From DailyTech: The Nexus 6 by the Lenovo Group Ltd.'s (HKG:0992) Motorola Mobility unit was announced last October with the unveil of Android 5.0 "Lollipop." But as of February America's largest carrier, Verizon Wireless (Verizon Communications, Inc. (VZ)) still hadn't launched Nexus 6.
Big Red is offering the device $249.99 USD with a new 2-year contract, or 24 monthly installments of $27.08 ($649.92 USD total) for subscribers to its "EDGE" early upgrades plan. The device is live online today for order, and will be arriving in Verizon stores around the country on Mar. 19 (next Thursday).
The only real surprises are that it took nearly half a year for the Nexus 6 to launch on Big Red and the inclusion of Android 5.1, the first major revision to Lollipop. Announced on Monday, Android 5.1 follows the minor bugfix patches/revisions Android 5.0.1 and 5.0.2.
Verizon's tardy adoption trails AT&T, Inc. (T), Sprint Corp. (S), T-Mobile U.S. Inc. (TMUS) who released the Nexus 6 last November. also released the device in November 2014.
The Nexus 6 won't appeal to all Android purists due it phablet form factor and hardware compromise. The device lacks swappable batteries or expandable storage (no microSD slot is found in the device).
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