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[Official] Ordered/I've got mine thread. :)

Are you going to buy the nexus 6?

  • Yes! Take my money! (Off- Contract)

    Votes: 30 28.6%

  • Yes! With carrier subsidy/payment plan

    Votes: 17 16.2%

  • No - Was going to buy, but now out of my price range

    Votes: 29 27.6%

  • No- Was not going to buy

    Votes: 16 15.2%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 13 12.4%
  • Total voters
    105
shalemail said:
At this point I'm thinking this is all intentional. They want it to go through carriers this time around. The more hoops people have to jump through the more likely they are to just buy in person or at least through carrier online options. Maybe this signals a fundamental shift by Google to get out of the direct hardware business. Maybe they are sick of dealing with shipments and returns and complaints.
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That makes alot of sense. Being the retailer can be a pain in the butt.
 
Well for me personally the only reason to buy Nexus was for the differences. The 1st of which was buying a pure Android phone with no bs carrier bloatware or other nonsense.
So if it is truly a shift to going through carriers almost exclusively then I guess all the phones now become equal.
So I guess I'll just start looking at ALL phones and forget this Nexus loyalty.

ps do you really think At&T is going to keep their branding and their bloatware off this phone? I'm betting not.
 
Bren S. said:
Well for me personally the only reason to buy Nexus was for the differences. The 1st of which was buying a pure Android phone with no bs carrier bloatware or other nonsense.
So if it is truly a shift to going through carriers almost exclusively then I guess all the phones now become equal.
So I guess I'll just start looking at ALL phones and forget this Nexus loyalty.

ps do you really think At&T is going to keep their branding and their bloatware off this phone? I'm betting not.
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I hope Google makes them keep the bloat to a minimum and that it can be uninstalled instead of just disabled. Windows phones come with bloat but you can easily delete it.
 
Two things ...
1 lollipop is supposed to allow you to remove bloat anyway.
2 I think the real reason is the developers community discovered a bug in 5.0 that's what the delay is about. They are delaying the roll out to all nexus devices as well. I assume they don't want to ship out phones that don't work to thousands of customers. It would be like releasing a phone with a bunch of hype that bends or something. :D
 
Bren S. said:
Well for me personally the only reason to buy Nexus was for the differences. The 1st of which was buying a pure Android phone with no bs carrier bloatware or other nonsense.
So if it is truly a shift to going through carriers almost exclusively then I guess all the phones now become equal.
So I guess I'll just start looking at ALL phones and forget this Nexus loyalty.

ps do you really think At&T is going to keep their branding and their bloatware off this phone? I'm betting not.
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Droid Turbo is damn near a Nexus.
 
shalemail said:
Two things ...
1 lollipop is supposed to allow you to remove bloat anyway.
2 I think the real reason is the developers community discovered a bug in 5.0 that's what the delay is about. They are delaying the roll out to all nexus devices as well. I assume they don't want to ship out phones that don't work to thousands of customers. It would be like releasing a phone with a bunch of hype that bends or something. :D
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Which bug are you referring to?
 
I was done welding so I came into the locker room for a last try and just kept switching back and forth between colors, again, and I got lucky. 32gb blue. Would rather have white.

Leaves Nov 26. I got 3-5 days shipping. I didn't see where to change that because I was in a hurry to get my purchase thru before they decided to take it away from me.
 
Bren S. said:
smaller screen

2.4 only instead of 3


nope not for me
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2.4 instead of 3? Huh?

Same processor and clock speed, same memory, same resolution with more pixel density, possibly a better camera.

Fwiw I love mine. Now with this battery and smaller screen it's working great for my use. I honestly don't think the 6 would make it to the end of my work day let alone until I sleep without having to plug in.

Yes I'm still ordering a 6 when they're actually available.
 
jkc120 said:
That looks like it's Nexus 5 specific, though. I don't see why they'd delay the Nexus 6 due to a Nexus 5 Lollipop issue. It could explain why there's no factory images for N5 yet, though.
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Considering that the developer previews are only available for the Nexus 5 and wifi 2013 Nexus 7, it would explain why the reports mostly come from that device. It very well might not affect the Nexus 6, but there aren't testimonies out there to confirm our deny it at this point.
 
You haven't been through the real nightmare of waiting, reading hundreds of rumors (true) waiting some more for month after month unless you attempted to obtain an invite to entitle you to pre-order a OnePlus One.

I spent fourteen weeks, yes that's 14 weeks until i finally got an invite only to put up with another few weeks wait to take delivery.

The good news is it worked very well for a full two weeks till it went south, turning into a brick. I'll save the rest of the absurdly long story for another day.
 
vr4 said:
2.4 instead of 3? Huh?

Same processor and clock speed, same memory, same resolution with more pixel density, possibly a better camera.

Fwiw I love mine. Now with this battery and smaller screen it's working great for my use. I honestly don't think the 6 would make it to the end of my work day let alone until I sleep without having to plug in.

Yes I'm still ordering a 6 when they're actually available.
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I had it wrong they are both 2.7 GHz

For me personally I wouldn't want the small screen, but an even bigger downside to me is it only being available on Verizon.

I'm glad there's choices though.

Enjoy your turbo :)
 
Agree. This ridiculous game Google is playing has gotten old.
They can of course do whatever they want but it would be nice if they'd grow a pair and just say what's up..
 
They were still selling at 330est this morning.

I'd say I got lucky. I switched to blue and just as it showed available i was putting it in my cart and the pushbullet notification started coming in. I refreshed at just the right time. Also, someone on reddit wrote a script that automatically puts an available phone in your cart and you just have to finish the transaction.
 
zipred said:
You haven't been through the real nightmare of waiting, reading hundreds of rumors (true) waiting some more for month after month unless you attempted to obtain an invite to entitle you to pre-order a OnePlus One.

I spent fourteen weeks, yes that's 14 weeks until i finally got an invite only to put up with another few weeks wait to take delivery.

The good news is it worked very well for a full two weeks till it went south, turning into a brick. I'll save the rest of the absurdly long story for another day.
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I have a guy I work with that's been waiting months to get a One +. To be fair, I'm not sure just how hard he's tried to get an invite, but I think he's resigned himself to the fact that he's just going to have to buy an invite off of eBay if he really wants to get one.

He did try to get into that one hour sale they had a few weeks ago on their website, but he said it was impossible to load the site up because of all the traffic that it was getting hit with.



halon said:
They were still selling at 330est this morning.

I'd say I got lucky. I switched to blue and just as it showed available i was putting it in my cart and the pushbullet notification started coming in. I refreshed at just the right time. Also, someone on reddit wrote a script that automatically puts an available phone in your cart and you just have to finish the transaction.
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Just from reading some of the online forums, it seems like this past sale went a little bit better for people. At least it appears that they had more phones to offer and more people seemed to be able to get hold of one than last week.

Still a pretty stupid way to roll out a phone, but this is how many years that Google has done it this way? It doesn't appear like their launches are going to get any better any time soon.
 
Rumor of Motorola starting orders today.

If they do I may try to order from there. Dumb question...Is it possible to transfer a Google Play order to someone else?
 
halon said:
Rumor of Motorola starting orders today.

If they do I may try to order from there. Dumb question...Is it possible to transfer a Google Play order to someone else?
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Where did you hear said rumor? I have been really trying to keep up on this and hadn't heard a peep.
:)
 
halon said:
Rumor of Motorola starting orders today.

If they do I may try to order from there. Dumb question...Is it possible to transfer a Google Play order to someone else?
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Oh boy... I see another debacle in the making.
 
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