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Hi everyone, long time reader, first time threader. I've been reading alot about the Nexus One and without going into a ****load of detail, as you all know, the forums do attract alot of negative reviews, only because, obviously, the masses of people out there who are happy with their shiny new handset are sitting back, playing with their gadget, probably laughing at the world.
My phone arrives tomorrow, so I thought it would be interesting to start a thread that everyone can post their positive, satisfied testimonials in. If this thread fails I will take that as a fail over all.
Nothing negative here, if you're happy with your new Nexus let everyone know here. Over 9,000 pages.
I think that is a very good initiative !
In a couple of hours my phone should arrive.. i'll post my first-hand thoughts !
Mine is awesome. I have none of the issues everyone is talking about. In particular, I like the battery life compared to my last htc, and how easy it was to pair to my 3 cars.
Very happy
As a mover from WinMo to the N1 I am very happy. I still have plenty of learning to do about Android and will root when I think the community has enough tools to make it really worth it, but my first impressions are that this is a good quality handset that feels good in the hand and is very responsive.
I have been using it for 10 days and wouldn't consider any of the small challenges I've had anything more than an ignorance of what Android is possible of.
I hope you have as good an experience as I have
I've been a long time iPhone (jailbroken) user and have just got into the Android scene with my Nexus One.
I must say,...I'm absolutely loving the device,..my 3GS feels dated in comparison! I'd still say the iPhone OS has more polish then the current iteration of Android 2.1, but know that won't be for too much longer.
Loving the Android community too!
Time to sell that 3GS on ebay
Very Very Happy
I would like to say that I am very happy with the phone having played about with it for the last 3 days. It is everything I expected it to be and the more apps/widgets I add the more impressed I am with it.
Being a smart/internet phone it heavily relies on a good connection. On 3g/WIFI it is easily the best phone I have used and in terms of ease of use and speed it matches the iphone.
I had to set up the APN settings after I got the phone and ever since then the connection has been fine. Please note that on GPRS the speed is not that great - which is not a fault of the phone.
It surpasses the iphone in terms of customizability and the fact that you can have a number of apps running at the same time without ANY slowing down! ON a Jail broken iphone everything bugged down due to multiple apps being used.
I only need a decent case now as it has slipped out of my hand several times due to its slick design!
Overall - very impressed, very happy, absolutely no regrets about not getting the iphone which was the only other alternative I was considering.
Great phone
I went from having a G1 since February last year over to getting the nexus last monday (ordered it a couple of hours after the press conference). All i can say is... wow!!!
Well, actually i can say some more things ;-) This piece of aluminium and glass is lightning quick. It's slim, it has the best phone-screen that i have ever seen, Android 2.1 looks extremely nice (like what they replaced the drawer with). Not having physical buttons is no problem since it have tactile feedback (takes a couple of minutes to get used to but after that you don't really reflect over it).
My friend has the IXXXXX 3gs and we have compared web loading speed. Let me just say that the NE is always faster when it comes to loading the entire page. Sometimes it is twice as fast (we tried several urls of which neither of us had visited before - they were not cached). When you flipped the G1 over to the side, it sometimes took several seconds for the image to flip with it. On the NE it is instantanious.
As for the problems you guys have had with 3g->2g and back, i can't really say i've had these issues. Where i live (Sweden) it have worked rock solid since the beginning.
There exists one issue with the screen on the NE right now, but since is the praise-thread where we are all positive, i will save that for another thread
Kind regards
Daniel
I've been a long time WinMo and Blackberry user here, and the N1 is my first Android device.
I'd have to say, I'm definitely impressed. The hardware is slick and fast, I've had absolutely no issues with the phone other people have had (except no 3g coverage when I'm at work, but life goes on). Pictures are good for a phone, everything is just nice.
Once an N1 with a hardware keyboard comes out, I'll give the current N1 to the boyfriend as he's smitten with it and -hates- hardware keyboard, whereas I have to have a device with a hardware keyboard (work-related, I send emails like a fiend).
It plays Pokemon Ruby perfectly. And...it just works.
