Google Nexus 6 Preorder Info & Reviews

[Crispy]

Re: It's a typical Nexus phone, full of compromises

Has anyone found what the max brightness of the phone is? I usually keep my phones at around 75% and like a bright display.

258 nits. It was the 2nd worst of all phones tested. Truly terrible.

Graph below is from AnandTech review. What this means is bad viewing outside, and you'll have to run it ay higher brightness, using more battery.

 

[kingmac38]

Re: It's a typical Nexus phone, full of compromises

258 nits. It was the 2nd worst of all phones tested. Truly terrible.

Graph below is from AnandTech review. What this means is bad viewing outside, and you'll have to run it ay higher brightness, using more battery.

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Can you believe that graph at all when the note 4 gets over 750 nits on auto and they have it at 462 ....dont think they may be doing something right huh

 

[SteveISU]

Re: It's a typical Nexus phone, full of compromises

Yeah that may be a deal breaker if I can't see this thing outside. That's really dim, where the hell did they find a 2K AMOLED display that dim? I'd say its a few yrs old but did they even have 2K displays back in the S3 days?

 

[Crispy]

Re: It's a typical Nexus phone, full of compromises

Yeah that may be a deal breaker if I can't see this thing outside. That's really dim, where the hell did they find a 2K AMOLED display that dim? I'd say its a few yrs old but did they even have 2K displays back in the S3 days?

Its definitely a very early AMOLED panel, probably one of the first ones Samsung made with QHD. Its a big reason why the battery life is poor too, and that's something no software can fix.

 

[Joe the Insider]

Re: Anybody else disappointed with screen battery life and camera ?

One reviewer? Yes it's the best on the nexus line but best period? Plenty wasn't in love with it compared to other phones and places where the verge gave a glowing review of it said camera was average and along with phone arena. Benchmarks say the note 4 last longer then 8 while the nexus 6 lasts around 7 and a half of usage I believe.

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I'll take stock, larger screen, quicker updates and better build quality. People are making assumptions before even using the phone.

Are people really going to take let these reviews dictate what they buy?

 

[Joe the Insider]

Re: Anybody else disappointed with screen battery life and camera ?

By all objective measures we will probably see the camera rankings in this order.

1. iPhone 6+
2. Note 4
3. iPhone 6
4. LG G3
5. Nexus 6

If camera is extremely important then you may want to adjust your expectations or consider another device.

I don't need the best camera, I just need a good camera. I had the G3 and the camera isn't that great.

 

[Closingracer]

Re: Anybody else disappointed with screen battery life and camera ?

I'll take stock, larger screen, quicker updates and better build quality. People are making assumptions before even using the phone.

Are people really going to take let these reviews dictate what they buy?

Yes when it's me paying money for it


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[Joe the Insider]

Re: It's a typical Nexus phone, full of compromises

If the panel magically changes, the battery issues get fixed via software update, the camera app gets fixed and isn't slow and clunky, and they add anything at all that takes advantage of that screen size, I'll come back and concede this to you. Don't see that happening.

And I read reviews that take the bias out of it and just test it. Anandtech does that. Most other reviewers are going to take preference into account, especially on a phone this big.

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Who said it was slow?

Who said the battery was bad? I heard that it'll get through a full day and that doesn't include using the turbo charger.

I heard the camera is good, but not the best. That's fine with me.

 

[Tony DeLuce]

Re: Anybody else disappointed with screen battery life and camera ?

Very excited about the camera and the battery life is fine. Check out these photo comparisons with the note 4:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2846460/nexus-6-vs-galaxy-note-4-camera-shootout.html

 

[kingmac38]

Re: It's a typical Nexus phone, full of compromises

Who said it was slow?

Who said the battery was bad? I heard that it'll get through a full day and that doesn't include using the turbo charger.

I heard the camera is good, but not the best. That's fine with me.

Encryption is set to default right now which is slowing down the read write on the nand..... but the nexus 9 has a work around to remove the encryption ....now just have to see what that effects

 

[Crispy]

Re: Anybody else disappointed with screen battery life and camera ?

The only best-in-class thing about N6 is the 6" size (if you want that) and stock Android. Everything that matters in a phone - screen, battery life, camera, is worse than the competition. For gods sake the Nexus 5 beats it in nearly every category.

I'm sure its going to be a good phone but its not even close to being the best. Based on reviews, of course I haven't used it myself. But I doubt everyone is lying.

I'm being overly critical because that's how I feel after the Ars and Anandtech reviews.

 

[Tony DeLuce]

Re: Anybody else disappointed with screen battery life and camera ?

Biggest screen size and best camera except for low light but the sony sensor is capable of much better performance which I suspect we will see dramatically improve via a software update..

