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Re: Nexus 6

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Post by azatris »

wlesieutre wrote: post #100
romanovcode wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

4k monitors are not that rare/pricy. You can get pretty cheap 60hz ones from Asus and the best ones from DELL. Problem is that most consumers who would buy those monitors would expect every application to run on it without problem, that includes games and for that you need to spend a lot of money on GPUs.

Before anyone goes jumping on the "best ones" from Dell, take a read through this 35 page support discussion about their UP2414Q: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/peripherals/f/35... Anecdotal, but a friend and I both have problems with ours, and he got lucky with the 1.1 firmware revision (Dell won't let you upgrade it, you have to go through support for a replacement, and they'll send you a refurb that m…

> Do yourself a favor and wait until DisplayPort 1.3 is widespread and can drive a 4k screen without using Multi-stream Transport. It's not worth the headache.

It reminds me of getting an external monitor for my T420 from Dell and seeing that DisplayPort to DisplayPort 1.2 cables are practically non-existant. I ended up getting one after hours of search online, the only proper manufacturer of these being Lenovo itself. I wonder if the situation gets any better...

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by esalman »

computerjunkie wrote: post #271

5.96” - A phone just under 6". This is possibly the biggest disappointment about the phone. Its simply too large for the average user. The nexus 5 was already quite difficult to reach the top corners with one hand in my opinion with its 4.95”. you get over 24 hours of use from a full charge. - too many times I have heard this phrase from other smartphone manufacturers and its never true. Since this phone is made by M…

I like to know everyone's recommendation for a phone which has high performance-to-size ratio, like Sony Z3 compact etc.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by themartorana »

cloakandswagger wrote: post #362
whizzkid wrote: post #339

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I disagree with you. Just because a kid wants more chocolate does not mean you should give it to him. It may make him happy at first but is not good for him in long run. What are people/me saying here is that, we should/can achieve the same functionality with smaller phones. We should. In hundred years, people will laugh at these phones! Too big considering what it does and provides to people.

Your comment is pretentious and assumptive. Consumers want bigger phones and manufacturers are providing them, it's as simple as that. I'd say deriving moral superiority from phone form factor is sillier than a 6 inch screen.

Your comment is aggressive and uninformed.

I have an iPhone 6. So does everyone in my office. All but one of us pine for our 5/5s - they were, in our opinions, far superior in usability for a one-handed device.

The thing is, we could just go back to them, but then the 6s will come out, or the 7, and eventually, you have to either move to a new platform (Android maybe, but the options in high-end devices in smaller screen dimensions are limited if available at all, and we prefer iOS the operating system, so it's impractical) or suck it up and endure the ever-forward march towards bigger screens.

Consumers don't necessarily want bigger screens as an absolute. Having multiple sizes available is great, but the baseline being so big is not necessarily "what consumers want."

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by [deleted] »

aetherson wrote: post #391
computerjunkie wrote: post #271

5.96” - A phone just under 6". This is possibly the biggest disappointment about the phone. Its simply too large for the average user. The nexus 5 was already quite difficult to reach the top corners with one hand in my opinion with its 4.95”. you get over 24 hours of use from a full charge. - too many times I have heard this phrase from other smartphone manufacturers and its never true. Since this phone is made by M…

I have literally never heard anyone ever say, "I like this phone I bought, but after using it for a couple of weeks, the screen is just a little too big for my tastes." Like, NEVER. In all the complaints I've heard about people's phones, over the seven years that we've had smartphones so far. What I have heard is a lot of people pooh-poohing 4.7" screens, 4.9" screens, 5.2" screens, etc., and those screen sizes going…

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Re: Nexus 6

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Post by aetherson »

nostrademons wrote: post #404
aetherson wrote: post #391

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I have literally never heard anyone ever say, "I like this phone I bought, but after using it for a couple of weeks, the screen is just a little too big for my tastes." Like, NEVER. In all the complaints I've heard about people's phones, over the seven years that we've had smartphones so far. What I have heard is a lot of people pooh-poohing 4.7" screens, 4.9" screens, 5.2" screens, etc., and those screen sizes going…

No, because the complaint you get is "I like this phone I bought, it has a great screen, but I can't reach the top half of it when I hold it, and my hand gets so tired, and I'm ending up with tendonitis or carpal tunnel all the time now." These are all very real complaints - I've heard them from coworkers (who work at Google, so if they have a bias, it's in the other way) and family members, and I suffered from frequ…

Well, no, that's not the complaint either. Because I've never heard anyone say that.