On a positive note as well, yesterday in my office with had a Blackberry (Tour), WinMo (Imagio), WebOS (Pre), iPhone (3gs) and of course my Nexus One. iPhone, WinMo and Blackberry users were aaall jealous (especially the iPhone user). The Pre guy likes it a lot as well, but not quite smitten.
Just see these videos and watch your juggernaut fight keys and scissors!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpGAW6L5x8U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfqwKa4bT74
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This is my and the n1'a one week anniversary and we will be celebrating tonite over wine and and a movie. Everyone make sure to tell your nexus how much you love it.
I have had nothing but good experiences with this phone, I don't even have to use the Keyboard!
If you want a breath of fresh ait go check out Twit.TV.
Specifically the Daily GizWiz #1007
http://twit.tv/dgw1007
**** DeBartolo and Leo Laporte both got N1's.
And on this one when they a don talknig about Google.cn they talk uo the N1 one for a while and it's features.
http://twit.tv/twig
Just thought I would share!
Lovin' it
Again - I have absolutely no complains about the nexus at all. It is the device that I have been waiting for so long, and it does not disappoint in any way. Had it for 2 weeks now and still can't stop playing with it. Can't think of any other bit of tech where the novelty hasn't worn off after a couple of days
So I received the phone 10 hours ago, and only let it out of my hand because I had to go to the toilet and eat.
Its fantastic.
Ditto, Ditto, Ditto to all the comments.
1 week old for me, moved from a Symbian. This is much better. Sorted out the sync process for my emails and calender (from Outlook - I love the fact I don't need to connect the phone to my PC to sync, I know it may well be days before I need to turn the PC on with this phone). No manufacture issues. Lots of looks from iphone droids (incl my gf!). Loads of Apps.
Can't wait for flash, because when that arrive, there will be no beating this sweet bit of kit - oh yes, and the price, for a SIM free, £360 delivered (subject to possible VAT) is an awesome price!
I can't praise this enough! I simply see it as a HTC with a google ad/logo on it!! Nothing wrong with that in my eyes.
My Nexus One is really fun to just poke at the background of.
Well I mean it just does everything my myTouch 3G did except better, and that's really what I wanted
I use mine on the toilet! (I know; that is grody.) It is that hard to part from the phone. I'm coming from a rooted G1 that I spent a lot of time playing around with.
In comparison to the iPhone, Android + Nexus One hardware makes it far superior. Not saying the iPhone isn't a great piece of hardware in its own respect, I just think the marketing that went behind it has implanted the idea that it is the most superior phone out there. To me, the Nexus One has disproved that. I can actually have a phone with a background (live wallpapers, FTW) and not populated with a bunch of squares (widgets, FTW). I can actually view all my notifications and have quick access to them via simple swipe of the notification bar.
I use text-to-speech on this phone as I did on my G1. SayMyName is quite useful (despite some bugs on the N1, it reads the contact number not the name). On my G1, SayMyName would slow my calls down and it would ring 4-5 times before actually giving me a chance to pick up. Not so much on the N1. It is instant.
Camera takes nice pictures. Navigation works great (used it on the G1, but should be same on the N1, just faster). The screen is pretty, very pretty. Simply put, this phone is awesome!
I apologize for my ramblings; I've been getting a lot of flak from iPhone users. I hope everyone enjoys their Nexus One as much as I do.
I've used WinMo devices for the past five years or so (Since O2 XDA). Latest one was a HTC Touch Diamond.
I've been using my Nexus One now for a week and it never stops to amaze me. I thought my Touch Diamond was pretty neat, but compared to the speed and ease-of-use of Android on this blazingly fast N1... it's just awesome. And (unlike my Touch Diamond) it doesn't need soft resets three times a day....
Mine is really awesome. I have none of the issues some are talking about. In particular, I like the Speed, UI, Design, Flexability, Customizing, etc...Did I mention Fast
Got mine ~4 hours ago. After reading through these forums the past day to see what problems I might expect, the only issue I saw, but was prepared for, was one edge of the screen wasn't sealed. Turned the hairdryer on it for ~30 seconds, pressed down and the screen stuck. No dust was under the screen straight out of the plastic protector. No 3G swapping issues (T-Mobile).
