[Nexus 6  General] cb474:
Again, we're talking about comparing physical designs and what is possible with them. The OS is irrelevant. By your logic, even your comparison between the Note 4 and the Nexus 6 is "useless" since one has a skinned version of Android and the other stock Android. It's not the same interface skin so how can we possibly compare the hardware? Your position makes no sense.

The Nexus 6 is 40% thicker (3mm thicker) than the iPhone 6+. I was arguing that is a good way to get an idea of how beefy the Nexus 6 is. The Note 4 is 1.5 mm thinner than the Nexus 6 (I don't know where your 1.6 mm number comes from). I was simply arguing that if someone already finds the Note 4 not to be readily pocketable (as many people do) then the Nexus 6 is going to be worse, because it is thicker. I can't imagine how any reasonable person could argue otherwise.

Yes, I understand you were saying the curved back makes it easier to hold. My point is: 1) A curved back makes a phone easier to hold than if it does not have a curved back. It does not making it easier to hold than a phone that is simply smaller. 2) There is a point at which a phone is so wide that it really is irrelevant whether the back is curved or not. Some things can't be mitigated by design. The Nexus 6 is huge. I think the curved back will not be nearly as beneficial as with smaller phones like the LG G3, let alone the even smaller 1st Gen Moto X. Many many reviewers have made this point. I find it to be true also in my experience with the phones.

Um, I brought up the N7 example only as an absurd example of how beyond a certain size you can't hold something comfortably in one hand, let alone even wrap a single had around the device, so the a curve in the back would not matter. I'm surprised you're taking the point literally. Maybe I should have used a current generation iMac (which have similar curved backs) as an example, perhaps then it would have been obvious that the curve of the back does not make the device easily held in the palm of one's hand.The point is that as the device gets larger, the curve of a back offers diminishing returns for holdling it in a single hand. I think the benefits with the Nexus 6 will be minimal, since they already don't help that nearly as muchy with the 2nd Gen Moto X and OnePlus One, as with the smaller 1st Gen Moto X.

Your Mom must have big pockets, since most people find even the smaller Note devices not to be very pocketable. Anyway, I have experience with all of these phones. I was only pointing to the comments of reviewers to make it clear that few people with a lot of experience with phones share your opinion about the curved back on very large devices and the pocketability of a very large device like the Nexus 6.

Only 14% of the smartphone market worldwide is phablets. The vast majority of people do not like these large devices and find them cumbersome to use. Yes, there are many people that like them. I have acknowledged that all along. For those people, the Nexus 6 is a great device.

But your argument seems to be that anyone who doesn't like the size of the Nexus 6 is wrong and should like it, because you will dictate to them that the size is fine and there is no grounds for any objection. That's just ridiculous. My argument is that people have different prefences about size. Some people like phablets. More people don't like them. But there is no reason to pretend that the Nexus 6 is not huge and try to convince people who don't like phablets that the Nexus 6 is not that big. It's huge (and it's thick for such a big device) and that's the truth. People just have to decide whether they are okay with that or not.