Puppy Galaxy posted:

is there literally anything those are acceptable for? like part of me thinks it might be nice to have a cheap tablet i dont have to care about to bring to the gym, but i bet you cant even watch netflix or something

Vagrancy posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pRCAsb-isM

Vagrancy posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pRCAsb-isM

LastInLine posted:

burger king has had that chicken sandwich as long as ive been alive and its sucked the whole time

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Bad Stuff

Strange pauses and lags
Animation can be overbearing
Design is a little rough around the edges

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In terms of build quality, Motorola has built a fine device that meets Google's "premium" claim and doesn't make the $650 price feel like a ripoff. The Nexus 6 is very big, and while the size of a device is a pretty personal thing, we think we could deal with it. Today, a lot of people will be put off by the huge size, but don't be surprised if, in a year or two, every flagship Android phone is six inches.

The battery is OK, but we still feel like Motorola could have packed more than a 3220mAh battery into a 6-inch device. Sony's 5.2-inch Z3 has a 3100mAh battery, and 6.1-inch phones from Huawei usually clock in around 4000mAh. A massive battery like that would make the 6-inch screen a lot easier to stomach.

The thing that really bugs us about the Nexus 6 is, why is this device six inches? Lollipop doesn't really do anything to take advantage of the bigger screen. If Google introduced something like split screen app support, we would feel a lot better about lugging something like this around. Right now, nothing justifies the size of the Nexus 6. The battery isn't huge, and you're mostly getting the same Android you'd get on a 5-inch device, just bigger.

Android's biggest update ever revamps nearly every part of the OS.
The real downside is that the device just feels slow, and while maybe Google has some optimization work to do on Lollipop, a big part of it is the slow storage the Nexus 6 was saddled with. It's not as fast as the Nexus 5, and it loads bigger games about as quickly as the Nexus 4, a phone from 2012.

Endless Mike posted:

anand says it's a huge (lol) piece of poo poo

smythe you should hold onto your nexus 4 or get a nexus 5 which sunder can get to you in a reasonable time frame

Kiwi Ghost Chips posted:

but does it bend with normal use

Kiwi Ghost Chips posted:

but does it bend with normal use

Endless Mike posted:

anand says it's a huge (lol) piece of poo poo

smythe you should hold onto your nexus 4 or get a nexus 5 which sunder can get to you in a reasonable time frame

LastInLine posted:

hell even ron amadeo over at ars says its lovely

i can't embed the video but watch this comparing it to a Nexus 5

LastInLine posted:

hell even ron amadeo over at ars says its lovely

i can't embed the video but watch this comparing it to a Nexus 5

LastInLine posted:

hell even ron amadeo over at ars says its lovely

i can't embed the video but watch this comparing it to a Nexus 5

pagancow posted:

looooooolll

pagancow posted:

this is that premium android expierence today????

butt dickus posted:

i need to know smythe's opinion on the matter

LastInLine posted:

you might appreciate this page the most

pagancow posted:

uh samsung is not anroid.

LastInLine posted:

hell even ron amadeo over at ars says its lovely

i can't embed the video but watch this comparing it to a Nexus 5

Soldier of Fortran posted:

lmao no way

"art, android's new runtime is faster than dalvik*"



_{*in benchmarks, not in actual UI responsiveness}

butt dickus posted:

the runtime doesn't matter if your cheap emmc has lovely sequential reads

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It's a sudden, jarring change

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It's also, at times, garish.

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App menu headers are bold reds and blues greens, but there's no logic to the system of colors to match the logic of animation

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Even those animations can get a little overbearing. It's great when you first start using Lollipop, but once you get your bearings, you kind of wish they'd go a little faster.

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there are lots of places where it's hard to tell what's happening. For example, in settings, text can be a number of things: a button to take you deeper into a menu, a heading that does nothing, a button that toggles a switch off to the right, or a button that activates a pop-up menu.

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I am mortified to find that Android still seems to offer different interfaces for text selection and cut/copy/paste in different corners of the OS — to say nothing of the fact that the icons are still vague and the widgets for selecting text are frustratingly small (oh, and vary in color depending on the app).

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a new attempt to make a coherent Quick Settings panel. Google messes with these toggles in every iteration of Android, usually to middling effect. It's the same story here.

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Google says that it automatically tries to guess which settings you want to flip and shows you those. What I want is "Mobile Hotspot." What I get instead is "Invert Colors," with no way to manually change it. Maddening.

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It's an idea that is great in theory but can be hard to think through in execution, especially when it comes to keeping track of your Chrome tabs. At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, I'll say that Duarte did a better job at Palm with this idea way back in 2009 with webOS

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if you use Face Unlock, it now just works in the background while you're messing about with notifications on your lock screen. Unfortunately, in my testing, it's not any more reliable than it used to be — which is to say, not much.

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Google is also touting "Tap and Go," which uses NFC to transfer account information from one phone to another. [...] it's still nowhere near the phone-replacement experience on iOS.

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I had been hoping that default full-device encryption (another Lollipop feature) would mean we'd get full phone backups and restores: accounts, logins, and all. Nope.

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I will say that on both the Nexus 6 and the Nexus 9, the performance story is mixed. Moments of pure speed and smoothness are interrupted by inexplicable pauses. Battery life is very difficult to pin down, too.

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Android 5.0 is very much a "Dot Oh" update — and that means bugs.

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a new version of Android is always accompanied with questions: will existing devices get an update? When will new devices begin shipping with the new OS? As ever, there aren't clear answers

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the changes are huge, but there are still some bugs that need to get ironed out

Soldier of Fortran posted:

oh, ok. that's a bit less bad. aren't sequential & random reads the thing emmc controllers are usually really good at, though?

Linguica posted: