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Finally picked up a Nexus 6P
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No, the Nexus 6P only has one size, which is 5.7".
I used Greenify and it increased my battery life significantly.
I had only one complaint with the 6P and that for me was the screen / display.
It was significantly off colour with a yellow or pink cast. It's white point was miles out of accuracy even with SRGB enabled in developer mode. I had to use screen filters to try and calibrate it and it was never to my exact liking.
Likewise it's outdoor visibility was very poor.
Other than screen, never had any issues with Ram, CPU heat or slowdown, Camera took good shots for me and Battery was decent (not poor but not greatest) ..
It was significantly off colour with a yellow or pink cast. It's white point was miles out of accuracy even with SRGB enabled in developer mode. I had to use screen filters to try and calibrate it and it was never to my exact liking.
Likewise it's outdoor visibility was very poor.
Other than screen, never had any issues with Ram, CPU heat or slowdown, Camera took good shots for me and Battery was decent (not poor but not greatest) ..
I thought the screen was subpar as well. Agree on all the other points.
I had to return my first screen because it was VERY pink. Luckily Google is awesome about exchanges. The next one was much better, but still an off white point (to the green a bit on the second one) that I am fine with now. I do think it is still a nice looking screen overall. They for sure get the lower binned screens from samsung. So the variance is likely pretty large screen to screen.
But yes, pretty much no visibility outside.
Google should stop with the "latest gen AMOLED" nonsense this release. Just makes for disappointment. I understand it won't be as good as Samsung for half the price, I am OK with that.
But yes, pretty much no visibility outside.
Google should stop with the "latest gen AMOLED" nonsense this release. Just makes for disappointment. I understand it won't be as good as Samsung for half the price, I am OK with that.
On the software side the 6p has Nougat and I guess you can add the Pixel launcher (think I prefer GNL though) from the store as well as Allo to miss around with.
What else to get reasonably close to the Pixel where applicable? I know what the Pixel will have that the 6p won't though.
What else to get reasonably close to the Pixel where applicable? I know what the Pixel will have that the 6p won't though.
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"Well, now that the issue is solved I might as well jump in an hijack yer thread a bit for my own purposes... 
How do you find the 6P? Would love to hear your impressions as you've bought it just now. I'm considering doing the same. In particular, how do you find the screen?
I was on the fence between the 6P and a 7 Plus, ended up ordering the 7+ when they offered me a free wireless speaker as part of the deal. It's good and all, very solid & snappy of course... But I'm bored to tears with iOS and find it frustratingly limited in numerous ways.
So, now considering selling this and getting a 6P for less than half the cash. Would love to hear how you find it, if you feel like sharing a bit"
@Oohara - I'll continue our conversation here so that the inaccurate thread title of my previous thread doesn't keep getting bumped up to the top of the forum. I'll try and answer you as best I can. As a disclaimer, I came from an iPhone 5, so my experiences and views are generally compared to that outgoing phone. I've also only had this Nexus 6P for three days.
So far I'm enjoying the phone. It's not some transformative experience like I had hoped it would be, but it's just a cell phone so what can you really expect. Generally speaking, the Nexus 6P does all that my iPhone did (Android and iOS are so alike these days), so all the basic functionality is there. There are a couple of quirks that have bugged me and I may find more as time goes on: I've had a few apps crash on me. More than I think I had crash on iOS. Now, granted, coming from an iPhone 5 with 512MB of RAM, this is nothing new to me. Ha! But still. I've had that happen a few more times than I'd like. Also, I can't control my music volume with my Apple EarPods (not AirPods). What! I can play and pause from the EarPods, but I can't change the volume. Also, I can double-click to skip to the next song but I can't triple-click to go to the previous song (I could do this in iOS). App quality seems to be a little lower on Android. One example being Spotify (if you use Spotify on iOS you'll understand these next two points exactly). I use Spotify every day. The "swipe to queue" and "long-press to preview" features are non-existent on the Android app. Also some of the gestures I use on iOS (like swiping down on album art to minimize the "now playing" screen) are not there. BUT... the core experience of apps are the same across iOS and Android. So that's good. Odds are you aren't going to find a big-name service (Snapchat, Facebook, Spotify, Audible, whatever) that isn't on Android.
