What the heck was Google thinking?!
5.5 inch nexus 6? And at $700 for the 64 gb version?
Compare the specs of the nexus 5x and the nexus 6x.
Screen is tiny bit bigger and 2k, but all nexus geeks know that 2k on a 5.5 inch screen is pointless.
Same ram, 810 vs 808 processor which isn't an upgrade at all.
Camera will be a bit better at least hardware wise
Battery will be bigger and for $700 you can get a 64 gb vs a 32gb Max size in the nexus 5x.
But I ask you is a bigger battery, better speced camera, 32 gb more memory and 0.3 inch bigger screen worth $250?!
The point of offering two nexi this year was because the nexus 6 was incontrovertible the best nexus in history except the price and size upset some folks.
So this year you have a mix range regular size phone for the fans of cheap, small nexus 5
And a giant phablet speced to the Max, but built by huawei, known for giant beautiful phones with giant batteries and sold for reasonable prices.
The perfect way to extend the appeal of the brand especially since android is getting better every year and the need for skins is declining.
BUT now we find that the nexus 6x is hardly even a phablet and its battery hardly lives up to the Huawei potential and is actually more expensive!
WTF!
Let's compare the nexus 6 with the rumored nexus 6x shall we to see why Google just shoot itself in the foot.
Keep in mind that nexus fans often upgrade each year so it's very important that the nexus 6x offer an impressive value package or sales will suck.
5.5 inch 2k vs 6 inch 2k screen
Definate down grade
3 gb ram vs 3 gb ram
No upgrade
Front facing duel speakers
No upgrade
3500 vs 3220mAh battery
Upgrade
32/64 gb memory vs 32/64 gb memory
No upgrade
21 mp vs 13 mp camera with ois in both
Theoretical upgrade but software will be the same
$650/$700 vs $600/$650 original price but now $350/$400 for nexus 6
Bottom line the nexus 6x is a downgrade in almost all ways and costs more to give you less in what we pay much can all agree is an much uglier form factor.
For a company that was founded and run by geniuses Google seems to have lost its mind.
Because if these specs prove true then I can guarantee that the nexus 6x will undersell the nexus 6, and apparently Google was disappointed in those sales.
So to boost sales they took the one thing people lived about the nexus 6, the huge screen, made it no bigger than numerous other competitors, took the one thing everyone hated, the high price, and made it higher.
Then just for good measure they put in an 810 processor that everyone hats just months before the amazing 820 is released.
It makes no sense! I want to say that the rumors must be false because they are so disappointing and insanely stupid as to make the mind spin.
Yet I fear that these rumors will prove true because 2015 had proven the year of the disappointing phone.
If those rumors are true than anyone without a nexus 6 is an ***** for not buying one while supplies last, because Google may take years to become same regarding nexus phablet, assuming they ever do.
If the nexus 6 becomes out of stock then the best nexus of 2015 without a doubt we'll be the moto x PE.
And next year the software for that phone is likely to be jacked up by Lenovo.
Good I hope not because at this point moto is the only hope for nexus fans.
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