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Ordered it yesterday, came this morning (free overnight on the nexus in the US )!! First thing i said when I opened the box was WOW. This phone is so thin and sexy, it makes my magic look obese. I plugged in the charger and waited ~ 1 hour for the battery indicator to pop up green as was recommended by the instructions in the box.
Popped in my SIM, and within minutes was up and running. So much faster than the magic, everything is flawlessly smooth and quick.
3g coverage is super strong for me (Los Angeles beach cities here [redondo, hermosa, manhattan] ) and have not had any issues with it dropping to edge, or anything of the sort in the last 5-6 hours of use. I've seen the bars drop from full to 2 or 3, to back up, but hey thats cell reception for us, isnt it? Call quality is perfect, etc etc.
Just wanted to say hello to everyone, gonna wait a few days to make sure everything is working properly, then ill root it. So happy to have gotten the nexus, and I damn well better be after dropping 580 bucks.
I actually did the same thing this past Thursday. I had my Magic for about a year and in the last 2 months I owned it, I flashed it to the Nexus One ROM which only made me want an N1 even more. There is no comparison between the 2 phones really!
I finnaly upgraded from a G1 on early Saturday, I'm assuming the phones coming Tuesday (sadly).. can't wait though ^.^
With the N5 coming soon, it's finally time to ditch my trusty old GNex. The G2 has most of the things I'm looking for in a phone (large, high quality screen, great battery life, excellent camera), but the $600 off-contract price and bloatware makes it a no go for me. The N5 looks really good on paper, but unfortunately it nerfs most of the things I like about the G2. I was hoping to wait for reviews and comparisons to come out first, but "waiting after release" for a Nexus product has it's own problems, in terms of actually being able to get one.
So I wanted to ask you guys for your experience with the N4. How long was it between being available at the Play Store and being sold out? Was it available for preorder and did it sell out even then? How long after selling out did it become available again? And when did you buy your N4 and how easy/hard it was to get?
If I recall correctly, the first batch was sold out within 15-20 mins.
And then a second batch was available after few weeks after.
And I think after 6~8 weeks most of the people who miss their chance with the 1st and 2nd batches got theirs.
I think after 2 or 3 months, they start having steady stock? Someone can correct this.
Google claims they did not anticipate that many buyers for the devices.
There wasn't a preorder on the release date,
but I'm sure they will have enough stock or preorder this time around.
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If I recall correctly, the first batch was sold out within 15-20 mins.
And then a second batch was available after few weeks after.
And I think after 6~8 weeks most of the people who miss their chance with the 1st and 2nd batches got theirs.
I think after 2 or 3 months, they start having steady stock? Someone can correct this.
Google claims they did not anticipate that many buyers for the devices.
There wasn't a preorder on the release date,
but I'm sure they will have enough stock or preorder this time around.
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i think your right but even after the 2 month there was still a 4-5 week waiting list
Well, I remember that I was mad at google on launch day because they started sales 30 minutes before it was supposed to go on sale, so by the time I was able to take out my phone in class to buy one, they were sold out. Then I had to wait until November 27th to buy one, that was when the second batch came out, and it arrived on Dec. 6th.
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Well, I remember that I was mad at google on launch day because they started sales 30 minutes before it was supposed to go on sale, so by the time I was able to take out my phone in class to buy one, they were sold out. Then I had to wait until November 27th to buy one, that was when the second batch came out, and it arrived on Dec. 6th.
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I'll add to this that on the first day, November 13th they did indeed sell out in the first 15 minutes which was 15 minutes before the official start time. I logged on at the correct time, noon pacific, and was still able to place an order but it was placed on backorder a day later, the system kept taking orders even though they were sold out throughout that first day. My backorder was filled on the 27th and arrived around the 6th some peoples backorders arrived weeks later and the system would periodically take new orders but they too would go into backorder. It took months to get it all sorted out.
I waited until January and I finally got too antsy and paid $415 for it on eBay. That's how impatient I am at times. Granted back then the markup I paid was only $115 (actually less since I didn't have to pay sales tax) since it was still price at $299 then. Was worth it to me.
Got it after tax refund in February
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Well, I remember that I was mad at google on launch day because they started sales 30 minutes before it was supposed to go on sale, so by the time I was able to take out my phone in class to buy one, they were sold out. Then I had to wait until November 27th to buy one, that was when the second batch came out, and it arrived on Dec. 6th.
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Well technically speaking, Google never specified a time that it would go on sale. They only specified a date, and nothing else. The fact that it would launch at different places within their respective time zones was also unknown to us (however somewhat known to the US people as it launched in places like Australia and the UK first).
