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Re: Google Nexus 5x and 6P

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Post by dangrossman »

pierre_massat wrote: post #39
pfalke wrote: post #33

What's the price? Couldn't find it on the page, only the "join the waitlist" button. Any help appreciated

They announced $399 for the 16GB and $429 for the 32GB.

$379, not $399. There's an optional $69 2-year protection plan, which would cost $99 from SquareTrade. It also comes with a $50 Play Store credit. If you would've spent the money on the warranty and Play Store anyway, that makes it a $300 phone.

Re: Google Nexus 5x and 6P

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Post by snx »

thom_nic wrote: post #45

Minor gripe: Who thought it was a good idea to make a charger with a permanent cable attached? https://store.google.com/product/usb_c_charger Also, does anyone have full specs? I don't see it anywhere.

http://www.google.com/nexus/5x/

the us page has better information, for whatever reason.

Re: Google Nexus 5x and 6P

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

Navarr wrote: post #21

I really need to see a comparison between 6P, Moto X Pure, and current 6. Those are the phones I need to decide between. Current 6 only b/c it should get cheap and the Snapdragon 820 comes out next year, but I'm not sure I can wait a year with my aging Moto X 2013.

Maybe it's not worth it to you but I'd love to see a comparison between the phones you listed but also toss the iPhone 6S+ in there. I don't have any brand loyalty and bounce back and forth between iOS and Android so it's always helpful for me when someone includes the iPhone in comparison.

Re: Google Nexus 5x and 6P

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Post by cptskippy »

quasse wrote: post #22

The price is certainly right, but I really don't feel like the specs are any kind of leap that makes me want to upgrade from my Nexus 5. Hexa-core is neat, but honestly I'd rather have software polish that meant rotating my phone while using the camera in video mode didn't mean some probability of a system reboot. Unfortunately my experience with both the Nexus 4 and 5 is that the stability is either never quite ther…

A2DP Bluetooth on the Nexus 4 has degraded significantly since it's launch. The current iteration is pretty awful, having to reboot daily to avoid silence gaps, but it's world better than Kit Kat.

I don't understand how they could get such an important feature so wrong.

Re: Google Nexus 5x and 6P

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Post by cheald »

mtgx wrote: post #68
cheald wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 1.55 micrometer pixel sensors are interesting. If they actually do what they're supposed to, then exposure times should be decreased which would theoretically reduce the usefulness of OIS. I guess we'll see once the reviews start coming in.

Only partially. OIS is still useful for video stabilization. Bigger pixels won't help there.

Granted, but you can make that up with software stabilization, so long as each individual frame isn't blurry.

I'd definitely have preferred OIS, but I'm not convinced that it's a dealbreaker just yet.

Re: Google Nexus 5x and 6P

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Post by mtgx »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #63
legulere wrote: post #49

I wonder how the fingerprints will be stored. Secure from access by the operating system? Or will they be uploaded to Google like wifi passwords?

I would imagine they implemented it exactly like Google in that they're stored only on the OS and it needs your code to decrypt them. Anything else just doesn't sit right.

Ugh. First off they need to only store hashes of fingerprints, not the fingerprint images themselves. But I hope they are smart enough to do that by now.

Second, it's not supposed to be "on the OS". It's supposed to be in TrustZone, the "secure world" separated from the OS. I hope that's what they did, but I worry they may have adopted a more "universal" solution that's a little higher level and less secure (even though TrustZone should be in virtually all ARM chips).

Re: Google Nexus 5x and 6P

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Post by dangrossman »

bigpeopleareold wrote: post #42

Nexus 5x: Now with a slightly better power button that will not fail after the warranty expires.

My Nexus 4's speaker failed just after a year. I replaced it with a Nexus 5, whose speaker and microphone failed after 7 months. I did a warranty exchange and the refurbished Nexus 5 now in my pocket's speaker and microphone just went out about a week ago. They share a flex cable that runs under the battery and seems to go bad somehow. I messed with the connection but it didn't fix it. I've preordered the 5x, but this time with the 2-year warranty.

Re: Google Nexus 5x and 6P

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #25

Why did Google bother with all of that work to fix SD storage in Android M[0] if they're still not going to put an SD card in their Nexus phones!?! I was holding out hope that I would finally have a reason to buy a Nexus phone with the 5X or 6P, but now that we have the final spec sheet, I think I'm going to just grab an HTC One M9 or something. The lack of expandable storage really kills it for me. [0] http://www.an…

They did the work for third parties to keep it an an option for the lower end market. The higher end market has shown it doesn't care about SD cards and, honestly, I think for good reason: their user experience has always been terrible.

Internal storage is faster and more reliable so I think you're always going to see more and more phones, especially flagships, not offer expandable options.

Re: Google Nexus 5x and 6P

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Post by dantillberg »

barrkel wrote: post #69
dantillberg wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, the 5X is smaller, but at 5.8 inches (147mm) it's still bigger than my nexus 5, which clocks in at an already-hefty 5.4 inches (138mm).

The 5X is 5.2 inches.

The display on the 5X is 5.2 inches. The physical dimensions of the phone are a bit larger.
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