Google 29th Event Nexus 5X/6P, New Chromecast, Pixel C Chromebook And Android 6.0

[Rekx]

Google 29th September Event

 

AMA on the Nexus Phones https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3mzrl9/hi_im_hiroshi_lockheimer_here_at_google_with_the/

 

Nexus 5X Specs:

Body: Polycarbonate unibody 147 x 72.6 x 7.9m 136 grams

Screen: 5.2" IPS LCD, 1,080 x 1,920px resolution (424ppi) Corning’s Gorilla Glass 3

Chipset: Snapdragon 808 (dual Cortex-A57 + quad Cortex-A53, Adreno 418); 2GB RAM LPDDR3

OS: Stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Google Now on Tap

Storage: 16GB and 32GB  (non-expandable)

Camera: 12.3MP, dual-LED flash; 2160p video capture; 5MP selfie camera

Security: Fingerprint sensor on the back

Connectivity: USB Type C; Cat. 6 LTE; NFC with Android Pay. Wi-Fi 802.11ac (2x2 MIMO), NFC, Bluetooth 4.2 and GPS/GLONASS

Audio: Stereo speakers on the front and 3 microphones

Battery: 2,700mAh; Doze power saving

Colors: Black, white, ice blue

Ships late oktober. Preorder here

 

 

 

Nexus 6P Specs:

Body: Metal unibody 159.3 x 77.8 x 7.3 mm 178 grams

Screen: 5.7" Samsung WQHD AMOLED, 1,440 x 2,560px resolution (518ppi); Gorilla Glass 4

Chipset: Snapdragon 810 v2.1 (quad Cortex-A57 + quad Cortex-A53, Adreno 430); 3GB RAM LPDDR4

OS: stock Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Google Now on Tap

Storage: 32GB, 64GB and 128GB (non-expandable)

Camera: 12.3MP, dual-LED flash; 2160p video capture (30fps); 5MP selfie camera and large 1.55µm pixels and a relatively wide F/2.0 aperture.

Security: Fingerprint sensor on the back

Connectivity: USB Type-C (fast charging); Cat. 6 LTE; NFC with Android Pay. Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 2 x 2 MIMO dualband (2,4 GHz, 5,0 GHz) Bluetooth 4.2

Audio: Stereo speakers on the front

Battery: 3,450mAh; with Doze power saving 

Colors:  Silver, black, white, gold

Ships late oktober. Preorder here

 

 

 

Prices:

 

 

Google is adding a $50 Google Play credit for anyone in the US who pre-orders one of these new smartphones, and it also comes with a free 90-day subscription to Google Play Music.

 

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Pixel C Specs 

 

Size: 10 inches tall, other dimensions tba

Weight: N/A

Display: 10.2-inch 308 ppi

Resolution: 2560 x 1800 Pixels

Operating System: Android 6.0 Marshmallow

Storage: 32GB, 64GB

Processor: Nvidia Tegra X1, Maxwell desktop-class GPU

RAM: 3 GB

Camera: N/A

Video: N/A

Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (possibly more)

Sensors: Gyrometer, accelerator, ambient light sensor (possibly more)

Battery: Up to 10 hours

Charger: USB Type-C

Marketplace: Google Play

Price: $499 for 32GB, $599 for 64GB

Availability: Holiday 2015

 

 

 

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Recap stream link: 

 

 

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Liveblog

 

Android has 1.4 billion active devices and Google Play has over 1 billion active users. Pretty impressive huh?

 

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Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P  confirmed. We didn't see that coming  Both will be available late oktober.

 

 

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The 6P screen is 74% of the device

 

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Got 

 

USB type C, forward facing stereo speakers, Sony image sensor 12.3MP, 8 MP front facing camera for them amazing selfish. It also got a WQHD AMOLED display.

 

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Nexus Imprint finger print sensor on the back of the phone. Nexus Imprint works with Android Pay

 

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It has Android 6.0 Marshmallow and will get updates quickly.