Everyone only had conjectures about the times, and lots of people like me checked at every time possible, including 9 PM the night before, 10 PM the night before, 11 PM the night before, midnight the night before, 9 Am the next morning, etc. I think people expected it to come at 9 AM like Google's usual launches, yet it ended up actually launching at 8:27 AM PST or something near that. People who checked at 9 AM, such as yourselves I'm assuming, were already too late unfortunately. I for some reason was just paranoid about it and had been refreshing the page every five minutes since nearly 8 AM. Still, even at 8:30, the site was having major problems and I was only able to get my order through at 9:00ish, a few minutes before it sold out. Sort of the reason was because my Google Wallet stuff wasn't ready yet, so yes, when you do order, have that address + credit card ready beforehand as the default.
I was in the first 15 minutes to order. I used a chrome app to refresh the page for me and alert when there was a change. I was awake all night until it was purchased (granted I work nights so it was no big deal for me). However, I didn't get it for like 4 weeks. I had to call Google a few times and they kept giving different answers and stated that some were some how lost, but if they manually looked it up they could find your order. So, I was way behind when I should have got it.
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I ordered first day. Woke up 10 minutes after it went online and it was sold out. But, around 2pm I bought one after class. Unfortunately, I got that dreadful backorder email later that night took about two weeks to get mine from the second batch
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Bought mine the first day. I was online ready to order it the night before and then everyone found out they wouldn't be selling it till the next morning at 9 am PST.
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I got mine at the second batch. Sold out in 3 minutes though...
So, good luck to all of us.
I got mine in about January. I couldn't get my hands on one in Europe until then.
Definitely worth the wait though :laugh:.
Sadly said goodbye to my xoom yesterday, 3 years and it never let me down, yet it was time to move on so i traded in both my xoom and my acer iconia a1-830 for a Sony Xperia Tablet Z. I may buy another xoom in the future for nostalgia and rom testing purposes, but for now it's farewell.
A huge thank you to all the great Devs who support this amazing device, and to the fellow xoom lovers whom i have spent time with in these threads. over the last few years, i will still be here in the background watching developments.
All the best folks.
Hope you have better luck with the Sony than I have.
I thought it was time to move on from the faithful old Xoom about October last year and bought a Xperia Z2 tablet.
The Sony was great to use for a couple of weeks until it flamed out after an OTA software update.
Sent it back to Sony for repair - they reflashed it and sent it back.
Lasted exactly 3 days that time - same problem, would not switch on again, although no OTA involved this time.
Finally got it back again today and it appears they have replaced the main board and battery.
Switches on OK so far but have not used it all yet - fingers crossed it keeps going this time.
Glad I kept faithful Xoom as a standby tablet.
In the nearly 3 months I have owned the Sony Z2 I have had about 3 weeks service from it.
Owned the Xoom 3 years and had 3 years service from it.
seems to be going ok so far, sorry to read you have had so much trouble with yours! Sadly finances dictated that i trade in my xoom against the Sony, as with you 3 years great service sad to see it go. good luck with your Sony!
My wife and I have semi retired our Xooms and they are now Sonos controllers and Video cam monitors on Docks.
I've bought another Xoom from eBay.
As I still have the original dock, and folio case, couldn't resist, it'll arrive this week. A wee trip down memory lane ?
I got a notification a few minutes ago and went for it. 32 GB black wifi for $279. 16 GB are $199. Whille supplies last.
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I got a notification a few minutes ago and went for it. 32 GB black wifi for $279. 16 GB are $199. Whille supplies last.
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Annnnnnd it's gone for 16gb models
htc is selling them for 250
got me one of these bad boys..already on the fedex truck for delivery
I ordered one (32 GB wifi white--the only one left in stock when I ordered) and it'll be to me on Monday. I'm very cautiously optimistic because I've heard a lot about the issues it has had over the past year, but for the price point I figure it's worth trying. I can always return it if it doesn't work out.
For that price you can't go wrong. I love mine. I got my 32 gb lte for 200.00 bucks on Craigslist. I think most of the people complaining about them paid full retail. I'd grumble too if I paid 600 bucks for any tablet.
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How can one resist a $200 N9? I couldn't.
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I ordered one (32 GB wifi white--the only one left in stock when I ordered) and it'll be to me on Monday. I'm very cautiously optimistic because I've heard a lot about the issues it has had over the past year, but for the price point I figure it's worth trying. I can always return it if it doesn't work out.
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I've had mine for about three weeks. Also got the white because that was all that was available at the time. This tablet has been great. I like it more than the Nexus 7. I haven't seen a single issue and battery life is great.
