HTC Nexus Marlin Specs

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Specs as rumored:

Manufactured by HTC
Quad-core Qualcomm processor
5.5" QHD (2560x1440) AMOLED display
USB-C port
12MP rear camera, 8MP front
Rear-mounted fingerprint scanner
4GB RAM
3450mAh battery
Bottom-firing speakers
32/128GB of storage
Bluetooth 4.2


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Bottom firing speakers is an interesting choice, the rest looks expected. Quadcore is probably the 820 which IIRC is 2x2 big little.
 
What's wrong with those specs?

Posted via the Android Central App on the Moto X Pure Edition
 
Ry said:
What's wrong with those specs?

Posted via the Android Central App on the Moto X Pure Edition
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No change in the battery capacity for one, and when looking at a phone like the Axon 7, a bottom firing speaker after 2 straight years of dual front stereo speakers is disappointing.

Posted via the Android Central App
 
Device got smaller and battery stayed huge - IMO that's a win. I agree on the bottom firing speaker, but kind of expected it when HTC did that to the HTC 10. And the Axon 7 does look good on a lot of fronts, will be interesting to compare the two.
 
girl_Interrupted513 said:
No change in the battery capacity for one, and when looking at a phone like the Axon 7, a bottom firing speaker after 2 straight years of dual front stereo speakers is disappointing.

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Look at it this way. If those are accurate they didn't decrease the battery size, but are presumably using a more efficient chip and display (we know the chip is more efficient, display is unknown).

I have not heard the speakers on the 10 so I can't comment much on that. I'm not a HUGE user of phone speakers anyway (mostly calls).
 
No way am I surprised; I'll just have to get used to a much slower updating schedule. A 5.5" display is a deal breaker for me. As is, I'm willing to bet, the "new and improved" Boomsound.
 
quelquehomme said:
No way am I surprised; I'll just have to get used to a much slower updating schedule. A 5.5" display is a deal breaker for me. As is, I'm willing to bet, the "new and improved" Boomsound.
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5.5" is too big or too small? And what about Boomsound do you not like? (I have no idea if the Nexus will have the Boomsound software, probably will not)
 
Kevin OQuinn said:
Look at it this way. If those are accurate they didn't decrease the battery size, but are presumably using a more efficient chip and display (we know the chip is more efficient, display is unknown).

I have not heard the speakers on the 10 so I can't comment much on that. I'm not a HUGE user of phone speakers anyway (mostly calls).
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I was actually getting used to the idea of the reduction in screen size. And I'll agree that a more efficient processor on a smaller screen running on the same battery capacity *might* equate to better battery life. But after two straight years of dual front stereo speakers, I can't be happy about a bottom- firing speaker.

Posted via the Android Central App
 
Maybe Android 7.0 Noogat comes with technology that makes the sound waves come out of the bottom and bounce off the floor into your ear in a way that sounds much better than having it go straight from the speaker to your ears? Like it's using floor ... amplification? ...
 
Of course that would require the phone to know how far away the floor was and at what angle... OMG, Tango phone!
 
This is disappointing considering my nexus 6P is sitting at 39 percent with 3 hours and 30 minutes with brightness below 15 percent, airplane mode on, and almost every feature off and the battery still fails by far to my S7E. Yes its over 6 hours SoT but that's if its dead and draining it to 0 reduces its charge life.i get 4-5 hours SoT usually which is average for such a "massive" battery. Speakers are regressed, uses same camera hopefully theres OIS, and a better proccessor and a gig extra ram. HTC always finds a way to under upgrade a new device. Even though i had zero problems in performance to my nexus 9, it was a very [removed by mod] tablet that only had AOSP going for it. So many problems ive heard from others. The new 6Ps just not "upgraded" enough

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I'm at a totally different place with this news. To me the 6P is already the best phone on the market (IMO and all that), so I'm thinking take a device with a great screen, very good battery life, good build quality, great performance, very solid camera, etc. and making it even a little better with 2016 specs and that's a winner. Obviously we have to wait to see more than a spec sheet to know if it's worth upgrading or not.
 
Ugh too small! Well it looks like I'm keeping my Nexus 6 for awhile longer.
 
Orion78 said:
Ugh too small! Well it looks like I'm keeping my Nexus 6 for awhile longer.
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Big phones are thing of the past. 5.5 seems to be the size that sells. Companies need to make profits to stay in business.
 
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If these specs are true def a pass on this phone. Another screen downgrade.... come on! Going from 5.9" (N6) to 5.7" (6P) was OK, however I can't go any smaller. It makes consuming media (which I do a lot of) aggravating on such a small screen. I was hoping for a 6" screen or even staying at this size 5.7 of the 6P. Hopefully the rumors about a Google phone, (pixel phone whatever it's called) are true. Probably going to hold onto the 6P for another year is nothing else pans out.

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5.5" display is great for me, but depending on the actual design I could manage with bigger. The Note 5 had a bigger display but was easy to manage thanks to the design of the rest of the phone.

6p honestly feels a bit too big for me, but I keep using it because it's a great phone.
 
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