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Re: Oct. 4

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Post by kbenson »

pjmlp wrote: post #38
hammock wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All(?) of the top-end Androids in the Verizon store are priced at $650 and above.

In countries where we have the joy of buying phones without contracts, the majority of the customer, doesn't go above the 300€ line, when paying the full price out of their pockets.

The last few years I've not been offered a contract, but the ability to finance the phone. An inversion of the prior contract model, it's more what you expect. There are separate fees for the service, and for the monthly payment for the phone. After X number of months (choosable on purchase, affects per-month phone payment), the phone is paid off and is no longer part of the bill. It's much more straightforward and easy to reason about, and you don't have to immediately try to upgrade when your contract is up so you don't feel like you're paying for more than you're getting.

Re: Oct. 4

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Post by makmanalp »

oconnor0 wrote: post #41
JohnTHaller wrote: post #7

The new phones, the Pixel and Pixel XL are rumored to start at $649 for the smaller phone in the smallest memory configuration of 32gb. If true, this would mean the old Nexus line is well and truly dead and Google is taking the Apple approach to pricing. The Pixel brand is supposed to be premium at a premium price but currently has one product that fills that niche (the Pixel Chromebook) and one that doesn't (the fai…

I'm sad to see the Nexus line go away. I quite like my Nexus 5 but have no interest in spending over 600$ on a phone.

Does anyone know of a decent sub 5-inch phone? All the reviews sites seem to ignore this factor. My old 4.3" moto X is dying and I'm hoping to find a truly pocketable replacement.

Re: Oct. 4

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Post by PascLeRasc »

mafuyu wrote: post #51
matart wrote: post #48

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What would you go with instead? I am also a Nexus 5 user looking for an upgrade of some sort.

Check out the OnePlus 3. It's a "flagship killer" at a low price. I have one and it's excellent.

But are they still doing that ridiculous "invite-only" buying model? I really wanted to get a OnePlus One when it came out but they wouldn't ever let me give them money for one.

Re: Oct. 4

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Post by andrepd »

makmanalp wrote: post #82
oconnor0 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sad to see the Nexus line go away. I quite like my Nexus 5 but have no interest in spending over 600$ on a phone.

Does anyone know of a decent sub 5-inch phone? All the reviews sites seem to ignore this factor. My old 4.3" moto X is dying and I'm hoping to find a truly pocketable replacement.

Check the Sony compact series, or some Chinese brand phone.

Re: Oct. 4

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Post by dhd415 »

makmanalp wrote: post #82
oconnor0 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sad to see the Nexus line go away. I quite like my Nexus 5 but have no interest in spending over 600$ on a phone.

Does anyone know of a decent sub 5-inch phone? All the reviews sites seem to ignore this factor. My old 4.3" moto X is dying and I'm hoping to find a truly pocketable replacement.

The "compact" phones in the Sony Xperia line are really the only ones that come close. My wife is still happily using her Z3 Compact though its successor, the Z5 Compact, didn't review as well. The newest Xperia X Compact is getting decent reviews.

Re: Oct. 4

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Post by zeveb »

oconnor0 wrote: post #41
JohnTHaller wrote: post #7

The new phones, the Pixel and Pixel XL are rumored to start at $649 for the smaller phone in the smallest memory configuration of 32gb. If true, this would mean the old Nexus line is well and truly dead and Google is taking the Apple approach to pricing. The Pixel brand is supposed to be premium at a premium price but currently has one product that fills that niche (the Pixel Chromebook) and one that doesn't (the fai…

I'm sad to see the Nexus line go away. I quite like my Nexus 5 but have no interest in spending over 600$ on a phone.

Pretty much the only reason I even use Android has been the Nexus line. Why would I want vendor crapware on my phone? Why would I want a Google phone with Google crapware?

Re: Oct. 4

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Post by SCdF »

mkozlows wrote: post #69
SCdF wrote: post #50

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Where do you get that three years of support figure from? The only official numbers I've ever heard was 18 months, which lines up roughly with my experience. I have a N5, which came out (just) less than three years ago, and it is not getting Nougat, which was released a few weeks ago. The last major update it got was around a year ago. AFAICT with Google you're guaranteed to get the next OS version, if you're lucky y…

Two years of major-release support, and three years of security support: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/08/05/google-announces-new...

Right, so still pretty bad compared to iOS: iOS10 just came out and supports the iPhone 5, which was released 4 years ago. I presume if they had some massive security issue they'd backport it to versions of iOS older than 10.

(I am no iOS fanboy, but honestly I'm sick of the android expectation of getting a new phone every 2 years, and they seem to be the only ones who are even pretending to give a shit with their old phone support. They still don't give as many shits as I'd like, but I cannot find their better).

Re: Oct. 4

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Post by [deleted] »

makmanalp wrote: post #82
oconnor0 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sad to see the Nexus line go away. I quite like my Nexus 5 but have no interest in spending over 600$ on a phone.

Does anyone know of a decent sub 5-inch phone? All the reviews sites seem to ignore this factor. My old 4.3" moto X is dying and I'm hoping to find a truly pocketable replacement.

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Re: Oct. 4

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Post by pjmlp »

kbenson wrote: post #81
pjmlp wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In countries where we have the joy of buying phones without contracts, the majority of the customer, doesn't go above the 300€ line, when paying the full price out of their pockets.

The last few years I've not been offered a contract, but the ability to finance the phone. An inversion of the prior contract model, it's more what you expect. There are separate fees for the service, and for the monthly payment for the phone. After X number of months (choosable on purchase, affects per-month phone payment), the phone is paid off and is no longer part of the bill. It's much more straightforward and e…

That is the old model we had with pre-paid in Portugal back when mobile phones were introduced, however they were locked to the provider and it was a fight to get them unlocked at the end of the leasing time.

Eventually our version of FCC got around making it easy to complain if an operator would make someone's life hard regarding unlocking.

Re: Oct. 4

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Post by MichaelGG »

naringas wrote: post #29

I get an HTTP 404 not found >The requested URL /fourten was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

Are you in the US? Google has this terrible system where they "geo IP" then return nonsensical results.

Travel with an Android phone, and watch the Play Store go bilingual, mostly in English, with random parts showing up in e.g. Spanish.

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