For those who own the phone how is the screen in direct sunlight. I work outdoors and hate having to shade the phone to see the screen. I was pretty set on this phone until the article about the s5 having a great screen and has a ridiculously bright screen. I really wasn't thinking about the s5 until that article came out now i'm torn.....really want the build quality, speakers, and lightning fast camera shutter with no hardware home button. On the other hand I really need a screen that can give me the best outdoor performance.
I work outside all day and leave the brightness around 50 and can see it fine
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I can see completely fine in direct sunlight without the brightness being all the way up. LCD is much better than amoled
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As the others have said, it's fine. Only catch is don't bother if you're wearing sunglasses, you'll barely be able to see.
LCD is much better than amoled
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If you have ever looked at an LED TV next to an LCD you'll know thats incredibly wrong. If you have a brightly lit room for a room with a lot of sunlight, you basically can't buy LCD. Its the same for phones, my friend has the m8 and i have a gs4, my phone looks 10x better than his outdoors.
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If you have ever looked at an LED TV next to an LCD you'll know thats incredibly wrong. If you have a brightly lit room for a room with a lot of sunlight, you basically can't buy LCD. Its the same for phones, my friend has the m8 and i have a gs4, my phone looks 10x better than his outdoors.
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Which is strange considering the one has almost twice the lux of the galaxy s4.
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I have a gs4 and m8, and I can see the m8 much easier outdoors.
Guess my eyes work differently than yours. *shrug*
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If you have ever looked at an LED TV next to an LCD you'll know thats incredibly wrong. If you have a brightly lit room for a room with a lot of sunlight, you basically can't buy LCD. Its the same for phones, my friend has the m8 and i have a gs4, my phone looks 10x better than his outdoors.
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My daughter seems to think her S4 lacks the brightness in direct sunlight that I have on my M8. Her face was frowning and drooling as she peered into the gorgeous Super LCD3 screen, which seemingly mocked the direct sunlight shining down upon it.
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As the others have said, it's fine. Only catch is don't bother if you're wearing sunglasses, you'll barely be able to see.
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Depends on your luck with the device. There appears to be more than one screen manufacturer or something. My wife and I got our M8s at the same time, but while polarized sunglasses are not the slightest problem for me, with her phone the display vanishes in portrait orientation wearing them.
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I think the m8 is easier to see than my s4. You always have the 30 return policy. I'd get the m8 and if you don't like it return it for the s5
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Depends on your luck with the device. There appears to be more than one screen manufacturer or something. My wife and I got our M8s at the same time, but while polarized sunglasses are not the slightest problem for me, with her phone the display vanishes in portrait orientation wearing them.
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Yeah, I've looked at 6 different M8s with sun glasses on, some were hard to read and some were not. Which certainly leads one to think that there are different screen manufacturers, or coatings, or something. (most likely different screens though)
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To the lucky ones who received their Sensation... I've a Desire Z for the moment and would like to buy a second one, focusing on the Sensation.
I've been hating not being able to read my display in sunlight, far away of what I saw on ithings, even with full bright display settings.
Is it the same on the Sensation? if so, I might look for another phone (Galaxy S2?) because I can't tolerate it anymore :-(
The Sensation ain't gonna be much different than other LCDs, like the Desire Z. The SGS2 might have an edge since the glass is thinner (less glare) and the contrast can be bumped very high. However, if you really want a good outdoor display, you might wanna just get the Optimus Black since it has a 700 nit LCD. It falls a bit short on specs but it is very slim and light.
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The Sensation ain't gonna be much different than other LCDs, like the Desire Z. The SGS2 might have an edge since the glass is thinner (less glare) and the contrast can be bumped very high. However, if you really want a good outdoor display, you might wanna just get the Optimus Black since it has a 700 nit LCD. It falls a bit short on specs but it is very slim and light.
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Super LCD can be readable in the sun depends on who makes it if you read engadget flyer review the tablet was readable in the sun.
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Never said LCDs were unreadable.
