I'm still using a nexus 4 for this reason, and it's showing it's age.

Kind of a letdown the 5X is so large. It is annoying that all phones coming out are trying to outdo each other on the same form factor that's both too large to fit in a pocket and too thin to have a useful battery.

I'm on the same N4 boat. I can't help but suspect that this push for bigger Android phones is part of a plan to make people use phones as tablets and consume much more web content (thus, revenue for Google). I like my phone to be small and convenient for mobility, not for browsing in my couch :|

The 2015 Moto G might interest you then.

It drives me nuts as well that the two key features I think of when I think of a phone -- long battery life and HAND HELD (singular) -- seem to be incompatible with anything like stock android. The original Moto X was pretty close, but it just feels like we're going backwards now. I do not understand what market pressure is causing this.

It's me. I fucking love my iPhone 6s test device form factor and a bigger, 64-bit Nexus is exactly what I was hoping for.

I used to be the same guy complaining about all of the phones being too small. I like the big phones of today, but I understand the complaints some people have.

Think of the difference between a basketball player and say a short woman and it is easy to see we need both. They couldn't wear the same gloves.

I know that. Actually it was the basketball players and other pro athletes that I always thought looked so ridiculous using iPhones before the 6. That being said, my wife is quite small and she had a Note2 and now a Note4 and she loves them that size because it keeps her from needing a computer for most of her stuff.

Hm...?

It's higher resolution, but the 6P is physically slightly smaller; 5.7" vs 6"; (77.8 x 159.3 x 7.3mm vs 82.9 x 159.2 x 10.0mm).

The comparison was to the 5.