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Google Announces Motorola-Made Nexus 6 and HTC-Made Nexus 9

Posted by samzenpus on from the latest-and-greatest dept.

An anonymous reader writes In addition to Android 5.0 Lollipop, Google today also announced the first devices running the new version of its mobile operating system: the Nexus 6 and the Nexus 9. The former is a phablet built by Motorola, and the latter is a tablet built by HTC. The Nexus 6 is going up for pre-order on October 29, starting at $649. The Nexus 9 meanwhile is going up for pre-order this Friday (October 17), and you'll also be able to get it in stores on November 3.

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  1. Meh by blackomegax · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wake me up when there's a small one for $350 again.

    1. Re:Meh by Scot+Seese · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Why couldn't they have hit the sweet spot - 5", 1080p, and focused on camera quality & battery life?

      Google doesn't understand hardware.

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    2. Re:Meh by Nemyst · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yeah, they totally aren't seeing a successful trend and following it.

    3. Re:Meh by swillden · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Why couldn't they have hit the sweet spot - 5", 1080p, and focused on camera quality & battery life?

      Google doesn't understand what I want in hardware.

      FTFY.

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    4. Re:Meh by Miamicanes · · Score: 4, Insightful

      In other words, AT&T and Verizon will sell crippled, ruined, defective-by-design phones with locked bootloaders masquerading as real "Nexus" devices, tainting the brand name as badly as Verizon's Galaxy Nexus did. :-(

    5. Re:Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Google's doing a fine job on it's own, I'm still pissed that my microSD card is virtually worthless as most apps are no longer allowed to use it. I bought a beefy card because a couple of apps needed a large amount of space only to discover that they couldn't be moved nor could they be made to use the space on the card for their cache files. What's more, none of the apps that move things to the card work.

      Considering that the phone has a microSD card slot, I shouldn't have to look up whether or not the current release will let me actually use it.

  2. HTC by gatzke · · Score: 1, Insightful

    HTC made some great stuff. Many times in the last weeks I have been asked how I like my new iPhone. I have a two-year old HTC One (m7).

    But my old phone still has higher resolution than the brand new 6, higher DPI, more RAM, and working NFC. I assume the HTC One m8 is even better now, with a new version coming out soon.

    I hope the 9 is great and gets HTC running full steam again.