superchunk on 06 October 2016
| torok said: I'm not that sold on this Phones. The number 1 thing with Nexus was having a cheaper option of a pretty good device. I really don't think that current flagships retailing for 600 bucks are a decent price, these phones aren't worth this. My gripes with the Pixel phones: - Expensive - No SD card - No dual SIM (minor gripe, really) - Google promised 2 years of software updates, less than the Nexus I think that the new Moto phones are a much more solid option, specially the Z Play. Pure Android, cheaper, SD card, dual SIM and also gets 2 year support, while being half the price. It's nor a high end device, but after having its predecessor (X Play), I really don't mind the difference. The Moto Mods also are another big plus, specially the battery pack. I'm quite sad seeing Nexus go away. I considered an iPhone too, but the lack of console emulators (without jailbreaking) and ridiculous pricing are a bigger letdown than updates for me. But these Pixel phones seems to remove the Nexus advantages over Moto phones at least. |
Except the Z Play is a 'Droid' device and exclusive to Verizon. I was actually waiting to see if that would come in a non-Verizon exclusive, but Moto is only doing the 'Z' model for $700 as stand-alone, which makes Pixel the best stock Android choice unless you want to go down to something like the Moto G4.
I still don't see why people care that much about SD card slots. Nexus have never had those. Also, Googles upgrade policy is at least 2 years (not only 2) and that includes Nexus, but as they've demonstrated repeatedly they will keep pushing software to a device so long as it can handle it. My son recently had an LG Nexus 5 and it was on M. Not sure if it would have received N though. So it got 3 years of updates.
