riding 3 wheelers and 4 wheelers and jet skis. we had riding lawn mowers that i was driving since i was 8 years old or so.
having said all that, i have slowly but gradually been taking a bigger interest in all thing tech. my gateway into all of this was android. my first android phone was a Motorola cliq and to date its the only one i didn't modify or tweak. my current phone is a nexus 5. as i got deeper and deeper into all things android it naturally started to bridge out to an interest in things like Linux, coding, chrome OS, chromecast, and lots more. I'm still learning about alot of things and don't claim to be an expert on any of it.
as i said at this beginning I'm still very new to blogging and all of this in general. i also know my grammar leaves a bit to be desired. however these are all things all be working to improve upon as time goes. in the event anyone actually reads this.....thank you and i hope you enjoyed it.