I wanted to get the negatives out of the way before one of them slipped my mind. Now for the positives. You asked about the screen. I really like the screen the Nexus. It is really nice. For one, it's HUGE (5.7" ; my iPhone 5 was 4"). Not sure how I feel about the size yet, but it's really great while browsing and watching videos. The large screen hasn't been as big of an adjustment as I expected it to be. I have average sized hands. Also, compared to my iPhone (and even the current iPhones), the screen is OLED. The blacks are BLACK and the colors really pop. The black bar at the bottom of the screen (where the software buttons reside) blends in with the bezel of the screen when the screen is on. And the colors are quite saturated. In rare circumstances, you could almost say that certain colors are too saturated, but honestly they look so nice that it's not even worth caring about. When looking at a white screen, as I change the viewing angle of the phone I do notice a slight discoloration of the screen. It changes from white to a warmer yellow/green. iPhones may do the same thing, I can't say at the moment. All screens change hues to some extent when changing viewing angles.
As for the rest of the hardware, it is solid. I LOVE the design of the Nexus 6P. I actually prefer it to the design of the current iPhones as well as the Google Pixel. The phones feels sturdy and premium. The dual speakers are really nice and quite loud. I personally never minded the bottom firing speakers on my iPhone, but it's nice to have the dual speakers since they're here. I don't use the fingerprint scanner but other people seem to claim that it's pretty quick. Given the size of the battery in this phone, it charges fast. Like, FAST. It's really impressive. I can charge from ~5% battery to full in just over an hour. And then once you unplug your phone, you have battery for hours and hours. This phone easily lasts me all day with moderate (not heavy) use. I can't compare it to the battery of the iPhone 7 Plus as I don't own a 7 Plus, but I'd imagine the battery in the Nexus doesn't last quite as long as that. But you knew that already -- the marriage of iPhone hardware and iOS yields battery life that is second to none. The rear facing camera is pretty nice -- better than my iPhone 5, but the front-facing camera is only okay. No better than my iPhone 5 in my opinion. The front facing camera does get choppy in low light. This sucks when recording video. No bueno.
A few positives about Android that I managed to leave out earlier -- the built-in Google functionality is the best thing ever. I am serious. I can do a Google search at any time from my home screen. Or, the best part... I just say "Ok, Google." This morning I was standing at my closet determining whether to wear a jacket and I simply called to my phone that was sitting on my desk "Ok Google, what's the temperature going to be today?" and I got my answer. It felt a little like living in the future. I am aware that newer iPhones have "Hey Siri" functionality, but the voice recognition for Google is second to none and the answers Google gives you are significantly better than Siri.
Gosh, what else. There's really so much. I apologize for the not-cleanly-organized wall of text and lack of great grammar -- my post was pretty much just a mind dump where I typed as I thought. All in all, I'm having fun with the phone. You know how back in the day, whenever you'd get a new phone, it'd be so exciting because every phone was genuinely new? Different brand, different design, different OS? This switch to Android reminds me of that. It's just fun to try something new. Haven't reached a final verdict yet. That will take a while.
Please, ask me any specific questions you have and I'll be happy to answer them for you. Hope this helped.
[doublepost=1484599838][/doublepost]@Oohara - In addition to the above post...
Other tidbits. I really like the Android keyboard. I've used the swipe functionality more than I would have expected myself to. You can also snap the keyboard to one side or the other to make one handed typing easier. Pretty cool right?
Android handles notifications far better than iOS. I love it. Each app will have its notifications grouped into one, and you can expand them to see the individual notifications as you wish. That's nice.
Cross-app integration is better on Android. And the share screen is far better than it is on iOS. For example, if I am in my Photo gallery and I hit the "Share" icon, I have far more options on Android than I did on iOS. And at the top of the share screen is your four most relevant contacts, so you can quickly tap one of those if you want to send your friend a picture. On iOS, you'd have to hit Share, Messages, then type in your friend's name to get the same result.
Also, multitasking in Android is great. These apps seem to never reload. But that may be the ~4GB of RAM and less of the OS.
How do you find the 6P? Would love to hear your impressions as you've bought it just now. I'm considering doing the same. In particular, how do you find the screen?
