A friend needs a new phone. Must be Android and they are on Skinny. Requirements are a good screen for outdoors especially in bright sunshine, a decent camera which can handle close ups of plants, 4G would be a nice but not strictly necessary and good battery life. They work in a rural location on the edge of the XT boundary and so the battery can take a hammering during the day. Both VF and 2D reception is sketchy at best so XT is their only option.

Also the ability to provide a hotspot would be a huge bonus. I got caught out with a Windows phone once assuming all phones could do this and that one couldn't :(

I would just pick up a second hand Nexus 5 but they prefer new. 

Any suggestions ? I've gone off the boil with my Nexus 5 love-in :)