Amazon expands its Prime Now coverage in London
If you live in London and like the idea of ordering something from Amazon and getting a one or two-hour delivery slot, then this news is for you (so long as you live in an eligible postcode). Amazon has just opened a new distribution depot in Wimbledon, and that means there’s a whole bunch of postcodes that have become eligible for Prime Now.
According to Amazon, one-hour delivery is now available for Amazon Prime customers living in:
- Merton
- Wandsworth
- Sutton (in London)
While two-hour delivery slots are available in:
- Kingston
- Sunbury
- Croydon
You can order electronics, toiletries, drinks, and batteries among other items from the Prime Now service.
Amazon has stated it will continue expanding its Prime Now service across the UK, although it hasn’t given any specifics. If you live in a Prime Now area and have never used the service before, you can get £10 off your first order of £30 or more simply by entering the following code at checkout: PRIMENOW10.
Finally, you can download the Amazon Prime Now app to check if your postcode is eligible for the Prime Now service.
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One-hour delivery now available to customers in Merton, Wandsworth and Sutton
Two-hour delivery windows available in Kingston, Sunbury and CroydonLONDON — 6th October 2015—Amazon today announced the rapid expansion of Prime Now delivery in London. Following the opening of a new Amazon delivery station in Wimbledon, the number of postcodes eligible for one-hour delivery has increased five-fold and the number of postcodes eligible for a two-hour delivery window has almost trebled since the first day of the service in June 2015.
One-hour delivery via Prime Now is now available for Prime customers in Merton, Wandsworth and Sutton in London. In addition, Amazon Prime customers in Kingston, Sunbury and Croydon can now benefit from Prime Now for the first time through its two-hour delivery windows. Prime Now is available from 8 am to midnight, seven days a week. Amazon will continue to expand Prime Now across further UK cities before the end of the year.
“Millions more Londoners can now enjoy ultra-fast delivery,” said Christopher North, Managing Director of Amazon.co.uk. “The service is proving very popular in the capital and we’ve seen high demand on everything from essentials like bottled water, coffee and nappies to the latest must-have popular items like games consoles, toys and sports equipment – all of which are available for delivery in less than 60 minutes.”
In August, one-hour delivery expanded into Birmingham, Amazon’s second UK Prime Now city where customers now have access to more than 20,000 products including a new range of chilled and frozen items such as Chicago Town pizzas, Birds Eye fish fingers and Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream.
Londoners can choose from thousands of everyday items such as toilet paper, batteries and toothpaste, to last minute party essentials such as beer, snacks and fizzy drinks as well as other popular items like games consoles, gadgets and gifts, delivered right to their door in an hour or less.
The fastest London Prime Now delivery to date was a NETGEAR Wi-Fi Range Extender which was ordered at 10:32am, shipped from Amazon’s Bow delivery station and delivered at 10:44am to a postcode in Canary Wharf.
All Prime members can immediately download the Prime Now app, available on iOS and Android devices, to find eligible delivery postcodes and request notification when the service is available in their area. Customers can also visitwww.amazon.co.uk/primenow to discover eligible delivery postcodes. Prime Now customers can choose delivery within one hour of ordering for £6.99, or free delivery within a choice of two-hour delivery slots between 8am and midnight, seven days a week.
Prime Now is made available through Amazon Logistics, Amazon’s technology and logistics platform that empowers independent local, regional and national delivery companies across the UK to deliver Amazon parcels to customers seven days a week. London Prime Now deliveries are made from Amazon buildings in Bow, East London and Wimbledon in South-West London.
Amazon Prime is already an immensely popular service with millions of members in the UK. On a base of tens of millions, worldwide paid membership to Prime grew 53% last year. Prime members in the UK enjoy unlimited One-Day Delivery on millions of items, unlimited streaming of more than 15,000 popular movies and TV shows through Prime Instant Video, access to one million songs to stream and download through Prime Music, unlimited photo storage in Amazon Cloud Drive, and access to more than 1 million books to borrow for free with the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. Customers can sign up for the Amazon Prime Free 30-day trial atwww.amazon.co.uk/prime.
