Nexus 6P: no inductive charging? no image stabilization? WTH?

[Mooem]

I will definitely miss wireless charging but it's by no means a deal breaker.

On OIS, I'm going to wait and see how well the "EIS" performs on the 6P. It might not be as good as but I'm sure the picture quality will be fine for most situations.

 

[cdemot02]

I have neither on my note 3 so no loss

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[So Cold]

l'll give up the wireless charging I have with the nexus 5 for a 3,450 mAh battery that has fast charging in a heartbeat, no questions asked, any day.

This is totally my opinion but wireless charging was just a way to pass off bad battery life, "hey that battery sucks!, yeah but you can just drop it on a charger real easy".

Google wants to give me a 3,450 mAh!!!!!!!! (did I mention I'm stoked for that battery) battery in a crazy thin metal body. I start throwing bills, say take my money and give it to me.

 

[Kaido]

6P has EIS

Anyways, here's Google's official answer on the matter:

Making up for no OIS: “We’ve done a bunch of things to provide image stabilization: 1. The Nexus 6P/5X has a large 1.55um pixel camera and the amount of motion blur due to hand-shake is lower , when you have large pixels. 2. We have a feature we call “lucky shot” internally. When you take a picture, behind the scenes, we select the best of 3 bursts of images. 3. When you use video, we have optic-flow-based image stabilization. 4. When you use SmartBurst, we select the best image from the burst (for example a shot with eyes open).”

More on cameras: “Yea, same sensor (IMX377) and F/2.0 optics. But 6P has more CPU/GPU horsepower so has a few additional features like 240fps slomo (vs 120fps on 5X), Smartburst, and EIS.”

Why no wireless (Qi) charging: “We added Qi wireless charging starting with N4 because plugging in USB micro B was such a hassle! (Which way is up!?) With this year’s Nexii, we support USB Type-C which has a reversible connector so there’s no more guessing. AND it charges incredibly swiftly: 1% to 100% in 97 mins on the 6P for example (the first ~45 mins of charging is especially fast). Meanwhile, wireless charging adds z (thickness). So, ease of plugging in + fast charging + optimizing for thinness made us double down on Type-C instead of wireless!”

Source: http://www.droid-life.com/2015/09/3...name-meaning-usb-2-0-no-qi-charging-and-more/

 

[cpaight]

I thought lack of wireless charging would be a deal breaker....but now I have a preorder for a 6P.

 

[hpilot]

Am I the only one thinking these two are deal breakers?

Pretty much. There is no perfect phone. Remember there is no OIS on the iPhone 6s, and most people say it is a great camera. I will take a metal body over inductive charging any day...

 

[sstephen17]

Wireless charging is overrated. I have the Note 4 and after getting slow charging and sometimes no charging (accidentally moving the phone on the wireless charger at night) I much prefer the "normal" way of wired charging. I'll gladly take USB C over wireless charging.

From the various articles on the camera, I don't think missing OIS will be a big deal for me. I've read it might impact those who record video, but that's a rare thing for me. Having better low light performance is more important IMO.

 

[htowngator]

OIS is mostly beneficial for video since you're keeping the shutter open (obviously) to record.

For still images it's fine if the pixels are 1.55um like Google has done because the shutter is open for a short amount of time thus limiting the impact of movement.

 

[titaniumSS]

No OIS isn't a big deal. If I want a good picture, I'll get an actual camera out instead of trying to make my phone into something it's not.

Wireless charging is not a big deal either. I would only use that at home, while I would still be plugging in my phone in my car or at the office so to get bent out of shape about 1/3 use case scenarios is a waste of my time.

Edit: Also, until wireless chargers are built into most of my surfaces, I don't really care for it.

 

[LeoRex]

Had they included OIS, that would have helped both stills AND video... but not having it with stills isn't that big a deal. Google can crank the exposure times down a bit due to the increased light sensitivity. The smaller those pixels are, the less light they'll process... the less light they'll process, the longer you have to expose... and without OIS, you open yourself up to noisy, blurry pics. The 6P's sensor is significantly larger, so that problem is mitigated somewhat. Going to that DXOMark review... the only one we have at the moment, they said that the 6P blew away the competition when it came to taking low light pictures. Yes, it would have been better if they had OIS, but as is, without OIS, it does a pretty damn good job.

Now... with video, it's a far different story. Image stabilization, hardware or software based, is critical to video to smooth out the shakes and rattles. We really haven't seen any video samples from the 6P, so we have no idea how well the EIP works. DXOMark's video scores suffered a bit due to the lack of OIS, but we haven't seen anything.... I'd like to see how much it affects the video quality.

So, not having OIS for the camera isn't going to amount to much of anything. Not having it on the video side of things might knock it down a peg, but it might end up taking decent video in any case. Seeing as I am not filming any major motion pictures on my phone any time soon, I'm not all that concerned.

 

[andreo]

I think the pictures will still be fine. I've managed to do without ois in every other phone I've owned. I can do without for another year.

Initially I was disappointed to hear there was no wireless charging. Then I realized that I don't even know where my two wireless charging pads are (and I've not used them on over 6 months).

And when I think about it. The only place where wireless charging would really come on handy for me would be in the car. However because of the heart that gets generated out would be a bad idea (yeah I did rig something up).

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