
As ever no micro SD so no thanks, the same reason I won't buy Apple as it's a deal breaker.
Google has updated its Nexus smartphone range with two new handsets powered by the latest build of Android, codenamed Marshmallow. "Nexus is for Android because we've designed it," Google's newish CEO Sundar Pichai told the press at Tuesday's launch in San Francisco, meaning that the new phones have been designed to squeeze …
Agreed.
The /lowest/ flash capacity for /any/ new portable device, with or without micro SDXC (not mere micro SDHC!), should be 64GB, not piddling 16 or 32GB; I can get tiny and very fast Sandisk 64GB USB 3.0 flash plugs for under £20 now, so WTF are mobile/tablet manufacturers still taking the piss for!
Cloud storage is a F'ing bogus alternative when you can't or don't want to use cell internet, and eventually a security liability too!
3 to 4GB of CPU RAM should be standard now; 2GB is so dated, just watch multiple RAM hungry apps like better games use that up fast, same for inadequate flash storage!
There is a huge difference between a DXO of 82 and 84. Any Camera owner that trusts DXO knows this.
Since yesterday however I see the Xperia Z5 has come along and destroyed everything, particularly in video stabilisation.
The z5 is better than pretty much everything at its 8mp setting, lat alone it's 23mp mode.
There are too many reasons to pass up Chinese hardware/software,and these phones will connect to ip addresses inside China,making them vulnerable to al kinds of malicious exploitations. The latest ddos usinng mobile browsers and apps in China is reason enough to avoid these oem's.
Bag o'fail Oneeye
Perhaps you'd like to explain how vanilla android connects to Chinese IP's?
Firstly Google wouldn't like the competition.
Secondly only Huwaei are Chinese, LG are Korean.
Thirdly if and its big one - shades of VW if it gets out - Huwaei do it it would make far more sense to compromise their network infrastructure kit.
Fourthly - you'll be hard pushed to find any CE kit that doesn't come from China.
"There are too many reasons to pass up Chinese hardware/software,and these phones will connect to ip addresses inside China,making them vulnerable to al kinds of malicious exploitations."
Since this is incredibly easy to check for, and since Huawei are working hard to gain market share in Europe and the UK, that would be commercial suicide. I suspect Huawei are safer in this regard than many other manufacturers owing to their global ambitions.
I have a Huawei phone (Honor 6) and yes it does randomly connect to .cn addresses. After a lot of work with wireshark I am pretty satisfied it is a rather oddly-implemented cloud storage option, a sort of Huawei competitor to Google Drive. So tin-foil hat removed.
As an owner of an Chinese phone, I can assure you that the OEM software is not sending your personal data to China. It's sending all of your minute-by-minute personal details Google, like every other stock Android phone. The good news is that the Chinese phone makers let you replace the stock OS with one having a bit of privacy and decency built in.
"Last year's LG G3 at about £220 has equivalent or better specs."
Actually it doesn't. No fingerprint sensor, lesser cameras back and front, and the LG G3 is lousy when the signal is poor. The worst of any mobile I've had the misfortune to own....
@Patrician: I have no idea where you are getting your specs from for comparison but both the LG G3 and Galaxy S5 specs-wise offer better for less than the 5X with the only exceptions being the fingerprint nonsense and the separate sensor stuff. Of course the 6P beats them but for comparisons with that you need to look at the Note 4 or LG G4 which also offer better for less.
Yes, you can finally now format your SD card so it appears as internal storage.
Arrghh...from the summary there it appears the entire SD card is reformatted. I would presume that also handily renders it unusable as portable storage for media/documents. No indication on whether a card would also end up tied to the given device or whether I'd be able to move the card between devices.
So we're also stuck with clunky MTP to get stuff on or off the cards and first-party file managers to do anything useful #SadPanda
OK try the Sony Z3 compact, still one of the best phones available and the Z5 compact is even better.
small enougth and amazing battery performance that I hope marshmallow won't ruin......
It even has serveralROMS available if you dont like the UI/sony stuff.
As a nexus 5 owner I was somewhat unexcited about last years Nexus 6 but it didn't really matter all that much as the 5 is plenty good enough. However at 2 years old battery life is now pretty poor so I was keen to see what the rumoured 5X had to offer.
The answer seems to be pretty much exactly what we were expecting but perhaps these days that is no longer enough.
The LG G4 has the same CPU, more RAM (meh), Higher Res Screen, (again, meh) , removable storage (good), removable battery (also good), apparently takes nice pictures (I don't get nice pictures out of the Nexus) and I suspect is about to get quite a bit cheaper inside of 6 months.
The LG G3 may not be quite as powerful but it is a perfectly good minor upgrade from the original Nexus 5 and it is cheap.
"The LG G3 may not be quite as powerful but it is a perfectly good minor upgrade from the original Nexus 5 and it is cheap."
If you're mainly in an area with poor 3G don't even consider the LG G3; completely useless if the signal strength is less that 3 bars. The GPS is pretty unreliable too but I'm guessing both issues are down to the aerial type/position/size so that's not surprising.
Hm, Not exactly thrilling.
Still don't have a sure-fire replacement for the trusty nexus4
6P = too big (as was last years nexus). Quite expensive
5X = hobbled. Why only 2GB ram & 16Gb late 2015? thats the same as my 3yr old Nexus4!! Also loses the handly wireless charging.
The competition:
Sony: Small, but expensive & slow updates (& the z5 compact has only 2Gb ram)
Honor: Cheap, but unlikely to ever see an update (& has the rubbishy EmotionUI)
Samsung: Powerful, but expensive, crappy UI, slow updates, rubbish battery
LG: Too big, questionable battery
HTC: Expensive
Motorola: Probably the best of a bad bunch (decent price, gets quick updates, good battery), but the cheaper X Play isn't very powerful, and the X Style is too big!
Is it too much to ask for a reasonably sized, reasonably priced, reasonably powerful handset that lasts a full day and gets timely updates?
Nexus 5X.
2GB RAM is not a major concern, you can get 32GB storage if you pay a little more.
Wireless charging is pretty darn inefficient, not to mention slow. It can still be accomplished via a case with it built in if you really need it (they totally will have them, someone in Korea is updating their design to use the USB-C instead of the micro-USB as we type). And they make the camera flush with the case.
I love how people knock Google's choices on battery and expandable storage then fawn over Apple for the exact same stuff. Not everyone mind, kudos to those that are consistent.
2GB of RAM is a major concern as is only 32GB of storage when my phone is supposed to be connecting into a desktop dock with dual HDMI / Display Ports so it can be used as my primary computing device with a full operating system on it rather than some owned mobile OS where you are being locked into only software approved by the "big company" store.
I guess it's a distorted viewpoint, but I'm actually impressed by some of the reports on the new features. It's looking as the current mobile OSs are improving.
But that may just be as a start contrast to the decline in the Windows OS usability and features.
Android (and possibly iOS?) are adding features I want, where as Windows is taking them away. :(
I've recently been wondering what to replace my Nexus 6 with, and was really looking forward to finding out the spec of the 6P.
But it doesn't have Qi charging - what on earth was Google thinking of?! Having placed Qi chargers in all the places that I normally have the phone (office desk, car, TV room, bedroom, hotel room), and loving the lack of faff that's involved in not having to keep connecting and disconnecting a piece of wire to the phone, I find that the 6P is going back to USB charging only. So it's USB-C - dig deal.
(Any suggestions as to what to replace the 6 with will be gratefully accepted. Must have large screen, run Android, support Qi, and be root-friendly.)