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Apple Now Accepting iPhone 6s In-Store Reservations in Second Wave Launch Countries
Apple is now accepting iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus in-store reservations through its Reserve and Pickup program in six European countries where the smartphones are set to launch this Friday, October 9, including Belgium, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus reservations on Apple Online Store in Switzerland
European customers can select an iPhone model, color and storage size and make a reservation at a local Apple Store for in-store pickup on October 9. Most iPhone 6s models remain available for in-store reservation in all six countries, but iPhone 6s Plus models are very limited at most locations.
When you arrive at the Apple Store during your 30-minute check-in window, most locations should have a special line for customers with reservations. Only the person named on the reservation can pick up the iPhone — bring a government-issued photo ID. Reservations are limited to 2 per customer.
The new iPhones launch in 40 more countries on October 9: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Maldives, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan.
Apple plans to launch the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus in over 130 countries by yearend.
Video Shared With Apple Employees Shows ‘Softer Side’ of Steve Jobs
A video obtained exclusively by ABC News today aims to showcase the “softer side” of Steve Jobs, with the former Apple CEO addressing an assembly of Apple employees the day before the release of the original iPhone in 2007.
During the brief clips shared by ABC News, Jobs urges the company’s employees to go in to an Apple Store and “just give one of the Apple retail store employees a hug,” discusses his theory of corporate management, and debunks the history to his famous ripped jeans.
The footage was shared with Apple’s employees yesterday to mark the fourth anniversary of Jobs’ death on October 5, 2011. A handful of well-known Apple executives put together some personal essays in memory of the Apple co-founder, including current Apple CEO Tim Cook, calling him “brilliant” and with “a great sense of humor.”
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A lot of Jobs’ past has been resurfacing recently alongside the release of a handful of films chronicling his life, including Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine and the upcoming Aaron Sorkin-penned Steve Jobs movie. A few of Jobs’ supporters aren’t backing many of these interpretations of him, including his widow Laurene Powell Jobs, who tried to cease production on the Sorkin script multiple times.
Twitter Launches ‘Moments’ to Discover Trending Stories
Twitter for iOS has been updated today with a new tab called Moments that will help users discover stories unfolding on the microblogging service, such as conversations between world leaders and celebrities, citizens reporting on world events, cultural memes, sports commentary and more.
Tapping on the new lightning bolt tab on your phone opens a list of Moments that matter now. As new stories emerge throughout the day, we continue to update this list. Looking for more? You can also swipe through to topics including “Entertainment” and “Sports” to find more stories from the past few days.
Moments can be found in a new lightning bolt tab at the bottom of the Twitter app on iPhone and iPad in the U.S. only at launch. Moments contain an introduction with a title and description, and users can swipe to scroll through the in-depth story with full-width images and autoplaying videos, Vines and GIFs.
Moments will often be updated as more information becomes available and will mainly be curated by Twitter employees, with some contributed by partners such as Bleacher Report, Buzzfeed, Entertainment Weekly, Fox News, Getty Images, Mashable, MLB, NASA, New York Times, Vogue and the Washington Post.
New! Find the best of Twitter in an instant with Moments: https://t.co/QAKGUSVBbT pic.twitter.com/KAjfkysVKC
— Twitter (@twitter) October 6, 2015
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Twitter for iOS [Direct Link] is free on the App Store and is now at version 6.38.1.
Marshmallow landing on 1st gen Android One phones
The time has come for Android 6.0 Marshmallow to finally start rolling out to Nexus devices and it seems that a number of first generation Android One smartphones are also receiving the speedy update treatment.
We have been told that Android 6.0 updates have been spotted for the Micromax Canvas A1 and Myphone Uno so far, and files for the rest of the series are probably on the way too. The update has already landed on devices in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines, so keep your eyes open for an OTA update in the coming days.
If you don’t fancy waiting around for an OTA notification, you can also download the flash-able .zip file to install yourself from the links below. As always, please take the necessary precautions and make backups before flashing files yourself.
If you spot Android 6.0 Marshmallow updates rolling out for any other Android One handsets or in other countries, please let us know in the comments below.