I would ignore "opinion reviews" and check it out first hand yourself...

 

[Crispy]

Re: It's a typical Nexus phone, full of compromises

Who said it was slow?

Who said the battery was bad? I heard that it'll get through a full day and that doesn't include using the turbo charger.

I heard the camera is good, but not the best. That's fine with me.

The Nexus 5 beats the Nexus 6 in battery life, screen quality, color calibration, brightness. Almost every phone can get thru a full day, the point of a fable is to last ~2 days. Motorola and Google have never been able to get decent battery life and this continues, they simply don't know how to do it.

The workaround people are talking about for slow speeds will need root, custom kernel etc, i.e. most people won't have it. Google isn't going to disable encryption, that's a highlight feature of L.

Camera takes 2x-3x as long to focus as Note 4/iPhone, and seconds for a HDR photo. I'm not sure why people are discounting the AnandTech review, they're the only ones who do proper tests rather than subjective opinions.

 

[tuan209]

Re: Anybody else disappointed with screen battery life and camera ?

Didnt Anandtech say the N6 camera was just as good or not better than the Ip6+?

Over time, I bet the improvements via updates will put the N6 on par or even surpass the Note 4 and IP6+ in terms of battery life and maybe photo quality.

 

[jdbii]

Re: It's a typical Nexus phone, full of compromises

The Nexus 5 beats the Nexus 6 in battery life, screen quality, color calibration, brightness. Almost every phone can get thru a full day, the point of a fable is to last ~2 days. Motorola and Google have never been able to get decent battery life and this continues, they simply don't know how to do it..

How could you possibly know all that regarding n5 vs n6? Anyway I respectfully disagree regarding Motorola and battery. My moto x 13 battery is great.

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[Crispy]

Re: It's a typical Nexus phone, full of compromises

How could you possibly know all that regarding n5 vs n6? Anyway I respectfully disagree regarding Motorola and battery. My moto x 13 battery is great.

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I'm just basing that based on AnandTech review, and the reddit thread discussing it. Who knows, maybe future updates will fix some issues, or maybe they got a bad unit. We'll see when people get their phones in a few weeks I hope.

 

[smoledman]

Re: It's a typical Nexus phone, full of compromises

I can't believe they're charging $650 for this.

 

[Ed Briggs]

Re: It's a typical Nexus phone, full of compromises

- battery life not as good (worse than Note 4, iPhone 6+)
- screen not as good (worse than Note 4, iPhone 6+)
- screen color calibration is bad (worse than Nexus 5)
- flash read/write speeds are slow (worse than Nexus 5)
- doesn't have full set of features from Moto Assist, lacks hw sensors
- no sd card, no removable battery

Google seems to think putting the Nexus name and promise of quick updates is enough and they can put substandard hardware. I can't believe some of the components are worse than the N5, which was $300 cheaper.

This works for a $350-400 phone, it doesn't when you claim to be a no-compromises premium phone with premium pricing.

Ask yourself, if this weren't a 6" phone and didn't have the Nexus brand, would you still be interested?

Substandard hardware? For who? Professional photographers? People who LIVE on there cells for hours at a time? Benchmark junkies? Are you kidding me? Sure, I don't agree with the price tag, but I would bet anything that it would beat any other phone side-by-side in most tests. You sound like you have a chip on your shoulder.

Btw, I'm running a Nexus 5 with 5.0 official, and couldn't be happier. It's as fast as any phone out there. Except the Nexus 6. I'm not going to sit here and debate you, as it proves nothing. Don't hate, appreciate what you hold dear.

 

[Ricky Prasad]

Re: Anybody else disappointed with screen battery life and camera ?

Will the fix be there for a normal user who buys the phone and doesn't root or know about XDA? That's what matters. If the fix is to disable encryption, that doesn't count as Lollipop won't allow that (without root, custom rom etc).

Could someone provide any info on this? I also wanna know. Will any future software update fix these issues? Including the camera performance in low light, screen brightness etc etc.

 

[Crispy]

Re: It's a typical Nexus phone, full of compromises

Substandard hardware? For who? Professional photographers? People who LIVE on there cells for hours at a time? Benchmark junkies? Are you kidding me? Sure, I don't agree with the price tag, but I would bet anything that it would beat any other phone side-by-side in most tests. You sound like you have a chip on your shoulder.

Btw, I'm running a Nexus 5 with 5.0 official, and couldn't be happier. It's as fast as any phone out there. Except the Nexus 6. I'm not going to sit here and debate you, as it proves nothing. Don't hate, appreciate what you hold dear.

I have no dog in this fight, in fact I want to get the Nexus 6. I'm just saying what reviews are saying, and in fact the N6 doesn't beat most other phones in tests, as I also expected.