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Nexus 6 speculation

Its funny how when I try out something like the Note 3/4 in the store, I quickly get used to it. But watching the video my reaction is 'its so much bigger than a N5, G3, it has got to be unusable'.

Just goes to show nothing beats actually trying it out.
 
radeon962 said:
Most users who frequent sites like [H] are way beyond the average consumer when it comes to technology.... The users here are much more knowledgeable and actually review and discuss technology before blindly upgrading....Similar to PC component parts. We are a minority in the grand scheme of consumers that enjoy learning all of the nitty gritty details and sharing that amongst members.
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Yes, and for the same reasons I too am a [H] forum member. I am also a retired health care provider and adult educator. Within the scope of adult education I learned to never make assumptions about what someone knows or should know. I likewise never assumed that if something is obvious to me, that it would be obvious to others.

Perhaps you may now understand why I pointed out that the video was lacking the written labeling I mentioned, or for that matter was also devoid of an audio identification of the models. The creator of the video was assuming that everyone would recognize the models on appearance alone, just as another forum member assumed that what was obvious to him should be obvious to all other readers. Glad to meet you Radeon.
 
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Nice screen to size ratio. iPhone 6+ and HTC One M8 are like inbred cousins for having frankenstein size and small screen.
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I was all ready to upgrade my unlocked 2013 Moto X for an unlocked 2014 Moto X (Pure Edition) and run it on T-mobile . But if the Nexus 6 comes with the Motorola enhancements I love so much on the Moto X - along with an alleged 3,200mAh (!) battery and a 5.9 inch screen - I am waiting for the reviews to come out on this baby.

In the meantime maybe I should carve out a slab of wood with the Nexus 6 dimensions and see how this big guy fits in my pocket (if at all) :D
 
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I was all ready to upgrade my unlocked 2013 Moto X for an unlocked 2014 Moto X (Pure Edition) and run it on T-mobile . But if the Nexus 6 comes with the Motorola enhancements I love so much on the Moto X - along with an alleged 3,200mAh (!) battery and a 5.9 inch screen - I am waiting for the reviews to come out on this baby.

In the meantime maybe I should carve out a slab of wood with the Nexus 6 dimensions and see how this big guy fits in my pocket (if at all) :D
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Instead of wood use Styrofoam. I did that with the Note 3 since I usually have a ton of it lying around the house (from packaging).

I wouldn't count on this having the MotoX features though. The voice and nock on stuff is integrated into Moto Blur (orwhateveritisnow) and the Nexus is a pure Android device. I want to know who's supplying the screen for this phone.
 
Trimlock said:
Instead of wood use Styrofoam. I did that with the Note 3 since I usually have a ton of it lying around the house (from packaging).
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Styrofoam? Thanks, great suggestion.

Trimlock said:
I wouldn't count on this having the MotoX features though. The voice and knock on stuff is integrated into Moto Blur (orwhateveritisnow) and the Nexus is a pure Android device. I want to know who's supplying the screen for this phone.
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Hmm, good point, especially since I did prefer the GUI of the Moto X over the Nexus 5. Am lamenting that while the new Moto X has a larger screen and the Motorola software features I like, the battery life improvements are not significant. Anand Tech did a good job in pointing that out. Oh well, going from a Moto X 4.7 inch screen to it's successor's 5.2 inch screen will still make web scrolling a bit easier, will have to rationalize with that.
 
You also have to realise that the nexus devise will use software keys. If in fact it is 5.9" you will be losing screen space for those keys. I don't know how much.

I think you will be happy with the X2, it looks like a solid upgrade over last year's model.
 
Supersnake said:
I was all ready to upgrade my unlocked 2013 Moto X for an unlocked 2014 Moto X (Pure Edition) and run it on T-mobile . But if the Nexus 6 comes with the Motorola enhancements I love so much on the Moto X - along with an alleged 3,200mAh (!) battery and a 5.9 inch screen - I am waiting for the reviews to come out on this baby.

In the meantime maybe I should carve out a slab of wood with the Nexus 6 dimensions and see how this big guy fits in my pocket (if at all) :D
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A 3200mAh battery on a phone sounds great, I really hope this phone can easily handle a day's heavy use, and a few days when you're being careful. If Volta delivers 33% in power savings, then it should feel like a 4200mAh battery! :eek:

Trimlock said:
You also have to realise that the nexus devise will use software keys. If in fact it is 5.9" you will be losing screen space for those keys. I don't know how much.
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I actually prefer softkeys, while they make no difference in portrait mode (you loose some screen instead of adding bezel), in landscape the buttons move from the side allowing more space for 16:9 content.
 
