You already know all the special things the Note can do that the N6 can't. If you can live with those trade offs, do it.
Personally, I'd make that trade in a heartbeat.
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Nexus 6 |OT| Moto takes the L
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You already know all the special things the Note can do that the N6 can't. If you can live with those trade offs, do it.
Personally, I'd make that trade in a heartbeat.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
I'm more interested in the processing power, speed, camera, and battery life issues (if there are any).
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Random little hangups and freezes.
Get the Nexus 6 if you want:
- Smoother performance. It's like butter.
- Attractive and inviting UI rather than a Gaudy uninviting mess with no design language to speak of
- Better sound
- More natural color reproduction while still retaining AMOLED blacks
Get Note 4 if you cant live without a stylus. But it is noticeably laggier with more hangups.
Note 4 Camera has a slight edge, but N6 Camera is nothing to sneeze at. Battery life I get a full day and a half roughly with heavy use on N6.
- Smoother performance. It's like butter.
- Attractive and inviting UI rather than a Gaudy uninviting mess with no design language to speak of
- Better sound
- More natural color reproduction while still retaining AMOLED blacks
Get Note 4 if you cant live without a stylus. But it is noticeably laggier with more hangups.
Note 4 Camera has a slight edge, but N6 Camera is nothing to sneeze at. Battery life I get a full day and a half roughly with heavy use on N6.
From reviews, phone was already like that.
I think you will notice the behavior more when recording video.
Jzero
Member
Yea it mostly happens when recording video on snapchat
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Yeah. Also, closer up shots won't focus.
I heard it crashed a lot when it first came out for N6. Have they made it stable now?
Milpool
Member
I've been using the dev build from Dec and not a single crash yet.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Does anyone's camera app crash from time to time? Seems like when I use the camera to take a bunch of shots in a short time frame, it crashes. Stock app.
Not normal.
Not normal.
Jzero
Member
The camera is in crash city on my phone. Snapchat and other camera shit crashes on the daily.
i'm also going to be getting one of these wooden backs soon
The Faceless Master
Member
you need a SIM
The camera is in crash city on my phone. Snapchat and other camera shit crashes on the daily.
i'm also going to be getting one of these wooden backs soon
Odd, my last Droid did this on the regular, but it hasn't happened once on my N6.
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You are sick. Stahp.
So I just purchased a Nexus 6 using the Moto credit option, will be using it on Verizon. I'm coming from a DROID Turbo, so I have a nano SIM already.
There anything weird bugs I should know about? Also, from the OP, this has the ambient display that gives notifications when I pick up the phone like the Droid TURBO?
There anything weird bugs I should know about? Also, from the OP, this has the ambient display that gives notifications when I pick up the phone like the Droid TURBO?
Yes.
As for bugs, some are reporting the camera app to crash sometimes and the camera is known to be focus-happy with videos. There's probably a few more bugs, but they're so minor I can't think of them.
I was just reading a thing on droid life that the ambient display is really easy to pocket dial...is that the case?
Also, do you guys think that when this finally is officially released on Verizon, I'll just be able to flash the "stock" verizon rom onto my unlocked version?
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Jzero
Member
For me hell yes. I move a lot at work and the phone thinks i'm picking it up and it always starts tapping on stuff like the emergency dialer.
I've never had any pocket dialling or anything happen yet.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Chrome.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Xposed
For things like visual voicemail and tethering to work properly. And so I can get volte when that releases
Milpool
Member
I got mine at launch and it only just started doing that this week, I got home from town and some John Mayer album was playing out loud on Spotify, good thing I have unlimited data. A few days later I took the phone from my pocket and it was on the alarm page, some had ben disabled.
Sometimes it also refuses to unlock and I have to hold down power till it reboots, I wonder if that's ambient display related. The sound related bugs are really starting to piss me off too...
So I can get volte. You all know Verizon isn't just going to let that work on unlocked versions, because "quality" and all.
The Faceless Master
Member
but don't all the Nexus 6 units use the same ROM and just have a separate partition for boot animation and custom sounds and just install carrier apps based on the inserted SIM during setup instead of having them preinstalled? wouldn't that mean that there is no 'Verizon ROM' for a Nexus 6?
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I like the ambient display, but I wish there was a way (or is there) to make it so the ambient display works, but you actually have to hit the side button to turn on the phone. So many times the ambient display will show as I go to put the phone into my pocket and then it'll bump something and fully turn on the screen.
If they made it so you could say "use ambient display, but only turn on screen fully with side power button" that would be great.
If they made it so you could say "use ambient display, but only turn on screen fully with side power button" that would be great.
If it is anything like the OG moto X it happened a lot to me until I used a security lockscreen.
Taco_Human
Member
My Nexus 4 charger port might be dying. Does Tmobile still charge for tethering? I know my N4 has the feature built in. I don't get throttled at all, so I'm pretty worried about upgrading.
I bought an extra charger and also a wireless charger to extend the the life of it.
Are there any people here who upgraded from the Nexus 4? I paid heavy attention to the Nexus 6 but the price point to upgrade is the only thing holding me back from actually ordering it. I don't wanna make an early upgrade when I could get the next generation Nexus instead. I'm still wondering what all the downsides are of this phone.
I bought an extra charger and also a wireless charger to extend the the life of it.
Are there any people here who upgraded from the Nexus 4? I paid heavy attention to the Nexus 6 but the price point to upgrade is the only thing holding me back from actually ordering it. I don't wanna make an early upgrade when I could get the next generation Nexus instead. I'm still wondering what all the downsides are of this phone.
Coming from a Nexus 4? There won't be any for you. Everything should be a major upgrade.
Is the phone perfect? Nope, no phone is. One nitpick off the top of my head is that the camera refocuses a lot in video mode. Another is the Ambient Display clock isn't always up to date. There are others but you'll have to search this thread.
The Faceless Master
Member
5.1 will have VoLTE support in general. Hopefully you'll be fine unless Version do something which means only their version works.
Thinking of jumping in with a Nexus 6 but the reviews I have read are all over the place with respect to battery life.
Now that a few months has passed since release what is the battery life like did it improve after the bug fixes/ Android 5.1?
I am coming from an lg g2 which is pretty good.
Now that a few months has passed since release what is the battery life like did it improve after the bug fixes/ Android 5.1?
I am coming from an lg g2 which is pretty good.