Impressive piece of kit, especially coming from a Dash where some keys weren't working and sound quality had gone to crap.
Compared to my wife's MyTouch 3G, the Android keyboard is waaaay easier to get keys on the outer edge to register. It usually takes me a few tries on the wife's, but the N1 keys register on the first try.
Very happy ~4 hours in.
Had it around a week and a half now. Absolutely love it! After spending so many years with WinMo I can't describe the difference. Such a great piece of hardware too.
iPad
I have a SG Tab 10.1 Wifi that I really like and am ready to upgrade but probably will wait for the next G Tab to come out or another Android device. Well to make a long story short I bought a 3rd Gen iPad Retna for my kids but only because the kids next door have one and there are games that they have that aren’t available for Android. But really it was mostly to stop the whining. I still can’t believe that there are developers that are developing for just one OS, it doesn’t make sense to me with the number of devices on the market you’d think they’d want to get on as many as they can. Ok so back to the crApple iPad, I have to say that so far I am not that impressed with it, that I don’t see a big difference between the two devices or even the screens. I put the pic on my computer that was taken by my S GNex to view it on my 24” Samsung LED monitor for comparison. Then I put a pic on both and I couldn’t see that one was better than the other or course the monitor blew both the tablets away. The speeds on both also seem similar with both have a little bit of lag when performing tasks. I even had to reboot the iPad twice since I’ve had it which has been about 24 hours because it froze while the kids were playing a game.
The kids like it only because they get to play the game that the other kids are playing. They are young yet and don’t understand technology well enough to understand the differences between the two yet, I still have a little bit of time to teach them the difference and the right path.
But for me this will be the one and only iPad that I buy, I’m going to stick with my Android devices because the quality is very good and I like the openness. I still feel a little sick for buying it but I love my kids and want them to be happy.
mrtraveler said:
iPad
I have a SG Tab 10.1 Wifi that I really like and am ready to upgrade but probably will wait for the next G Tab to come out or another Android device. Well to make a long story short I bought a 3rd Gen iPad Retna for my kids but only because the kids next door have one and there are games that they have that aren’t available for Android. But really it was mostly to stop the whining. I still can’t believe that there are developers that are developing for just one OS, it doesn’t make sense to me with the number of devices on the market you’d think they’d want to get on as many as they can. Ok so back to the crApple iPad, I have to say that so far I am not that impressed with it, that I don’t see a big difference between the two devices or even the screens. I put the pic on my computer that was taken by my S GNex to view it on my 24” Samsung LED monitor for comparison. Then I put a pic on both and I couldn’t see that one was better than the other or course the monitor blew both the tablets away. The speeds on both also seem similar with both have a little bit of lag when performing tasks. I even had to reboot the iPad twice since I’ve had it which has been about 24 hours because it froze while the kids were playing a game.
The kids like it only because they get to play the game that the other kids are playing. They are young yet and don’t understand technology well enough to understand the differences between the two yet, I still have a little bit of time to teach them the difference and the right path.
But for me this will be the one and only iPad that I buy, I’m going to stick with my Android devices because the quality is very good and I like the openness. I still feel a little sick for buying it but I love my kids and want them to be happy.
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you should have bought Nexus 10!
Wouldn't a 2 have sufficed? If it's just for the kids, you could have saved yourself some wedge.
Swyped, from my finger to your face, on my Samsung Galaxy Note II
I did
jazzespresso said:
you should have bought Nexus 10!
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I felt so bad that I ordered a Nexus 10 last night. I hope this makes up for my awful deed, at least a little bit. Besides its still Android and then I'd still have the app problem.
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Wouldn't a 2 have sufficed? If it's just for the kids, you could have saved yourself some wedge.
Swyped, from my finger to your face, on my Samsung Galaxy Note II
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Honestly it was just curiosity, I wanted to see what all the hype was about with the Retna display. I couldn't see anything special, but then it could be my old eyes.