I was on the fence between the 6P and a 7 Plus, ended up ordering the 7+ when they offered me a free wireless speaker as part of the deal. It's good and all, very solid & snappy of course... But I'm bored to tears with iOS and find it frustratingly limited in numerous ways.
So, now considering selling this and getting a 6P for less than half the cash. Would love to hear how you find it, if you feel like sharing a bit
"@Oohara - I'll continue our conversation here so that the inaccurate thread title of my previous thread doesn't keep getting bumped up to the top of the forum.
I'll try and answer you as best I can. As a disclaimer, I came from an iPhone 5, so my experiences and views are generally compared to that outgoing phone. I've also only had this Nexus 6P for three days.So far I'm enjoying the phone. It's not some transformative experience like I had hoped it would be, but it's just a cell phone so what can you really expect. Generally speaking, the Nexus 6P does all that my iPhone did (Android and iOS are so alike these days), so all the basic functionality is there. There are a couple of quirks that have bugged me and I may find more as time goes on: I've had a few apps crash on me. More than I think I had crash on iOS. Now, granted, coming from an iPhone 5 with 512MB of RAM, this is nothing new to me. Ha! But still. I've had that happen a few more times than I'd like. Also, I can't control my music volume with my Apple EarPods (not AirPods). What! I can play and pause from the EarPods, but I can't change the volume. Also, I can double-click to skip to the next song but I can't triple-click to go to the previous song (I could do this in iOS). App quality seems to be a little lower on Android. One example being Spotify (if you use Spotify on iOS you'll understand these next two points exactly). I use Spotify every day. The "swipe to queue" and "long-press to preview" features are non-existent on the Android app. Also some of the gestures I use on iOS (like swiping down on album art to minimize the "now playing" screen) are not there. BUT... the core experience of apps are the same across iOS and Android. So that's good. Odds are you aren't going to find a big-name service (Snapchat, Facebook, Spotify, Audible, whatever) that isn't on Android.
I wanted to get the negatives out of the way before one of them slipped my mind. Now for the positives. You asked about the screen. I really like the screen the Nexus. It is really nice. For one, it's HUGE (5.7" ; my iPhone 5 was 4"). Not sure how I feel about the size yet, but it's really great while browsing and watching videos. The large screen hasn't been as big of an adjustment as I expected it to be. I have average sized hands. Also, compared to my iPhone (and even the current iPhones), the screen is OLED. The blacks are BLACK and the colors really pop. The black bar at the bottom of the screen (where the software buttons reside) blends in with the bezel of the screen when the screen is on. And the colors are quite saturated. In rare circumstances, you could almost say that certain colors are too saturated, but honestly they look so nice that it's not even worth caring about. When looking at a white screen, as I change the viewing angle of the phone I do notice a slight discoloration of the screen. It changes from white to a warmer yellow/green. iPhones may do the same thing, I can't say at the moment. All screens change hues to some extent when changing viewing angles.
As for the rest of the hardware, it is solid. I LOVE the design of the Nexus 6P. I actually prefer it to the design of the current iPhones as well as the Google Pixel. The phones feels sturdy and premium. The dual speakers are really nice and quite loud. I personally never minded the bottom firing speakers on my iPhone, but it's nice to have the dual speakers since they're here. I don't use the fingerprint scanner but other people seem to claim that it's pretty quick. Given the size of the battery in this phone, it charges fast. Like, FAST. It's really impressive. I can charge from ~5% battery to full in just over an hour. And then once you unplug your phone, you have battery for hours and hours. This phone easily lasts me all day with moderate (not heavy) use. I can't compare it to the battery of the iPhone 7 Plus as I don't own a 7 Plus, but I'd imagine the battery in the Nexus doesn't last quite as long as that. But you knew that already -- the marriage of iPhone hardware and iOS yields battery life that is second to none. The rear facing camera is pretty nice -- better than my iPhone 5, but the front-facing camera is only okay. No better than my iPhone 5 in my opinion. The front facing camera does get choppy in low light. This sucks when recording video. No bueno.
