Google Nexus 6 on T-Mobile

[Robbie317]

Re: T-mobile has them on the floor

So I had a chance to play with it. This device it WIDE. I don't think anyone quite knows why Google chose this size, but it's a device that will tire your hand. It seemed a bit awkward and top heavy with the upper half thicker than the lower half. The curved back helps it feel good in the hand, but this is a two handed device for 98% of people. If you're one to lay your phone down one a desk and interact with it, forgettaboutit. This thing spins like a top and wobbles like a dreidel. The screen is ok. If you don't hold it up to another phone. It's dim and very warm. Even the T-Mobile associate was shocked when we loaded chrome side by side on the nexus and my 6+. The nexus was 100% with auto off and my 6+ was at 75% and it couldn't hold a candle to it. If anyone disliked the G3 for its screen, don't even bother with the 6. The camera is much improved so I think everyone will really be happy with it for the most part. Let's be honest, people don't buy Nexus devices for the camera but this one is good. Unfortunately I think the average consumer won't make it past the size to find that out.


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This is without a doubt a specialty device... Hard to say who the target market is.. I work with a small petite woman who wields her Note 3 like it's nothing... She loves it and says she'd never go back... I got to play with one at my local T-Mobile store on Friday for about 30 - 40 minutes... I actually thought it felt a lot smaller in the hand that I thought it would.. Could tell that it was top heavy but considering it tapers off as you move down the device that would seem to be the case.. I found my index fighter pretty much hit that little dimple perfectly and that might be part of the balancing act... I got this Diztronic case in the mail today and it says it has lay flat technology... The back of the case is a lot flatter than the actual phone and I think the case is designed so that the phone doesn't rock back and forth and spin like a top, but the it might take away from that comfortable feeling the phone is designed to have in the hand.. If you go without a case of any kind I agree that could be an issue... but for me I am not a mess with my phone why it's laying down.. I always pick it up.. I was only able to compare brightness vs my Nexus 5... both were set to auto brightness and I never even though to hit the slider and put either at max brightness.. I did think the Nexus 6 was just a hair "Darker" but they were pretty close to the same level...

Mine should be here by Wednesday... I've just been toying with the case in my hand and she's going to be big... but that is the point.. just a few hair wider and taller than the Note 4 so if your comfortable with that device you should be pretty comfortable with this one minus the home button and extra bezel... and I loved the G3 screen.... I didn't toy with the camera as I was in the store so what are you really going to picture? I want to test the camera out in the wild where I would normally take pictures but most of the test images seem to show it's got a decent shooter strapped on the back.. Camera isn't top 5 for me... I have a digital SLR when I know I am going to be taking "Important" pictures.. but you at least want your pictures to be decent and speed is probably more important with my 11 and 9 year old racing around doing different things....

I'll probably keep my Nexus 5 for at least a month just in case.... I don't think the size is going to be an issue but with Lollipop on the Nexus 5 it will feel like a new device and not like it's old.... I doubt I'll go back down once I have all that extra real estate to play with..

 

[Robbie317]

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Both at max. View attachment 148772

the size comparison is just hilarious.....

I agree with Stevie though... load the same thing on both screens so you can get a better idea of the color and brightness... Not that it matters to me but same thing on both gives you a better perspective...

 

[SteveISU]

T-mobile has them on the floor

The other thing that was odd was the volume on the right side and low. I kept accidentally hit it. That will take some getting use to.

 

[NerdTopper]

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Load up Google home page on both.

Their ya go.

 

[Robbie317]

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The other thing that was odd was the volume one the right side and low. I kept accidentally hit it. That will take some getting use to.

Yup.. happened a few times for me too.. I am use to them being on the other side of the phone... and I might have been just fine with them on the other side on this one too... with my Nexus 5 the way I hold it I always hit the volume down button by mistake while holding it.. The down volume is just always right where my dang finger sits and more than once I've turned the volume off all the way by mistaken and missed a call or text because it was off..... lol... if they were over there on this I'd never hit them by accident... That same finger now rest on that dimple in the back..

 

[Kevin_G_Sanchez]

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I found a T-Mobile that has a few in stock but they are not allow to even put the demo up on display until the 19th. They couldn't even give me the demo to play with. I guess I won't be able to have one in my hands until I buy mine. Sucks.

 

[SteveISU]

T-mobile has them on the floor

Their ya go.

Doesn't look like it helped that much. You wouldn't believe that was a 2K display just by looking at it.

 

[Robbie317]

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Their ya go.

