Anyone remember the HP Veer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Veer
This phone was advertised for beeing as small as a credit card. Now Nexus 6 is as tall as a whole opened wallet.
Nexus 6
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Re: Nexus 6
#562Earlier quoted context omitted.
"was already quite difficult to reach the top corners with one hand" This is such a red herring. I switched from a smallish phone (a Nexus) to a Note 3 (which is just a fraction smaller than this) and it's absolutely amazing how millions of years of evolution equipped us to do things using both hands and how quickly we can accommodate ourselves to doing what nature intended. We even evolved walking upright just so we…
Not everyone wants to use both hands. Some of us would like to be able to respond to a text message while carrying something, for example.
If the phone is in "letter" orientation the keyboard would be entirely reachable... Do some of us want to respond to a text message with the phone/keyboard in landscape mode with one hand? That would seem a bit tough with any recent smart phone.
Re: Nexus 6
#563Re: Nexus 6
#564Earlier quoted context omitted.
Size really gets to me. Don't get me wrong, I really like the Nexus 5, but I'm sick of phones that are borderline tablets. I ended up buying a Sony Xperia Z1 Compact (amami). It's damn near the same specs of a Nexus 5 except it actually fits in my hand (5.0"x2.56"x0.37"). Works flawlessly with Cyanogenmod. Best purchase I ever made. I bought two of them I liked it so much. Good on Sony for making an excellent smartph…
I'm one of those people that questioned the need for having something called a "tablet" from the day the iPad came out. I'm certainly not wealthy though so I don't have money to throw away, but if I'm browsing the net around the house, a laptop is perfectly fine for me still. I prefer having a comfortable keyboard and trackpad. I suppose there is still a market for people like me to have a single touchscreen device a…
> a laptop is perfectly fine for me still.
Tablets are fantastic, so much more useful. So much easier to carry around. Sure, a laptop is perfectly fine, so is a desktop in one room. But if you travel a lot, then they are so much better.
And since you could get a reasonable tablet for $99, you don't have to be too wealthy to appreciate it.
Re: Nexus 6
#5655.96” - 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…
On devices like the Samsung Galaxy series where you can swap the battery quickly, battery life ceases to be a concern.
Re: Nexus 6
#566I'm visiting Japan, but I don't read Japanese. When I visit this site everything is in Japanese without any button to change local.
Apple and Ikea will redirect you to a url with country code in it (ikea.com/ja/en/bedroom kind of style) making it easy for people on the tech savvy side to manually change locale. But Google? No way in hell am I allowed to read this in English if I'm not physically in an English speaking country.
Re: Nexus 6
#567Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
The main difference is graphics vs text. While bitmaps won't profit from a better resolution, text will. Sharper letters, no more blurring around the edges. It's a big difference in readability.
No, there NOT an appreciable difference in readability of Latin alphabet above 400 DPI, and 300 when a subpixel rendering technology is used. Unless they're doing careful side-by-side comparisons, test subjects need better than 20/20 vision to notice any major improvement over 300 DPI.
The truth is battery life and game performance take a huge hit, so the manufactures can put a bigger number on their spec sheet. The consumer is the loser of this idiotic DPI race.
Re: Nexus 6
#568great ... I'm in Japan (signed into Google/Gmail in English) and the whole page is in Japanese without any obvious way. Great Job Google ...! (sorry for the rant, my Japanese is not so bad now, still it annoys me ...happens very often with google pages)
Did you find a solution? I also have the same problem.
no except using VPN or Tor :S ... great!
Re: Nexus 6
#569Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just curious, what do you use it for? :)
I make a platform that automatically collects the atmospheric pressure sensor reading on a schedule, and sends it to scientists for analysis. The idea is to build the best weather forecast (higher accuracy, hyperlocal) by using this dramatically denser data source as inputs to models. We make an open source app called PressureNet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu... We also build an SDK an…
The FAQ on pressurenet.io/about/ should be updated to show that the iPhone 6 does in fact have a barometer.
Re: Nexus 6
#570I'm visiting Japan, but I don't read Japanese. When I visit this site everything is in Japanese without any button to change local. Apple and Ikea will redirect you to a url with country code in it (ikea.com/ja/en/bedroom kind of style) making it easy for people on the tech savvy side to manually change locale. But Google? No way in hell am I allowed to read this in English if I'm not physically in an English speakin…
yes ... it's frustrating. I actually can read Japanese a bit, still even if you are LOGGED in to Google with preference English, they show you the Japanese page. Well done!
VPN or TOR to the rescue ...