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I felt so bad that I ordered a Nexus 10 last night. I hope this makes up for my awful deed, at least a little bit. Besides its still Android and then I'd still have the app problem.
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I'd like to know what you think of the Nexus 10 compared to the iPad 3. I have both the galaxy tab 10.1 and the iPad 3, and had the Nexus 7 for a few months before my dad convinced me to give that one to him. (And may buy another one, I miss it so much!) The galaxy tab was getting really slow and after seeing the Nexus 7 screen I wasn't happy with the screen either. The iPad is not bad, though I did have to force myself to keep from returning it every day the first week. I think everyone prefers whichever os they are most used to. After a few weeks, I decided that the iPad is better for work, so it needs to stay. Almost entirely for taking notes on it at work. I never found an app on Android that I was comfortable enough with to effectively use. In the end I think the difference came down to aspect ratio and more note taking app choices. The iPad's aspect ratio is definitely better for taking handwritten notes, only because of that half inch extra space it gives you in portrait. It doesn't seem like that would make much difference, but it does. And the iPad does have a better app selection. However, it is not a clear winner as practically every review says. I miss gtalk, google voice, maps, and worst of all flash! While the aspect ratio is better for handwritten notes, it sucks for hd videos. And the lack of a back button is driving me insane! It also seems slower, and stutters more than the Nexus 7. But it's a vast improvement over the galaxy tab 10.1, except for browsing and Netflix. I am also impressed with the battery life and have heard some bad reviews about the nexus 10 battery. So it would be good to know the perception of the two from someone who uses both.
After 2 years of faithfully sticking with me, my G2 died yesterday. It was a long time coming at this point so I had been preparing for the worst. My G2 was extremely resilient, surviving countless soft bricks, drops, months of 20k texts average, and even a bit of water damage. The ribbon cable connecting my screen gave out, and while fixing it was an option, I have retired it in favor of getting a Note 2. After about 12 hours of usage I thought I'd drop in here and share my thoughts about the transition, in case any of you are on T-Mobile and are thinking about making the jump.
For starters the Note is about the same width as a G2 with the keyboard open. The Note is about an inch taller as well. The phones feel almost even on weight, though the Note may feel a bit lighter because the weight is more distributed. As a heavy texter, the phone fits my hands pretty comfortably.
The first noticeable thing is the massive increase in screen real estate. I was intimidated at first but soon fell in love. There is room for endless widgets, apps, shortcuts, etc. The next thing I picked up on was the difference in screen brightness. Even at its lowest setting the Note has a vibrant and easily readable screen.
Next up is the massive initial charge of the battery. The Note has a 3100mAh battery! The capacity is almost 2.5 times bigger. Coming from the store the phone had about 50% battery. It took about 5 hours to get the charge full. In that time I preformed the OTA, and gently did some feature testing.
Multi-Window is neat, I've put it to good use already. I wish we could use any app with it, but that's an adventure for another day when I root the phone. Pop-up-browser is nifty. The S-Pen is useful in so many ways. From typing with it, to drawing with it, even the pre-made gestures. It really helps compensate with the massive screen. You can hold the phone one handed and use the other to complete navigate with the S-Pen.
Coming from AOSP based roms to TouchWiz is a bit weird. I pretty much followed CM / Andromadus development work religiously. Even on most of the other phones I have around, they were rooted and flashed within hours. I'm giving it a try for a change. While I do miss some things shuch as long press back button app kill, most of the things are quickly forgotten. I don't like how pushy the Samsung based apps are, (make a Samsung account, use is app store thing, etc....) but it's easily overlooked.
Overall it's miles better than any experience past CM7.2 provided over the G2. While the ICS & JB experience was not bad, the aged hardware really showed it's age when side by side. Even with all the tweaks and tricks we had, it is nothing compared to the responsiveness of the Note. The Exynos 4412 absolutely destroys anything thrown at it. The 2GiBs of RAM also help it out.
All in all the transition is going well. If any of you are looking to make the jump any time soon, it's a substantial and immediately noticeable upgrade. It's definitely money well spent. Hope to see some of you around the Note 2 forums!