Sweet.. At least in the picture the iPhone looks TOO bright.... and I think that brightness would just be dependent on what you were looking at... I know with my Nexus 5 if I am watching a movie (rarely do that as is) and there is a dark scene even with max brightness I can't even tell what is going on.... So that might be an issue on the Nexus 6 but not a deal breaker... rare that I watch movies or "Dark" stuff on here....

 

[Robbie317]

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I found a T-Mobile that has a few in stock but they are not allow to even put the demo up on display until the 19th. They couldn't even give me the demo to play with. I guess I won't be able to have one in my hands until I buy mine. Sucks.

That sucks... several stores around me at least have the Demo out.. but they are quick to say "11/19"

 

[NerdTopper]

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Hmmm.

 

[SteveISU]

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Hmmm.

View attachment 148776

Adaptive brightness on?

 

[NerdTopper]

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Adaptive brightness on?

Both at max, adaptive off on the Nexus 6. Honestly it looks almost as bright as the iPhone in person, I actually keep the Nexus 6 at 50% because I think max brightness is too much for me.

 

[SteveISU]

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Both at max, adaptive off on the Nexus 6. Honestly it looks almost as bright as the iPhone in person, I actually keep the Nexus 6 at 50% because I think max brightness is too much for me.

First pic looks like it's dark in the room, second looks better and with more light in the room.

 

[nickacs]

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That sucks... several stores around me at least have the Demo out.. but they are quick to say "11/19"

Yea I called the store like 2mins from my house on the way home from work today and they didn't have display ones out, but the guy said they had a Demo I could come and check out. I ended up doing errands/dinner/etc so never got to the store until like 20mins till closing. The guy told another chick associate to get it from the back, and when she came back, she just stood like 4 ft from me eyeing me like a hawk. Sheesh! I kept asking her questions about it and if they will carry 64gb in store, etc. She didn't know %&*, so she had to keep asking the other associate guy the answers. Ugg... But anyways, with her staring me down for 10mins, I was too nervous to do much with it, but did get to take some pics (no lag on non HDR), check out web pages, played with the brightness.

Overall, I liked the flow and really everything about it, but that size... Dayuummm LOL... I dunno, I'm actually contemplating going to just the Moto X 2014 and selling my Nexus 6 when it ships by Friday I would love to try and see if Verizon will work on it, but I don't want to take it out of the box to try if I'm going to sell it.

4 days more to think about it. I'll go to a store by my work on Wed or Thurs and check it out more to decide.

 

[bojackr1]

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Does anyone know if all stores will be selling the Nexus 6 on Wed., Nov 19 or if it will only be the ones on that limited list they had last week and use every so many releases, the ones in the larger markets?

Some reps in the store didn't know, not that I would expect them too. Most of the time members of the forums know more, which is the reason asking here.

Thank You

Here ya go!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mXnx-pYsB1F2yioylq6dRly9J1Eon51oLaErmHYiV1w/edit?usp=sharing

 

[Mac58]

Re: Nexus 6 - Which T-Mobile Stores

Here ya go!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mXnx-pYsB1F2yioylq6dRly9J1Eon51oLaErmHYiV1w/edit?usp=sharing

Thats the sam spreadsheet that has been going around since before they pushed back the release. So does this mean that other stores will not have them in stock, or are u just forwarding this spreadsheet?

 

[eric0668]

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Thanks man. That is the list I was referring to in my post. The one that was going to be used on the 12th

DI'd you hear or read that the 19th was a limited release as well? And do you have a source or linl

I appreciate it - I have to know a little more detailed tho because it meame me driving 2 hours.



Thanks a ton though

 

[Robbie317]

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Thats the sam spreadsheet that has been going around since before they pushed back the release. So does this mean that other stores will not have them in stock, or are u just forwarding this spreadsheet?

Yeah that is the same spread sheet.. I just don't know how accurate it is...... The T-Mobile store I was at Friday looking at the Demo unit is not on that list at all...... and they said they already had stock... and another store not far from that one told me they would have stock on 11/13 and now 11/19 and they are not on that list either... So I don't know how accurate the list is or how honest the T-Mobile employees are.....

 

[bojackr1]

Re: Nexus 6 - Which T-Mobile Stores

Thats the sam spreadsheet that has been going around since before they pushed back the release. So does this mean that other stores will not have them in stock, or are u just forwarding this spreadsheet?

Yeah Mac58, I just forwarded that one. That's all that I know of. I'm sure that there's more locations with the device. The ones that I've called from that list have the demo and stock. Even though none of them will sell me one outright.

 

[NeoteriX]

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