I've just put my HTC Sensation in direct sunlight, and the screen is very readable. Much better than my HTC Desire AMOLED ever was, in fact. I tried to take a photo to show you all, but it came out very badly. The surface of the screen is a lot "glossier" than the Desire's, but it must be able to reach a higher brightness level.
great to know thanks alot... im tired of not being able to see in direct sunlight with my super amoled galaxy s
Is your galaxy s on CM7? That's the only easy I can see you not being able to read this screen in direct light. Speaking from experience when I flashed CM7, that was the ONLY time my screen appeared dim.
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no i have the s 4g.... and i am very pissed with this phone cant wait until june 8th to get my sensation and give away this phone i cant stand much longer then to talk about how the gps literally had me driving in circles and lost... i was tempted to toss it out the window
I think it can.
I canot speak English very well . and please understand me.thanks!
Sensation screen is very readable under direct sunlight
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no i have the s 4g.... and i am very pissed with this phone cant wait until june 8th to get my sensation and give away this phone i cant stand much longer then to talk about how the gps literally had me driving in circles and lost... i was tempted to toss it out the window
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Calm down maybe we can get you interested in SGII? Hahaha j/k
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I've just put my HTC Sensation in direct sunlight, and the screen is very readable. Much better than my HTC Desire AMOLED ever was, in fact. I tried to take a photo to show you all, but it came out very badly. The surface of the screen is a lot "glossier" than the Desire's, but it must be able to reach a higher brightness level.
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Good to know, thank you! I may now reconsider staying with HTC
It's not relevant in UK, we don't get enough sun here anyway.
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Calm down maybe we can get you interested in SGII? Hahaha j/k
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i honestly will not buy another samsung phone... i tried to trick my co worker into trading my sgs4g for his myt4g and he was like yea at first then he was like lets switch simcards and see how it goes after he felt how light the phone was in comparison he was like oh hells no... and he is not into tech and stuff like that.. but he sure as hell knew what quality felt like compared to light toy feeling junk.
As I understood from reviews out there, the Sensation screen is a step forward under sunlight compared to Desire and DHD but still behind Arc and SGS2.
With my DHD I can read the screen with the 9am sun but not with the noon sun (perhaps more UVs?) I wonder if the Sensation will perform better in both scenes!
IF yes then I hope the speaker will be at least 2x more powerfull than the tweaked DHD one (custom kernel) and my choice is made for the Sensation
When I first got my sensation, I was one of the ones that complained about the screen in bright sunlight.
I've just been out today (it's very sunny ) and it's much better, very readable in fact.
Probably something to do with me turning 'auto-brightness' on in the last week!
If any of you have upgraded from an HD2, how does the Sensation's screen readability in sunlight compare to the HD2? I have an HD2 and it's pretty much completely washed out in direct sunlight.
Hey guys, I have a question about our skyrockets displays. When I look straight at mine, it's kid yellow. But when I slightly tilt it at any angle it becomes whiter bluer. It's like going from warm colors straight to cold.
Is this normal on a super amoled plus? Never had one before and I'm coming from the ips display on an iPhone.
It doesn't bother me, but I'm just curious.
Mine does the same thing. At least in this app. I don't recall if I have ever looked at this phone or an iPhone before from that acute angle. I try to notice.
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its the way the phone is. It doesn't have a true white display due to Amoled screen. Do a search and you will know more of other people complain about this.
Huh. I hadn't noticed this until just now. It's not intolerable but yes, seems to be true.
However, no one does true black like Samsung, and the positive aspects of the screen far outweigh this as well as the lines you see when not in full bright mode (I usually keep mine on full brightness anyways).
They're not at all awesome!
I'm coming from a Galaxy Nexus (Amoled display) which has close to perfect black levels, and a ASUS Transformer (IPS display) which while it wasn't to brag about, it was better than the Galaxy Note 10.1's screen.
I was really looking forward to the PLS display on the Note, I heard nothing but great reviews on the tech, but this is really bad.
I mean the blacks aren't even even, its more purple than black.
Is this normal for PLS?
Is anyone else having this issue?
