Nexus 6P: Reviews and Unboxings Thread

[LezCronut]

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Weird how everyone freaks out about battery life. Compare that to iPhone 6! Why no one complains when it comes to iPhone?

 

[htowngator]

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LOL Battery life. All anyone is ever seemingly concerned about and will never be satisfied. Not only that, there's no real testing to base anything off of. A little bit of a premature complaining. Wait until you actually get some testing before you start flipping tables and thrashing.

It matters. I can't tell you how frustrating it was for years owning nothing but Android and having it get maybe 3 hours of a screen time per day. Even during non-use it would drain at a steady rate of 5% per hour. For comparison, I can unplug my ip6+ at 6am and by 4pm when I go home it'll be 75% and that's with probably 90 minutes of SoT and on-and-off use throughout the day.

 

[htowngator]

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Weird how everyone freaks out about battery life. Compare that to iPhone 6! Why no one complains when it comes to iPhone?

ip6+ is amazing for battery, no joke

 

[Mooem]

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If the battery is even just slightly better over my Nexus 6 on Marshmellow (which has been great so far...standby time is amazing), then I will be happy. I don't consider myself a heavy user though, so having an average battery will suck for those people I guess. 3-4 hours of SOT with heavy usage is completely acceptable to me.

But I also agree it's still too early to call I think. I'd give someone's experience of the device over a week more weight over someone who only used it for a few days for a better idea of how the battery will perform day-to-day. Tech reviewers always tend to go hard on their devices (they have to of course). Looking forward to AC's thorough review.

Anyways, battery life usage always tend to be a "different strokes" part of smartphones. Unless it's real bad....like HTC Thunderbolt bad. :'(

 

[bunique4life05]

Re: Why does every reviewer have a graphite 6p?

Graphite looks much better in lighting in theses personal hands on videos. I believe the Aluminum and Frost will look even better. IMO graphite was the weakest color in past videos but now looks incredible. So I would expect if you liked a certain color before it would only look better now.

 

[htowngator]

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If the battery is even just slightly better over my Nexus 6 on Marshmellow (which has been great so far...standby time is amazing), then I will be happy. I don't consider myself a heavy user though, so having an average battery will suck for those people I guess. 3-4 hours of SOT with heavy usage is completely acceptable to me.

But I also agree it's still too early to call I think. I'd give someone's experience of the device over a week more weight over someone who only used it for a few days for a better idea of how the battery will perform day-to-day. Tech reviewers always tend to go hard on their devices (they have to of course). Looking forward to AC's thorough review.

Anyways, battery life usage always tend to be a "different strokes" part of smartphones. Unless it's real bad....like HTC Thunderbolt bad. :'(

That phone must never be spoken of again.

 

[bunique4life05]

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I believe battery life is average or on par or better than the Nexus 6. I think it may be having in house chip used like Apple and Samsung use is strategy for with software optimization is key to above average battery life. IMO

 

[htowngator]

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I believe battery life is average or on par or better than the Nexus 6. I think it may be having in house chip used like Apple and Samsung use is strategy for with software optimization is key to above average battery life. IMO

Yes, this is clearly a big reason. When you have total control over chipset including instruction set, battery tweaks, etc. it makes a much bigger difference than tossing hardware together and making the OS support it after the fact.

 

[maj71303]

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Battery life is a big ? for right now as it's to early to call. The last thing is that everyone's usage patterns and app use is different so already complaining like some are doing is just is pretty much talking out of your neck with nothing to say. Bottom line you won't know how it is until YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU get the phone in hand and YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU use it yourself.

 

[wunderbar]

Re: Why does every reviewer have a graphite 6p?

because that's what google gave out? I mean, there's literally nothing more to it than that.

 

[syspry]

Re: Reviews thread

Ugggghh.... Vergara says 3 hours SoT with heavy use.

with heavy use? I'd get low SOT on pretty much any phone when used heavily

 

[mookiekillsit]

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It matters. I can't tell you how frustrating it was for years owning nothing but Android and having it get maybe 3 hours of a screen time per day. Even during non-use it would drain at a steady rate of 5% per hour. For comparison, I can unplug my ip6+ at 6am and by 4pm when I go home it'll be 75% and that's with probably 90 minutes of SoT and on-and-off use throughout the day.

I'm not saying it doesn't matter. I'm saying you're throwing a fit before a review has even came out..... b/c you are lol.

My Note 4 doesn't even drain as fast as you're suggesting above and I easily (*easily*) get 4+ hours of OST and that's playing CoC for 30-45 minutes a day. The battery on this phone isn't really that special. Maybe try tweaking your settings. Download Juice Defender. Try something else instead of complaining a battery isn't going to work before the phone is even out lol.

 

[htowngator]

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I'm not saying it doesn't matter. I'm saying you're throwing a fit before a review has even came out..... b/c you are lol.

My Note 4 doesn't even drain as fast as you're suggesting above and I easily (*easily*) get 4+ hours of OST and that's playing CoC for 30-45 minutes a day. The battery on this phone isn't really that special. Maybe try tweaking your settings. Download Juice Defender. Try something else instead of complaining a battery isn't going to work before the phone is even out lol.

