You bet is a lot of drama over 0.5 inches but not because I'm in need of a new nexus anytime soon. My nexus 6 is future proof and I can ride it into the cold, cold ground if I have too.
But after the masterpiece that the nexus 6 I was hoping that we'd get an annual nexus phablet and there would be some consistency to the design.
Duel facing speakers every year
Giant screen every year
Now it appears that Google is selecting their desired nexus specs out of a hat and it doesn't matter who makes the phone because Google will force them to make whatever it wants.
Huawei is famous for 3 Things
Cheap phones
Big screens
Huge batteries
This it was natural for us to assume that when Google choose them to make a nexus phablet. It was too make a better version of the nexus 6, but with a bigger battery and one that would not cost so much.
Now it seems the nexus 6x will come not just with a massively smaller screen, but with a much smaller battery than what huawei usually puts in their phablet and as a final insult to nexus fans, the biggest complaint about last year, the high price, will now go even higher.
So Google wasnt listening at all to nexus 6 fans when we said we love the 6 inch screen and never want to go any smaller.
They weren't listening when people said the price was high.
They weren't listening at all to us, just like they never listen when people say to fix the damned camera and crappy battery life.
Oh and stop messing up the launches.
I swear to god, $1500 to the first phone maker that makes a 6+ inch screen with a giant removable battery and front facing duel speakers and STOCK ANDROID.
for the love of God phone makers how hard is it to do nothing to the software!?
All we want is a decent hardware package and software that Google will automatically update and that we don't need to rely on you for.
Blu pure xl is a $350 6 inch 2k screened phone with a 3500 mAh battery and 64 gb memory for $350.
It's a perfect phone at perfect price and blows the nexus 6x rumored specs out of the water.
If it came with stock Android half of us here would but it tomorrow and not even wait for the official reveal of the nexus 6x.
Yet it comes with a skin. Because Blu, who just repackages other phones to make their own, wants to invest in a brand to avoid becoming a no name brand that people buy just for the great price.
So they change a few things in the software and then you can't get an update without them giving it to you.
Wake up Blu, and all no name, mom and pop, and even Chinese phone makers. You are selling a commodity product and competing a little on design, more on specs, and a lot on price.
The one thing no one gives a damned about is your proprietary software.
Android used to be incomplete but isn't anymore.
All skins these days except for moto, just make software bulkier and slower and makes it impossible to update without rooting of a phone if the phone maker abandons a model.
So save yourself some money Samsung, htc, Lenovo, LG, Sony fire all your software engineers and just ship with stock.
Sony phones will be different than htc phones because they are water proof and have duel speakers.
Htc had boomsound, moto has its curved ergonomic design, and Samsung has the best screens.
LG had removable batteries and SD cards.
There are branding differences that people care about but software isn't one.
Be lazy, save money, and win the loyalty of the nexus fans who are tired of watching Google **** up the nexus so many times.
Or hell, Samsung, maker of a dozen versions of every phone, how about you just make a note 5 with stock Android.
That phone would be a lot better than the Huawei nexus this year and it literally would require no extra work on your part.
How is it possible that no one is willing to make a phone without a skin? How hard is it to not do anything, to be lazy and not hire software engineers?
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram