The FHD (1920 x 1080) LCD screen, with 445 pixels per inch, looks bright pretty much anytime you glance at it, even in broad daylight. To be fair, camera bumps have become seen on several smartphones in the past few years, so maybe I should try to get over this. There is no strangely satisfying spin like there is on the Moto X (2nd Gen).īut hey, at least the phone lies flat when the screen is facing down.
That’s annoying when you hit a button with a bit of force and the phone gets a bit off-balance. As a result, if you push down on the edge of the phone with the screen facing up, the phone will tilt. The camera stands out from the rest of the back of the phone just enough - about a tenth of an inch - that it makes the phone taller toward the top. When you lay the phone down on a flat surface with the screen facing up, you may experience a sudden sense of disappointment. I welcome the move downward in the car, that means my headphone cable is less likely to get tangled, and when I’m walking, the cable no longer sticks up in the air like some sort of weird antenna. A conversion cable can solve these problems.) Also on the bottom of the 5X: the headphone jack. (Unfortunately the charging cable doesn’t work with my car charger, and my laptops can’t accept it, either. The 5X is rocking the USB Type-C jack on the bottom where the micro USB jack used to be. Image Credit: Devindra Hardawar/VentureBeat