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Re: Nexus 6

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Post by azernik »

JeremyNT wrote: post #129
metabrew wrote: post #3

I'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.

The present obsession with "bigger is better" is perplexing to me. I know some use cases are facilitated by larger displays, and they are valuable to people with poor eyesight, but I've never once in my life thought "boy, I wish my phone was even larger." A phone I cannot fit in my pocket is virtually useless to me. Anything larger than my (already too large) Nexus 5 is a complete non-starter for me. I can see a plac…

The intended market is people who don't carry their phone in their pockets, e.g. women who don't wear pockets that can fit a standard-size phone anyway. If you're just putting it in your purse, the extra inch isn't ab problem.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by wil421 »

pjmlp wrote: post #159
omnibrain wrote: post #12

So apparently there is no 7" tablet anymore. I think that makes sense, since the 7" tablets get cannibalized by the ever growing smartphones. After I bought a Nexus 7 I started to carry it around all the time. I used my Galaxy Nexus less and less (only for calls and whatsapp) so after a short time (when the Galaxy Nexus started to show its age) I decided I can live with an even smaller (and not so flexible) phone and…

I never got into the tablets bandwagon. For me a phablet makes much more sense. I just want a powerful smartphone, for everything else there is my laptop.

Yes but tablets are great for pleasure. I wouldnt use my iPad to do work on but for browsing the internet on the couch or reading emails (usually non-work) it really excels for me.

But I may be changing my mind as soon as my iPhone 6 plus gets here.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by ZenoArrow »

munchor wrote: post #14

Everything about it looks great except for the 6'' screen. I understand the appeal of big screens, but 6'' is just too much.

I felt exactly the same way, everything was well thought out (camera, battery, speakers, etc...) apart from the screen size. The consensus seems to be that 5 inches is the absolute maximum for most people (aside from phablet fans). It's such a shame because it's so close to perfect (for this generation at least). I do wonder what kind of market research phone companies do because I could have very easily predicted this negative outcome, and I'm sure plenty of other people could too. At least it should be the first Nexus phone with decent battery life.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by enraged_camel »

freehunter wrote: post #118
jordanpg wrote: post #54

I 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, massi…

>>If large phones were impossible, impractical, and undesirable, people would stop buying them.

I think you're conflating several different things here. Something can be impractical but still desirable. For example, big SUVs are a pain in the ass -- they are inefficient, difficult to maneuver and hard to park. Yet people still buy them because of a simplistic "bigger is better" mindset. How many people with big SUVs actually use all the space in the vehicle? How many people with half-trucks actually use it to haul big and heavy equipment that would not fit in a smaller car?

Yes, big phones are impractical. This is simply common sense: they are difficult to fit inside pockets and impossible to use productively with one hand except maybe by Hafþór Björnsson. And yet they are desirable because "Big" is a status symbol.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by pshinghal »

I don't see how a 6" phone is convenient at all. I can only assume that the reason major brands are making oversized phones is because there hasn't been enough technical innovation in the past year to create an adequately exciting "update" to an existing phone (the Nexus 5, for example). Is this the case, or am I missing something?

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by freehunter »

jordanpg wrote: post #148
freehunter wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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, massi…

> People keep saying that and time and time again it's proven wrong. Surely you agree there is an upper bound, though?

Sure. 27" is just too big to be practical for most.

What I was specifically saying is that people here keep calling 5"-6" phones "too big" yet the mass market keeps buying them, in huge numbers. I'm not sure if you can walk into an Apple Store and pick up an iPhone 6 Plus off the shelf yet or if they're still sold out.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by MiguelHudnandez »

BigBlackCamry wrote: post #158
bdkauff wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate?

I think he's saying he rather use a landline, so they can't pin point his location via GPS

You would need a very long cord for that land line for that to be an effective countermeasure! I think it is just generic Google-hatred.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by IkmoIkmo »

imaginenore wrote: post #146
IkmoIkmo wrote: post #85

Can 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…

Thin about printers. Even the cheap ones print at 600dpi. The good ones go 2400dpi, 4800dpi. Resolution does make a difference.

> Resolution does make a difference.

I'm not arguing that resolution inherently makes absolutely no difference. Yes, 100 PPI is markedly different from 400 PPI.

As for your comment on printers, it's apples and oranges. For example, you can print a 150 PPI image at 600 DPI, and each pixel will be 16 dots.

Secondly, dots aren't a uniform unit, you can have many different type of dots for different printers.

Lastly, it really, really depends what you're printing. Newspapers go below 90 DPI and billboards even below 45 DPI. In short, any number is extremely dependent on context. Your numbers are kind of meaningless.

But as for my actual question, it's not whether resolution matters. Of course it does. Battery life matters, too, but having 1 century of battery life on your phone that you replace every few years, or 2 centuries, doesn't really matter, you'll agree. There's diminishing returns. And there's a cost factor.

So what I'm wondering: does the difference between 400 to 450 to 500 PPI create such an improvement to viewing experience, that it's worth the hit to battery life and the more expensive hardware you inevitably end up with when trying to push almost a million extra pixels. I'm not so sure, I'd much rather get a 720p display that's cheaper and lasts longer.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by mahyarm »

imaginenore wrote: post #146
IkmoIkmo wrote: post #85

Can 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…

Thin about printers. Even the cheap ones print at 600dpi. The good ones go 2400dpi, 4800dpi. Resolution does make a difference.

You should be dividing those numbers by some number, because those dots are equivalent to subpixels. You could say a 300dpi is like 900 printer dpi.
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