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Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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freehunter wrote: post #31
k-mcgrady wrote: post #3

So the Nexus 4, which is just under 2 years old, won't support Lollipop? Considering the device is from Google and not through a carrier I would expect better. No pricing on the Nexus 6 but I would expect it will cost a lot more than Nexus devices have in the past. And at only 1 inch less than their Nexus 7 tablet it seems ridiculously large. At what point is it a tablet that makes calls and not a phone? Nexus Player…

Am I missing something? The Nexus 4 certainly does appear to be supported. Android 5.0 Lollipop, which comes on Nexus 6, Nexus 9 and Nexus Player, will also be available on Nexus 4, 5, 7, 10 and Google Play edition devices in the coming weeks.

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Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by wldcordeiro »

jastanton wrote: post #13

6 hours of battery life for 15 minutes of charging? Wow.

They're referring to that turbo charger (or whatever the name is) that can give you 6 hours worth of your battery charged in 15 minutes. The real battery life is reported as 24 hours, so it's saying that you can get your battery from 1% to 26% in fifteen minutes.

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by obsurveyor »

> As previewed at Google I/O, Lollipop is our largest, most ambitious release on Android with over 5,000 new APIs for developers.

As a developer not initiated to the Android platform, the second half of this sentence is a very scary thing to read.

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by mscrivo »

ismavis wrote: post #7
k-mcgrady wrote: post #3

So the Nexus 4, which is just under 2 years old, won't support Lollipop? Considering the device is from Google and not through a carrier I would expect better. No pricing on the Nexus 6 but I would expect it will cost a lot more than Nexus devices have in the past. And at only 1 inch less than their Nexus 7 tablet it seems ridiculously large. At what point is it a tablet that makes calls and not a phone? Nexus Player…

Nexus 6 is $650 for 32GB. http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2014/10/nexus-6-from-googl...

What have they done? They've killed the single biggest feature of the nexus program, getting a great phone for an affordable off-contract price.

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by Florin_Andrei »

fakename wrote: post #48

"Improved network selection logic so that your device connects only if there is a verified internet connection on Wi-Fi" jfc, I can't believe this is just now being fixed. This has to be the most infuriatingly stupid thing about android. I don't have hopes of them adding the ability to intelligently switch from a weak wifi signal to a strong cell signal, but this is a step in the right direction. No more assuming I h…

> adding the ability to intelligently switch from a weak wifi signal to a strong cell signal

Yeah, it hangs on that tiny, unusable WiFi signal for dear life, even when it cannot move a single bit of data through it. Meanwhile, the GSM data channel lies there unused. :(

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by leeoniya »

fakename wrote: post #48

"Improved network selection logic so that your device connects only if there is a verified internet connection on Wi-Fi" jfc, I can't believe this is just now being fixed. This has to be the most infuriatingly stupid thing about android. I don't have hopes of them adding the ability to intelligently switch from a weak wifi signal to a strong cell signal, but this is a step in the right direction. No more assuming I h…

> quietly joined a wifi network

i would suggest not having your phone auto-connect to just any open wifi network, but that's just me.

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by microtonal »

spindritf wrote: post #35

Motorola will also update their older phones to Lollipop. Including Moto X and G starting with the 1st gen. http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2014/10/its-official-andro...

Terrific, both my wife and I have a Moto X. Previous upgrades to the Moto X (not carrier-bound) were also very quick. Not Nexus-quick, but still very timely.

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by microtonal »

mscrivo wrote: post #54
ismavis wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nexus 6 is $650 for 32GB. http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2014/10/nexus-6-from-googl...

What have they done? They've killed the single biggest feature of the nexus program, getting a great phone for an affordable off-contract price.

Yes, but before you couldn't simply get a good mid to high-range phone for $400. That's not true anymore nowadays, the Moto X 2014 will probably go down to ~350USD/Euro off-contract like last year's generation. Heck, even the Moto G is a great phone for most people and is $179 off-contract for the LTE model.
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