Ordered two 32GB white ones (only ones in stock...) in the sale and got them yesterday. Both are 27 Oct, 2014 manufacture dates and have very recessed buttons, the easily depressed back shell, and a decent amount of light bleed. Planning to call Google after work today and see if I can swap them. The buttons are my biggest annoyance so far.
I ordered the 32gb white version during the sale. I'll have it sometime tomorrow.
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I received the Nexus 9 today I ordered on November 25 on HTC's Black Frday offer to replace my Nexus 10 which is struggling with battery life. It was built on 11-13-2015 (HT5BD). It came with Marshmallow's 6.0 Build number MRA58N, and immediately after the first boot it installed the November 1, 2015 security patch. I just completed unlocking, installing TWRP, and rooting with the modified boot image and Chainfire's BetaSU. I chose the traditional root versus the systemless root as last week I soft bricked my Nexus 6P when I tried rooting with systemless root (also ended up with the traditional root on the 6P). I have not noticed the light bleed on the Nexus 9 that apparently at least original users noted. Also, it will take a while to get used to the buttons as they are almost flush with the case and are very stiff.
I received mine today too from HTC (white 32) with a build date of Apr 15, 2015. Been crashing quite a bit doing system updates and the volume rocker is super mushy; hell, after pressing it to vol up, it doesn't always pop back up. Build quality seems much worse than my partner's N9 that was bought last year.
Just received mine. Holy hell that is quite a lot of incremental OTA updates. Been updating/rebooting for the last two hours.
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Just received mine. Holy hell that is quite a lot of incremental OTA updates. Been updating/rebooting for the last two hours.
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Yeah mine did that when I first got it. Just be patient. It will eventually get through them all. Just keep it plugged in.
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Got a sand one to test if it was any better than my replacement from BB with a Jan 15 build date. Unfortunately got older stock which was still on 5.0 out of the box, bad light bleeding as well, worse than the small amount on my current black one. So sand ones are not perfect either as people have suggested. Trying out a tab s2 right now and waiting for the pixel c to drop...
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Got a sand one to test if it was any better than my replacement from BB with a Jan 15 build date. Unfortunately got older stock which was still on 5.0 out of the box, bad light bleeding as well, worse than the small amount on my current black one. So sand ones are not perfect either as people have suggested. Trying out a tab s2 right now and waiting for the pixel c to drop...
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I'm wondering if I should try another nexus, I really love the feel and look of it but I too may have to wait for the Pixel C release. My Nexus 9 died while updating to M and I'm scared to get into the return madness I experienced while in search of a perfect Nexus 10. The bad part is I already ordered a dbrand skin for it before the tablet was delivered.
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Yeah mine did that when I first got it. Just be patient. It will eventually get through them all. Just keep it plugged in.
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Thanks. After many updates it's now on Marshmallow. Installed TWRP, SuperSU, and added ElementalX kernel. Totally sweet tablet for $200. No complaints so far.
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Received mine from the google store, these things are old, more than 1 yr old.
screen is OK, light bleed is not bad at all, buttons are not clicky but oh well, for 199, what can I expect. Still using my N10, I gave the N9 to the wife (after root, debloat).
Free RAM is 840mb- .89GB on 5.1.1, good enough for browsing and FB.
The thing is very very fast, no launcher refresh at all (with Nova) Battery life is good too.
@wayne710 I though marshmallow was a dev. preview? My n9 came with LRX21R and I switched to cm12 the day i got it so I don't know what updates became public. Still waiting till the whole systemless root becomes more stable(and easier to use) on mm.
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I though marshmallow was a dev. preview?
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Nope. After receiving mine I had multiple OTA updates and ended up with Marshmallow. Then I flashed TWRP and rooted.
Hi everyone,
As I write this the Oneplus 5T launch event is a day away, however the price of the PH-1 (at Telus in Canada) has now dropped to less than the Oneplus.
To those of you who have an Essential Phone .... would you still buy it again, knowing what you do now? Have software updates fixed the negative issues that were reported in initial reviews, especially wrt camera speed? If you were choosing now between the Essential Phone and the Oneplus 5T, which way would you go?
Any advice is appreciated.
I would especially buy it now. With essential seemingly coming around with their promise to be developer friendly, I'm hoping we see more and more developers hopping on board. Seems to me that this thing is just as open as a Pixel.
I would buy one again at the lower price.
I returned mine and got a LG G6.
If I hadn't bought the LG, I'd be buying the PH-1 at the lower price.It is now a bargain.
Seeing as i am beholden to a CDMA carrier (and not leaving anytime soon), and the PH-1 works just fine with my carrier of choice, the OnePlus doesn't register on my radar. Plus i lucked out and got my PH-1 for less than half..
If OnePlus came over to the dark side...
