Google Leaves Us With Few Choices Following Nexus 7 Retirement

The Nexus six was a bizarrely priced device and to a lesser extent so was the 9 inch tablet for design reasons. The phablet was ridiculously expensive perhaps as Samsung and others voiced disapproval of the great price point of the Nexus 5? The tablet was too small for owners that like and have become used to 10 inch tablets and were considering upgrading to a Nexus tablet. With Google making squillions out of advertising revenue there seemed no logic to moving from great, inexpensive Nexus price point for the phone to attempting to sell an ultra expensive device that had no precedent outside Apples price gouging. The next Nexus phone released in the majority of markets should be a screen size between 5 inch and 5.5 inch and it should be made by a trusted brand, juries out on Huawei but by all means give them the privilege of making a Nexus for the Chinese consumer. Personally I decided against Nexus 5 due to battery life and am still operating the Sony Experia Z. If Google releases the next Nexus for $349 USD outright and its based on the LG G4 or something to a similar standard then I’m in as will be a lot of people. However if Google decide they want Nexus 6 $649 USD gouging then they’re simply encouraging people that want the Apple IOS update type model in an Android to stay off the Nexus platform which is a real shame.Reality is that $349 USD get’s the still very capable LG G3, etc, so the Nexus price should be sitting around the sweet spot of this mid range price like the Nexus 5 was. If they want to offer big bang for buck then perhaps scale back the QHD LG G5 screen to 1080p to get there, remove leather, but retain the camera quality, ram, processor.

Have you logged a fault with Google support? It’s an extreme move to decide to shift to Apple who will overcharge you every purchase, only compatible with itself and has plenty of its own documented bugs and rendering older hardware buggy and so on. No, despite my minor gripe with current gen Nexus pricing I can still go out and buy great non Nexus hardware for half the iPhone price that provide superior innovation, higher quality screens, removable batteries, more ram, external storage, full backward compatibility, etc. IPhone six plus is the first iPhone to have a decent screen size but looks ridiculous with its mammoth bezels, lags the current tech with its screen quality, doesn’t run standard USB, huge price and dated looking operating system.

It’s a shame the update was poor on your tablet. I just got the Nexus 6 at a big price reduction a month or two ago and it’s been really really good. The 7 you could always download a custom rom to fix it, definitely would be a software issue. Moving to Apple won’t fix the problem as there are lots of stories on the web of people with older Apple hardware updating to a new ios and finding it renders the device laggy and useless. Good luck whatever you decide.