 

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The Nexus 5X is 136 grams. 5.2 inch display, Nexus imprint, USB type c

 

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The camera got laser detect auto-focus. Slow motion video up to 240 fps. Both phones display 4K at normal speed. They also got photo bursts

 

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Talking about something called Google Android Sensor Hub, which uses the  Google's sensor algorithms. Which is processing large amounts of sensor data off the main CPU. Using just the Sensor Hub. Performs activity recognition, operates ambient display

 

 

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Fingerprint scanner: Nexus Imprint. Opens fingerprint scanner across Android Apps

 

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Android Pay is working with various shopping and banking apps

 

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Android 6.0 New Features:

 

Faster access to voice activation

 

 

Charging speed indicator. Shows an estimate of how quickly a phone charges

 

New Window Animations

 

Improved heads-up notifications

 

Faster scrolling and search

 

on-device predictive app launching.  Learns your patterns and place apps that you're more likely to use at the time of day

 

Run-time permissions

 

Kess bloatware for Nexus devices (thanks google)

 

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Get better battery life with the new Doze mode, which figures out when the device needs to go to sleep to improve your phones battery life.

 

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Nexus 5, the Nexus 6, the Nexus 7 (2013), the Nexus 9 and the Nexus Player will get Android 6.0 next week.

 

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Starting today, both devices will be available to preorder in the US, UK, Ireland and Japan at the Google Store and major carriers/retailers. 

 

5X starts at $379 and 6P $499

 

90 day free subscription to Google Play Music

 

All nexus pre-orders include $50 play credit (preorder bonus has come to the hardware world)

 

Nexus Protect 2 years of protection for mechanical and accidents when you sent it back they'll give you a loaner phone.

 

 

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Both devices will be available on Project Fi

 

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Google Play for Families. Will be available later this year

 

Google Play Music Family Plan will be $14.99 per month for up to 6 people

 

Separate playlist

 

 

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Some Google photos information zzzzz 

 

3 new features for Google Photos

 

Better share features:

Pooling shared photos, sharing them with people across any device

Created an album, sharing through an app, in this case hangouts

You can select the + button and you can add photos as a different user

And a single place where photos can be added (and be notified when new photos are added) You can also be notified when new photos are added to the folder, even if you weren't there to take photos

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New kappa?

 

 

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Mario is telling us about Chromecast. Pretty cool.

 

New Content on Chromecast

 

Starting today, showtime is bringing it's all content to Chromecast

 

SlingTV support will be available

 

NBA, NHL and other partners this fall

 

New entertainment family apps

 

You can browse info, without disruptive overlays on the TV. Or view other games. 

 

20 Million Chromecast sold!

 

New Chromecast: 

 

 

 

New colors are black, lemonade, coral, yellow and red

 

Integrated HDMI cable

 

5Ghz Wifi (finally) and new WiFi antennae system

 

It will be priced at $35 starting today in 17 countries

 

Chromecast Audio:

 

Bringing audio streaming to existing home speaker. Just plug it into your speakers and you can stream

 

support multi-room

 

 

New Features:

 

Redesigned it's Chromecast app.

 

Content discovery. Let's you look across apps. Starz, Fox Now, Hulu and Youtube.

 

New app discovery system. You can search now across your apps and find your favorite shows, movies. 

 

"Watch's on" shows content from Google Play, YouTube, your own content and more.  Additionally, it shows everything that’s supported by Chromecast.

 

Fast Play: Will begin loading the app when you fire it up. It will begin downloading a segment of the next episode to begin faster play.

 

The new Chromecast app is rolling out over the next few weeks on Android and iOS.

 

Spotify is supported on the new Chromecast/Chromecast audio.

 

 

Steam games from your phone to the tv

 

 

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Pixel oh no that movie was awful

 

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Just kidding. It's a  new Chromebook

 

Pixel C (C stands for convertible)

 

 

10.2 inches screen(308PPI) 500 nits, 2560x1800

 

Tablet inductively charges the keyboard from the tablet

 

Powered by Nvidia Tegra X1 and 3GB of memory

 

Far-field voice input and 4 microphones to pick up noise

 

Double tap on the light bar to check battery status

 

Will be $499 for the tablet $199 for the keyboard. $599 for the 64GB variant

 

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Lol wtf that ending

 

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News Sources: 

Livelog: http://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/09/28/google-nexus-6p-and-nexus-5x-event-liveblog/

Liveblog: http://www.androidcentral.com/follow-our-google-event-liveblog-sept-29-9-am-pt-noon-et

6P: http://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/09/29/nexus-6p-unveiled-with-fingerprint-reader-android-6-0-marshmallow/

5X: http://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/09/29/nexus-5x-unveiled-with-android-6-0-marshmallow/

[Venomz1337]

That looks ugly

[Smooth Bunz]

Yea that thing is just ew! I want the 6p. Now that is one sexy looking phone

[Rekx]

That looks ugly

 

Its a dummy unit. So it's not finished. 