Were there any mods that can be done that fix this issue on other Samsung PLS tablets?
I don't see anything wrong with the black level but I haven't tried using the tablet in the dark yet. Don't compare AMOLED with LCD. LCD will always have ****ty black because of the backlight. The only LCD type I know that has decent black level is CPVA but it's not used in tablets and it's still far from perfect. Asus Transformer TF101 has much worse black level (I have both). Are you talkin about some newer Transformer? Or maybe your brightness is set too high?
Also keep in mind that a lot of websites don't use pure black fonts.
Try turning the display mode up to vibrant and reducing the the brightness.
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if he's referring to the infinity, it's got a very annoying dynamic contrast. the screen dims and brightens as the screen changes, but it's not very discreet at doing so. my main reason for rooting the tf700 was to disable this stupid feature.
I'm sure I'm missing aomething, but I have a decent sum tied up in a plasma and HT equipment to get blacks close to right at home, so am always amazed to see people moan about black levela on $500 mobile device. I'm still amazed I can watch pretty hifh quality movies and even live tv on a mobile device like this, and just cant imagime being worried about blacks unless just atrocious. Am I expecting too little froma device like this?
I was referring to the tf101, but I went to best buy again and compared it to the demo model and realized mine was completely off.
So I TiB backed it up, flash that bad boy back to stock and exchanged it. This new screen is way better.
Although the viewing angles aren't amazing its still an awesome tablet.
Yeah, the viewing angles are the only disappointment for me.
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Yeah, the viewing angles are the only disappointment for me.
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Ive never really gotten the whole viewing angle argument. I pretty much look right at my tablet when using it.
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Ive never really gotten the whole viewing angle argument. I pretty much look right at my tablet when using it.
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maybe his significantly other has confiscated the device and the only way to use it is over her shoulder
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Ive never really gotten the whole viewing angle argument. I pretty much look right at my tablet when using it.
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Some are pretty bad like the iPad3 where if you're not directly front and center there is significant brightness fall off.
What are your screen viewing angles like? Mine seems to be quite poor, it washes out off centre quite a lot. Im wondering if I have a bad unit or if its just normal for the N5.
Looks good to me. Haven't received mine so I don't know if it's a bad unit.
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Looks good to me. Haven't received mine so I don't know if it's a bad unit.
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Not compared to what im used to it isnt. My last few devices have been AMOLED screens (no comparing to these, just a comment) or the HTC One LCD3 which has perfect viewing angles with no changes to the screen at any angles at all. Its somewhat worse than my Nexus 10.
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What are your screen viewing angles like? Mine seems to be quite poor, it washes out off centre quite a lot. Im wondering if I have a bad unit or if its just normal for the N5.
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What wallpaper is that? please can you post it or a link to it.
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What wallpaper is that? please can you post it or a link to it.
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I got it from the Zedge app.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xdq7abvf7q400m/Multicolor abstract_1.jpg
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What are your screen viewing angles like? Mine seems to be quite poor, it washes out off centre quite a lot. Im wondering if I have a bad unit or if its just normal for the N5.
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That's normal for LCD, that's called backlight. Nothing faulty here. I also own the HTC One and it has the same effect as well when you tilt the screen.
EDIT: I see what you mean now, when tilting the screen exactly like you do (45 degrees vert/hor). It still is not a faulty unit, it's just that LG has less prevented the backlight from coming through. Maybe its because of the slim bevel. I have seen it on other LG devices before though.
To answer your question, I think it's normal for the N5 .
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That's normal for LCD, that's called backlight. Nothing faulty here. I also own the HTC One and it has the same effect as well when you tilt the screen.
EDIT: I see what you mean now, when tilting the screen exactly like you do (45 degrees vert/hor). It still is not a faulty unit, it's just that LG has less prevented the backlight from coming through. Maybe its because of the slim bevel. I have seen it on other LG devices before though.
To answer your question, I think it's normal for the N5 .
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Well my HTC One doesnt change at all at any angle. The screen is perfect even if you look at it from the edge of the phone all colours and lighting are perfect!