Sent from my SGH-T889
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I owned this phone since 20 July of 2012 and joined XDA in september. More than 3 Years in the community. The Galaxy Note GT-N7000 was my first Android phone. The first time I saw it was in 2011 in a billboard here in Buenos Aires, for that moment the phone was incredibly huge (and even bigger in that billboard) and I loved it. But it was really expensive and I could not afford it. A year later, the price dropped a bit and was the moment to buy it, and I did. It took 1 week to come to my house. When I first saw the box it was... small. Also the Note was printed at the cover of the box (I thought it was the real size), but then I took the cover apart... HELL THAT'S A HUGE PHONE I said to my family, and they laughed. The phone covered the dimensions of the box, making it minimalistic and in a nice presentation. I remember when I first turned it on, it showed the name of the phone in white letters and a nice, Amoled black that I never saw before (The first time I saw that image was hilarous, now everyone here in XDA fears when the phone tooks more than 10 seconds in that screen due to the eMMC brickbug ). And the little green android appeared. The camera was amazing, the games I've played were really fluid and really HD sharpness (GTA III, Modern Combat 3, GTA VC, GTA SA, FIFA12, etc) and the screen... the screen was insane, even better than some actual devices. The S-Pen got me a passion for drawing, and now I have my future decided (Going to study Graphic Design in University) thanks to this phone. And then started my flash-a-holic vicious. Started with the ICS leaks and worried (like everyone) to wipe data that triggered the eMMC brickbug in so many Notes.. I still remember the wave of threads starting at "Stuck at GT-N7000 because of wipe data". Until Jelly Bean came up. That was a new life to this phone. It was fast, minimalistic and enhanced thanks to that update (It didn't had nothing to envy to the GSIII or the brand new Note 2). And there was the support for the phone. No further updates, no further support, the phone was going into a slow comma. And here the problems started... The USB board with ghost charge, the camera doesn't focus anymore, the S Pen draws without touching the screen, the battery swelled up...
I was in hurry to upgrade the phone, and I saw the Note 3, but some days later, the Note 4 started to leak... So I waited for it, it was announced, Around 1000 USD for that phone? That was insane!
So I waited, with a slow phone and half of it features without working. But then Android 5 was released, and bauner ported it... Another life to this phone (Froyo, Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean, Kitkat and now Lollipop!)
Now the Note 4 is around 700USD and I can afford it so.. it's time to leave my Note now.
They were good times, and I had learned much with this phone. Modifying frameworks, apks, smali codes, themes, flashing roms, developing, testing, failing, testing, failing again.. Now is time to move.
I will miss this community and all the love you people gave to me. The Note 4 is way too different, a higher resolution, a way different processor and, with the inclusion of Knox, it would be harder than the N7000 to make mods for it.
So, that's all. I will be here and there, because I want to test what I didn't tested before with this phone (because it was my primary phone).
Goodbye people, goodbye N7000 community.
All the best. A still N7000 main user
All the Best Bro. Hope you will shine in the Note 4 community.
In fact still i'm using some of your mods and themes when i switch to TW. Specially Your White Keyboard is my favorite
Thanks again for your all friendly support and kindness.
Cheers :good:
I have noticed quite a few Galaxy Note II users online that are close to pulling the trigger on a new phone. I have been in that camp for a few months and finally did. I really don't have and major complaints about the Galaxy Note II but rather small quibbles about the device. So you have a basic idea of where I am coming from I'll let you know what I like and dislike about the Galaxy Note II.
GNOTE II Pros:
Good Specs - The phone has specs that are still considered above mid level and should still be a viable phone for at least a couple more years if properly updated...if.
Camera - I get pretty fair image clarity from the phone and when I need something better I'll break out a DSLR or my Galaxy Camera.
Voice - Very clear and loud.
S-Pen - Oh how I'll miss thee.
Capacitive Buttons/Physical Buttons - Well thought out for one-handed use.
Weight Its a bit heavy but I actually like the weight of this phone and could probably use it as a throwing-star analog to get the drop on somebody if I hit them square in the temple. But that really is not a concern for most people.
Hardware - Its well made and very resistant to drops with a simple TPU case.