I wish the Droid Turbo was bigger than 5.2". Its looking like a very good alternative, stock skin, huge battery, Moto software additions. If the Nexus 6 comes to Verizon and is indeed made by Moto, I see no reason why they can't provide Moto software on it as well.

I thought I'd miss capacitive buttons on my G2 but I don't at all. Soft keys are better, and you can enable pie mode giving you all the screen real estate back.
 
Wiseguy2001 said:
A 3200mAh battery on a phone sounds great, I really hope this phone can easily handle a day's heavy use, and a few days when you're being careful. If Volta delivers 33% in power savings, then it should feel like a 4200mAh battery! :eek:


I actually prefer softkeys, while they make no difference in portrait mode (you loose some screen instead of adding bezel), in landscape the buttons move from the side allowing more space for 16:9 content.
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I'm not really saying they are bad or that I don't prefer them, it's just something to consider with nexus
 
I'm a stock Android fan, I hate Touchwiz, I think LG's UI is ok, and Sense 6 the best of them all besides stock.

Anyways, as an AOSP fan, these are my list of top Android phones that run stock Android, or close;

- HTC One M8 GPE
- OnePlus One
- Nexus 5

I am sure the Nexus 6 will move to #1, but it's just rumors and an unreleased product at this point.
 
Zorachus said:
I'm a stock Android fan, I hate Touchwiz, I think LG's UI is ok, and Sense 6 the best of them all besides stock.

Anyways, as an AOSP fan, these are my list of top Android phones that run stock Android, or close;

- HTC One M8 GPE
- OnePlus One
- Nexus 5

I am sure the Nexus 6 will move to #1, but it's just rumors and an unreleased product at this point.
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I wouldn't call CM10 stock android.
 
Erasmus354 said:
I wouldn't call CM10 stock android.
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I know CM11 isn't exactly stock Android, but for sure it's real close, compared to the likes of Touchwiz and Sense, which are radically different.

On my HTC One M8, I ran the official stock GPE ROM, and also CM11, and looks wise they are nearly identical, just way more tweaks and options in CM, but CM11 is a far cry different than Sense 6 on the One M8, and much closer to GPE.
 
With October 16th being rumored as the release date, does that still sound likely? I assumed this release would be more of an event given that Android L and two devices are being released simultaneously (as opposed to the Nexus 5 just kinda appearing one day on the play store), but it seems awfully quiet still.
 
quadnad said:
With October 16th being rumored as the release date, does that still sound likely? I assumed this release would be more of an event given that Android L and two devices are being released simultaneously (as opposed to the Nexus 5 just kinda appearing one day on the play store), but it seems awfully quiet still.
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I hope so, but you figure we would get an official announcement by now
 
quadnad said:
With October 16th being rumored as the release date, does that still sound likely? I assumed this release would be more of an event given that Android L and two devices are being released simultaneously (as opposed to the Nexus 5 just kinda appearing one day on the play store), but it seems awfully quiet still.
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I think the Oct. 16th date is for the HTC Nexus 8 tablet.

Rumors have pointed to the Tablet most likely coming first or earlier than the Nexus 6 phone. But Google could surprise us and announce both at the same time.

Halloween has been a tradition lately for the Nexus phone release, to go along with their candy theme name.
 
Zorachus said:
I think the Oct. 16th date is for the HTC Nexus 8 tablet.

Rumors have pointed to the Tablet most likely coming first or earlier than the Nexus 6 phone. But Google could surprise us and announce both at the same time.

Halloween has been a tradition lately for the Nexus phone release, to go along with their candy theme name.
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If they have an OS to release, presumably the Nexus 9 will arrive with Android L...so they would just leave the Nexus 6 (or whatever it ends up being called) for two weeks later?

I guess I'm skeptical that the event, if there is one, will be held on the 16th at all.
 
If there was to be an even on 15/16th, it would've been announced by now. You don't announce these a week ago.

I'm betting its a Nov announcement and late Nov release with Verizon (if they do it) well into Dec.

Or Google can skip the whole event and just update their website, like they did last year I believe.
 
So shamu is just that, no stylus just HUGE screen estate? How do I talk on a 5.9" device and work on it?
 