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Moto X Style will arrive in India on October 8th
Motorola began teasing an Indian launch of its high-end Moto X Style last week and we now have a launch date. The phone is set to make its regional appearance on October 8th. We don’t have a retail price for the Moto X Style in India yet, but a safe bet would probably put the phone somewhere around Rs. 26,000 to Rs. 28,000 ($400 – $430).
If you are in need of a quick refresher, the Moto X Style boasts a 5.7-inch QHD (2560×1440) display, hexa-core Snapdragon 808 SoC, 3GB of RAM, a 21 megapixel rear camera and a 5 megapixel front facing camera. There’s also a 3,000mAh battery, IP52 protection against water, Android 5.1 Lollipop on board and your choice of either 16, 32 or 64GB of internal memory. Check out our hands on time and impressions of the handset in the videos below:
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If you would like to be in with a chance to win a Moto X Style when it launches in India, Motorola is holding a contest through its Twitter and Facebook accounts today. Send Motorola your definition of “beautility” and explain which 2 traits define that word for you, along with the #BeautilityIs hashtag, and you could be one of two lucky winners. You can read the contest terms and conditions over on this page.
Motorola has also launched the low cost Moto G 2015 model in India and the mid-range Moto X Play arrived in the country just a few weeks ago. Just as with these previous Motorola launches, the Moto X Style will be available through online retailer FlipKart.
5 MediaTek technologies you may have missed
MediaTek may be most well-known for multi-core mobile system-on-a-chips and its notable share in the mid-range smartphone market. But much like its rival Qualcomm, MediaTek has been building up a selection of extra features and technologies that complement its growing mobile SoC portfolio. Here is a collection of the most important ones that you may have missed.
1 – CorePilot 3.0
Before we delve into the non-CPU related goodies, one of MediaTek’s big announcements this year was its deca-core Helio X20 mobile SoC. Although the core count may have made the headlines, MediaTek’s CorePilot 3.0 technology is the really interesting bit of technology working behind the scenes to make the chip a reality.
If you follow your processor technology, you’re probably familiar with the term Heterogeneous Multiprocessing. If not, it refers to the concept of balancing different processing workloads across cores with different processing capabilities. With mobile chips we are talking ARM’s big.LITTLE technology, which makes use of powerful and efficient CPU cores for an optimized balance between performance and energy consumption.
Unlike dual-cluster big.LITTLE chips like the Snapdragon 810 or Exynos 7420, MediaTek’s Helio X20 uses three CPU clusters, nicknamed Max.Mid.Min. To manage each of these clusters, the company created its CorePilot 3.0 system.
This system makes use of familiar power management features, including iCore power gating, a fast core voltage and frequency scaling system that is 40 percent faster than previous implementations, and thermal budget constraints. The MediaTek Coherent System Interconnect (MCSI) supports low latency high throughput hardware coherency among heterogeneous processing clusters, while the scheduler is charged with assigning tasks to the most appropriate CPU cores.
Overall, MediaTek boasts that its Max.Mid.Min design uses less power than traditional big.LITTLE SoC designs across a wide range of common use applications. This type of technology could be the evolution of power efficient mobile SoCs.
2 – Imagiq
Smartphone cameras have been a major focal point this year and MediaTek has been working on its own technology to support new features and improve the look of your snaps.
MediaTek is boasting DSLR-like photo experiences with its new SoCs that use its Imagiq technology. More natural colors, better low light detail, and HDR are all promised with its new ISP algorithms.
MediaTek’s latest ISP technology now also support dual image sensors.
The chip’s ISP also now supports dual image sensor setups, a feature seen in a number of previous smartphones, to allow for greater depth of field effects, with apertures down to lower than f/1.0, compared with current flagship limits at around f/2.0.
Imagiq also supports MediaTek’s PIXEL-LEVEL auto focus system, which promises 4 times the speed of traditional auto-focusing systems if the OEM uses supported hardware. MediaTek also lays claim to being the first SoC to support dual phase-detect auto focus, which splits sensor pixels down into two parts, one phase focus detector and one part traditional light sensor.
