Nexus phones were never complete spec beasts as in one or two items always seemed to trail other high-end devices. The Nexus S had a mediocre CPU, the Galaxy Nexus had a horrible camera, and the Nexus 4 didn’t offer an LTE option. While most high-end phones in 2013 will probably sport a 1080p display, this week’s rumor says the Nexus 5 won’t. In fact according to a tipster, it will be more compact than the majority of upper echelon phones, featuring a 4.5-inch 720p display. The display itself will cover 88% of the phone, which would be the most of any phone.

According to Phone Arena the tipster told them the Nexus 5 will put a bigger emphasis on the camera instead. This isn’t really all that surprising when you consider Vic Gundotra’s comments last month about how Nexus devices will have insanely great cameras in the future. To top things off, last week we heard that the next Nexus phone will have Nikon-branded camera module that will sport a “triple camera sensor.” Of course this same report said the Nexus 5 would indeed have a 1080p display. Back to the camera, the tipster says that the Nexus 5 will come with a 9MP CCD camera, which is a little bizarre since most cameras come with a CMOS sensor for speed.

The rest of the specs include a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor as well as a 2,800mAh battery. Last week’s report said it would have a 3,140mAh battery, but the processor wasn’t mentioned. I don’t know about you, but I would love to finally see an “insanely great” camera on any phone.

source: PhoneArena