So...how are you getting on with the Nexus 6P?
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have to say...
i started my Project Fi journey with the Nexus 6...
jumped to the 5x when it came out, and quickly began to dislike the phone. it was SOOOO laggy.
about 2 weeks ago i jumped ship to the 6p and am loving it! performance-wise its a BEAST, the battery life is very good, and its build quality is amazing!
The 6p is definitely THE best nexus phone to date!
i started my Project Fi journey with the Nexus 6...
jumped to the 5x when it came out, and quickly began to dislike the phone. it was SOOOO laggy.
about 2 weeks ago i jumped ship to the 6p and am loving it! performance-wise its a BEAST, the battery life is very good, and its build quality is amazing!
The 6p is definitely THE best nexus phone to date!
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A little over two months on, and I love my Nexus 6P! This being the second aluminum-built phone I've ever used (the first was a HTC One M7), I just had to get it in Aluminum, or as I like to say "Aluminium". 
Battery life has been better than I expected, UI experience is just about flawless, and since I got the biggest storage size (128 GB), I haven't given a thought about running out of space (33 GB used so far). This replaces my Nexus 5 as the best Nexus I've ever owned. 
Battery life has been better than I expected, UI experience is just about flawless, and since I got the biggest storage size (128 GB), I haven't given a thought about running out of space (33 GB used so far). This replaces my Nexus 5 as the best Nexus I've ever owned. 
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some great experiences there. I came from the Samsung Note 3, which I loved, but i do love the Nexus 6P so much more 
I'm really glad I went for it, no regrets here ha ha
I'm really glad I went for it, no regrets here ha ha
I considered getting project FI, but since my main data usage is streaming music from Google Play, T-Mobile is actually cheaper since music streaming on T-Mobile doesn't go against your data usage and ALL data on Project-Fi is charged.
maverick7526
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Fi would be good if the pricing structure was different. I use 10+ GB's/month on Sprint, and my bill would go up $40 or more a month. Hopefully they can offer different plans in the future.
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It really isn't meant for heavy data use on mobile hence the whole part of it joining open WiFi networks to lower data usage. For anyone using a decent amount it is better to go another route.
Had it for a month and change now and I love it! It's ridiculously fast for one with barely any slowdowns regardless of what I'm doing. I haven't had the amazing battery life some others have had, but I also work in an office with sketchy signal which hurts it quite a bit - but I'm happy with it. Fantastic screen!!
I was initially concerned that the phone would be too big for me, but it really is quite a joy to hold, even with its large size. I think the thinness, along with a nice grippable side helps it immensely. I didn't feel the need to put any case on it.
I do miss the Moto X ability to show the ambient screen by simply waving your hand over it (and also realizing when you are driving and shifting to reading out your notifications). Though those are minor quibbles compared to how great this phone is.
I was initially concerned that the phone would be too big for me, but it really is quite a joy to hold, even with its large size. I think the thinness, along with a nice grippable side helps it immensely. I didn't feel the need to put any case on it.
I do miss the Moto X ability to show the ambient screen by simply waving your hand over it (and also realizing when you are driving and shifting to reading out your notifications). Though those are minor quibbles compared to how great this phone is.
I bought my 128 gb front nexus 6p a month after release i absolutely love it. Everything is perfect the performance is great, the camera is superb, i have ove 90gb left of available space i have alot of apps and music on it too, fingerprint scanner works 95% of the time but thats ok, design and build is fantastic. The only issue i have is i still don't know if doze if working on my 6p.
I love my Nexus 6P!
PROS (these vastly out-weigh the CONS):
* the fast, accurate finger-print scanner.
* Project Fi.
* the lack of non-removable bloatware.
* the recent apps button - I use it all the time.
* getting software and security updates as soon as they are available.
* the ability to make my phone a Wi-Fi hotspot (although I haven't had cause to use this feature yet).
* the great camera (although I don't take that many pictures).
* big, beautiful 5.7" qHD display.
* Great battery life! This was a CON but since removing GasBuddy, I usually have 55-75% battery life left when I go to bed at night. [Edit] This has been reduced over time to 35-45%. Not bad, but not as good as I would like.
But there are some things I do not love.
