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I hope everyone means like people on GAF and no one in real life.
Vanillalite
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If I actually see one in real life I'll be pleasantly surprised. But yeah, I meant us cave dwellers on GAF.
Hey you out did me!
Gotta step up your game bro
The Faceless Master
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we should run battery benchmarks in ultra power saving mode on phones that support it.
Jazzy Network
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Weak HTC deal today, but I picked up one of those custom double dip cases for half price.
*lowers Nexus 6 flag to half-mast*
Vanillalite
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Trying to hold out for the M9 with an 810 proc. Fuck this is hard tho.
Not Bacon shares my pain for now. The rest of you probably think I'm a TPain Doge with this old ass POS phone.
Mercury Fred
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Oh wow, watch out what you ask for.
Shortly after my post earlier I got the OTA, installed and it runs like absolute shit on my Nexus 5. Slow, sluggish, stuttering, apps slow to open, getting the "working" circling animation when trying to open things. What a fucking disaster.
Shortly after my post earlier I got the OTA, installed and it runs like absolute shit on my Nexus 5. Slow, sluggish, stuttering, apps slow to open, getting the "working" circling animation when trying to open things. What a fucking disaster.
Welp. Looks like the Nexus 6 brightness fiasco is over:
Guy said he got an update just after receiving his N6 and immediately saw it was way brighter than the display models in store. Next to an iPhone 5(s?) with both at max brightness:
Pretty much directly contradicts the Anand findings that it's only half as bright:
Maybe Anand forgot to turn off Adaptive Brightness?
Bonus data courtesy of Wreav.
Guy said he got an update just after receiving his N6 and immediately saw it was way brighter than the display models in store. Next to an iPhone 5(s?) with both at max brightness:
relevant thread
Pretty much directly contradicts the Anand findings that it's only half as bright:
Maybe Anand forgot to turn off Adaptive Brightness?
Bonus data courtesy of Wreav.
Jazzy Network
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Factory reset nub.
Mercury Fred
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Right, but why? Why should users have to go through that tedious process just to deal with an update. And how can I be sure I won't lose something along the way?
It's a headache I don't want. I've had a Nexus One, a 4 and a 5 but this is it for me. Fucking amateur hour with these updates.
Vanillalite
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If anything this is squarely on Google not having fucking Android L ready to go when they sent out review units vs scrambling to fix all kinds of shit at the 11th hour.
Jazzy Network
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Sweet. Got 20 bucks in Google Play credit for purchasing my Nexus Player.
Pretty much. But as long as it works fine when it arrives in my hands, i'll be happy lol
The Faceless Master
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maybe Google forgot to give reviewers a time machine?
Try doing a cache clear.
Mercury Fred
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By just restarting the phone? I tried that. If there's another method I can't find it in 5.0...
From what I've been told the N6 was supposed to have Qualcomm's new 64 bit processor but they ended up getting an awful yield from that chip so they had to cobble the N6 together with the 805 and rush it out the door at the last minute essentially.
They should have just delayed it.
Vanillalite
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Eh I don't think the 810 was made to be ready this early. I could be wrong though.
I still go back to my theory that Android was rushed as they had to launch it with a Nexus device like always, but they weren't intending on a new nexus device this year because of Android Silver. Then shit got rushed when that caved.
It's possible though. If you recall, the Nexus 4 launched with a then brand new S4 Pro CPU after everything else was using the S4.
I'm not sure the 810 will even be ready by Q1 next year. Kind of thinking the next Samsung phone may not even have it.
Well, from what I hear, the 810 production got a 0% yield so yeah it might get delayed lol
Vanillalite
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LG had the Optimus G out before technically. Plus it was more or of a remix on the CPU side of things.
They were out about a week or two of each other right? I know the Nexus 4 was shown off late October though and everyone at the time was surprised that it had the S4 Pro.
But we already have a Nexus 7 lol.
I really wonder what they'll even call the Nexus next year.
Nicktendo86
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So I installed the new play services on my n4 and n7 earlier and that enabled location smart lock on my n4 but not the n7. Just looked and it is now on my n7 so google much have switched something on server side for tablets.
That thing is beautiful. I hope I can join the N5 family soon.
Junior Mint
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Perhaps you should take the screen protector off of the Note
Edit: nevermind, thught it was a Note 4.
Edit: nevermind, thught it was a Note 4.
No it's a Note 3 and it's one of those super "clear" ones, it wouldn't make a considerable difference. I took the picture with a Note 3 as well, this time without a protector. In any case, the Nexus 6 has a much better screen than any of you have been led to believe.
The Note 4 was on the other side of the store, so I couldn't do a direct comparison, but to be perfectly frank, the 6 inch screen's wow factor trumped whatever advantage the Note 4's had.
I just want to put it bluntly, the Nexus 6 is bright enough to make your eyes hurt in a normal room.
Baroquemantic
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My sister just got the Lollipop ota on her 2012 N7. It's much smoother in person than it is in some of the YouTube videos I saw. I'm actually surprised how well it runs considering how crap the Tegra 3 is.
Jazzy Network
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God the size of those screens want me to stab myself in the neck.
-Pyromaniac-
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tell me about it lol next year has potential to be a fucking farce
6.5 inch phones.
Phablets are the thing.
Baroquemantic
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I think that might be a little extreme.
-Pyromaniac-
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it's how Android is attempting to make way into the tablet market. By turning every single phone into one.
Baroquemantic
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thehypocrite
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I think is the normal progression. Smartphones keep growing while tablets have peaked already. Consumers aren't going to buy 2 products when they can get one to provide equal functionality.
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-Pyromaniac-
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yeah it'll be interesting when the iphone 9+ takes over the 9.7inch ipad air. Android will probably reach that in 2016.
The nexus 2015 will be called the nexus 7 and it'll be the same hardware with a mic and radios.
Maybe they did Idk. And just because Qualcomm makes it available doesn't mean the the manufacturer takes advantage of it. So the fact that the chip supports it isn't proof that the phone does.
Definitely
-Pyromaniac-
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exclusive look at nexus 7
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