King of Heroes said:
Use your fingers?
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I totally agree - the stylus thing confuses me, though I'm sure there are lots of more creative types that have use for it. I was considering (until I saw this) the Note 4 for my wife, but neither of us could work out why she would want a stylus. EDIT: that and touchwiz is balls
 
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i think after a certain point like Note 4 size and above the stylus really comes into its own. Plus that size the need to carry a tablet is hard to make. Thats what really attracts me to bigger devices the best of both worlds.
 
quadnad said:
I totally agree - the stylus thing confuses me, though I'm sure there are lots of more creative types that have use for it. I was considering (until I saw this) the Note 4 for my wife, but neither of us could work out why she would want a stylus. EDIT: that and touchwiz is balls
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Ever use post it notes? That is my primary use on my Note 2's S-Pen.
 
The stylus function on the Note devices is a joke. There's practically no room for you to write comfortably unless you lay it down, and you have to put an uncomfortable amount of pressure (compared to something like the Surface) to ink anything.
 
Megalith said:
The stylus function on the Note devices is a joke. There's practically no room for you to write comfortably unless you lay it down, and you have to put an uncomfortable amount of pressure (compared to something like the Surface) to ink anything.
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This sounds like you are speaking from inexperience. I use a note 3 and can say just about every sentiment expressed here is no anywhere what is actually the case.
 
I know people who make heavy use of the stylus. They use it to capture/scrapbook content, annotate documents/pdf, use the smart select feature, use it as mouse pointer etc. If you also use the Samsung account to sync stuff, use multi-window, it really is a different experience.

People love to hate TouchWiz, on these bigger screens it adds a whole bunch of features missing from Android.

Its all about your needs and use cases. You don't have to use the stylus, but it is there for a specific purpose and works very well.
 
Last time I used the Note 3, the stylus was very functional and I had no problems or discomfort in using the stylus for productive things like writing notes and various other tasks....
 
Droid Turbo more or less got confirmed specs:

5.2" QHD screen
Snapdragon 805 (listed as 2.7GHz Quad Core, really only thing it can be)
3500 mAh battery :eek:
3GB RAM
21 MP rear camera
2.3 MP front camera
Front facing speakers
Android 4.4.4 KitKat
EDIT: Capacitive buttons. Some might not like this, but to be honest my Galaxy Nexus shows some pretty bad image persistence from the soft buttons after 3 years. So I am all for capacitive buttons. Means that 5.2" screen will be like a 5.5" screen for everyday usage too.

If this were the Nexus 6 on Verizon with Android L unfettered I would have called this the perfect phone. Really hoping this thing gets broken wide open fast.
 
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Erasmus354 said:
Droid Turbo more or less got confirmed specs:

5.2" QHD screen
Snapdragon 805 (listed as 2.7GHz Quad Core, really only thing it can be)
3500 mAh battery :eek:
3GB RAM
21 MP rear camera
2.3 MP front camera
Front facing speakers
Android 4.4.4 KitKat


If this were the Nexus 6 on Verizon with Android L unfettered I would have called this the perfect phone. Really hoping this thing gets broken wide open fast.
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That sounds like the perfect phone, o i hope the Nexus 6 is like this and sold on Tmobile
 
Erasmus354 said:
Droid Turbo more or less got confirmed specs:

5.2" QHD screen
Snapdragon 805 (listed as 2.7GHz Quad Core, really only thing it can be)
3500 mAh battery :eek:
3GB RAM
21 MP rear camera
2.3 MP front camera
Front facing speakers
Android 4.4.4 KitKat
EDIT: Capacitive buttons. Some might not like this, but to be honest my Galaxy Nexus shows some pretty bad image persistence from the soft buttons after 3 years. So I am all for capacitive buttons. Means that 5.2" screen will be like a 5.5" screen for everyday usage too.

If this were the Nexus 6 on Verizon with Android L unfettered I would have called this the perfect phone. Really hoping this thing gets broken wide open fast.
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The leaked manual actually lists the screen as UHD, not QHD. I'm curious if that is a mistake in the manual.

Page 1 of the leaked manual: "Experience crisp, clear photos, movies, and videos, on your 5.2" ultra high-definition display."

Page 2: "Your new DROID Turbo by Motorola has it all--a big, bright, ultra high-definition display, blazing speed and performance, and a high-capacity long lasting battery."
 
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