3 – MiraVision 2.0 & BluLight Defender
Displays are an equally important part of a finished mobile product, and MediaTek has been working on an improved suite of display technologies with MiraVision 2.0. These little tweaks might be tough to notice running in the background, but they range from dimming the display light for easier reading even in low-light through to HDR video re-mapping.
MediaTek’s BluLight Defender is one of the particularly interesting features. It is designed to reduce the amount of Blue Light energy output from a display, while still maintaining suitable image color quality. The built-in filter also saves on power compared with using a software implementation.
Certain blue light wavelengths can damage our vision over long periods of time and the prevalence of LED displays is increasing our exposure to it. Display and device manufacturers aim to help protect our vision by tweaking the display’s color balance to reduce the amount of blue light. MediaTek claims that its BluLight Defender reduces blue light energy by around 65 percent, with minimal color distortion or contrast lost.
MiraVision 2.0 also features some advanced up-scaling algorithms for higher resolution displays that make use of techniques like sharpening in an attempt to boost visual quality and detail of lower resolution content. Adaptive Picture Quality complements this by tweaking the display’s color to match the content being display, such as increasing color vibrancy when watching video.
4 – Deep Learning
Regular readers may be sick of hearing me mention Heterogeneous Compute, but MediaTek is also quite a fan of this topic and is working on ways to use all the little processing parts of your smartphone to help with Deep Learning.
Deep Learning essentially means that your smartphone, tablet or computer can use algorithms to learn from various pieces of data. This can then be interpreted and used to provide useful services to the user. As well as intelligent cloud based networks, MediaTek is also looking at secure, on device implementations that can handle and learn from more sensitive pieces of data.
For example, MediaTek suggests that its Deep Learning algorithms could be used to recognise your family members from pictures, which could have useful implications ranging from automatic tagging and sharing to secure mobile payments. The system could also be used for speech recognition or object detection in the automotive industry.
MediaTek is developing a Deep Learning SDK middle layer, which will make use of Heterogeneous Compute hardware available in smart devices. This will allow your device’s CPU, GPU, DSP and ISP to be used and optimized for various processing functions.
5 – CrossMount
MediaTek is looking beyond traditional mobile devices too, with a focus on smarter, connected devices forming a core part of its future plans. The company’s upcoming CrossMount technology aims to make the most of all of the gadgets in your home through content and service sharing.
At its most basic level, CrossMount will allow for content sharing across a wide range of support devices. Examples include sharing pictures from your phone to TV, move a show you’re watching from one device to another, or sending out audio from one device to the speakers in your home.
“CrossMount goes the extra mile with hardware and software capability sharing between smart devices, thereby creating many useful and more complex use cases, such as mounting a smartphone camera to a TV and enabling the TV for video conferencing session.” – Joe Chen, Senior Vice President, MediaTek.
The more complicated end goal is to share a wide range of hardware and software resources across a whole range of consumer electronics. Your TV could make use of GPS data from another device, voice commands on your smartwatch could control the content on your TV, or hands-free phone calls can be transferred to any other device’s speakers.
CrossMount is based on the UPnP protocol and simply uses your home WiFi network or WiFi Direct to sync up between devices. The CrossMount Alliance has been set up to provide support to third party developers and the technology is scheduled to arrive in consumer devices come late 2015/early 2016.
Wrap Up
With a growing number of smartphone’s powered by its processors, an increasingly robust feature set and some exceptional performance per buck, MediaTek is looking well positioned to take on new markets in 2016. Of course, many of its rivals are gearing up their own new technologies for mobile, wearables and the internet of things too.
Keep an eye out for these technologies and more if you pick up a MediaTek powered device in the future.
Android 6.0 Marshmallow source code hints at a “Night Mode”
If you’re a Nexus user, or follow Android closely, you are probably familiar with the dark theme that popped up in the Android M Developer Preview. Unfortunately, it didn’t make the cut to the final release of Android 6.0 Marshmallow but Hernán Castañón, a developer and CyanogenMod contributor, has found traces of the dark theme, which has been renamed to “Night Mode”, in the code for Android Marshmallow.
