Google Nexus lineup

What's so great about the 420 performance when it seems to throttle quite heavily? I'm willing to bet that if they'd clock the 420 at lower levels to minimize throttling the difference in performance compared to its 330 predecessor should be miniscule.

Initially while watching the 420's/S805 SoCs I thought it's just a singled out incidence, but there are more than one examples: http://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?benchmark=gfx30&os=Android&api=gl&D=Samsung SM-G906 Galaxy S5 Prime

Unless the entries at Kishonti are wrong that's a performance degradation of roughly 48% in T-Rex for only 30 runs through it.

 

They're selling the dev platform for the Snapdragon 810 whose specs might give a sense of what the 2015 Nexus and a slew of others phones might be packing:

http://www.intrinsyc.com/products/qualcomm/mdp-smartphone-powered-by-snapdragon-810-processor.aspx

And $800 for what you're getting is a more than fair price provided you can pop in a SIM and get it working as a daily-driver.

 

Although a 6.2" 16:10 device is rather stretching the definition of a phone, is the exact width listed anywhere? Excellent hardware specifications though.
I wonder if manufacturers will fit the 810 into smaller devices, or just rely on an 810/808 division for (ph/t)ablets/phones.

 

Snapdragon digital pen! I assume if a phone maker wants to use it, it would be an additional license?

 

Anandtech's review is out:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8701/the-google-nexus-9-review

 

Good bottom line in the summation:

 

Yep..seems like Google came close but no cigar. If they had managed to launch at Google I/O..then it would have been an entirely different matter. They would have had the market all to themselves for a while. But by the time they launched..the new iPad and even the Exynos 5433 was already shipping and you have to ask yourself..would it have been a better choice in hindsight?

 

Nexus 9 was far from perfect but it looks like the same applies to Lollipop let say it has a long road to go...

 

"Worst" Nexus device no longer on Google Store:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/the-nexus-9-leaves-the-google-store-is-probably-dead/

 

Looked at it in stores a couple of times and always looked and performed fine as far as I could tell. The price combined with no sd slot always bothered me though.

I wonder what is true of the rumors about HTC making the next two Nexus phones. The HTC 10 looks like a decent device that could serve as a good base for a new 6P. Hopefully the rumors are true that the new 6P gets a 5.5 screen. I'm thinking about buying a HTC 10 to replace my HTC One M7 but I kinda want something with a ~5.5 screen, the 10 is 5.2.

I thought about buying the current 6P, I like the design and size but the pricing is way off. The 64gb version is still sold at the same price as all the new smartphones like the S7 and HTC 10. That and the brightness of that AMOLED screen is horrible. Doesn't come close to my M7 and that screen is about the minimum you need over here if you want to see anything outside in direct sunlight.