For Those Who Ordered a Nexus 5X, Your Phone is Shipping Today

Announced on Twitter through the official Nexus account, Google says those who pre-ordered the Nexus 5X should see shipping information pop up today. According to the tweet, those who pre-ordered in the United States, Japan, Canada, United Kingdom, Korea, and Ireland should all have their devices in-hand soon. 

This morning, we posted up a complete unboxing video for both the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P, complete camera overviews, and a detailed comparison video for those who were still on the fence.

Out of curiosity, to those of you who ordered both the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P, have you received any type of shipping notice?

Nexus 5X buyers, have you received your shipping information?

Via: @GoogleNexus

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Samsung Pay Now Available on Google Play

Samsung Pay, the company’s mobile payment app, is now available on Google Play. For owners of compatible devices, this is where you will install updates, view changelogs, and send feedback on the app via Google Play’s rating system. 

At the moment, is seems Samsung is not currently allowing any new users, as downloads have been frozen, at least on our end. We cannot seem to access a compatible list of devices either, but it’s safe to assume you will find the Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge, Galaxy S6 Edge+, and Galaxy Note 5 on that list. As a note to Verizon customers who own a compatible device, you should see an update or have already installed one that allows for the installation of Samsung Pay from Google Play.

Own a compatible Samsung device? Be sure to grab the app, or any updates that are available.

Anyone here loving Samsung Pay as much as we are?

Play Link

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Reminder: You can Pay for Google Play Items Using Your Fingerprint on the Nexus 6P and 5X

If you ordered a Nexus 5X or Nexus 6P, don’t forget that thanks to Android 6.0 Marshmallow and the fingerprint scanners on each, you can use your fingerprint to pay for goods on Google Play. You will have to enable the option and setup some fingerprints, but once you have done that, password typing will become a thing of the past. 

With a compatible phone (a phone running Android 6.0 that also has a fingerprint scanner), all you need to do is open Google Play, head into settings, scroll down to the “User controls” section, and you should see a “Fingerprint authentication” option. Check that box and you are ready to go.

Also, if you haven’t yet watched our video on how amazing the new Nexus fingerprint scanners are, watch it here.

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Google Opens Beta for Google Search App on Android

You know how you hate staged rollouts because they drastically limit your chance to ever receive an app update when it first goes live? I have good news that may help increase your chances of winning the app update lottery! Google has opened a public beta for the Google app on Google Play that should get you testing new features well before the rest of the not-so-tech-savvy world.

The beta test opened within the last day to users through a Google Now card (pictured below). Once opened, users are able to opt-in and begin testing, assuming Google has a new beta for you to test. If you aren’t seeing the card, don’t worry, we have the link for you below. 

For those not familiar with these Google Play beta programs, just know that once you join them, you get updates through Google Play like you have in the past, they just happen to be newer beta versions most of the time. You will still get prompted to update on Google Play, plus you are still using what is essentially the same app. What I mean is that you won’t have a separate “Google Beta” app or something, you will still just have the normal Google app, it just so happens to be a beta.

Interested? Hit up the link below.

Beta Opt-in Link

Via:  reddit

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We Have the Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X, What do You Want to Know?

Hopefully, you woke up this morning and saw all of the fun that went down last night while you caught those zZzZs. No, I’m not referring to the Timbers beatdown of the LA Galaxy, sillies. I’m talking about all of our Nexus coverage! At 1AM, we were allowed to start sharing with you all that we know and understand about the Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X, and boy did we ever. 

We unboxed them together. We reviewed the Nexus 6P camera. We then reviewed the Nexus 5X camera. We compared both to all of the proper flagship phones of the moment. And we even showed you just how awesome their fingerprint sensors are.

Of course, we didn’t drop a review of either on you because no human can properly and thoroughly review a phone of this importance in 48 hours. Well, maybe some can and we just don’t know the trick. Either way, those will be along shortly, once we feel we have spent just the right amount of time with each.

But now that you know that we have these, we are ready for you – ready for your questions, ready to answer those questions, and ready to test whatever you want tested. So we’ll start here, by simply asking to you, “What do you want to know?” Later today, we are hosting a special Droid Life Show where we will share impressions of each, but then also answer the questions you post here.

Ready? Go!

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The Nexus 5X and 6P Fingerprint Scanners are the Best.

Last week, I wrote an opinion piece that attempted to convince the world that rear-mounted fingerprint scanners were the ideal implementation, not the home button locations that Samsung and Apple have sold you all on over the past couple of years. I took some heat for it, and that’s fine. After all, it was an opinion piece and I expect people to disagree with my stance. Now, with that said, I’ve attached a video below of the Nexus 5X fingerprint scanner in action, along with what I would consider to be proof that this is indeed the best way to do fingerprints. If anything, the scanners Google is using are just that much better than everyone else’s. 

In this clip, you will not only see a couple of dozen unlocks without a single reader error, but I also walk through the fingerprint setup process, which happens to be about the fastest in the business. Most phones with fingerprint scanners ask you to repeatedly tap and adjust on the scanner more times than I care to count, while learning your fingerprint. With Google’s readers, you only have to tap six times and it learns your finger perfectly.

Don’t believe me? Watch the video, get back to me, and then try to tell me that anyone is doing fingerprint scanners better than Google.

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Comparison: Nexus 6P and 5X vs. Moto X Pure, Nexus 5/6, iPhone 6, Galaxy S6, and More

One of the most common requests we hear during our initial period with a new phone is “How does it compare to this phone or that phone?” To get out ahead of that we put together this video, which is 10 minutes of the Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X compared to the hottest phones on the planet, including the Moto X Pure, iPhone 6, Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Note 5, LG V10, and of course, the original Nexus 5 and Nexus 6.

This video isn’t a software, performance, or feature comparison, it’s more of a, how this phone feels and looks next to that phone, type of comparison. We do this with most phones and you all seem to enjoy them, so here is that same approach with the new Nexus devices. 

On a related note, if you haven’t yet, be sure to check out our Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X unboxing, along with big camera reviews and sample galleries here and here.

It’s going to be a busy week of Nexus talk – I hope you are ready.

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