A few positives about Android that I managed to leave out earlier -- the built-in Google functionality is the best thing ever. I am serious. I can do a Google search at any time from my home screen. Or, the best part... I just say "Ok, Google." This morning I was standing at my closet determining whether to wear a jacket and I simply called to my phone that was sitting on my desk "Ok Google, what's the temperature going to be today?" and I got my answer. It felt a little like living in the future. I am aware that newer iPhones have "Hey Siri" functionality, but the voice recognition for Google is second to none and the answers Google gives you are significantly better than Siri.
Gosh, what else. There's really so much. I apologize for the not-cleanly-organized wall of text and lack of great grammar -- my post was pretty much just a mind dump where I typed as I thought. All in all, I'm having fun with the phone. You know how back in the day, whenever you'd get a new phone, it'd be so exciting because every phone was genuinely new? Different brand, different design, different OS? This switch to Android reminds me of that. It's just fun to try something new. Haven't reached a final verdict yet. That will take a while.
Please, ask me any specific questions you have and I'll be happy to answer them for you. Hope this helped.
[doublepost=1484599838][/doublepost]@Oohara - In addition to the above post...
Other tidbits. I really like the Android keyboard. I've used the swipe functionality more than I would have expected myself to. You can also snap the keyboard to one side or the other to make one handed typing easier. Pretty cool right?
Android handles notifications far better than iOS. I love it. Each app will have its notifications grouped into one, and you can expand them to see the individual notifications as you wish. That's nice.
Cross-app integration is better on Android. And the share screen is far better than it is on iOS. For example, if I am in my Photo gallery and I hit the "Share" icon, I have far more options on Android than I did on iOS. And at the top of the share screen is your four most relevant contacts, so you can quickly tap one of those if you want to send your friend a picture. On iOS, you'd have to hit Share, Messages, then type in your friend's name to get the same result.
Also, multitasking in Android is great. These apps seem to never reload. But that may be the ~4GB of RAM and less of the OS.
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Hey, thanks a lot for this post!"Well, now that the issue is solved I might as well jump in an hijack yer thread a bit for my own purposes...
How do you find the 6P? Would love to hear your impressions as you've bought it just now. I'm considering doing the same. In particular, how do you find the screen?
I was on the fence between the 6P and a 7 Plus, ended up ordering the 7+ when they offered me a free wireless speaker as part of the deal. It's good and all, very solid & snappy of course... But I'm bored to tears with iOS and find it frustratingly limited in numerous ways.
So, now considering selling this and getting a 6P for less than half the cash. Would love to hear how you find it, if you feel like sharing a bit
@Oohara - I'll continue our conversation here so that the inaccurate thread title of my previous thread doesn't keep getting bumped up to the top of the forum.
So far I'm enjoying the phone. It's not some transformative experience like I had hoped it would be, but it's just a cell phone so what can you really expect. Generally speaking, the Nexus 6P does all that my iPhone did (Android and iOS are so alike these days), so all the basic functionality is there. There are a couple of quirks that have bugged me and I may find more as time goes on: I've had a few apps crash on me. More than I think I had crash on iOS. Now, granted, coming from an iPhone 5 with 512MB of RAM, this is nothing new to me. Ha! But still. I've had that happen a few more times than I'd like. Also, I can't control my music volume with my Apple EarPods (not AirPods). What! I can play and pause from the EarPods, but I can't change the volume. Also, I can double-click to skip to the next song but I can't triple-click to go to the previous song (I could do this in iOS). App quality seems to be a little lower on Android. One example being Spotify (if you use Spotify on iOS you'll understand these next two points exactly). I use Spotify every day. The "swipe to queue" and "long-press to preview" features are non-existent on the Android app. Also some of the gestures I use on iOS (like swiping down on album art to minimize the "now playing" screen) are not there. BUT... the core experience of apps are the same across iOS and Android. So that's good. Odds are you aren't going to find a big-name service (Snapchat, Facebook, Spotify, Audible, whatever) that isn't on Android.