Just gave my One plus 5 away today after going from TMobile to Sprint. One plus feels cheap compared. Also I am a bit bitter the 5t is being released 5 months later.
I had the 6gb variant, no discernable difference, maybe it's me but the blur mode vs portrait mode were similar also. Also feels like OnePlus was in a school yard discussion with the top 3 and decided not to be an flagship killer this year.
With the latest fixes for ph-1, beta Oreo, and reddit feedback I'd say it's a home run at current price point.. plus f&f gets it for 300$.. hard to pass up
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I'm thinking about this question as well. Oneplus 5T looks like Oppo R11 which I don't like. But essentail is not offical sell in China, which means I can't get warranty if I buy from Amazon US or somewhere.:crying:
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I would buy one again at the lower price.
I returned mine and got a LG G6.
If I hadn't bought the LG, I'd be buying the PH-1 at the lower price.It is now a bargain.
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Had the G6/S7 nice phones but returned them and got the Essential and have not looked back.
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Seeing as i am beholden to a CDMA carrier (and not leaving anytime soon), and the PH-1 works just fine with my carrier of choice, the OnePlus doesn't register on my radar. Plus i lucked out and got my PH-1 for less than half..
If OnePlus came over to the dark side...
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Yep.
I wish I could have gottem a PH-1 for the $450 when I bought it.
The original price was just oo high for the initial issues. At $450 it's the bargain of the year.
I've been with Verizon since before they were Verizon around here.
I started out with GTE MobilNet. No, old jokes please.
Anyway, I'm not interested in any phone that's not fully compatible with Verizon and fully unlocked.
No.
I like OnePlus phones, bought the One back in 2014, amazing phone, my brother was using it this year until he broke it a few months ago. But, to be honest, I really dont like what OnePlus is doing as a company for the las few years, like put out "flagships" every 6 months, giving up support for older devices, waaaaay more marketing that is a factor to the increased price of their phones. I am sure the 5T is a great device, and it is what the 5 should have been in the begining, but coming out just a few months after the 5 is kick in the nuts to their loyal and enthusiast clients, and thats the second time they do it.
I really hated the chassis of my OnePlus 5. The edges are very rounded so it's a lot more slippery than the essential. I also didn't like how wide the phone was, making it uncomfortable to hold for long periods of time. Essential feels like it's the perfect size, and for ergonomics alone, I wouldn't go back to OnePlus (although their software is WAY better than essential's at the moment, I'm banking on essential improving).
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Yep.
I wish I sould have gottem a PH-1 for the $450 when I bought it.
The original orice was just oo high for the initial issues. At $450 it's the bargain of the year.
I've been with Verizon since before they were Verizon around here.
I started out with GTE MobilNet. No, old jokes please.
Anyway, I'm not interested in any phone that's not fully compatible with Verizon and fully unlocked.
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I remember the old GTE, Bell South, Bell Atlantic days, yep..
Not to gloat, but when I said I got my PH-1 for less than half, I literally meant less than half. Lucked out and got it for literally 225 out the door. :laugh: (17 years and counting better count for something).
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I remember the old GTE, Bell South, Bell Atlantic days, yep..
Not to gloat, but when I said I got my PH-1 for less than half, I literally meant less than half. Lucked out and got it for literally 225 out the door. :laugh: (17 years and counting better count for something).
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I got mine for $150 :silly:
All you sprint users...Lucky's
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I just got mine on Thursday, the pure white edition. The guy that I traded with added $250 in cash on top for my TMobile note 8 which I was bored to death with it. I'm really liking the essential phone.
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All you sprint users...Lucky's
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You can do it too! Buy 5 lines, get phone and pay it off, wait up to 48 hours, and then pay it off, finally cancel the lines. Sell as unlocked on swappa for $400 a piece. Profit $250 per phone!
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You can do it too! Buy 5 lines, get phone and pay it off, wait up to 48 hours, and then pay it off, finally cancel the lines. Sell as unlocked on swappa for $400 a piece. Profit $150 per phone!
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Awesome deal.. to bad its not on their prepay..
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I would of been happy with the essential except the screen is horrible selling it and i already ordered an unlock G6
I ordered one from Telus Canada few days back and I'm gonna trust Essential to come good!
I've handled the phone and is a solid device, plus I trust Andy Rubin!
I say go for it and buy one!
Okay, so I've got a bit of a twist for you guys: first off, does the 5/5t not work on Sprint? I thought it was compatible... Second, I'm looking to upgrade my iPhone 6s, and am torn between the OnePlus 5t, Essential phone, and iPhone 8. I've heard bad things about the software on the essential phone. How bad is performance and camera really? I left Android because I couldn't stand how unusable my s7 became and don't want to go back to that