[Nexus 6  General] katamari201:
Love your review. Unvarnished with bias and you actually have experience with other phones including the iPhone. I actually paid $750 with tax and am waiting for mine to be delivered right now. It's the most expensive phone I've ever bought, but its the same price as the Note 4 here in the states. Everything you have said has been echoed by multiple reviews from tech sites big and small. Even positive ones acknowledge the phone's shortcomings. I bet OP is angry he isn't getting the heavily biased nexus 6 forum positive feedback loop he was expecting.

As for your comments on Chinese phones being better for the price. They are only good in specs only. I would not compare them to more established brands even with the same specs. There is practically zero support. Quality control on Chinese phones are not to the same standards as others. It's okay if there's a dead speaker here, or a shorted bluetooth controller there, or a mic jack that doesn't work, or nonresponsive touchscreen, screen coming apart, etc. Good luck with customer support, or lack thereof. There will be zero updates as well. I know you said its easy to just flash a stock ROM on there, but lets be honest, they are not official, are done by people in their free time, and have lots of bugs and stability issues and rely heavily on the phone's actual ROM to be good in the first place, and they usually aren't. And you are heavily handicapped if you can't read Chinese. The only phone near comparable to the Nexus 6 in size and specs is probably the Vibe Z2 Pro, and that thing is $900+ when I search for it. The Ascend Mate 7 is much cheaper, but not significantly so, and uses a lackluster kirin processor and has a weaker camera and only 1080p screen. The cheap Chinese flagships that people are always talking about like the OnePlus One is hard to get and is a step below when it comes to screen size/screen tech/processor/camera, and something like the IUNI U3 or high end Xiaomi is impossible to get at a reasonable price unless you live in China. You also mentioned VIVO. VIVO phones are extremely expensive.

Another thing to note is that a QHD AMOLED screen at 6" is very expensive. It is a good $50 premium over the cost of a mass market AH-IPS panel by LG like that on the Nexus 5. Doesn't fully justify the near double price over the Nexus 5, but isn't exorbitantly more expensive, just generously more. :p I'm just talking US prices because Australian prices are out of my league.

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That's plenty time to judge the things he mentioned. Okay let me add. IMO. I also agree that you don't need a full year's expedition to judge something like sound quality. It's either good or its bad. You instantly know it, unless you happened to be hammered at the time and your senses in the gutter. The screen isn't gonna get any brighter or any sharper the more you stare at it. The phone isn't gonna get any easier to hold compared to other phones. You will likely "adjust" to most of it, and in a bubble the phone is fantabulous, but you can also adjust to chronic pain and feel perfectly fine and healthy if you haven't felt or known better in a while. I love those posts that say the pink hue when the screen is in low brightness is a "feature".