![]() Neither is the Nexus 6P found wanting when it comes to raw performance and core specifications. Google Nexus 6P review: Performance, battery life and core specs The only phone better than it is the Sony Xperia Z5 Premium, with its ludicrous (and rather pointless) 5.5in 4K display. It has a resolution of 1,440 x 2,560, delivers a super-high pixel density of 518ppi, and is a match for every big-screen smartphone on the market currently when it comes to pixel count. A rare sunny November morning in London robbed the Nexus 6P's display of much of its visual impact, washing out colours and making the screen trickier to read.īut it's sharp. The screen's one weakness is that it doesn't go particularly bright. AMOLED displays have a tendency to look over-saturated – much more so than IPS screens, the likes of which you'll find on Apple's iPhone 6s. What's great here, though, is how balanced the colours look. It's of the AMOLED type, meaning contrast is excellent and the colours are fabulously vibrant. Still, that's probably only one of two missteps Huawei has made with the Nexus 6P, because the rest of it is fabulous. With so few Type-C-equipped laptops around right now, surely it would have been better to do this the other way around? I'm also baffled by the decision to include a stubby USB-A to Type-C converter cable in the box, alongside a longer Type-C to Type-C cable. For now, though, you'll be cursing Google's choice every time you're caught out without the right cable. Type-C ports are going to become increasingly common in the coming months, and will be standard in a couple of years' time. The screen has Gorilla Glass 4 to protect it from the twin scourges of keys in pockets and accidental drops, the two front-facing speakers deliver audio without getting muffled by your hand, and on the bottom edge you'll find one of the new USB Type-C ports. It's certainly a much nicer design than the awkward-looking Nexus 5X, and it doesn't sacrifice the practicalities, either. It's still a big phone, and is best stowed in a jacket rather than your jeans pocket – but it turns out that shaving 4.2mm off the width, 2.8mm from the thickness and 6g from the weight makes a huge difference to the overall feel. ![]() More importantly, perhaps, it feels less clumsy in the hand and far less bulky in the pocket than the monstrous Nexus 6. Even the black strip at the rear of the phone, which I had my doubts about when I first saw the press shots, looks good, adding an element of originality so sorely lacking in many other smartphones. ![]() The exposed chamfered edges catch the light attractively, and the flattened, yet softly curved rear, doesn't rock annoyingly when you lay it flat on a table. It's the first time Google has built an all-metal phone and it's a truly handsome piece of hardware. Huawei has gone from strength to strength in recent times in terms of its design prowess, culminating in the excellent Huawei Watch, and that experience is immediately evident here. Google Nexus 6P: Design and performanceĪlong with the change in tack comes a change in manufacturer, with Motorola making way for Chinese technology giant Huawei this year. In short, Google's flagship smartphone is no longer as much of an outlier in big phone circles and that, in my book, is nothing but a good thing. Instead of an enormous 6in screen, the new handset has a more manageable 5.7in display, which brings it in line with the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Note 5 (the Apple iPhone 6s Plus is only 0.2in smaller). Google has taken note this year, and has scaled its ambitions back for the introduction of the Nexus 6P, which has lost a considerable amount of weight. When Google released the Nexus 6 last year, it split public opinion, and although the Motorola-designed handset was fast and good-looking, its sheer size put a sizeable chunk of people off.
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