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
Seems a bit strange to recall phones for a software bug. It must be something within the bootloader or something like that I guess.
 
Just to clarify the white nexus 6 at carphonewarehouse.

It's only "exclusive" on contracts until the end of February. Which explains why for example Vodafone only have the blue on offer on contract.

Exclusively in white on pay monthly contracts only at Carphone Warehouse until 28.02.2015. White is otherwise available in the UK on SIM free at other retailers.
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Carphonewarehouse also has "priority" on initial pre-order allocation on all variants of nexus 6. Select retailers can offer the 32gb blue in the meantime. e.g Amazon etc.

However from the 15th of december you will be able to find 64gb blue, and both 32gb and 64gb white sim free at other retailers.

Carphonewarehouse is also still showing apparent 1st of december delivery on the 32gb Nexus 6 in either blue or white. It's only the 64gb variants that show delivery as the 15th of december.

I would rather burn my money than deal with carphonewarehouse as should you run into any issues outside of 14 days you will have a nightmare with regards to their customer service and replacements, refund etc.

I'd rather stick to Play Store, Amazon and motorola uk (yet to offer any nexus 6) once they stock the white versions.
 
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I have to say I absolutely hate the way the launch of the nexus 6 has been handled with regards to pre-orders.

Not sure what's so difficult about simply being able to pre-order a nexus 6 in the colour and size of your choice and it shipping when it's available.

As opposed to the farce where one colour and size was open and it kept going from "in stock" to "out of stock". You would add it to your basket and it would disappear half way through trying to pay for it.

Why not now have a "pre-order" button and then they can ship them when they're available.

If pre-order was open now on a 64gb white even if it was a 4-6 week wait I'd still place it, but instead potential customers are sitting there with no clue as to what is going on. I've been this close * * to buying a note 4.

I will be peed off if I have to do the same farce when the white nexus become available to order on the play store.

As it stands I've gone for a moto x to use in the meantime as I sold my S5 and I'll be giving it to a family member when I can get a nexus 6. I figured the moto x would be a good stop gap and give me a good taste of what to expect from the nexus 6.

The way things are going I reckon I'll have lollipop running on the moto x before I can get hold of a nexus 6 :D
 
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It is a complete shambles.

I can only think they're trying, and failing miserably, to create some apple-esque hype of it going out of stock so quickly.
 
andy_mk3 said:
It is a complete shambles.

I can only think they're trying, and failing miserably, to create some apple-esque hype of it going out of stock so quickly.
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Yeah that "fake demand", but the thing is no one gives a **** about the nexus :D. Look at how long it took Vodafone to sell 500 units. If that was an iphone 6 it would have sold out in about 10 minutes. The average consumer is either Apple, or Samsung. I rarely see anyone pull out a htc, one plus one, motorola, nokia or sony.

It just feels like a kick in the teeth, yet people like me are still buying it so what incentive have they got to change?

The thing is from my point of view they can create the fake demand if that's what they're doing, show it as out of stock but I just want a pre-order button like how most products work when ordering online. But it feels like they're just making it hard to buy.
 
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If only nexus was popular enough for samsung to be worried about it.

If samsung were worried about competition from nexus because of the difference in software maybe they would release AOSP for their phones, would probably destroy any interest in the nexus devices, especially if the pricing continues at nexus 6 levels.
 
Yeah to be honest stock android and large amoled display are the two most important things for me in a phone.

I wish google enforced a rule where if an oem wanted the operating system then it would be as is, with google providing updates rather than having skins etc and then relying on the manufacturers for updates.

I reckon this would pretty much go some way in solving fragmentation. But obviously the note would pretty much be worthless without samsungs specialist apps. And it would obviously kill the nexus, unless they really focused on developers with developer funcitonality exclusive to nexus devices.

If all android devices were stock it would make buying a phone more enjoyable for me though as I'd literally focus on the design and the largest screen, as I've fancied some devices like the odd Sony and HTC but my hate of lcd displays stops me. So now I'm limited at pretty much samsung and the odd nokia (not enough apps on windows phone though) and moto due to my preference for amoled displays.

I think if Apple started using amoled I'd probably go for an iphone and jailbreak it to be honest. Apple as a package are very good, plus I love the customer service should an issue arise with a handset for example. But I just can't get past the backlight bleed and the grey blacks.

I love the ipad, slick, and so good to use, but I use a tab s for movies as the amoled screen is stunning when watching in bed etc and blows the ipad away.
 
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enforced encryption only on the n6 and n9 then. Anything upgrading to 5.0 won't be subjected to the forced FDE

Booo... Hope for an official option from Google.
 
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enforced encryption only on the n6 and n9 then. Anything upgrading to 5.0 won't be subjected to the forced FDE
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Where have you seen that? Wouldn't lollipop force encryption on other devices too? Or are you just thinking that htc/samsung etc will remove the encryption before releasing an update to keep their phones actually working properly?
 
@JimLad and Over Kill

Yes I am sure it will be front and centre for Google to fix. It appears to be a huge priority at Google.

In the past few days, Google has hosted the Chrome Developer Conference and according to this excellent blog post by Michael Bleigh in Divshot, performance and capability of software from Google is a really big deal for them.

First I quote from the blog on mobile web performance:
"The magic number is 60 (or 16). Google is doing everything it can to get mobile web to 60fps, which gives you about 16ms per frame to do everything you need to do. It's hard to even enumerate all the different ways they're working on this. From speeding up paint to putting more workload into the GPU to providing flame charts (so cool!) in DevTools so you can figure out what causes that jank."

He defines capability "pretty loosely as "having the ability to easily build native-like experiences on mobile web." That includes things you'd expect (like push notifications) but also things you might not (like Polymer)." And web apps are prime, front and centre on Android L as "each tab gets its own place in the new web switcher."

And check out Service Worker which is a real serious effort by Google that Michael says "gives you the power to program the network layer of the browser. It's a comprehensive low-level technology that can completely solve the offline problem. Offline is a big deal, it's one of the most defining features of native apps vs. web in today's climate. As Alex Russell put it in his talk: "It isn't an app if it doesn't run when you tap."

So lots of interesting stuff going on in Google's effort in improving the entire mobile experience across mobile devices. The line between mobile and web is already blurring and will only increase.

As Nexus owners and in a number of cases here on Overclockers, web/mobile devs, this is a big deal.

https://divshot.com/blog/opinion/the-future-of-the-web-according-to-google/
 
Someone over on XDA spoke to CPW who said they are expecting devices to be shipped to them sometime during week commencing 1st december, to then be shipped out the day after they receive them.

I think that explains why CPW said 1st and vodafone said 5th, both are probably getting their shipment sometime during that week.
 
Phantom Shadow said:
Where have you seen that? Wouldn't lollipop force encryption on other devices too? Or are you just thinking that htc/samsung etc will remove the encryption before releasing an update to keep their phones actually working properly?
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Nope that is why a present the n5 is quicker than the n6

All new devices will come with FDE, the ota upgrade will not turn on FDE. It just upgrades the os
 
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