I had the 8 GB version and it was madness. I would have to keep clearing cache from apps every week. Rooting it and installing custom ROMs on it was fun.
Before that, my dad had the Nexus One. It was kinda slow.
The 6P was the pinnacle of android for me. Beautiful design, backside fingerprint reader, and still a cheapish price before Google started with their pixel nonsense (actually made me go iPhone for a few generations because I was so pissed at what they ditched the nexus line for). But yeah, just a great culmination of android being in a good place, hardware, and nostalgia.
I still miss the fingerprint reader on the back of the Nexus 5x. And CyanogenMod added the ability to swipe it to see notification shade which was great.
The position is just a natural place to place your finger when holding a phone so the unlock was more automatic rather than a deliberate action being required.
Yeah, dedicated fingerprint readers were so nice. On-screen readers are slow, require you to look to align your finger, and unreliable since the thumb gets most of the abuse. Also, I usually have to press the power button when taking my phone out of my pocket to wake it up to bother to scan my thumb. Sometimes, I will be perfectly aligned on the reader and nothing happens… Until I pick up my finger and then it activates the reader and scolds me for moving my finger too fast. These are just neat tech demos, one step forward for the tech, but two steps back for functionality.
I’m afraid we’ll never see separate fingerprint readers again since it puts the cost and manufacturing burden on the screen manufacturers.
I absolutely loved my Nexus 6. It was “massive” at the time but I still think it feels great in the hand today because of the 16:9 aspect ratio screen. I love my Pixel Fold because it isn’t ridiculously tall and skinny like every other phone released today.
I’ve been curious about those flexible phones. I have a laptop that folds back to be a tablet but never use it in that mode. Do they actually feel usable in the expanded mode?
Yeah. It’s just a much larger phone/small tablet in the completely unfolded state. The halfway folded state is more useful as a kickstand than the divided layout apps like YouTube present.
The Nexus One was such an insane device back then. It was comfortable, the display was awesome, it was fast, and both the trackball and the buttons were a considerable improvement over the HTC Hero. Sometimes I still want to get myself one as a memorabilia piece, but they were really hard to get even at launch, let alone so many years later
I miss the LED on the galaxy nexus. I had AOKP at the time and could customize it to be pretty much any color I wanted. I had a different color per app that would notify me.
I really used to enjoy these, especially when it had rgb capability. Could customize a bunch of apps to have their own light. But to be fair, now that always-on displays are so widespread, I don’t miss it as much
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