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  • I LOVE A 6″ screen. Ditch the tablets all together. Best size for business phones (especially if you are over 40+).

  • hey google, phones became media devices! give me around 6 1/2 display, 5k+ battery and front stereo solid speakers and take my money….

  • You know that taimen is Finnish and means brown trout in English, which is also a fish. Sooooo. Could this mean that Nokia would be making one of the Pixels? You know Finnish codename and Nokia is Finnish company.

  • 6″ or bigger….and eligible for Google Project Fi.
    That would get me away from my Shamu N6.
    I love that machine….but a faster processor would be sweet.
    (I run a bunch of widgets.)

    If I had one complaint about N6 its the camera…..it’s just ok…and loads slow
    so I run proshot.

  • Since introduction in 2014, the Nexus 6 has enjoyed a relatively small, but almost religious following. If the ever-secretive Taimen is the second coming of Shamu, then we ignorant N6 fans might finally be able to give up our much-beloved devices.

  • Everything that was right about Shamu (great speakers, remarkable display, correct size, leading-edge specs) is what I hope for in Taimen. I’d like some extras, of course, but unless Taimen checks at least those boxes, my N6 Shamu will remain my daily driver.

  • 6″ or greater phone please with front facing speakers, IP67 rating, wireless qi charging, NFC, little bezel, no physical navigation buttons, no physical buttons on the side of the phone, should I keep going?

  • 5 1/2″ is big enough for a phone. What Google NEEDS to do is finally make a 4″ Pixel that will compete with the iPhone SE. I miss small phones. My 5″ pixel is handy, but still to big and heavy for me. Isn’t it about time the small phone crowd gets a nod?

  • I thought it strange that the Pixel XL was made with a 5.5″ screen, when the previous model Nexus 6P has 5.7″. I’ll keep chugging along with my 6P for another year and half at least.

  • Yawn. Give us 6 GB of RAM, a USB 3.0 dock that can be used to connect external storage/peripherals/display and the ability to dual boot into Chrome OS, Debian or some other OS that is actually designed for use on screens bigger than 5′ or don’t bother with half measures, Google. Yes, I know that you need to compete with the Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus. But unless you are going to offer something DIFFERENT from the Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus, why bother? Especially since now it is known that you can’t even meet your own 2 year update promises for Nexus and Pixel devices, as people who own the Nexus 6 – like me – are finding out with the 7.1.1 OTA that has been out FOR MONTHS being so flawed that it had to be rolled back with no promises of ever being released again.

    • As someone who owns Shamu 1.0, it honestly would be better if it didn’t. Google should instead use Chrome OS for all their devices bigger than 5′ (alright fine bigger than 5.5″) since – as 99% of the apps in Google Play freely admit – Android was “designed for phones” (or should I say small screens).

    • See comment above. Google should use Chrome OS for all their devices bigger than 5′ (alright fine bigger than 5.5″) since – as 99% of the apps in Google Play freely admit – Android was “designed for phones” (or should I say small screens).

      • I don’t want a Chrome OS tablet. I want an Android tablet. Chrome OS doesn’t have native apps at all. Everything is basically just a web page.

        Any app developer that says Android was “designed for phones” is just too lazy to take advantage of the many cars features of the OS that can make Android on a tablet a great experience.

  • Been saying it for years, ideal is two sizes: 5″ or a hair under, and right around 6″, with small side bezels, high end specs and large batteries in both. Minimum 3.5 Ah for the small, and 4.5 Ah for the large. 1080/1440p.

    Large should be basically an updated Nexus 6 with vastly improved battery life and much faster storage.

    • Agreed on all counts but it will never happen. We have had a Nexus with truly slim bezels and I doubt HTC has the chops to hang with what LG & Samsung are doing now as far as large screens in smallish bodies.

    • Ideal for who exactly? 5.0″ is still a bit large for the small phone crowd.

      • 4.9″ with small side bezels can be done to come in at under 68mm width, the sweet spot for good true one handed use for most. Smaller than the Nexus 5, just a hair larger than the original classic Moto X. The “small phone crowd” would be largely (ha) very happy with this. I’m one of them.

  • Maybe the first large phone they have which supports their tango tech as well as their daydream vr tech? The google official version of the asus tango phone?

  • STILL rocking my Nexus 6…..I cannot seem to even begin to like or desire anything with a smaller display!
    Even considering the Galaxy 8 Plus….
    But I went an bought an extra Nexus 6 on Swappa, in Mint condition, just to have it….it was cheap as well! Still an AWESOME phone!

