What you cannot text?? Why did I just order a phone that cannot text?
You guys mean in car or just normal?
You guys mean in car or just normal?
The simple things your Nexus 6P just can't do right? or at all?
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The only thing that annoys me is the inability to close all background apps at once.
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I have tried the stock app Verizon messaging and textual. All the same results. I have the phone paired it before and after. It is the phone.
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We're talking about voice txt over BT.. Like in the car.. If you pair your phone to your BT enabled stereo it should cut in and read your txt messages when they come in and allow you to voice txt a reply...
BTW... I did the 'Click mic and voice txt reply back" on my 6 hour trip back from Atlanta and I'd say 90% of the time the voice recognition got words wrong... The complete opposite of my Windows phone results which hardly ever got a word wrong. Just saying.. Windows has this nailed. Google needs work in this area.
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Actually my experience overall with Google Now is that it's voice recognition is easily on par with WP if not better. I have a feeling that this is a case if Bluetooth quality rather than voice recognition.
I use Google Now a lot whether it's from my phone(s) or my Android Wear watch, and it gets my messages right 90% of the time. I have Android Auto so it has the built in functionality to hear text messages and reply, and there too it works very well.
Cortana is still better than Siri, but I think you have the reasons wrong. For thebl record, I was a WP fanboy and got every flagship when it came out. I haven't used WP10, so maybe you're comparing that to Android, but on my Lumia 1020, I did use voice recognition with 8.1.
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I've heard that Google now gets better the more you use it while WP seems to be pretty good from the start. I'll keep trying and see. Oh and I have been using WP10 on my 1520 for a couple months so that is my comparison.
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Fair enough. I gave up on WP before WP10 came out because my a few months after 8.1 came out, my Lumia 1020 started freezing every night while charging and 3 Assurion replacements later, still did this, so I reverted it back to WP8.0 and sold it. But even pre-Cortana on WP10, WP8's built in voice recognition was very good.
My Nexus 7 2013 has stereo speakers on the back of the device. Does changing orientation actually change which speakers are playing which sounds on yours?
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You aren't supposed to close all the background apps. Closing them on most current phones (not just Android) actually uses more battery and slows the phone down. Android keeps the apps you use most frequently "open", though suspended so they don't use any battery to maintain, so that they start quicker when you load them, as well as not having to use extra energy to reload the app every time you want to use it.
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We've been through this in this thread already. The fact that you aren't supposed to close them all at once is great, but when people are trying to multitask, it is a lot quicker and more convenient to just have the apps you want open. A great example is when trying to toggle between a calendar appointment with a conference call dial in, meeting ID, and pass code, and the phone dialer. I don't have enough time to have that toggling take long because the conference calling service will time out on me.
So at that point, all I want open is my calendar and the phone. So having to manually shut everything else down one by one is irritating. Its a small price to pay for the smoothness of pure Android, but in my view this should at least be an option in Android, just like things like the Power Button offering you restart since most people don't know that holding the power button down for 10 seconds does a restart, and shouldn't have to Google how to restart their phone.
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It doesn't - that's my point. (from what I can tell)
Can't understand why it's happening on one device with stereo speakers (6P) and not another (Nexus 7)
Can't understand why it's happening on one device with stereo speakers (6P) and not another (Nexus 7)
What good are stereo speakers on a cell phone? They're only an inch apart. To get stereo effects you need several feet of separation. It's more important to have as large a speaker as possible. I'm sure it helps sell phones.
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But if they are the only two you are using at a given time, they will be the two at the "top" (bottom) of the list. So I'm not sure I really see the issue, since you are still taking an extra step to close all the apps.
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Well, then, why not recognize that as a failure of the Nexus 7 and a positive quality of the 6P, instead of the other way around?
When your device is horizontal with a speaker on the left and another on the right, wouldn't you prefer that the left channel sound comes from the left-most speaker and the right channel sound comes from the right-most speaker? That is what the 6P does, regardless of actual orientation.
If your Nexus 7 doesn't do that, then shame on it. (I have a Nexus 7 2013; will have to dig it out and test it myself)
I haven't read through this entire thread, bit my biggest gripe is the screen. I really miss the screen on my G2. Heaven forbid I forget to turn on Adaptive Brightness before I go outside because it is near impossible to see to adjust otherwise. I don't leave AB on because it flickers and changes erratically. Even ALL the way up, this thing is hard to see in the sun. I went hiking and tried to take a few photos...I had to just hope they turned out okay on auto since I couldn't really tell what was going on.
The other thing, it won't sync on Spotify like my other devices will so I can't remotely play to my computer and speakers. Not sure what that is about. I tried Google Play Music and it doesn't seem to sync that way at all which is a bummer. I miss that feature.
ETA: turns out, I just needed to check a box that I guess I don't remember checking on any other device. Now, it will connect to Spotify, Yay!! I just don't see that option at all in GMusic. I can connect to my account but not play on computer via phone or vice versa.
That said, I love this phone.
The other thing, it won't sync on Spotify like my other devices will so I can't remotely play to my computer and speakers. Not sure what that is about. I tried Google Play Music and it doesn't seem to sync that way at all which is a bummer. I miss that feature.
ETA: turns out, I just needed to check a box that I guess I don't remember checking on any other device. Now, it will connect to Spotify, Yay!! I just don't see that option at all in GMusic. I can connect to my account but not play on computer via phone or vice versa.
That said, I love this phone.
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