2GB of RAM now? Why do the Nexus phones have to disappoint me every year?
It's a shame because I know a lot of you guys want a killer small nexus like before and you aren't getting it this year.
You are probably right. As soon as that 820 hits next year (rumors are twice as powerful as 810) then everything in Android will be midrange at best. If you bought a LG Flex 2 in Q1 oh well you got a year at the top, but if you buy a Nexis 5X it will be obsolete in a matter of months.
The fact that the Nexus will have a worse SoC powerwise than phones from Q1 like the Flex 2 simply sucks. Nexuses usually push specs: Nexus One had NFC first, GNex had a 720p screen first, Nexus 4 had 2GB of ram before almost any phone, and the Nexus 5 had the 800 SoC when most flagships from that year had the 600.
It is so frustrating that if this thing really has 2GB of ram it is barely a hardware upgrade over a M8 I am excited to replace. I might still do it because I want a fingerprint reader and a better camera, but counting on a Nexus camera as a selling point is historically a bad move.
Sigh.
It's incredible how well Qualcomm was executing so well from S4 Pro to S800 then completely misses the follow-up without a custom 64 bit SoC already in the works to collectively drag down the entire Android high end devices for 2014-15.
You are probably right. As soon as that 820 hits next year (rumors are twice as powerful as 810) then everything in Android will be midrange at best. If you bought a LG Flex 2 in Q1 oh well you got a year at the top, but if you buy a Nexis 5X it will be obsolete in a matter of months.
Worth noting that GNex was not the first 720p phone. It was close, though. HTC actually won that race.
Why would it be obsolete? It'd still be blazing fast in everyday usage. Even the Nexus 5 still holds up well today. Why would a more powerful Nexus 5X be any different? Sure, benchmark wise it'd be obsolete. But actual real usage in almost everything but gaming is a different story.
Why would it be obsolete? It'd still be blazing fast in everyday usage. Even the Nexus 5 still holds up well today. Why would a more powerful Nexus 5X be any different? Sure, benchmark wise it'd be obsolete. But actual real usage in almost everything but gaming is a different story.
sure maybe for gaming benchmarks, but really are that many people running high end 3d games on their cellphones
Maybe for Apple, but definitely not on Android where every dev is incentivized for their games to run on bare bottom hardware for the largest audience possible with the F2P + ads model.
I'm seriously contemplating going from Nexus 5 and downgrading to Moto G 3rd gen and waiting to see what 2016 holds for Nexus/Moto?
Here's my reasoning, anyone else in a similar situation?
1) Bang for your buck it's difficult to top the G.
2) My wife's Moto G has solid battery life, at least compared to the Nexus 5.
3) microSD support.
4) Size/dimensions are just right.
Solid battery life, but it's much slower than the Nexus 5.
SnapDragon 410 vs. SnapDragon 800??? Not sure if serious.
Bang for buck? That's debatable. Your Nexus 5 is a used 2 year old phone and won't sell for more than $200-250 on Swappa, about the same price as a larger RAM size Moto G brand new. Since Moto G is a new phone that was released a few weeks ago, I don't think "used" prices would have dropped that much.
Nexus 5 has the same screen size as the Moto G. So physically, they should be near the same range without much significance. Both phones can be used one handed.