[Venomz1337]

Its a dummy unit. So it's not finished. 

 

"along with a mint green color option."

 

[Rekx]

"along with a mint green color option."

 

oh i thought you meant the black version.

[CaliJL]

They're also charging $150 for the keyboard lol. Tablet looks promising though.

[asim1999]

They announced a Tegra X1 tablet too

[AlexGoesHigh]

Pixel C is a wannabe Surface 3, specially on that price.

[gunsman]

quad core x1? so is it a cut down big.LITTLE 2/2 config or is it a return of denver?

[Arty]

mmm 1080p 60fps butter smooth video, if it can do taht then its all good.

like the new iphone can.

[Scheer]

Really unfortunate they didn't go with wireless charging on the 5X... Kinda kills it for me. I could care less about charging time, I want the convenience to just plop my phone down on my nightstand.

 

If it had wireless charging and a bigger battery that would have filled out the back so there wasn't a camera bump it would have been the perfect phone for me. Its close enough that I'll pry still get it, depending on how good the Turbo 2 is since its looking like they will be released at the same time.

[cooperb21]

Both phones are ugly as crap. Man google cant make hardware for shit. Both have camera's that stick out way to far. Apple can make software that works, google cant make hardware what a world to live in. 

 

I always love google and android as a service its always worked better for me than icloud and IOS but none of the phones google come up with are good enough. My favorite was actually the Nexus 5 phone and and Nexus 7 tablet they were basic and cheap which i liked and no contract. 

[Exotath]

$499 for a 6P ain't too shabby.

[TroubleKlef]

16gb non expandable storage. I wonder where we have seen that before.  :lol:

[Guest Kloaked]

I would think Google of all companies would just not do the absurd smart phone panel resolution.

 

Here we are yet again with yet another phone with a ridiculous resolution.

[LAwLz]

Kind of light on info if you ask me. Guess we will have to wait for reviews to get all the details.

 

Things I like:

• USB Type C with quick charge. Two thumbs up for that.
   
• 1.55µm pixel camera is great. For those wondering, the iPhone 6S has 1.22µm pixels and the LG G4's and Galaxy S6's cameras are at 1.12µm.
   
• Front facing speakers is nice but I would have liked to see it on the Nexus 5X as well.
   
• Laser auto focus. I have only played around with it a bit on an LG G3 but it impressed me. Especially in low light.
   
• Fewer preloaded apps and more that can be uninstalled is nice. I reformatted my Nexus 10 and gave it to my mom and was shocked at how much crap was on it. They aren't big apps or anything, but it was like an entire page in the app drawer with just Google stuff, most of which will never be touched.

 

 

Things I don't like:

• The bullshit about how you don't need OIS with bigger pixels. Come on Google... You know that's a lie. They serve different purposes.
   
• No wireless charging for some reason. Why not? Wireless charging is great.
   
• Price... Not sure about US prices, but that's very close to what the LG G4 costs in the UK, and the LG G4 has 32GB of memory. Speaking of memory...
   
• Why the hell does it only have 16GB of memory? 32GB should have become the standard several years ago.

[TroubleKlef]

 

Kind of light on info if you ask me. Guess we will have to wait for reviews to get all the details.

 

Things I like:

• USB Type C with quick charge. Two thumbs up for that.

   

• 1.55µm pixel camera is great. For those wondering, the iPhone 6S has 1.22µm pixels and the LG G4's and Galaxy S6's cameras are at 1.12µm.

   

• Front facing speakers is nice but I would have liked to see it on the Nexus 5X as well.

   

• Laser auto focus. I have only played around with it a bit on an LG G3 but it impressed me. Especially in low light.

