"Nexus 6 will be available for pre-order through the Google Play Store in late October starting at $649."
This is from Motorola http://motorola-blog.blogspot.fr/2014/10/nexus-6-from-google...
Nexus 6
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Re: Nexus 6
#112I had a Nexus 5, but I bought a Sony Z3 Compact a few weeks ago, and I don't regret doing so. This phone is simply too big.
For anyone interested, I would highly recommend the Z3C. It's a fantastic phone and a really great size.
Re: Nexus 6
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
4.7" should be the plus, if you ask me. I'm dreading the day my 3.5" phone dies and has no reasonable modern replacement. EDIT : I'm open to switching to Android for my next phone if anyone can point my to a small one. Priorities are good camera, ok battery life, and not awful build quality. And maybe good support from Cyanogen? I'm out of the loop on Android and don't have a sense of how important that is these days…
Why do you like the small screen so much?
I can hold it normally and comfortably reach the entire screen with my thumb. I can also hold it in strange ways like with my 4th finger on the top edge and my thumb on the bottom, and still reach the entire screen with my index finger. I'm sure that last one sounds weird, but I do it surprisingly often (mostly while laying down).
The gigantic phones remind me of 17" laptops. I can see it making sense if you don't have another computer, but hell if I want to carry one around. For phones, it's just a big thing in my pocket that's trying to be redundant with my surface. All I need is phone calls, texting, GPS/maps, snapcat, music, and (usually reading only) email and OneNote.
A 6" screen doesn't make any of those things easier or more convenient.
Re: Nexus 6
#114Can anyone explain to me what the fetish is with pushing the same amount of pixels as a freaking 27 inch display (which, by the way, I've always considered gorgeous)? I mean, does anyone actually notice the difference? Because if that difference means I'm paying $100-200 extra for a better screen, a better graphics chip etc, and it means my battery life is reduced, I really just don't get it. I elaborated a bit on th…
Did your gorgeous 27" display cost more than $500? I'm not quite clear why you think $500 for a very decent computer that fits into a (big) pocket is unreasonable.
OP has a reasonable point, not sure what yours is.
> Did your gorgeous 27" display cost more than $500?
Actually, they're going for about $300 on NewEgg, and are currently on sale for $200 at Best Buy.
Re: Nexus 6
#115Can anyone confirm what is driving this larger screen war? I know when LTE was rolling out manufacturers needed space for larger batteries but couldn't make the phones thicker due to market backlash so bigger screens began to trend. Now I can't help but think it is completely consumer driven but if that is so what are the larger screens enabling users to do? Is it the resolution? The multitasking? This just doesn't l…
I think the loop goes something like: - few people yell loudly about wanting a big phone - manufacturer makes a big phone which can have better hardware due to easier heating and larger battery - the big phone sells well because it's the only decent phone manufacturer made that quarter - manufacturer builds a bigger phone ;)
Exactly - I don't know many personally who like the big phones, but you are exactly right that they sell anyways because nowadays there are few other options.
Re: Nexus 6
#116Can anyone explain to me what the fetish is with pushing the same amount of pixels as a freaking 27 inch display (which, by the way, I've always considered gorgeous)? I mean, does anyone actually notice the difference? Because if that difference means I'm paying $100-200 extra for a better screen, a better graphics chip etc, and it means my battery life is reduced, I really just don't get it. I elaborated a bit on th…
> I mean, does anyone actually notice the difference? Absolutely.
Really? Your eye can resolve the difference between 300 ppi and 500 ppi at arm's length?
Also, don't be a stranger.
Re: Nexus 6
#117Can anyone explain to me what the fetish is with pushing the same amount of pixels as a freaking 27 inch display (which, by the way, I've always considered gorgeous)? I mean, does anyone actually notice the difference? Because if that difference means I'm paying $100-200 extra for a better screen, a better graphics chip etc, and it means my battery life is reduced, I really just don't get it. I elaborated a bit on th…
Correction: a piss poor 27 inch display. "Quad HD" is way too little for that size; you need to at least quadruple the amount of pixels to get anything resembling print quality.
And I don't understand why we shouldn't strive for that. After all, (for me at least), much what I do on a computer is reading, and that benefits from a higher-resolution display up to a point much more than images.
Re: Nexus 6
#118I see an important question looming on the 5-year horizon: how are people going to be carrying these large devices? Clearly carrying large phones in pockets is impossible for many, increasingly impractical for many more, and simply undesirable to the curious. Will handbags or hip bags become common for all? Will the average size of phones rebound and approach some smaller-screen equilibrium size near 5"? Everything d…
>Clearly carrying large phones in pockets is impossible... impractical... and... undesirable.
People keep saying that and time and time again it's proven wrong. It has been wrong for years, and it will keep being wrong. If large phones were impossible, impractical, and undesirable, people would stop buying them. But they're not. They're demanding them in such large numbers that even Apple has put out a massive, massive phone. Even Nokia put out a massive phone. Samsung started matching the size of their flagship to the size of their largest phone years ago.
Every manufacturer has a huge phone, because the majority of the buying public wants a huge phone. But still I hear people say "big phones will never catch on". Guess what? They did catch on, and they're not big phones anymore. After several years of being big phones, they're just called phones now.
Re: Nexus 6
#119Can anyone confirm what is driving this larger screen war? I know when LTE was rolling out manufacturers needed space for larger batteries but couldn't make the phones thicker due to market backlash so bigger screens began to trend. Now I can't help but think it is completely consumer driven but if that is so what are the larger screens enabling users to do? Is it the resolution? The multitasking? This just doesn't l…
Many of us are not 5' tall and want to get things done on our phones.
Re: Nexus 6
#120I've bought every nexus phone when they were released, but I'm not sure about this one. The nexus 5 is already a bit oversized IMO. This thing is ridiculous.
Yes, Nexus 5 is great except for the battery life. I hate that this is so huge, and that it has a physical home button. The larger battery (thanks to larger screen) will be an improvement to battery issues, though.
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