Nexus 5X & 6P SmartPhone: What phone do you have

[NHDave]

Originally Posted by Thundarr457

I was seriously thinking of a Nexus 6P until I saw this video

It's a phone, not a brick. If you won't buy any phone that a person can bend in half you're gonna have a short (if not nonexistent) list of options

[squirrels]

Originally Posted by Peregrine

Your phone will make calls over WiFi whenever it is available. When it is NOT available, your phone will choose between Sprint or Tmobile depending on which has a stronger signal where you are.

It tends to default to cellular even if wifi is available. Project Fi will only push you to wifi calling if the cell signal is approaching unusable.

[Suzatlarge]

I'm glad I found this topic. I ordered my Nexus 5X phone - 32GB, carbon color - on Black Friday when Google cut the price by $80. Then the next day I decided to try Project Fi and signed up. The SIM card came the other day and now the phone's up and running on Fi.

My older phone is a 15 month old Nexus 5. With a sweet T-Mobile talk/text/data prepaid plan - $30/month - I've had for 3+ years. Yes, I'm all about buying unlocked phones and not having mobile phone service contracts.

So now I've decided to try Project Fi. It's competitive as to pricing, and I like that it uses the Sprint network as well as the T-Mo network. In my domestic travels I've been in places with terrible T-Mo reception so I think adding Sprint - and wifi - should make that better. Also, foreign travel looks like it could be easier with Project Fi. (I'd have to seriou$ly upgrade my T-Mo plan to take advantage of their foreign text/calling features. No thanks.)

I'll be taking both phones around town with me today as I run errands, to compare signal strength. I still have nearly a month left after the last T-Mo topup so there's no rush to deactivate the Nexus 5.

About the Nexus 5X. I like it. It's just a tad larger than the Nexus 5, and the camera is better. I really don't want a phone as big as the Nexus 6P, but the new phones keep getting bigger all the time. Which is why I decided to jump on the 5X.

I haven't set up the fingerprint reader, but its location on the back is very handy. Big disappointment: the 5X battery life. So far it's not much better than my 15 month old Nexus 5.

I plan to sell the Nexus 5 after I'm done with the T-Mo service. it sounds silly, but although the battery life isn't fabulous, overall I've really liked that phone and I'm not in a hurry to get rid of it. But I assume that after a week or so of using the 5X, I'll be OK with letting the Nexus 5 go.