Heh looks like Google finally learned their location apps wreak havoc on battery life (with now turned off, and reporting off, I still have Google location wakelocks due to android device manager on but I don't want to turn it off because I am paranoid about losing my phone). They have a "battery saving" mode now for location. I guess I'll turn on Google now on the nexus 5 and hopefully won't turn it off in 2 days again.
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Heh looks like Google finally learned their location apps wreak havoc on battery life (with now turned off, and reporting off, I still have Google location wakelocks due to android device manager on but I don't want to turn it off because I am paranoid about losing my phone). They have a "battery saving" mode now for location. I guess I'll turn on Google now on the nexus 5 and hopefully won't turn it off in 2 days again.
The official google blog says "just in time for the holidays" that didn't give me great confidence that they would get them at retail outlets soon. I went ahead and ordered even with the 3-4 week wait. I'm hoping google is just covering themselves with these numbers and it will ship sooner. Also, I'm a little worried they might charge more than google play and I'm also worried that warranty stuff goes through someone else instead of google like lava lamp freak pointed out. All in all I feel safer in many ways going with google play. If only I would have realized this at 2pm on Thursday grrrrrrrrrr
Well I had to quote you to say I was one of the fanboys that told you Google would not increase storage. I am coming back to say you told me so. I think we had a very long discussion about this.
Well I hope you enjoy your N5. I have no idea when mine might ship.
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Can you get someone in the UK to order one for you, and then just have them ship it to you?
That's it rub it in. As if it's not bad enough your out there pillaging our fishing stock
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Very nice. Thanks. It'll make the switch all the easier.
Just need those reviews...
One thing I'm curious of is if the prices of the gpe HTC One and Galaxy S4 will drop on the play store.
Yeah, I would assume it would. But the the N5 now providing better specs than both of those, I'm curious if the OEMs would drop the price slightly to compete.
I'm not 100% sold on Motorola becoming the next nexus maker but...
I think that's sort of the nature of the nexus program. It's like a two term presidency (except it's one year per term).
And when elected you bring what you bring to the table and different people are happy. I think its actually important that there's variety in the nexus line.
Shrug.
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Doubtful though you'd think that'd make sense huh?
If so that gives people more favorable options in the play store. Always good.
I wouldn't be surprised if they got rid of those completely soon. I think they were used as a bridge to give people a stock option in between the nexus 4 to the nexus 5.
You think so? I sincerely hope not. In fact I hope they expand the program!
Well they were better in every way than the N4. Now they are worse in some ways than the N5 and double the price. Who knows? Just a guess.
As a side note, has anyone else noticed that kenknotts has never come back to this thread after the launch the other day? I don't think I've ever seen a user get pwned so swiftly and completely in one fell swoop. LOL.
He got banned, apparently. Heh.
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Hey, he kept us entertained for 10 minutes leading up the launch.
He was banned for some reason, haha.
He got banned, apparently. Heh.
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Hey, he kept us entertained for 10 minutes leading up the launch.
Bwahahahaha! I didn't realize that! Awesome!
The ex-moderator in me (from half a decade ago) would suggest that we all be less gloaty about the ban... and things seem to be much, much more rigid here now than when I roamed free.
