Are you OK with the knowledge that your N6 has its performance crippled by up to 80%?

[Benjamin_NYC]

Well, I removed encryption on my son's phone and kept it on mine. We ran AnTuTu Benchmark and they were nearly the same. He was around 51,000, and I was around 50,000. We then closed everything, and opened different things simultaneously. Camera, photo gallery, phone, Chrome, etc. No visible difference between the two phones. I don't think encryption is actually slowing the phone down. There is a post on XDA where someone did a large number of different bench marks, and he also saw no real difference. If anything, he found the numbers to be slightly better on the encrypted phone. Not worth removing encryption and either missing OTA updates because you're rooted, or having to setup the phone again each time if the update forces encryption again. At least not IMHO....

So the phone is just slower than its predecessor?

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[Wingznut]

Have you seen this video? (You have to sit through an ad but it shows the N5 and N6 side by side doing things)
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That is a very interesting comparison.

Actually, it is much less interesting, now that I have my Nexus 6 in hand...

I just did the exact same test, side by side with this video:
Calendar, Camera, and Drive actually opened faster than the N5.
Asphault and YouTube opened slower than the N5, equal to the N6 in the video.
The rest opened the same speed as the N5, give or take a few milliseconds.

 

[theduder]

I am happily using my Nexus 6 which arrived on Wednesday. Leaving it encrypted which permits me to use Gmail 5 with my work email without using the 3rd party encrypted container that used to be required.

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[TraderGary]

Well, I removed encryption on my son's phone and kept it on mine. We ran AnTuTu Benchmark and they were nearly the same. He was around 51,000, and I was around 50,000. We then closed everything, and opened different things simultaneously. Camera, photo gallery, phone, Chrome, etc. No visible difference between the two phones. I don't think encryption is actually slowing the phone down. There is a post on XDA where someone did a large number of different bench marks, and he also saw no real difference. If anything, he found the numbers to be slightly better on the encrypted phone. Not worth removing encryption and either missing OTA updates because you're rooted, or having to setup the phone again each time if the update forces encryption again. At least not IMHO....

I certainly don't see any performance problems with my N6. It's the fastest, smoothest machine I've owned to date and multitasks beautifully.