Poll: *** Google Nexus 6 ***

Which colour & memory size are you going to get?

  • White - 32GB

    Votes: 33 15.6%

  • Blue - 32GB

    Votes: 77 36.3%

  • White - 64GB

    Votes: 36 17.0%

  • Blue - 64GB

    Votes: 66 31.1%
  • Total voters
    212
kona786 said:
:D

No SoC can save the S5 - it's a pile of pap compared to the Nexus 5 let alone 6.

It's the whole experience that make a device great, not just bodging a few top components together and hoping for the best.

The Nexus 6 should be EPIC! With it only potential flaw being size.
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Meh, just flash CM11 on there. Problem solved.

kona786 said:
More like every other device will look very old because the UI still looks like it came from 2012.
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Not arguing with you, the interface does look ****e, performance is fine though.
 
Shocky-FM said:
I have tried the Galaxy S5 and I never noticed any lag, don't get me wrong the interface looks horrible though. :p

Your exaggerating, anyone can walk in the Samsung store and see that your talking nonsense.

Touchwiz has a bad rep, but latest revisions really are quite fast and yes Snapdragon 805 would make a difference, 3D performance would be a lot faster than the 1440p devices on the same SoC. Maybe not iPhone 6 performance but not far off.
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You tried an S5 in a shop, where it only had a few apps on it, I owned it. Hardware was nice software was horrendous. More than a few tabs on your web browser? Prepare for slow down

There's a difference between trying a device in a controlled environment and actually owning it
 
Robbo said:
The new SoC's bring pretty negligible performance boosts (in real world usage), I doubt the Nexus 6 will be slow, or become slow for a long time.

It'd be a silly reason not to get one.
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Normally that's true, but not when your moving to ARMv8 which Android 5.0 is already optimized for and adding 64bit support.

If the Android manufactures want to match the iPhone 6 they need to step up performance because they are currently behind in terms of CPU and GPU performance.

jb7 said:
You tried an S5 in a shop, where it only had a few apps on it, I owned it. Hardware was nice software was horrendous. More than a few tabs on your web browser? Prepare for slow down

There's a difference between trying a device in a controlled environment and actually owning it
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People can judge for themselves, I would end up putting CM11 on there anyway, not because of the performance but because it looks awful

kona786 said:
Just to get it to Nexus 6 levels + bugs. Why punish yourself? :p
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You seem to be very Anti anything that's not a Nexus device. :D
 
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kona786 said:
Just Anti-TunnelVision :p
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:p

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kona786 said:
'Couse not - it's all about the 'specs man' :p

Specs mean nothing when it's suffocated by poor design.
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It kind of is all about the specs, you can replace the software but your stuck with the hardware.

Most manufactures are putting out high end devices with good designs these days, unless the designers are idiots they can't go too far wrong.

Or maybe I'm just not very fussy, I dunno after trying an iPhone 6 and Tegra Shield and seeing what gaming performance is like with them it's difficult to get excited about any current Android phones.
 
Spec junkies will always crave the more power...even if they don't see the extra performance in real use. For those people, happiness is like the light at the end of a never ending tunnel.


Here and now we have the software and the power. Just enjoy it.
 
I have a S5 and some of the comments in here are laughable.. most people just jump on the bandwagon without even trying it.. its night and day better than the S4 i had too.
 
I believe that all this talk of 64 bit architecture for Nexus is premature anyway because few apps support it. Seems like a non-argument from Shocky-FM. I have read that significant numbers of apps will not be optimised for some considerable time.

If Shocky-FM influences a single potential buyer here, I am happy to step in and take their spot on the N6 queue.
 
Shocky-FM said:
It kind of is all about the specs, you can replace the software but your stuck with the hardware.
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And you do realise that 90% of the consumers will not root etc. in order to get rid of the skins? :p

Shocky-FM said:
If the Android manufactures want to match the iPhone 6 they need to step up performance because they are currently behind in terms of CPU and GPU performance.
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I didn't realise that the likes of the one m8/m7, n5, n6 etc. etc. were stuttering away in games and scrolling through web pages, oh wait..... :p

There is absolutely no difference between my stock N5 and iphone 6. If anything I can make my N5 even quicker than the Iphone 6 by disabling or speeding up all the fancy animations.......

Like kona said:

"Spec junkies will always crave the more power...even if they don't see the extra performance in real use"


@Quinnaay

I have used a GS 5 both in various shops and a friends GS 5 and they always stutter/slow down in one area or another when compared to my n5. Yes the GS 5 is a HECK of a lot better than the GS 4 but it still isn't a 100% lag free experience.



On a more serious note, been a while since I have read about all these fancy CPU's etc. Is 64 bit support just like what we have on our PC's atm? i.e. 32 and 64 bit option for software? If so, then that is even more pointless afaic! The majority of apps/software & games I use/play are still 32 bit, heck a stable version of google chrome only got released a few months ago so it will take FOREVER for app developers to provide 64 bit support..... Isn't the main benefit of 64 bit to allow more than 4GB of RAM to be used? Which again is completely irrelevant with any of the current mobile phones?
 
It almost seems that mobiles are at a tipping point, 32bit will only go so far, just like the transition to 64bit for PCs, it took a little while for most to catch up and make full use of it, heck, there are still programs pushing 32bits, but some brave soul had to jump first, and it seems Apple was that person, now Android is following, here's to the future :)
 
By the time 64bit on Android is in full swing, well all have moved on from the Nexus 6 is all I'm saying. At the moment, 20nm is a bigger selling point to me.
 
Nexus18 said:
Isn't the main benefit of 64 bit to allow more than 4GB of RAM to be used? Which again is completely irrelevant with any of the current mobile phones?
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It is... Which makes apples jump to 64bit even more puzzling given their ability to squeeze out pretty impressive performance from 1gb of ram in their phones.
 
Nvidia's denver cores are supposedly very fast, which we should find out soon with the Nexus 9. I reckon the one to watch out for is Intel, they are pushing x86 in the mobile space and supposedly now their parts are starting to reach parity with ARM equipped devices on performance and battery performance, so they may surprise us in the mobile SoC market in the next year.
Intel certainly have the money and resources to make it happen, 'if' it can happen. They've been working with google on the x86 version of android for a while too.
 
As long as you have stock Android you can get away with a fair few steps down cpu
I haven't even looked at cpu is in my phone for years
Not a factor since leaving my HTC desire

RAM on the other hand
3gb means I don't have to worry.. 1gb is not acceptable
 
Rimsy said:
It is... Which makes apples jump to 64bit even more puzzling given their ability to squeeze out pretty impressive performance from 1gb of ram in their phones.
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Not at all, its the new instruction/ARM v8 set that ARM has developed, its much much faster at certain tasks. For example with encryption it can run 200%-1000% faster, it has some really solid gains across the board. The problem is your can't advertise that "Our new CPU does SHA-1 encryption so much faster" so saying its 64bit is just easier. The whole 64bit side means less, even a solid amount of desktop apps are still 32bit.
 
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