Is this the end of Android fragmentation?
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This only works if Google does it so cheaply that the handset makers let them do it. Google has no means of forcing them to let them do this.
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If you don't want to wait on your carrier, get something from the Nexus line. As I understand it, the Google devices are first in line for updates.
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@dafyre said:
If you don't want to wait on your carrier, get something from the Nexus line. As I understand it, the Google devices are first in line for updates.
Yeah, that may be so but a small, fragile and unnecessarily expensive device isn't top of the pile priority.
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What we need is for carriers to stop selling phones. Take the incentive for them to care away. My ISP doesn't sell me my computer - they only see me access. My cable/satellite provider don't sell me my TV, they only provide the video content, etc.
Turn those cellular providers it access providers and stop the lock-in madness.
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@dafyre said:
If you don't want to wait on your carrier, get something from the Nexus line. As I understand it, the Google devices are first in line for updates.
I really really enjoyed my Nexus5 and would still have it were it not broken due to my own stupidity.
Now I have a Samsung Note5 and I'm back to running Android 5.1.1 instead of 6.0.1 which I had for months prior.
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@MattSpeller said:
@dafyre said:
If you don't want to wait on your carrier, get something from the Nexus line. As I understand it, the Google devices are first in line for updates.
I really really enjoyed my Nexus5 and would still have it were it not broken due to my own stupidity.
Now I have a Samsung Note5 and I'm back to running Android 5.1.1 instead of 6.0.1 which I had for months prior.
why didn't you get another Nexus?
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@Dashrender said:
@MattSpeller said:
@dafyre said:
If you don't want to wait on your carrier, get something from the Nexus line. As I understand it, the Google devices are first in line for updates.
I really really enjoyed my Nexus5 and would still have it were it not broken due to my own stupidity.
Now I have a Samsung Note5 and I'm back to running Android 5.1.1 instead of 6.0.1 which I had for months prior.
why didn't you get another Nexus?
Nexus 6P wasn't out when I broke the screen on my 5.
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@MattSpeller said:
@Dashrender said:
@MattSpeller said:
@dafyre said:
If you don't want to wait on your carrier, get something from the Nexus line. As I understand it, the Google devices are first in line for updates.
I really really enjoyed my Nexus5 and would still have it were it not broken due to my own stupidity.
Now I have a Samsung Note5 and I'm back to running Android 5.1.1 instead of 6.0.1 which I had for months prior.
why didn't you get another Nexus?
Nexus 6P wasn't out when I broke the screen on my 5.
I'm due for a new phone this year and I'm going to get a 6P.
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I briefly considered an S7 Edge, but I can't leave the Nexus line ha.
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@MattSpeller said:
@Dashrender said:
@MattSpeller said:
@dafyre said:
If you don't want to wait on your carrier, get something from the Nexus line. As I understand it, the Google devices are first in line for updates.
I really really enjoyed my Nexus5 and would still have it were it not broken due to my own stupidity.
Now I have a Samsung Note5 and I'm back to running Android 5.1.1 instead of 6.0.1 which I had for months prior.
why didn't you get another Nexus?
Nexus 6P wasn't out when I broke the screen on my 5.
Se you went to a Samsung instead of buying another 5? just wondering why?
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@Dashrender said:
@MattSpeller said:
@Dashrender said:
@MattSpeller said:
@dafyre said:
If you don't want to wait on your carrier, get something from the Nexus line. As I understand it, the Google devices are first in line for updates.
I really really enjoyed my Nexus5 and would still have it were it not broken due to my own stupidity.
Now I have a Samsung Note5 and I'm back to running Android 5.1.1 instead of 6.0.1 which I had for months prior.
why didn't you get another Nexus?
Nexus 6P wasn't out when I broke the screen on my 5.
Se you went to a Samsung instead of buying another 5? just wondering why?
They stopped selling the 5.
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Really? so for a time there was no Nexus device to be purchased? that's weird.
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@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@MattSpeller said:
@Dashrender said:
@MattSpeller said:
@dafyre said:
If you don't want to wait on your carrier, get something from the Nexus line. As I understand it, the Google devices are first in line for updates.
I really really enjoyed my Nexus5 and would still have it were it not broken due to my own stupidity.
Now I have a Samsung Note5 and I'm back to running Android 5.1.1 instead of 6.0.1 which I had for months prior.
why didn't you get another Nexus?
Nexus 6P wasn't out when I broke the screen on my 5.
Se you went to a Samsung instead of buying another 5? just wondering why?
They stopped selling the 5.
The 5 was cannibalizing the sales of a LOT of the newer phones and our "big 3" all ceased buying it.
(source: one of the big3 district managers is my close friend) -
@Dashrender said:
Really? so for a time there was no Nexus device to be purchased? that's weird.
No they had the 6, but it was about $300 more than the 5 was.
The 16GB 5 was only $350.
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@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
Really? so for a time there was no Nexus device to be purchased? that's weird.
No they had the 6, but it was about $300 more than the 5 was.
The 16GB 5 was only $350.
aka "free to me" and specs were really solid still (they hold up well today even)
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@MattSpeller said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
Really? so for a time there was no Nexus device to be purchased? that's weird.
No they had the 6, but it was about $300 more than the 5 was.
The 16GB 5 was only $350.
aka "free to me" and specs were really solid still (they hold up well today even)
I'm still using mine. I noticed it's getting a tiny bit slower though. Plus it's been through a lot ha.
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@johnhooks mine still worked with the outer plastic broken in 4 spots around the edge, big chunks out of the back cover and the back cover peeling up at two corners. The screen shattering was the coup de grĂ¢ce.
Edit: buy a case people, they suck but they pay off
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@MattSpeller said:
@johnhooks mine still worked with the outer plastic broken in 4 spots around the edge, big chunks out of the back cover and the back cover peeling up at two corners. The screen shattering was the coup de grĂ¢ce.
I have a few chips taken out of the edges/corners. All of the letters have come out of the back haha.
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@MattSpeller said:
@johnhooks mine still worked with the outer plastic broken in 4 spots around the edge, big chunks out of the back cover and the back cover peeling up at two corners. The screen shattering was the coup de grĂ¢ce.
Edit: buy a case people, they suck but they pay off
I have this one, but it ended up being too big. You can get an extended battery to put in it (I have it but it charging takes forever with it).
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@johnhooks said:
@MattSpeller said:
@johnhooks mine still worked with the outer plastic broken in 4 spots around the edge, big chunks out of the back cover and the back cover peeling up at two corners. The screen shattering was the coup de grĂ¢ce.
Edit: buy a case people, they suck but they pay off
I have this one, but it ended up being too big. You can get an extended battery to put in it (I have it but it charging takes forever with it).
I had that case for my LG G3. Loved it.
