Why Nexus?

I have had four smartphones now. My first smartphone was an HTC Hero. It is still around. It has been a very useful spare but it is probably coming to the end of that. Unlike any phone you will buy now, the Hero has a standard SIM. Not a Micro or a mini, Nano or anything else. Just a little piece of plastic not much bigger than a mini SD card. My next phone was a Galaxy 2. Again, a proper sim but this one is not finishing its days as a high quality spare. When it was nearly at the end of its contract, it bricked and was traded in as part of phone number three. Having had a good experience (until the end)with the GS2, staying with Samsung was reasonable. I went for the Galaxy4 min1. It wasn't so mini actually. It seemed pretty much the same size as the Galaxy2. This had brought scorn from some Apple fans for being ridiculously oversized. How things change. Apple has changed its opinions about phone size and it is falling out of the smartphone market anyway There are now phones available from "tiny" 3 inch diagonals up to five for the majority and bigger again for some. That phone didn't stay with me for long. My wife needed something simple, reliable and reasonably up to date to replace a broken one. She still had the contract and SIM but her phone screen was in bits. After a brief stay with the Hero, she got the reset S4 and I moved on. This time, I moved away from Samsung and now have a Nexus 5. Why desert Samsung? This is my biggest screen yet. That wasn't the main reason. About a year before, I had got myself a Nexus 7 tablet. I had learned what Android was like when it wasn't full of "other" base applications trying to be used instead of the very satisfactory Android ones. I had learned what Android was like without a "special" launcher pushing in to do what Android already did quite well. On the other hand, Nexus devices are very good for trying out other launchers and lots of different applications are available to do those base tasks differently. Right from when I first got the Galaxy2, I found that there are a number of things that just make life more complicated. The Communications "Hub", for example, may sound like a great idea. All your messaging on one screen but it actually didn't seem like such a great thing when I tried it. Fortunately, doing a factory reset on an android phone is trivial and as soon as I connect it back to my Google account, all my contacts etc are back. The S4 Mini tended to put Samsung Apps in place so that I found myself using their calendar instead of the Google one. I found that one when I found that appointments made on that did not show up on my Google Calendar on my tablet or Google synced to my Windows PC. These things were easy to fix but why should I have to? Another reason I decided on the Nexus 5 was the price. I needed a non-contract unlocked phone. The price is good. What I have now is a superb mobile phone that lets me fiddle around. There is nothing but the "proper" Google stuff on it and the things that I have loaded on myself. Nexus devices get all the latest updates fast. No waiting around for manufacturer to get the new stuff from Google. add their extras, pass it onto the phone company who add their extras and then pass it to me when they feel like it. That's assuming that they allow me to have an update. They might want me to get their latest offering instead. I expect to get any updates sooner and for longer. This has held true on my Nexus7 tablet. We shall see how this goes. It's not the main reason I have this device but its a nice extra one. I hope to put down, what having multiple Google devices feels like. probably some pictures too. I have nothing from the bleeding edge of technology here. Reviews of the latest cool stuff are best left to people who are good at that.