Im fine with it if its normal for the N5, but if there are better units id prefer one of those.
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What are your screen viewing angles like? Mine seems to be quite poor, it washes out off centre quite a lot. Im wondering if I have a bad unit or if its just normal for the N5.
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what clock and weather is that
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what clock and weather is that
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Both are HD Widgets with colorform add-on.
This does not seem right. Now i don't have my N5 yet, but on my N4 i can look at it from almost 180 degrees and it loses almost nothing no matter how i look at it.
I have the same problem. When I turn my Nexus 180° my screen isn't visible anymore. Is it normal?
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I have the same problem. When I turn my Nexus 180° my screen isn't visible anymore. Is it normal?
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I see what you did there.
But on topic, when you see a phone screen is IPS you kind of expect it to look great from off angles.
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I see what you did there.
But on topic, when you see a phone screen is IPS you kind of expect it to look great from off angles.
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I totally agree with you. But dude, it looks great in any way.It has also to do with brightness. Throttle your brightness slider all the way to right en your N5 has perfect viewing angle. Even with 90 degrees. I had the Z1 before the Nexus 5. I must say the Nexus 5 does a waaaay beter job than the Z1. So I ain't complaining right now.
Might be a personal thing. After all, everything looks beter than TFT(regarding viewing angles).
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Might be a personal thing. After all, everything looks beter than TFT(regarding viewing angles).
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Yup. I spoiled myself since my first LCD monitor was an IPS screen so when I look at TN screens I can't stand them.
The poor viewing angles of my Nexus 4 has been one of my biggest gripes with the device. I popped into the carphone warehouse today to check the viewing angles of the Nexus 5 and from what I can see it suffers from the same problem Not as bad as the Z1 but not as good as devices like the HTC One from what I can see. Shame.
Getting my N5 today so i'll do some experimenting. my N4 has perfect viewing angles from anywhere. only very slight discoloration. nothing like OP's picture.
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Thats big ****!
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my N4 has perfect viewing angles from anywhere. only very slight discoloration
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So good displays are out there on the N4... I'm on my second device but both have had pretty terrible displays
yeah i guess i just got lucky, and if that video comparing it with the oppo is legit that i'm insanely disappointed. If the screen is that bad i'm returning mine. I'd love to have the better camera and some of the other features but i'm not going to keep a garbage screen.
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yeah i guess i just got lucky, and if that video comparing it with the oppo is legit that i'm insanely disappointed. If the screen is that bad i'm returning mine. I'd love to have the better camera and some of the other features but i'm not going to keep a garbage screen.
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Crappy screen is a no go. I will receive mine on saturday. If it also has this **** angles, i will return it.
FU LG for producing such a ****ty Display. I want HTC to produce the next nexus!!
With 815 nits and low glare screen, the Moto X Pure is by far the most easily readable 5.5" or larger phone under direct sunlight.... which also has unlocked bootloader and can flash CM/AOSP ROM's.
Just wanted to mention that fact.
And based on history, I don't expect the upcoming Nexus 5.5" to have a brighter screen even though it's AMOLED.
Heck, even the Moto Z is far more dim.
Combined with the bright screen, SD storage, water "resistant" and nice bezel to screen ratio size, the MotoX Pure just can't be replaced for me right now.
And I really, really am itching for a new phone.
Just isn't anything on the market that compares (for my needs) right now.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Nothing out there at the moment seems worth it to upgrade.
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Same here, though I wouldn't mind if someone gifts a galaxy note 7
Same here, too - currently rocking an EU X Style.
My only complaint is how weak these screens are, and if you get even one little crack 9t renders the screen useless... My s4 was shattered all over and still functioned perfectly. I've broken this stupid screen twice, second time barely at all and screen didn't work. Luckily the first time I ordered a new screen they seller accidentally sent me 2
I agree. I bought this to use with Republic Wireless to try out their new GSM service. My old Moto X 1st Gen still works great, but I was itching for a new toy, and I'm not rich, so the Amazon Prime Day special was perfect for me. When I got it, I immediately started missing the AMOLED screens I'm used to with the Moto X 1st Gen and 2 Galaxy S4's that I have. The resolution is gorgeous, but I miss the deep blacks and popped colors. BUT....today I was using it outside, and it was by far the best phone I've used outside! And I love the GravityBox feature to slide the brightness up swiping the status bar.
