Mine’s nice. The phone itself is uber fast and jelly bean Android is very slick compared to my last phone (gingerbread).
Size wise I was worried I might find it too bulky, but actually it’s just about OK because it’s quite thin
I got mine on a contract during the “nexus drought”, and the deal I ended up with is about the same total cost as buying it and going sim only. Check out one of the bargain basement phone websites and try getting your network to match it – worked for me.
There’s a few annoying things of course, such as Google now, which is not quite clever enough to be useful yet (although it’s spooky what it already knows about you!) but it often pops up when you don’t want it to
All in all I’m pretty happy with mine