I know it's not official or anything, but when Android Police confirmed yesterday that the Nexus 6 will indeed be the 5.9-inch Bigfoot we'd all been terrified of a while back, the collective hopes and dreams of legions of Nexus fans burst like so much bubble-wrap in the hands of anxious tech nerds. If the Motorola Shamu is in fact a 5.9-inch Nexus 6, then all I can say is: WTF is Google thinking?
Way back in the mists of time, we all heard rumors of the Shamu being a phablet-sized Nexus and many of us cringed in fright like scared little children. Surely Google wouldn't be that clueless to make a niche range even more niche by slapping a footprint so big on it that only the purse carrying or cargo-shorted could actually manage it? Then, like a beacon of hope, 5.2-inch Nexus 6 benchmarksdid the rounds and we all breathed a collective sigh of relief. Thankfully, it would fit in our pockets and many of us started drawing up our succession plans.
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But then the 5.9 rumors fired up again. We all looked around nervously, noticing beads of sweat on foreheads across the globe as the fact of the phablet started to firm up. Surely not, why wouldMotorola release a phablet for Google when it hadn't released one for itself yet? What was the 5.2-inch device we saw benchmarked? Where are the twin size options? What happened to the Android Silver device for Verizon? Why would Google take the already niche Nexus line and back it into a corner by making it a freaking 6-inch phone?!?
Based on the sinking feeling in our collective heart, it's safe to say that if this is the new Nexus, that Google has seriously shot itself in the foot. While every new Nexus is greeted with complaints that the last one was the perfect size and the new one is too big, a six inch phone just is too big, period. I mean, it's a full inch larger than the Nexus 5 and that's already a bit of a stretch for some. At six inches, the Nexus 6 (that is apparently going to be its name too, to hell with Philip K Dick) is simply too large to be considered a phone for daily use by most people.
I'm still holding out hope for some miraculous multiple size offerings at the eleventh hour, but the fact we've seen no physical evidence of a smaller-screened Nexus 6 makes me think that's it's not hope, but delusion. Nevertheless, I want to be deluded. Deluded by my fantasy of a phone I can handle and that will actually fit in my pocket. If you want a silver lining on all this, at least this means Motorola will sell more Moto X (2014)'s and the Nexus 5 will remain in circulation for a lot longer. But seriously Google, what were you thinking?
Would you buy a 6-inch phone? Is this a mark of genius or insanity?
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