That's my point though -- why do I need to download juice defender, set brightness low, and turn off special functions like gps? You shouldn't have to do nonsense like that on flagship devices in 2015.

 

[mookiekillsit]

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That's my point though -- why do I need to download juice defender, set brightness low, and turn off special functions like gps? You shouldn't have to do nonsense like that on flagship devices in 2015.

So you have solutions for a problem but are choosing not to accept and utilize them? Sounds like the battery isn't the problem here. Now that this has been established, I'll exit the discussion. Have a good one!

 

[qnet]

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It matters. I can't tell you how frustrating it was for years owning nothing but Android and having it get maybe 3 hours of a screen time per day. Even during non-use it would drain at a steady rate of 5% per hour. For comparison, I can unplug my ip6+ at 6am and by 4pm when I go home it'll be 75% and that's with probably 90 minutes of SoT and on-and-off use throughout the day.

I agree with everything you said and have had the same experiences with my Android phones. The only thing I can't relate to is your SOT. Three hours of SOT is a lot for me, and the only time I have that much screen time is when I first get a new phone and can't stop playing with it.

I have the Iphone 6+ and the battery is phenomenal. I think the big thing with the Iphone is the standby time. If you're not using the phone, it will drain very, very slowly. My 6+ once sat for three days on my desk and still had battery left, my Ipad even longer. The closet Android phone I've had that was like that was the LG G3, so I know it's possible for an Android phone to do it. I watched one reviewer who said the 6p battery reminded him of the LG G4, that's not bad, but the G4's battery wasn't like the G3's IMO.

Anyway, I'm typing too much again and making this post longer than I wanted. The bottom line for me is, I just want to get the phone in my hands for myself.

 

[htowngator]

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So you have solutions for a problem but are choosing not to accept and utilize them? Sounds like the battery isn't the problem here. Now that this has been established, I'll exit the discussion. Have a good one!

Those aren't solutions -- they are workarounds.

You are definitely being an apologist if those are your defensive takes on 3 hours SoT.

 

[Alex_NJ]

Re: Reviews thread

I'm confident it will be better than 3hr SOT.

 

[htowngator]

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I agree with everything you said and have had the same experiences with my Android phones. The only thing I can't relate to is your SOT. Three hours of SOT is a lot for me, and the only time I have that much screen time is when I first get a new phone and can't stop playing with it.

I have the Iphone 6+ and the battery is phenomenal. I think the big thing with the Iphone is the standby time. If you're not using the phone, it will drain very, very slowly. My 6+ once sat for three days on my desk and still had battery left, my Ipad even longer. The closet Android phone I've had that was like that was the LG G3, so I know it's possible for an Android phone to do it. I watched one reviewer who said the 6p battery reminded him of the LG G4, that's not bad, but the G4's battery wasn't like the G3's IMO.

Anyway, I'm typing too much again and making this post longer than I wanted. The bottom line for me is, I just want to get the phone in my hands for myself.

Exactly. My phone is at 95% right now and it's been off the charger for a full four hours right now. I've probably had 20 minutes SoT for that, but only 5% dissipation is fabulous.

 

[co.ag.2005]

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I agree with everything you said and have had the same experiences with my Android phones. The only thing I can't relate to is your SOT. Three hours of SOT is a lot for me, and the only time I have that much screen time is when I first get a new phone and can't stop playing with it.

I have the Iphone 6+ and the battery is phenomenal. I think the big thing with the Iphone is the standby time. If you're not using the phone, it will drain very, very slowly. My 6+ once sat for three days on my desk and still had battery left, my Ipad even longer. The closet Android phone I've had that was like that was the LG G3, so I know it's possible for an Android phone to do it. I watched one reviewer who said the 6p battery reminded him of the LG G4, that's not bad, but the G4's battery wasn't like the G3's IMO.

Anyway, I'm typing too much again and making this post longer than I wanted. The bottom line for me is, I just want to get the phone in my hands for myself.

and this is why in real world usage, I think the 5x and 6p will do better than people think (at least I hope). I'm hoping that with Marshmallow and the Doze feature, we'll see better standby times on battery than before with Lollipop (and previous Android generations). If Marshmallow can get close to (or match) the iPhone's standby battery usage, I think the 5x and 6p will do well. Time will tell! It'll be really hard to utilize Doze in the first week of getting the phone because a person will be tweaking, installing apps, and in general, put in through the ringer. Something we have to make sure we do is allow the phone to go into Doze mode to truly test it's standby time on battery.

 

[htowngator]

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and this is why in real world usage, I think the 5x and 6p will do better than people think (at least I hope). I'm hoping that with Marshmallow and the Doze feature, we'll see better standby times on battery than before with Lollipop (and previous Android generations). If Marshmallow can get close to (or match) the iPhone's standby battery usage, I think the 5x and 6p will do well. Time will tell! It'll be really hard to utilize Doze in the first week of getting the phone because a person will be tweaking, installing apps, and in general, put in through the ringer. Something we have to make sure we do is allow the phone to go into Doze mode to truly test it's standby time on battery.

From what I've seen doze only really operates during very extended periods of time (i.e. hours) of non-use and even then apps can override that unless you block them from doing so.