Nexus premium worth it

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It's got higher-quality buttons, a much nicer silky smooth soft-touch rubber texture, and all sorts of little design touches like embossed lettering and metal details around the camera lens.

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That phone, also built by LG, looks and feels so much better to me now than the new Nexus 5X. Why am I harping on these things when the Nexus 5X starts at just $379? Haven't we already established that this is a cheap phone? Sure, but so was the original $350 Nexus 5 from two years ago. Guess which one costs more? Josh Miller/CNET