CONS:
* My number one hate was the lack of battery life. I was highly skeptical of the SOT and battery life that many AC readers were reporting. I would almost always have to recharge my phone at least once in the late afternoon or evening to avoid running out of power. Then I read about how GasBuddy (a long-time favorite app) negatively affected battery life on the N6P. I sadly uninstalled GasBuddy and still had about 20% battery at the end of a very heavy use day. So I am very optimistic that this has solved the problem - but time will tell.
Gaping Security Hole:
* Ability to set various attributes from the pull-down settings on the lock screen without unlocking phone - WTF!? And there appears to beNO WAY TO DISABLE THIS!!! Actually there is a way, but it is hidden. It should not be hidden. You have to enable the System UI Tuner in your Settings and then remove the Quick Settings that you don't wish to be accessible from your locked screen. See: http://betanews.com/2015/10/06/andr...y-percentage-and-hide-quick-settings-toggles/
Other:
* Gigantic bezels on the top and bottom add more than 1.25" to the height of the phone making it too tall.
* Marshmallow has removed a separate volume control for Notifications. It now has a single volume control for both Notifications and Ringer. That means if I want to tone down my notifications while keeping my ringer at full volume, I need to resort to a kludge such as turning the volume down for the ringer and then installing an extra loud ringer app to provide my ring tone. This ought not be necessary. This is precisely why OS upgrades are a double-edged sword. They may introduce security enhancements and new features that are nice, but at the same time they may remove features upon which we rely (like writing to SD card) and open up new security holes. While I am an optimist and expect upgrades overall will improve the phone, there is no guarantee of that.
* The camera is very slow to focus up close. My Samsung Galaxy Note II could focus and read a bar code or QR code almost instantaneously. The Nexus 6P may take several seconds of moving the camera back and forth, adjusting the light, etc. before it is able to focus and get a reading. This is mainly only a CON in low light. When there is ample light, the focus and read are very fast.
And since I mentioned Samsung, let's look at where the Nexus 6P falls short in comparison with Samsung's premium offerings:
* No optical image stabalization (OIS). OIS would have been particularly nice to have for shooting videos.
* No MST. Being able to use your phone to pay anywhere you can use a magnetic stripe credit card would have been awesome.
* Google Keyboard. Simply horrible - no number row, no long-press symbols, totally imprecise, virtually unusable. I installed the SwiftKey keyboard instead, but it still nowhere near the precision (i.e. pressing the "s" key prints an "s" and not an "a" or "x") and accuracy of predictions of the Samsung keyboard. I miss my Samsung keyboard.
* USB 2.0 - Samsung is using the newer, faster USB 3.0 and consequently, its faster data transfer speeds. This probably mainly affects developers and those who spend a lot of time transferring data through the USB port, but it shouldn't be entirely overlooked as a deficit in the N6P's specs.
Finally, one other bad thing:
* Non-removable battery. Sadly, this is true of almost all premium phones now. If the battery had been removable, I could have at least looked forward to 3rd party after-market batteries of much higher capacity eventually becoming available, like the 7500 mAh battery for my Galaxy Note II. And the ability to pop in a new battery when the current one was depleted.
However, despite of all of these little annoyances and minor deficits, the N6P is still a great phone and I am very happy with it overall.
PROS (these vastly out-weigh the CONS):
* the fast, accurate finger-print scanner.
* Project Fi.
* the lack of non-removable bloatware.
* the recent apps button - I use it all the time.
* getting software and security updates as soon as they are available.
* the ability to make my phone a Wi-Fi hotspot (although I haven't had cause to use this feature yet).
* the great camera (although I don't take that many pictures).
* big, beautiful 5.7" qHD display.
* Great battery life! This was a CON but since removing GasBuddy, I usually have 55-75% battery life left when I go to bed at night. [Edit] This has been reduced over time to 35-45%. Not bad, but not as good as I would like.
But there are some things I do not love.
CONS:
Gaping Security Hole:
* Ability to set various attributes from the pull-down settings on the lock screen without unlocking phone - WTF!? And there appears to be
Other:
* Gigantic bezels on the top and bottom add more than 1.25" to the height of the phone making it too tall.
* Marshmallow has removed a separate volume control for Notifications. It now has a single volume control for both Notifications and Ringer. That means if I want to tone down my notifications while keeping my ringer at full volume, I need to resort to a kludge such as turning the volume down for the ringer and then installing an extra loud ringer app to provide my ring tone. This ought not be necessary. This is precisely why OS upgrades are a double-edged sword. They may introduce security enhancements and new features that are nice, but at the same time they may remove features upon which we rely (like writing to SD card) and open up new security holes. While I am an optimist and expect upgrades overall will improve the phone, there is no guarantee of that.
