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

Have you not seen Motorola's exclusive feature from the Moto X called Moto Display? It makes use of the AMOLED display to show a notification on the screen and only lights up those pixels to display while the rest of the screen is still off, still in it's low power state.

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And so it turns out that Ambient Display is indeed Google’s take on Motorola’s Moto Display. The Nexus 6 has an option within display settings that says, “wake screen when device picked up or notifications arrive.” When this option is enabled, notifications will appear on the screen when they arrive or the handset is picked up. And let me say right here: this is interesting. You see, Motorola’s use of the AMOLED screen for what was originally called “Active Notifications” gave AMOLED another reason to use on a smartphone. AMOLED’s greatest strength is that the screen only illuminates the pixels that are required: a black pixel is not even turned on and so requires no power. This feature has been under-utilized by Samsung without using an expensive case; their devices have a notification LED but to check what that is for, one must turn the entire screen on. Motorola threw this idea on the head by having a small part of the screen show the notification. This means that for most users, most of the time it’ll save battery as we won’t be lighting up our whole screen to check what’s just arrived. And now it’s being introduced into stock Android, although devices will need an AMOLED screen to properly benefit.

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It's actually fricking fascinating, IMO.

Yeah it's great, super excited for it on the N6 baked into stock Android functionality.

So, it stays on? I was under the impression that it only came on for a few seconds when the notification is received and when you pick it up.

What is the price point on this phone?

Correct, you have 10 seconds in the PA version and that's the only option, so you'd have to look at your screen sitting on a table within 10 seconds of it going off or something, to see it.

Otherwise it hides until it detects you are looking at the screen, either via just tilting it up a bit on the table, or completely picking it up to your face, in which it shows the notifications, and you can then just touch the notification and it will launch the app for it from a single touch.

The Google/Moto one is different because it's an AMOLED display and can just turn on the 100 or so pixels only and show a notification while the rest of the screens pixels are turned off, using less power/battery and can be set to stay on for longer for that reason. In PA/other phones, the whole screen has to light up to show the notification, so you get less battery with it on and it turns off quicker and can't be adjusted.

We don't know what the settings are for it yet, so it may be able to stay on until cleared like the LED.

Only on contract like all the other phones, now. But also a much higher end device overall.

I'm getting it off contract I haven't dealt with a contract in years and never will, but I'll also get $300 for my N5 and put it towards that hefty price so really 350 out of pocket, same as the N5.

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Still rocking a Galaxy S3 and I'm up for renewal.

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I'm grandfathered in with unlimited data

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Same here, but I just switched to the new plans. I've been throttled twice in the last 4 months and it sucks. I'm going to ride my S3 until it falls apart to try and save some money. I might get a N5 or try one of those low priced Windows phones. I hope with how the new plan pricing models are set up, that phones will start lowering in price for better competition.

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Do you know if the AT&T variant of the G3's bootloader can be unlocked in order to flash ROMS and eventually load Lollipop ROMS without losing root?

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The devs have just come up with a work around for the att phones. Its called bump. You can successfully "bump" your att G3 and upload twrp recovery for bumped roms. It was already rootable, but now you can run custom roms once they start popping up for the att G3. Check out the xda forums on the topic. The bump team is currently in the process of creating a website dedicated to bumping the multiple variants of the G3 including att. The tmobile G3 comes with unlocked bootloader. Thats what I have.