re: Nexus thread: 2015 N5 and N6 Edition Revealed; Waiting Room

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what about the n6 makes you like it so much better besides larger screen?

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Well the larger screen is fantastic and beautiful yes, main selling point and it's beautiful. But the phone feels great in the hand and it really isn't too big like some that haven't held it would think, but from what I've seen on Reddit and XDA everyone loves how it feels in the hand and state the size isn't really an issue.

So I mean if anyone is truly worried about the size, I have at biggest medium size hands, and it is really zero issue. After 1 day with the N6 I wouldn't want to go back to a smaller screen.

Performance is a monster, especially if you love tweaking like a typical Nexus owner should IMO, I've got mine OC'ed to 2.9GHz on a performance profile and the GPU at 600Mhz on a performance profile, as well as decrypted, stock ROM, nova launcher prime, and it's just soooo fricking fast and instant. It's just unbelievably smooth to me, compared to the N5 or any phone other than the Note 4 really (which is still running shite TouchWiz and thus vanilla android > plus those internals) nothing else is going to come close until late spring/early summer of next year.

Feature wise, I am in love with ambient display Google emplented it's twist into this phone. Works great and I never need or want Double Tap to Wake again. Battery life has been fantastic for me and will get even better as more kernels get here.

The camera is very very good already and will only get better.

It's just an all around excellent improvement from the N5 and worth the upgrade. N5's are going for $280 16GB on eBay I sold mine today :( to put towards this phone and I got it on AT&T so technically made $30 going that route switching but I wasn't on contract with the N4 or N5 but felt okay doing so for the N6's all around step up into the top of the market category for quite awhile.