    I would totally consider this new PIXEL if it had the 6″ display…6″ is perfect display size!

    BIGGER IS BETTER!!!
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  • I want a 6 inch Pixel XL, that way I can feel how six inches really feels like…? Ha ha

  • I grew up fishing both walleye and muskie. Taimen is going to be smaller than a muskie, but bigger than a walleye. Google might not know that…but if you’re basing the size of the device on the name, it goes walleye, taimen, muskie.

  • I know the DL Crew aren’t down with the giant phones, but I travel a lot during semester breaks and so I like just having one device for everything.

  • Looks like Google has read all my rants lmao. Yes, we need a REAL phablet. I still have the Nexus 6 and I won’t go any smaller. Having 3 selections is the right move. Hmmmm I was going to go to Samsung this year but it looks like Google may come in the clutch. I won’t get my hopes too​ high though but this is getting interesting.

    • I love the Nexus 6, but I’d be willing to switch to a Pixel XL 2 if they include front stereo speakers and wireless charging this time around. But as we do every year, we shall wait and see….

    • I’ll keep my Nexus 6 until a 6 inch or larger replaces it! “Size Does Matter!”

      • Do you have monster hands? lol I had a Nexus 6 and couldn’t get over how big it was. After 6 months I sold and went back to Nexus 5. Using my phone with one hand is important(ha) to me because I like to multitask. 5″ is really too big for one handing already(i know this sounds bad) and I’m not the kind of guy to sit around and watch movies on my phone. Yes size does matter lol.

  • This better not be Google’s version of Apple’s special anniversary $1,000+ iPhone.

  • This is great news. 5.5″ is considered average now, especially once the S8 comes out with its 5.8″ and 6.2″ screens. Hopefully they shrink the bezels like Samsung.

    • Yup! 5.5 is way too small to be considered a phablet in 2017. I hope this rumor is true because I don’t want to leave stock Android.

  • As long as they HAVE “ENOUGH” TIME THIS GO-ROUND and maximize the real estate, I don’t care (5″, 5.5″, 5.9″)…

  • We want a Big Pixel XL this time as a choice. 5″ and 5.5″ are almost the same. I have Big hands and Bad eyes… Please give us a BIG screen this time

  • Give me a Muskie around the size of the current regular Pixel and I’ll be fine with that.

  • So essentially like my 8.4″ tablet with phone capabilities? People are wrong. Tablets aren’t dead. They’re just the new phablet!

  • Make sense since 5.5″ is like medium now. Cut the bezels down and a 6″ would be nice.

    • Exactly. With smaller bezels, Google could easily fit a 6″ screen in the current Pixel XL’s chassis. Of course, that might mean no dual front facing speakers, but I’d be okay with that.

      • ..But the current pixel already has no front facing speakers, yet still the large bezel.

        And no, they couldn’t fit 6″, it would be wider at least. Unless they go 2×1 aspect ratio like LG, Samsung.

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  • Maybe if they work on them bezels and get a bit more innovative with features, especially when larger-screened devices = higher prices. The Pixel phones are already way overpriced, so if they can deliver on justifying the guaranteed price hike of a larger phone, I’d give it a firm MAYBE I am interested, but probably not.

  • “We were told that “taimen” is a phone, specifically, so I’m not sure that we should jump to the idea of it being a tablet”

    Why not a tablet with LTE? I understand the statement, just wondering out loud. Pixel/Nexus 7 tab w/ LTE? Way past due.

  • I would love a phone with a 6 in screen but wouldnt pay the up front price tag that an even bigger pixel would go for. If it came to more carriers and I could purchase through my carrier it would be something I would consider

  • Awesome, more phones Google won’t be able to keep in stock even when sales, by comparison of other large’ish OEMs, are low.

  • Yet more phones Google won’t be able to keep in stock even when sales, by comparison of other large’ish OEMs, is low.

    • Google must have known HTC’s capacity. It has been too long. Makes me think that or google didn’t secure enough storage chips esp the 128gb

      • Kind of hard to blame HTC for the shortages when this is something that has happened with pretty much every Google hardware device regardless of manufacturer…

    • Exactly. They make 100 of each and they go out of stock asap. Then some combinations come back briefly and of course the one you want ain’t available. Whatever Google it’s not like you’re a giant billion dollar company or anything

  • Who at google is looking at the lineup (and the wider market) and thinking they need an even larger phone??

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