LONDON — Google has just announced in reports yesterday (Oct 31) the release of its latest flagship Android smartphone, the Nexus 5 that comes running the next iteration of Android 4.4 Kitkat.

With a 5-inch full HD screen and high-end specifications, the Nexus 5 offers a premium Android experience with a more affordable price tag, starting at £299 (S$600), than other flagship Android smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One, as well as Apple’s iPhone 5S.

Based on the underlying hardware of one of LG’s current Android smartphones, the LG G2, the Nexus 5 features, a top-of-the-line 2.3GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM and 16 or 32GB of built-in storage, which should perform well for both multitasking and graphically intensive gaming.

“For KitKat, we partnered with LG to develop Nexus 5 — the slimmest and fastest Nexus phone ever made,” said Google in a blogpost.

The Nexus 5 also features an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, and a 1.3-megapixel camera on the front for video chatting, as well as wireless charging and Wi-Fi, NFC and Bluetooth 4.0 for communication with low-power accessories like the Fitbit One and a plethora of other fitness gadgets.

“The advanced new lens on Nexus 5 captures more light for brighter night and sharper action shots. And with optical image stabilisation, you no longer have to worry about shaky hands and blurry pictures,” Google said.

The Nexus 5 is the first smartphone to run Google’s latest iteration of Android — version 4.4 Kitkat — which continues the refinement of the mobile operating system becoming more colourful and flatter, similar to Apple’s latest revision of iOS.

Google Now, Google’s context-sensitive digital assistant, has also been given greater prominence in the new software, after the new “Hummingbird” algorithm update made Google’s core search better at answering longer, more complex and spoken queries.

It is discussed that Google will make their new device LG Nexus 5 available in Singapore and other countries in the last week of November or first week of December, this year. Be ready to grab your new Nexus equipped will the amazing specifications and best price. THE GUARDIAN