"I've ordered my Nexus 6P" (Order & Shipping Discussion)

[km58501]

I just saw an unboxing and hands-on video on youtube. Search "Nexus 6P Unboxing And Hands On Review". It's from India but in English.

 

[Matt Gomes]

Has anyone else that ordered the first day noticed that they pushed back the ship date? Mine was 11/5 at the latest when I ordered and now it's showing 11/12 at the latest.

I ordered a 32GB Graphite 6P within 10 minutes of pre-orders going live, and I have a date of Nov.4-Nov.6. Mine still shows the status as "pre ordrered".

 

[co.ag.2005]

I just saw an unboxing and hands-on video on youtube. Search "Nexus 6P Unboxing And Hands On Review". It's from India but in English.

yep, girl_interrupted posted it here on AC:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/nexus-6p/594125-nexus-6p-unboxing-video.html

I ordered a 32GB Graphite 6P within 10 minutes of pre-orders going live, and I have a date of Nov.4-Nov.6. Mine still shows the status as "pre ordrered".

Look a few posts above... what does it say if you click Settings -> my account at the Google Play Store (on a PC/Mac browser) instead of the Google store?

 

[anon(5488851)]

64GB Aluminum

 

[anon(5488851)]

Whats all this about device shipping early. Would post a link but I don't have 10 posts yet. Check out the nexus 6p subreddit

 

[BBurg_16827]

32gb graphite, only because i don't like the panda style. Est shipping time: 10-30 to 11-03. Like everyone else, hoping this gets to my hands earlier.

 

[So Cold]

Whats all this about device shipping early. Would post a link but I don't have 10 posts yet. Check out the nexus 6p subreddit

Latest guess I saw was review units going out now(ish) and orders still shipping closer to the end of the month.

 

[Matt Gomes]

Look a few posts above... what does it say if you click Settings -> my account at the Google Play Store (on a PC/Mac browser) instead of the Google store?

I just checked this, mine says "leaves warehouse in 2-3 weeks"

 

[Metroidman]

same

 

[Jobber99]

I ordered at 10:38am 9/29/2015, 2 orders. 64gb frost, 32gb aluminum. both are still "pre-ordered", with expected ship of nov 4-6

 

[anon(5488851)]

Mine says leaves Oct 27th. Well that answers that question about shipping early

 

[Chiver 44]

Just ordered 64gb graphite from the huawei website. $549 no shipping or tax to pay. Site says 5-7 business days for shipping but from what date I don't know.

 

[qnet]

With all this waiting, I've been tempted to look into other alternatives.
I know it might be sacrilegious to speak of Samsung on a Nexus Thread. But, I'm tempted to look at the Galaxy S6 Edge+. It is currently on sale on ebay for $599 (and no tax for my state). Also, there is a special 4X cashback on ebay just for today. That would mean a cashback of $48. After the cashback, at $551, it does look like a good deal.
Deep down, I know I want a Nexus. But all this waiting, is frustrating.

It's hard to wait, I understand completely. I have the Note 5 and it's a great phone. Touchwiz looks nicer and is not as bad as previous versions. You will also like the camera. Battery life is ok, I can get through the day. Note fanboys will say the battery is great but my Iphone 6 Plus still destroys it in that category.

I also had the S6 edge and liked it. The only advantage that the S6 edge plus may have over the Nexus 6P is the way it looks, but that's subjective. The camera is probably better also, but who knows. Probably not fair to say since the Nexus isn't even out yet.

I would tough it out and wait for the Nexus if you really want it, but I'm a Nexus fanboy so my opinion is not objective.

 

[Notafanboyfan]

With all this waiting, I've been tempted to look into other alternatives.
I know it might be sacrilegious to speak of Samsung on a Nexus Thread. But, I'm tempted to look at the Galaxy S6 Edge+. It is currently on sale on ebay for $599 (and no tax for my state). Also, there is a special 4X cashback on ebay just for today. That would mean a cashback of $48. After the cashback, at $551, it does look like a good deal.
Deep down, I know I want a Nexus. But all this waiting, is frustrating.

My S6 doesn't lag at all but I'm still getting the 6P. It's all preference and patience.

 

[McCarthy]

6P 64GB Aluminum Nov 18-20 why so long?? Ordered October 9th

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Did you see my post? I ordered on the October 2nd and I'm told Nov. 26-30th.

I live south of Boston :/

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[reztech]

Yup I didn't have a choice wishful thinking I was just hoping they had more ready to go than they lead us to believe... Oh well...

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[SaracenSam]

Nexus 6P

128GB

Graphite

Haven't been this excited for a phone for a long time. I just hope the AMOLED panel is high end and not the garbage they put in the Nexus 6.

 

[ankah]

its almost to the point where im getting tired of waiting and may just keep my M8

 

[zorak950]

I have to chuckle at the perpetual ability of the consumer to find fault. Open up sales on release day and people complain when the site is mobbed and they sell out in half an hour. Do preorders and people complain that they have to wait too long to get what they ordered. Cut off preorders for certain models when the line gets too long and people complain that they can't preorder anymore. Are we spoiled brats or what?

 

[leicamagic]

Wait, the video review says in the 32GB model, there are 25GB of space left (OS takes up ~7GB), but in the 64GB there's 50GB left??? How does that make sense....just cuz the storage doubles, doesn't mean the OS takes up twice as much space as well. Hoping there's 57GB left in the 64GB model and it was just a misspeak

Have you ever defragmented a hard drive? Ever notice how if your drive is completely full, it won't run?

The idea is the same, and it applies here. The system needs to reserve a certain percentage of space to maintain operations. There is always an overhead.... Bigger the driver, bigger the overhead requirement.

Actually, it has a lot more to do with the actual physical capacity than "overhead". Let me explain.

The capacity of a storage device is expressed using the metric system. So, 1 Gigabyte = 1 billion bytes. However, computers use binary system to show storage capacity, and that's where you lose some "bytes".

In metric, 1 kilo = 1000 (10^3)
However, in binary, 1 kilo = 1024 (2^10)

So, in computer terms, 1 KB = 1024 bytes, while in metric, 1 KB = 1000 bytes, see how it takes 24 extra bytes for every KB?

Now, 32 GB storage has the physical capacity to store 32 billion bytes approximately (due to manufacturing it's never exactly 32 billion, but typically always a little more and not less)

But in computer terms,
32000000000 bytes = 31250000 KB (32000000000 ÷ 1024) = 30517.58 MB (31250000 ÷ 1024) = 29.80 GB (30517.58 ÷ 1024).

As you can see, a storage device with a metric capacity of 32GB can actually store 29.80 GB of binary data. For 64 GB, the actual binary capacity is 59.60 GB

If you take the info from the unboxing video (screenshot of the storage settings), it looks like the OS is about 4.79 GB (29.80 - 25.01). From that, you can expect about 59.60 - 4.79 = 54.81 GB available in the 64GB versions.

The guy in the video simply is clueless about what I just explained. He thought, if 32 GB has 25 GB available, 64 must have 50.. Lol..

BTW, because of the confusion between the commercial (metric) and binary capacity, there is another term GiB (MiB, KiB) that is used to show the actual binary capacity. So, 32 GB = 29.80 GiB. Look it up.

Hope it cleared up the confusion.



Edit: For comparison, Nexus 6 32GB has 25.98 GiB and 64 GB has 54.65 GiB available. Because of the variations in manufacturing, the actual number of bytes (as opposed to stated capacity) vary among different manufacturers as well as chip sizes.