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Re: Nexus 6

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Post by torgoguys »

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…

This is mostly a selection bias. Given the wide variety of choices on the Android side, and the very obvious effect screen size has on using the phone, you have to be reasonably sure you want a big screen phone to actually bite the bullet. (Other factors are less clear cut and can be harder to decide between.) Since there is a good selection of screen sizes to choose from, you can often find something you want.

Contrast that with the two iPhone 6 people already replying to your post saying they think it is too big. As an Apple user, if you want a current year phone, you may have to go bigger than you want.

Android choice, for the win!

(BTW, I want! I'm pretty sure I'm gonna love the Nexus 6.)

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by blisterpeanuts »

mladenkovacevic wrote: post #214

With the increase in price and out-of-the-gate contract subsidies, the Nexus line has now transitioned from a developer-targeted effort to a full-fledged mass-consumer brand. Having said that, this transition demands that they compete with the iPhones and Samsungs. Taking that into account they should've released an additional 4.5" phone, along with the 6". This could steal away the people who hesitated in getting th…

Probably the Nexus 5 will remain in production as the smaller alternative. It's going to run Android L so the user experience should be similar.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by DCKing »

themartorana wrote: post #413
cloakandswagger wrote: post #362

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 sc…

When talking about "what consumers want", the opinions of the people in your office really shouldn't indicate that much. Especially not if they just started using their big phones two weeks ago, and still need to get used to different usage patterns after using small iPhones for (I presume) a long time. Nobody disputes that larger phones are used differently than smaller phones (large phones have advantages and disadvantages), but "different" does not necessarily mean "worse". Although that's what people often think.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by [deleted] »

themartorana wrote: post #413
cloakandswagger wrote: post #362

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 sc…

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Re: Nexus 6

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Post by final »

primo37 wrote: post #111

"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...

Didn't Google sell the Motorala cell phone business to Lenovo?

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by blisterpeanuts »

pisarzp wrote: post #216

Many people here complain that phone is too big without ever using phablet. I was in this camp too until I started to use N6. I was testing this phone for last couple months. It's an amazing device, and even though sometimes it does feel big, on day to day basis it was never an issue for me. Consuming any type of content was much easier and more pleasurable. I noticed the difference especially when I sometimes moved…

I feel the same way; once you go big you don't go back!

However the $649 price tag (and possibly higher outside the U.S.) will deter a lot of people who otherwise would have almost automatically upgraded to the next Nexus. I'm such a person. The $349 Nexus 5 is suddenly very attractive, it's big enough and fast enough.

I wish Google would provide memory expansion but for $349 I'm willing to live without it. For $649 I'm not willing to live without microSD, however.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by final »

natmaster wrote: post #99
joliss wrote: post #64

Full specs: https://i.imgur.com/S0ifg2B.png Of note: Nano SIM, 493 ppi display, 4K video recording. (The specs on the Google page have a button to expand them. It's a bit hidden and not linkable, hence the screenshot.)

But how much volatile memory does it have?

At least 4 thousand words IMHO.

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by ry0ohki »

k2enemy wrote: post #388
jarjoura wrote: post #324

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sony is making a smaller Android device, the "Z3 Compact," exactly for the reasons you list.

Your comment got me excited -- but I looked up the size of the Z3 "compact" and it is larger in every dimension than my iPhone 5s.

It's ridiculous. I thought I remember someone saying the iPhone 1/3/4 size was designed to be perfect for the human hand and I agree. It's easier to make things larger, it's hard to make them small, how are we regressing?

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by r00fus »

cloakandswagger wrote: post #333
chrischen wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering Apple's main phone is under 5 inches, I think that statement is at least somewhat true. Sure some people will want phablets, but I'm sure Apple at least did their research for making more iPhone 6s than 6 Pluses.

You're talking about a company that bitterly clung to the 3.5 inch screen for years before capitulating to the demand for larger screens. I'm sure Apple does market research, but they've proven to be very susceptible to their own dogma.

Bitterly clung - quite amusing.

I have a 4S still around as my "iPod touch" and it does fine compared to my 5 in terms of usability for apps and music. Remembering back, I didn't somehow feel when I got the iPhone5 and later my Nexus5 that my 4S was "inadequate". I did feel that it weighed a lot compared the iPhone5 however, and was very glad for that.

When thinking about a smartphone, I care more about it's usability as a phone, then as a music/podcast player, and only finally as a media device. Am I out in left field here?

Re: Nexus 6

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Post by final »

jasonkester wrote: post #281

Anybody found a way to force it to display in English? I'm in France at the moment so I can't even read the text on the site. None of the usual tricks (?hl=en, etc.) work. No links on the site to change language or redirect. Seems silly to have to VPN into a box in the US just to read a website.

How about /ncr ?
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