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Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s

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On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 21:26:37 -0400, nospam wrote:

>> Is EVDO useful?
> 
> it was 10 years ago.
> 
> not so much now.

Thanks for explaining that.
I'll conclude then, that, in terms of network, the three phones are 
essentially equal.

> the point is that the moto g4 is a budget phone with very little
> capacity. an 8 gig g3 was a joke 5 years ago, nevermind now, but at
> least the g4 offers 16/32. it's just too bad it stops there.

I had never looked at current comparisons until today, but I will likely 
not get the cheapest phone, which is the G4, of the three, simply because 
the Nexus 6 is a better phone at not much higher a price.

So, from a PRICE AND PERFORMANCE standpoint, the Nexus 6 seems to me to be 
a better price:performance choice than is the G4.

So the real comparison here, for this thread, is between the Nexus 6 and 
the iPhone 6s, where the iPhone 6s is more than twice the price so it needs 
to have more than twice the performance to have the same Price:Performance 
metric.

> you're missing out on a shitload of new bluetooth functionality.
> 
> bluetooth 4 is not just a later version. it's actually very different
> and does all kinds of cool stuff. 

OK. But they *all* have Bluetooth 4.1 (4.2 for the iPhone 6s); so, they all 
have bluetooth 4, so, from a price:performance standpoint, bluetooth falls 
out of the equation, right?

> it doesn't need to do that since iphones can transfer files way the
> fuck faster in other ways (and to *any* device). so can android, if
> you'd only lose your fixation of bluetooth file transfer.

So from a price:performance standpoint, we agree, the bluetooth feature of 
the three phones is a wash. Right?
 
> i'm surprised you don't insist on a pop-out rj11 modem jack for when
> there's no cellular service.

I'm trying to compare intelligently.
To do that, I asked a few questions about bluetooth (and other things).
No need to get snippy. 
You helped me answer the bluetooth question, which is that the three phones 
are essentially similar in bluetooth capability in terms of raw performance 
metrics. 


> android nfc can be used for more than just mobile payments.
> on apple, nfc is currently just apple pay.

So, again, aren't you agreeing that the two phones (Nexus 6 and iPhone 6s) 
are "essentially equivalent" in terms of NFC capabilties?

Sure, the Nexus 6 has slightly better NFC - but - overall - aren't they 
"essentially equivalent" in terms of NFC real-world usefulness?

> the nexus 6 is a little bigger than a 6s+, so those are the two you
> should be comparing.

Already the iPhone 6s has to be more than twice as feature rich as the 
Nexus 6 just to have the same price-to-performance ratio. 

If I start comparing to the iPhone 6s+, then the iPhone 6s+ has to be even 
more than twice as feature rich simply to have the same 
price-to-performance ratio as the Nexus 6.
 
> that little bit of size difference is actually very noticeable in the
> hand, so be sure to actually hold the phones before deciding. 

Size is one of those factors that people will weigh differently.
I never want a bigger phone than whatever my Samsung Galaxy S3 is, for 
example. My wife is perfectly happy with the even smaller Motorola G.


Size is bad from the standpoint of battery life and from the standpoint of 
fitting in a pair of jeans while hiking down a mountain - but size is 
better from the standpoint of bigger icons and larger text.

So, people are going to have to weight size on their own.
(I might do that comparison though, in a later post.)

> for those who like clown phones, the nexus 6 feels much bigger even
> though by the ruler, it's kinda close.

To me, whatever size the Galaxy S3 is, is a perfect size. 
Most likely that's smaller than the phones compared here.

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My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-11 20:22 +0000
  Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-11 17:33 -0400
    Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-12 00:30 +0000
    Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-12 00:32 +0000
      Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-11 20:34 -0400
        Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-12 01:10 +0000
          Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-11 21:26 -0400
            Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-12 01:41 +0000
              Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-11 21:46 -0400
                Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-12 02:22 +0000
                Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-12 21:11 +0000
    Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-12 01:07 +0000
      Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-11 21:26 -0400
        Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-12 02:00 +0000
          Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-11 22:27 -0400
          Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2016-07-13 14:29 +0200
      Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-07-12 08:22 +0100
        Re: My comparison of the Motorola G4 - Nexus 6s - iPhone 6s nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-12 03:56 -0400

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