We all know some features that show up in developer previews may not make it to prime time, but this one was a particular favorite among Android fans, especially those with AMOLED screens. Could we eventually see a Night Mode that changes the color of your phone’s theme based on the time of day, or possibly a schedule you set up? We’re hopeful, but cautiously optimistic. Other features that would logically make sense to include into Android, (Multi-Window, App Ops) have still not been released after being spotted in previous builds of the worlds most popular mobile OS.
This is something we’ll be keeping our eye on for future versions of Android. It doesn’t seem like Google’s style to release a feature like this in a small update, as this is something they could market new devices or software around. But perhaps developers can work to enable it, much the same way they were able to bring back App Ops in 4.4.2. after Google disabled it. In any case, we’ll keep our eyes on it and have an update for you if one becomes available.
Is a system-wide dark theme something you’d be interested in? Let us know in the comments what you think about this feature.
Source: AndroidAuthority
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Sony posts list of Xperia devices to receive Android 6.0 Marshmallow update
While Google is busy pushing the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update to both Nexus and Android One devices, other companies are announcing which handsets will be updated to the latest version of the operating system. HTC posted a list a few days, T-Mobile announced a list of eligible devices earlier today, and now Sony has gone public with its own list.
Let’s take a look at the list of Xperia handsets eligible for the Marshmallow update:
- Xperia Z5, Xperia Z5 Compact, Xperia Z5 Premium
- Xperia Z4 Tablet
- Xperia Z3+
- Xperia Z3, Xperia Z3 Compact, Xperia Z3 Compact Tablet
- Xperia Z2, Xperia Z2 Tablet
- Xperia M5
- Xperia C5 Ultra
- Xperia M4 Aqua
- Xperia C4
The list contains no real surprises other than the omission of the Xperia Z and Z1 ranges, which will disappoint some. Sony states that the Android 6.0 update will (as usual) be a phased roll-out, dependent on region and carrier. Sony has refrained from putting a date to when the update will be released, but at least we know which devices will be updated to the latest and greatest version of Android.
Is your device on the list of eligible handsets? Let us know in the comments below.
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Is the Nexus 5X a good deal?
Google’s Nexus line-up has always been an interesting part of the Android story. We never know what to expect. This year, Google has changed things up again by releasing, not one smartphone, but two. The Nexus 5X is the long-awaited successor to the popular Nexus 5, while the Nexus 6P follows on from last year’s less loved Nexus 6.
If you felt the Nexus 6 was too expensive, and it looks as though many people did, then you might be excited by the pricing on the Nexus 5X. It starts at $379 for the 16GB version and it has a pretty enticing set of specs. But does it compare to the value for money that the original Nexus 5 represented two years ago? The market has moved on since then, prices have fallen, and the Nexus 5 was originally offered at $349. Is the Nexus 5X a good deal?
The high points
The first stand-out feature on the Nexus 5X, both figuratively and literally, is the 12.3MP main camera. Google knew it had work to do on this front. One of the biggest disappointments about the Nexus 5 was the performance of the 8MP camera. It looks as though the 5X is going to be capable of capturing quality shots, and it needs to be. The front-facing camera has also been overhauled in the wake of selfie-mania, and it’s rated at 5MP, undoubtedly a massive improvement over the old 1.3MP effort in its predecessor.
Nexus Imprint is the other thing that immediately jumps out about the 5X. A conveniently placed fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone, under the camera, is a smart move, and less awkward to use one-handed than a traditional home button placement. It only requires a single touch and it looks lightning fast.
If these two features are as good as they look, then they definitely make the Nexus 5X a tempting prospect at this price.