I mean, I believe you when you say you have that complaint and you've heard it, but I've never seen anyone be anything but delighted when they've bought a larger size phone. (I say this as someone who has consciously avoided large phones and carries a 4.3" screen phone).

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by XorNot »

moheeb wrote: post #244
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.

I think as more of the older crowd has gotten into smart phones the screen size has gotten larger to compensate for their poor eyesight. I think this point is backed up by the fact that the rendered text size has not changed in any appreciable way.

And you'd be wrong because resolution has gone up. I can ably read very small text on a 1080p screen which I wouldn't be able to on a lower res one. The larger form factor means I can take advantage of all that extra DPI ably.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by guelo »

computerjunkie wrote: post #271

5.96” - A phone just under 6". This is possibly the biggest disappointment about the phone. Its simply too large for the average user. The nexus 5 was already quite difficult to reach the top corners with one hand in my opinion with its 4.95”. you get over 24 hours of use from a full charge. - too many times I have heard this phrase from other smartphone manufacturers and its never true. Since this phone is made by M…

Screen size and battery capacity are not a tradeoff. The bigger the screen the bigger the case and the more room for a battery. From the long-lasting tablet batteries we've learned that battery capacity increases faster per increased quadratic[0] volume than the increased battery drain from the bigger screen area.

[0] Battery volume increases only quadratically because the manufactures insist on maintaining thinness. It would be interesting to understand how thickness could affect battery capacity.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by bryanlarsen »

toyg wrote: post #383
IkmoIkmo wrote: post #123

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You notice pixel density between 400 and 450, or 450 and 500 when holding the phone normally (at say a bit less than an arm's length usually) I mean, I notice FPS changes from 60 to 90, but I wouldn't pay even a dollar extra for it. I'm not actually wondering if you can notice, I'm wondering if it makes an actual impact on your viewing experience. And if so, if that impact (however big or small, feel free to elaborat…

I don't have any studies or stats to back me up, am just going by personal experience here. I'd rather spend a few dollars more for a higher-res screen than for a few hours of battery. The impact on my quality of life (less eyestrain, less migraines) has been really noticeable since I managed to get "retina-like" resolutions on all my devices, and since then I've been a true believer in the benefits of the race for p…

AMOLED helps a lot with the "blast a little less light" aspect. It's not a significant difference in a bright room, but the difference is huge in a dim or dark one.

It doesn't say whether the Nexus 6 is AMOLED or LCD. I'm hoping for AMOLED, but I suspect it's LCD.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by imacomputer2 »

I'm casting my vote for "Screen Size Too Big!" I can't imagine using a device larger than the Nexus 5. I'll test out similar size phones in stores, but it looks like the size is a deal breaker.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by jewbacca »

boyaka wrote: post #363
bobbyi_settv wrote: post #250

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SD card support would be even better. I recently got a 128 GB SD card for my phone and it's great to finally have as much storage for music as I used to have on my iPod Classic (I use Google Play Music All Access, which allows saving as much as you want to local storage).

It has always been standard for Nexus phones to not have SD card expansion [1]. Whether it is justifiable is up for debate. I've always assumed the main reason is so they can sell people overpriced storage upgrades and push people into buying a new device. [1] http://www.androidcentral.com/why-nexus-devices-have-no-sd-c...

1. The Nexus line is supposed to be something like Google's Android reference device, and implements the minimum common set of features -- up-to-date computing hardware and screen, reasonable-resolution cameras, standard set of sensors (GPS, acceleration, etc.). An SD card slot doesn't really add any technical possibilities.

2. Google probably wants to push the idea that any storage beyond local apps should be to the cloud.

(which is comically unviable in Canada, where you're paying $25-50 per 1 GB of mobile data)

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I recently got a Nexus 5 after a long search for a replacement for my stalwart iPhone 3GS. The lack of SD card was the primary sticking point, and caused me days of choice-agony. In the end, price and "cleanliness" (stock android, lack of shitware, doesn't fight software customization very hard) won out.

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