Google Nexus 5 phone, Nexus 7 tablet suffering from major quality issues: Creaky buttons, letters falling off, more

“Nexus 5 is suffering from major quality issues, after complaints about low ringtone volume, creaky buttons we now have reports of the letters falling off,” Android News reports.

“As you can see in the image the ‘e’ from the ‘Nexus’ has come off,” Android News reports. “These letters are supposed to be ceramic but apparently they are not, poking your nails will make the letters fall off.”

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Daniel Bean reports for Yahoo News, “Some owners of Google’s Nexus 5 smartphone and Nexus 7 tablet devices are complaining of losing the shiny plastic NEXUS letters from the backs of their phones and tablets (like the two Nexus 5s shown below), according to tech sites and forum posts from around the Web. In most of these instances, the glue that holds the letters in place has seemingly given out.”

Google Nexus 5 phones with the plastic letters falling off
Google Nexus 5 phones with the plastic letters falling off

 
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MacDailyNews Take: It’s all very copacetic when the quality of the Android device matches the quality of the Android customer.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “elder norm” for the heads up.]

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