GNOTE II Cons:
Updates - I'm on T-Mobile which has taken any chance it has to kill the possibility of future updates. Occasionally an errant voice on a messageboard out of T-Mobile Customer Support stating they have seen this in the works wafts across my screen but I have yet to see it come to fruition.
Samsung Ideology - Samsung products are good for a year then they release a new one as if you really need a new product from them. Samsung makes great products but rarely do they fix glaringly obvious mistakes after a year past its original creation. I currently am working on a Samsung monitor with a color calibration issue that has been reported and known by the company for years but never fixed but they fixed it on the new model of this monitor. My Galaxy Camera, while nice, suffers from insane Touchwiz lag and could use an update on fixing that but we won't see it because they released the Galaxy Camera 2. I am in the game for technology to last a minimum of 3 years running well. I realize the market is bleeding edge but the edge has gotten far less bloody than the G1 days. I shop for phones like I do TV's or computers now.
S-Pen Manufacturing - I've been through four S-Pens. I use it a lot for taking notes throughout the day as it feels more natural than typing on a computer screen. The S-Pen tends to randomly stop working without provocation. Then if you order a "100% OEM Samsung Factory S-Pen" most likely its a Chinese knock-off. I can't find true S-pens anymore which is a concern for owning a new Note.
Lack of Stable ROMS - Nearly everything I have tried causes issues with NFC or Bluetooth. I use bluetooth all the time for music to various speakers, headphones, or my car.
Knox - It does its stinking job too well. SU can run but it can't hide. I have lost SU so many times on this stupid phone it is ridiculous. Let alone the every 10 minutes my phone lets me know that Triangle Away is being activated. I don't do a lot of coding or tinkering but I do like finding ROM's with good utilitarian purposes. I remember swapcache back in the G1 days and enjoyed finding the next cool thing to do with my phone! We are past that time now, honestly, but if it isn't Samsung branded then Samsung doesn't want you to do it.
Samsung Services - "You have started S-Voice" NO I DIDN'T. "Saving contact to Samsung Contacts" Bad Samsung, stop it! I insanely dislike...nay..HATE how Samsung will not let you get rid of its version of things. My contact list was a thing of beauty running in the 100's with every person I needed to work with (I'm a teacher that does coordination work and administrative work for a school of 600+), their room numbers, email addresses, and everything you could think of until I bought a Samsung product. I have some names with 20 duplicates due to the way this beast handles contacts. I eventually just had executive function overload and decided to give up on being organized. I might bring that back to life soon.
Now that you have an idea of where I'm coming from this is what I think of the Nexus 6....
I like it!
The first thing I really enjoyed about this phone was the speed. I'm running it Stock, Rooted, and Encrypted (for now...maybe forever...I work at a school where my kids know how to build robots and get linux running on projectors so I wouldn't mind encryption on my devices) and loving the heck out of it. I was so impressed by simple things at first such as animations from opening folders as soon as my finger touched the screen whereas my Note II would lag for a good time without animations. In fact, turning on the device is so overwhelmingly stupidly simple to turn on. I can check the time by just pulling it out of my pocket without touching buttons where if I wanted to check the time on my Note I would have to wait 5 - 10 seconds after pressing the power button while pondering the ever present question, "Did I press that button?" which inevitably leads to "#$&(*, I pressed it again and turned it off!"
The next thing I noticed was the size and weight. It is a bit harder to use than my Galaxy Note II with one hand. I think if they reversed the capacitive Back button it would be a lot easier to use for us right handers. I may look in to figuring that out. Honestly, I almost feel like this thing is too thin and light. It feels well built and solid. Even with the SUPCASE I bought it still feels a little odd in my hands but that may be due to the weight being very centered in the deep area of the curve opposed to being consistently weighted. As a personal aside this is the first phone I have ever put a screen protector on WITHOUT BUBBLES....I..AM...A ....GOD!!! Well..maybe demigod. Needless to say, Spigen makes a fine screen protector.