True... But the cost of that brightness and outdoor visibility is it drains your battery like fruit in a juicer. High screen brightness where the display is maxed out is beautiful on this device, but if you can get 90 minutes of usage on a full charge your darn lucky.
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Same here, though I wouldn't mind if someone gifts a galaxy note 7
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I like the look of the Note 7 too but less keen on the cost. Nothing really makes me want to swap my X Style. Bright screen, good speakers, good mobile reception, battery lasts me most days but can always top up with turbo charger. Might even get Android N? Mine is still stock.
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True... But the cost of that brightness and outdoor visibility is it drains your battery like fruit in a juicer. High screen brightness where the display is maxed out is beautiful on this device, but if you can get 90 minutes of usage on a full charge your darn lucky.
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At least I have the choice to set the screen that bright, even if it can only last 90 minutes.
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At least I have the choice to set the screen that bright, even if it can only last 90 minutes.
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I didn't mean is a bad thing necessarily, more of a clarification.
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Combined with the bright screen, SD storage, water "resistant" and nice bezel to screen ratio size, the MotoX Pure just can't be replaced for me right now.
Just isn't anything on the market that compares (for my needs) right now.
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Oh, and louder than average speakers so I can listen to talk radio while walking my dog in loud areas.
Agreed. I have a 6P right now and it's useless under sunlight with polarized sunglasses on.
And the stupid thing doesn't remember bluetooth loudness levels per device like my X did.
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And the stupid thing doesn't remember bluetooth loudness levels per device like my X did.
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There is an app for that.
Wish I could remember what it's called, but I do remember it worked well for me back when I needed it.
Search Play store for Bluetooth and you'll find some neat things.
Uhh. I just downgraded to a Xperia z5 compact, mainly because the headphone jack broke on this, probably because it's so darn big and using the jack in my pocket puts too much pressure on it.
I chose the z5c because it has dual speakers and almost the same chipset:
The speakers are crap compared to the X. The screen in sunlight has these weird glares as if you can see tiny wires over the screen(the digitizer?) And the 810 inside it gets really hot doing the simplest things, like redditing.
So now I use both phones. The X for reading/listening to stuff around the house, and the z5c for when I'm out.
Would u recommend the moto x over 6p. I like Android N on the 6p but the screen is dim as hell. I have a HTC 10. But I want a bigger screen. Thoughts? Thanks
I sometimes think about moving to the HTC 10! I do find the X Style a little clumsy to use one handed. On the other hand I like the bigger display. BTW, how do you find the HTC 10 display outside on a bright day?
As to getting an X Pure/Style over the Nexus then I'm sure you'll find the Moto display easier to use on bright days. Otherwise is the Style better than the Nexus 6p then I don't know for sure. If your bothered about updates then the Nexus will be better. For the money I'm sure you'll not be disappointed with the Style/Pure
mxp price -perfonmace = best ever
ı use iphone lg sony but this awsomm :fingers-crossed:
To bad when my phone rings and I pull it out of my pocket I can barely see who is calling and barely can see the red n green phone icon while in bright day light.
No custom rom.
artpena2323 said:
Would u recommend the moto x over 6p. I like Android N on the 6p but the screen is dim as hell. I have a HTC 10. But I want a bigger screen. Thoughts? Thanks
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It will depend on you really. If getting the latest and greatest Android version and security updates is a big deal, then the 6p. If you are outside our using your phone in really bright areas a lot then the MXPE is the better for that. Everything else after these considerations will really depend on what little features that each offers that you think will benefit you the most.
I'm looking to finally upgrade from my AT&T Note 3. I want SD card support, 5.7+ screen, and an unlocked bootloader. Moto X Pure seems to be the perfect phone for me.... unless someone can recommend a better phone.