   

• Fewer preloaded apps and more that can be uninstalled is nice. I reformatted my Nexus 10 and gave it to my mom and was shocked at how much crap was on it. They aren't big apps or anything, but it was like an entire page in the app drawer with just Google stuff, most of which will never be touched.

 

 

Things I don't like:

• The bullshit about how you don't need OIS with bigger pixels. Come on Google... You know that's a lie. They serve different purposes.

   

• No wireless charging for some reason. Why not? Wireless charging is great.

   

• Price... Not sure about US prices, but that's very close to what the LG G4 costs in the UK, and the LG G4 has 32GB of memory. Speaking of memory...

   

• Why the hell does it only have 16GB of memory? 32GB should have become the standard several years ago.

 

 

They are partially right. Having larger photosites means they can gather more light so the shutter speed can be faster thus not requiring the need for OIS. another argument is OIS for videos but i don't know how many phones actually use it for video. The 6+ had OIS but it was only till the 6s+ that OIS could be used for videos.

[boboman342]

BLOW A KISS, FIRE A GUN!!!!!

[Jiia]

Uhh they just released the price for the 6P here in Finland... That is 650€ ($730) for the 32GB model. Ridiculous. Does anyone have info how much it costs in the UK play store? I guess I must order it via some package forwarding service. 

[MrRavens]

Well I guess this is an upgrade to my Nexus 5, but idk, I'm not as amped up about the 5X as I was the last one. 

[cooperb21]

 

Kind of light on info if you ask me. Guess we will have to wait for reviews to get all the details.

 

Things I like:

• USB Type C with quick charge. Two thumbs up for that.

   

• 1.55µm pixel camera is great. For those wondering, the iPhone 6S has 1.22µm pixels and the LG G4's and Galaxy S6's cameras are at 1.12µm.

   

• Front facing speakers is nice but I would have liked to see it on the Nexus 5X as well.

   

• Laser auto focus. I have only played around with it a bit on an LG G3 but it impressed me. Especially in low light.

   

• Fewer preloaded apps and more that can be uninstalled is nice. I reformatted my Nexus 10 and gave it to my mom and was shocked at how much crap was on it. They aren't big apps or anything, but it was like an entire page in the app drawer with just Google stuff, most of which will never be touched.

 

 

Things I don't like:

• The bullshit about how you don't need OIS with bigger pixels. Come on Google... You know that's a lie. They serve different purposes.

   

• No wireless charging for some reason. Why not? Wireless charging is great.

   

• Price... Not sure about US prices, but that's very close to what the LG G4 costs in the UK, and the LG G4 has 32GB of memory. Speaking of memory...

   

• Why the hell does it only have 16GB of memory? 32GB should have become the standard several years ago.

 

The reason most phones are 16g is the simple fact most things are in cloud now day's  

 

Google drive has pretty good price. Google gives you 15g's free and you can get for 2$ a month 100g's or 9$ a month 1tb of storage. 

[Guest]

Well, the Tegra powered tablet seems kind of interesting.

If it had a replaceable battery and mSATA/M.2 storage, I'd buy one out of principle if not need.

[Guest]

The reason most phones are 16g is the simple fact most things are in cloud now day's 

 

The reason most phones are 16GB is the simple fact that Google and Apple want to push users to keep their data in 'the cloud', not because it's more convenient than storing that same data on the phone or your own server.

[LAwLz]

They are partially right. Having larger photosites means they can gather more light so the shutter speed can be faster thus not requiring the need for OIS. another argument is OIS for videos but i don't know how many phones actually use it for video. The 6+ had OIS but it was only till the 6s+ that OIS could be used for videos.

Are you sure about the 6+ not using OIS for video? A lot of phones use the OIS while capturing video, such as my mom's LG G2. There isn't really any reason not to have it enabled while recording video. It's not like they have to do any extra work to make it work (neither in hardware nor in software).

But even if you ignore video, it's still stupid to try and argue that bigger pixel size justifies the lack of OIS because one does not exclude the other. Just give me both.

 

 

 

The reason most phones are 16g is the simple fact most things are in cloud now day's  

 

Google drive has pretty good price. Google gives you 15g's free and you can get for 2$ a month 100g's or 9$ a month 1tb of storage. 

But the cloud sucks... It's slow and eats up your data cap.