Unlocking and rooting this thing was a breeze. Once I get paid in a couple of weeks I plan on donating to @WugFresh for at least a case of beer for his amazing Toolkit that will even walk you through setting up Windows 8 drivers! You can find that at http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/development/toolkit-wugs-nexus-root-toolkit-v1-9-8-t2947452
The camera is better than my Note II by simply being clearer which I'm assuming is to the better camera sensor. I haven't messed with it that much.
The screen and adaptive lighting are by far my favorite thing on this phone. I am probably in the minority on this but adaptive lighting is brilliant. I have seen a lot of people talking about how AMOLED is causing the reddish/purple/yellowish hues to blacks and grays at low light levels. I do not believe that is the fact. It seems like they are using some sort of blue light filtering for this in low light. As an insomniac I tend to send the wee hours of morning which I consider night perusing XDA, Twitter, and various other odds and ends of the internets and am so happy the screen actually gets dark. My Gnote II on the lowest setting was annoyingly bright. I thought I was a genius one day when I thought to use a blue screen filter and made it darker but lo and behold the backlit capacitive buttons attached directly to the stinking hardware on the Gnote II. Its like having someone flash their brights at you when you use one of those programs on the Note. Its annoying. The Nexus 6 takes no part in this and I would 100% recommend it for fellow insomniacs. It has helped me to get sleep a little bit quicker over the last couple days which is a nice benefit. Lets see if that keeps up though. I'm pretty immune to sleep.
Also the screen is really nice quality and reproduces blacks amazingly well. I'm an art teacher and art history buff so I usually check out different high quality images on my phone to see how good it looks. It seems to work very well at recreating the color and light of some of the paintings. My favorite to use for this test is Van Gogh's Starry Night Over Rhone. Eventually my phone gets used in the classroom when a student needs to look up an image and put on an easel (or kickstand case but haven't seen one I like yet) to display when my tablet or laptop is in use.
Battery life and charger! Its great. 'Nuff said.
I think the biggest negative so far is the volume of calls. My wife said I sound quieter than usual. I also can't hear people as loudly as I used to. The speakerphone does not travel as far as the Note when it absolutely should seeing as the speakers are fairly decent for a cell phone. I could see someone fixing this pretty easily in a ROM.
The other negative is the lack of some multitasking programs that Samsung had and of course the lack of S-Pen. I use a Huion H610 Pro at home for digital art and graphic design so I loved the fact that Samsung phones used similar tech but I absolutely abhor using capacitive styluses (styli?). I'll have to figure out something I can carry with me that will work like that with a similar feel.
Anyway, as of right now I'm extremely happy with this phone. I have had no issues as of yet and luckily no burn in however I do not like my phone to cause sunspots when I look away from it so I'm not expecting to have a huge problem with it. If you have some similar issues with the Galaxy Note II (which T-Mobile amplifies) then I would suggest jumping ship especially if you have crackflashing tendencies because there is no Samsung product without a Nexus name attached to it that will be as easy to deal with as this.
-Travis
Let me go ahead and apologize for the poor grammar and lengthy sentences. I'm sitting home from work sick today (XDA fun time does not happen between the hours of 7am to 5pm at work normally) with bronchitis. The medicine(s) I'm on must really like run-on sentences after I re-read that wall of text. I hope it helps someone after deciphering it, haha.
From one educator to another (I'm a school administrator and former classroom teacher), let me say 'well done!'. Before the Nexus 6, I was a proud Note owner for the last three years - Note 1 and Note 3 to be exact. After finding out that the Note 4 would be even more locked down than the 3, and deciding that I was getting really really tired of TouchWiz and truly loved what Lollipop's UI brought to the table, I made the jump. And I am just as pleased with my choice as you are. No more crazy contacts lists or S-Voice intrusions, amen. ......I do miss my old S-Pen though....
I'm using the Note 2 atm and I "really want" the Nexus 6 (64gb infact, hard to come by in Australia otherwise I probably would have one by now).
Using SlimKat now because the stock ROM was absolutely dreadful!! (Laaag!) The S-pen does not work out of the box on the current rom and I'm not missing it either... I'm ready for the Nexus and looking forward to using "modern speakers" on a phone.