I wanted to get the negatives out of the way before one of them slipped my mind. Now for the positives. You asked about the screen. I really like the screen the Nexus. It is really nice. For one, it's HUGE (5.7" ; my iPhone 5 was 4"). Not sure how I feel about the size yet, but it's really great while browsing and watching videos. The large screen hasn't been as big of an adjustment as I expected it to be. I have average sized hands. Also, compared to my iPhone (and even the current iPhones), the screen is OLED. The blacks are BLACK and the colors really pop. The black bar at the bottom of the screen (where the software buttons reside) blends in with the bezel of the screen when the screen is on. And the colors are quite saturated. In rare circumstances, you could almost say that certain colors are too saturated, but honestly they look so nice that it's not even worth caring about. When looking at a white screen, as I change the viewing angle of the phone I do notice a slight discoloration of the screen. It changes from white to a warmer yellow/green. iPhones may do the same thing, I can't say at the moment. All screens change hues to some extent when changing viewing angles.
As for the rest of the hardware, it is solid. I LOVE the design of the Nexus 6P. I actually prefer it to the design of the current iPhones as well as the Google Pixel. The phones feels sturdy and premium. The dual speakers are really nice and quite loud. I personally never minded the bottom firing speakers on my iPhone, but it's nice to have the dual speakers since they're here. I don't use the fingerprint scanner but other people seem to claim that it's pretty quick. Given the size of the battery in this phone, it charges fast. Like, FAST. It's really impressive. I can charge from ~5% battery to full in just over an hour. And then once you unplug your phone, you have battery for hours and hours. This phone easily lasts me all day with moderate (not heavy) use. I can't compare it to the battery of the iPhone 7 Plus as I don't own a 7 Plus, but I'd imagine the battery in the Nexus doesn't last quite as long as that. But you knew that already -- the marriage of iPhone hardware and iOS yields battery life that is second to none. The rear facing camera is pretty nice -- better than my iPhone 5, but the front-facing camera is only okay. No better than my iPhone 5 in my opinion. The front facing camera does get choppy in low light. This sucks when recording video. No bueno.
A few positives about Android that I managed to leave out earlier -- the built-in Google functionality is the best thing ever. I am serious. I can do a Google search at any time from my home screen. Or, the best part... I just say "Ok, Google." This morning I was standing at my closet determining whether to wear a jacket and I simply called to my phone that was sitting on my desk "Ok Google, what's the temperature going to be today?" and I got my answer. It felt a little like living in the future. I am aware that newer iPhones have "Hey Siri" functionality, but the voice recognition for Google is second to none and the answers Google gives you are significantly better than Siri.
Gosh, what else. There's really so much. I apologize for the not-cleanly-organized wall of text and lack of great grammar -- my post was pretty much just a mind dump where I typed as I thought. All in all, I'm having fun with the phone. You know how back in the day, whenever you'd get a new phone, it'd be so exciting because every phone was genuinely new? Different brand, different design, different OS? This switch to Android reminds me of that. It's just fun to try something new. Haven't reached a final verdict yet. That will take a while.
Please, ask me any specific questions you have and I'll be happy to answer them for you. Hope this helped.
[doublepost=1484599838][/doublepost]@Oohara - In addition to the above post...
Other tidbits. I really like the Android keyboard. I've used the swipe functionality more than I would have expected myself to. You can also snap the keyboard to one side or the other to make one handed typing easier. Pretty cool right?
Android handles notifications far better than iOS. I love it. Each app will have its notifications grouped into one, and you can expand them to see the individual notifications as you wish. That's nice.
Cross-app integration is better on Android. And the share screen is far better than it is on iOS. For example, if I am in my Photo gallery and I hit the "Share" icon, I have far more options on Android than I did on iOS. And at the top of the share screen is your four most relevant contacts, so you can quickly tap one of those if you want to send your friend a picture. On iOS, you'd have to hit Share, Messages, then type in your friend's name to get the same result.
Also, multitasking in Android is great. These apps seem to never reload. But that may be the ~4GB of RAM and less of the OS.
Great to read about your experience - replies like yours are why I keep coming back to this forum.I've actually begun to enjoy my 7+ a bit more since I last posted, especially since the Gboard swipe style keyboard has turned out to work very well on this phone (it was too slow to load/glitchy on my 6+) so I'm now less frustrated with the typing experience on iPhone. Swype on Android is still superior, with those fast copy/paste functions etc., but at least my iPhone is now quite OK to type on.
Meanwhile I do miss amoled, a bigger screen, Android notifications, and more versatile widgets... So I won't stop sneak peeking at used 6P listings quite yet...