decision time the MX vs the N5

[ultravisitor]

If you've set your phone to have Hangouts handle SMS, the other person can just be using SMS and it still works across devices.

SMS messages are not showing up in Hangouts on a desktop. The only messages that show up across devices are instant messages--not SMS.

 

[ultravisitor]

If you've set your phone to have Hangouts handle SMS, the other person can just be using SMS and it still works across devices.

https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/3441321?hl=en

"When you turn on SMS, all of your existing text messages are imported into the Hangouts app. You can only access these messages on your Android phone and not from any other Hangouts on the web, iOS device, or your tablet."

 

[karmamule]

https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/3441321?hl=en

"When you turn on SMS, all of your existing text messages are imported into the Hangouts app. You can only access these messages on your Android phone and not from any other Hangouts on the web, iOS device, or your tablet."

Yup, that's right. I just checked with my friend who I thought was only using SMS and he installed Google Hangouts recently, so you're right. Sorry for my confusion. I thought I had been doing Hangout -> SMS and seeing it on my PC, but since he has installed Hangouts it's just using that. Oh well. Here I was thinking how cool it all was.

 

[Pollster]

Not to mention that when I get calls on my phone, Motorola Connect tells me who's calling on my computer screen. Several people who've been in my office when my phone was ringing in my pocket have been jealous.

 

[ne0ne]

Form factor and active notifications are huge for me. Surprisingly, active notifications is a killer feature in my book. And the fact that it's enabled by hardware (AMOLED display) means that others won't be catching up any time soon.

AMOLED is not a requirement for active display / notifications. It does however make it that much more power efficient as it can fire the individual pixels needed. Take a look at the droid lineup. I think its the mini that has the LCD display and also has active display / notifications

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

 

[fishweb]

Wow great responses guys hopefully someone who stumbles into this thread will be helped by all the well articulated pros and cons. they are both great phones.
Specifically about the camera I took some indoor test shots and the moto x was more noisy/grainy than the nexus 5. I have to mention how great the waggle waggle gesture though. I was able to catch a great shot of a car that fell into a ditch because of it.
Lots of great call outs about the moto connect feature. I am running Computer-less as part of a personal experiment so I haven't tried it at all.