This "pure" Android phone designed to Google's specs is based on the LG G2 and has many improvements over the Nexus 4, including 5" full HD display, 4G LTE, and a Snapdragon 800 processor.

Whatever you call it, the Nexus 5 behaves as Google wants it to, not as LG, AT&T, T-Mobile nor anyone else wants it to. Phone Scoop has an in-depth review of Android 4.4 KitKat available here.

But alas, the firmware is locked down. Enter the NexMon project. If you’ve got a Nexus 5 phone with the Broadcom BCM4339 WiFi chipset, you’ve now got a monitor-mode, packet-injecting workhorse ...