And since I mentioned Samsung, let's look at where the Nexus 6P falls short in comparison with Samsung's premium offerings:
* No optical image stabalization (OIS). OIS would have been particularly nice to have for shooting videos.
* No MST. Being able to use your phone to pay anywhere you can use a magnetic stripe credit card would have been awesome.
* Google Keyboard. Simply horrible - no number row, no long-press symbols, totally imprecise, virtually unusable. I installed the SwiftKey keyboard instead, but it still nowhere near the precision (i.e. pressing the "s" key prints an "s" and not an "a" or "x") and accuracy of predictions of the Samsung keyboard. I miss my Samsung keyboard.
* USB 2.0 - Samsung is using the newer, faster USB 3.0 and consequently, its faster data transfer speeds. This probably mainly affects developers and those who spend a lot of time transferring data through the USB port, but it shouldn't be entirely overlooked as a deficit in the N6P's specs.
Finally, one other bad thing:
* Non-removable battery. Sadly, this is true of almost all premium phones now. If the battery had been removable, I could have at least looked forward to 3rd party after-market batteries of much higher capacity eventually becoming available, like the 7500 mAh battery for my Galaxy Note II. And the ability to pop in a new battery when the current one was depleted.
However, despite of all of these little annoyances and minor deficits, the N6P is still a great phone and I am very happy with it overall.
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My only issue is with the adaptive brightness function. In low light it periodically bumps the brightness WAY up and then back down to normal levels again a second or two later. I tried Lux as an alternative but don't like it. I'm hoping for a fix in some future update.
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JakeT85: They had to disable visual voice mail on my account. I had visual voice mail with my Note 3. Even though I don't have it on my 6P, it was still active on my account. No way to disable it online. It has to be done by Verizon. Once they disabled it, I started getting notifications. It also fixed the same problem on my wife's Nexus 5X phone.
They had to disable visual voice mail on my account. I had visual voice mail with my Note 3. Even though I don't have it on my 6P, it was still active on my account. No way to disable it online. It has to be done by Verizon. Once they disabled it, I started getting notifications. It also fixed the same problem on my wife's Nexus 5X phone.
I have had several performance issues with the 6P. I came from a Nexus 5 and I was expecting massive performance improvements when launching or switching apps, but it's just not there.
Most noticeable and visible is the launching of the Camera app. I love the ability to double press the power button to launch the camera app, but most of the time It takes many seconds (first world problems) until I'm able to snap a picture. I keep comparing it to the quick camera launch on my iPhone 6 and the iPhone kicks the Nexus' **** up and down the street every day as far as timing goes.
Besides that, I do enjoy the Nexus 6P and it's camera. Need to keep it in a case though because of my butter fingers.
Tim
Most noticeable and visible is the launching of the Camera app. I love the ability to double press the power button to launch the camera app, but most of the time It takes many seconds (first world problems) until I'm able to snap a picture. I keep comparing it to the quick camera launch on my iPhone 6 and the iPhone kicks the Nexus' **** up and down the street every day as far as timing goes.
Besides that, I do enjoy the Nexus 6P and it's camera. Need to keep it in a case though because of my butter fingers.
Tim
I have Verizon, and the VM works fine. I added Google Voice for Visual VM and it works great.
If you have Verizon Visual VM, remove it and VM should work. Then you can add Google Voice for Virsual VM.
If you have Verizon Visual VM, remove it and VM should work. Then you can add Google Voice for Virsual VM.
Incitatus
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Still loving the 6P. If anything happens to it, I will absolutely replace it with another 6P.
The only thing I would change on it, would be how close the power button and volume buttons are to each other. Would prefer volume on the left side, and power on the right.
Battery is great. Typically, after 14 hours of battery time, 3 hours of on screen time, I finish the day at 30% left.
Last night finished at 12 hours battery time, 5 hours on screen time, at 23% left.
The only thing I would change on it, would be how close the power button and volume buttons are to each other. Would prefer volume on the left side, and power on the right.
Battery is great. Typically, after 14 hours of battery time, 3 hours of on screen time, I finish the day at 30% left.
Last night finished at 12 hours battery time, 5 hours on screen time, at 23% left.
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Because I'm not planning to root this time around. As enjoyable as toying with the phone, it's just too time consuming.
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