Middle of the road
The rest of the specs are less impressive. The screen is 5.2-inches with a standard 1080p resolution, it’s actually slightly less sharp than the Nexus 5, which was 4.95-inches and 1080p. The hexa-core Snapdragon 808 backed by 2GB of RAM looks a little lightweight compared to current flagships.
| LG Nexus 5X | |
|---|---|
| Display | 5.2-inch LCD display 1920 x 1080 resolution, 424ppi Corning Gorilla Glass 3 |
| Processor | 2.0GHz hexa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 MSM8992 processor |
| GPU | Adreno 418 |
| RAM | 2GB |
| Storage | 16, 32GB |
| MicroSD | No |
| Networks | GSM 850/1900 W-CDMA 2/4/5 CDMA 0/1/10 LTE Band 2/4/5/7/12/13/17/25/26/41 |
| Dual SIM | No |
| Software | Android 6.0 Marshmallow |
| Fingerprint scanner | Yes, rear-mounted |
| Camera | 12.3MP rear-facing camera, f/2.0 aperture, laser-assisted autofocus 5MP front-facing camera, f/2.2 aperture |
| Battery | 2700mAh, non-removable |
| Wireless charging | No |
| Dimensions | 147.0 x 72.6 x 7.9mm, 136g |
| Colors | Charcoal Black, Quartz White, Ice Blue |
Storage options are the same: 16GB or 32GB. For most people, 16GB isn’t going to be enough in the long term, but the extra 16GB costs $50 and there’s no Micro SD card slot. $429 is still relatively cheap, but it’s not a special price when you look at what’s out there. The battery is a respectable 2,700mAh, and it’s not removable.
The compromises
There are also a couple of disappointing compromises in the Nexus 5X. Wireless charging support has been dropped. Google has gone all-in with USB Type-C instead. It’s reversible, so it should be much easier to plug in, but for anyone used to wireless charging it’s still going to feel like a step backward.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the Nexus 5X design certainly doesn’t stand out. The original Nexus 5 had the angular, monolith thing going for it, with curves top and bottom that gave it a unique, instantly recognizable profile. The 5X is a rectangle with rounded corners that would be tough to pick out of a line-up, though, it is at least slimmer.
See also: Nexus 5X hands-on: a look at Google’s new affordable phone
How does it compare?
When the Nexus 5 came out, it was the best value budget smartphone on the market. There really wasn’t another phone at the time that offered quite as much for $350. We can’t say the same about the 5X. If you’re thinking of dropping $379 on the Nexus 5X, there are actually quite a few other options that you could consider.
The Asus Zenfone 2 is only $300 and it manages to pack in a 5.5-inch display, with a 2.3GHz quad-core processor, and 4GB of RAM. The OnePlus 2 starts at $329 and has an octa-core processor, more RAM, a bigger battery, USB Type-C support, and a fingerprint sensor. You could pick up an LG G3 for around $330 now, with a 5.5-inch, 2560 x 1440 pixel display. Even the Moto X Style (Pure) is only $400 and it boasts a 5.7-inch display and a 21MP camera.
Moto X Style/Pure
The Nexus 5X may be better than some or all of these, it’s impossible to say for sure until we get some decent time with it, but it’s clearly launching into a much more competitive landscape than the Nexus 5 did. If you agree that you’ll need at least 32GB, which will cost you $429, then it’s only an extra $70 for the Nexus 6P, which starts at 32GB, but also has a bigger and sharper screen, a better processor, more RAM, and an 8MP front-facing camera, not to mention a metal body.
Good, but not great
If we rewind to the beginning of LG and Google’s Nexus partnership we can put the Nexus 5X into some perspective. The Nexus 4 was a phone that had a surprisingly premium design with good build quality, a set of specs that didn’t look out of place with the flagships of the day, and it started at just $299. If the Nexus 5X was being offered at $299 we’d be lauding it as an incredible bargain. Even if it landed at $350, like the Nexus 5, it would stand out in the budget field, but at $379… it’s not so clear.
There are lots of other little improvements in the Nexus 5X, and it’s impossible to judge properly without using it for a while. It will run Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box, and there’s no telling when some of the competition mentioned above will get that. For Android fans, the stock nature of the Nexus 5X can’t be underestimated. We also have high hopes for the camera and the fingerprint sensor, but there’s no hiding the fact that there are some disappointments here, too.
On paper, the Nexus 5X looks good for the money, but it doesn’t look great.
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