PerthSGS2 said:
I'm using the Note 2 atm and I "really want" the Nexus 6 (64gb infact, hard to come by in Australia otherwise I probably would have one by now).
Using SlimKat now because the stock ROM was absolutely dreadful!! (Laaag!) The S-pen does not work out of the box on the current rom and I'm not missing it either... I'm ready for the Nexus and looking forward to using "modern speakers" on a phone.
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I also came from the note2 on tmobile and like the OP said, there was a lack of ROMs for the phone.
i ended up pulling the trigger on a white 32gb nexus 6 (i was looking for a 64gb but they were hard to find) the other day and like it very much. I think i rooted and unlocked the bootloader within 30mins of having the phone.
just trying to enable tethering on it right now is the only obstacle for me.
simplyTravis said:
Let me go ahead and apologize for the poor grammar and lengthy sentences. I'm sitting home from work sick today (XDA fun time does not happen between the hours of 7am to 5pm at work normally) with bronchitis. The medicine(s) I'm on must really like run-on sentences after I re-read that wall of text. I hope it helps someone after deciphering it, haha.
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I had a Note 4 from T-Mobile for a few days and I didn't care for it at all & I was coming from a S4 before getting the Note 4, So I decided to return it and got the Nexus 6 which is way better. I'll also be paying less then I would of been with the Note 4.
How does the screen brightness compare between the two?
How's the focusing speed compared to the note 2?
I'm trying to decide between this and the HTC m8. I have small kids so I need something with a quick focus and overall good durability. (I'm not really concerned with megapixel count.)
Thanks!
lschuman said:
From one educator to another (I'm a school administrator and former classroom teacher), let me say 'well done!'. Before the Nexus 6, I was a proud Note owner for the last three years - Note 1 and Note 3 to be exact. After finding out that the Note 4 would be even more locked down than the 3, and deciding that I was getting really really tired of TouchWiz and truly loved what Lollipop's UI brought to the table, I made the jump. And I am just as pleased with my choice as you are. No more crazy contacts lists or S-Voice intrusions, amen. ......I do miss my old S-Pen though....
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I plan on getting things back to normal now thankfully. My contacts are so much easier to get through now. Right now I'm in the midst of dealing with starting up after school programs for our school and will be editing Google Docs with this thing next week so I'll get a real test of how it works. I work at a charter school (part of the biggest charter school system in Texas: Harmony Public Schools) and since we don't have a bus system our after school clubs tend to be in the hundreds daily. I run around circles making sure everything is going right and people are in the right place so its helpful to be able to pull up a list on a decent size screen to find information on the go. Our school has been around 7 years and I've been there 6 years of that with only 2 people there longer than me so I tend to be the guy to ask about anything.
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How does the screen brightness compare between the two?
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With adaptive brightness off the Nexus 6 is noticeably brighter with better black levels and a warmer tone (not yellowish.) I keep it on most of the time and haven't had any problems seeing things. It has been raining here in South East Texas since I've owned the phone so if it ever clears up I'll let you know how it compares outside but I'm assuming it will be a bit better than the Note II.
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How's the focusing speed compared to the note 2?
I'm trying to decide between this and the HTC m8. I have small kids so I need something with a quick focus and overall good durability. (I'm not really concerned with megapixel count.)
Thanks!
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Ok, I did a couple of tests. First from picking it up off of a black countertop and letting it autofocus on its own in a decently lit room. The Nexus 6 won by like less than half a second to a second.
The next test was when I would tap the screen to set white balance and autofocus in a decently lit room. From the tap the Note II won by less than half a second.
The last test was in a dark room looking then picking it up to focus on a computer screen to test white balance setting and autofocus. The Nexus 6 won this hands down by a bit over a second. I think it simply achieves much quicker white balance but autofocus is slightly slower. I'll try to do some comparison shots tomorrow when I get home from work if you want.
Thanks for that. No need for test shots. You answered my question perfectly.
Totally off-topic from the Nexus 6: if you enjoy the extra duties in addition to your classroom, please consider administration! Keep up the good work for our kids.