Nexus from year to year attracts much attention of enthusiasts, and, I must say, not without reason. To branded smartphones, Google fit, as art — group ABBA, for example, not covered unless the guys from Russian chanson or was I?, but whoever lit the scene with new rhymes in the old style, music lovers still nod to the original Swedish record and the sentence “here is how these songs sound, and nothing else”.
This song, in the case of the Nexus smartphones, Google Android is called — in its canonical, the fastest and the least voracious of the species. And also the most current Samsung, HTC, and other manufacturers may yawn and say “something we are too lazy to release Android 5.0 on our last year’s gadget — 4.4 and you think,” she said, and the phones get a new system a priori.
Any problems in the firmware of their phones Google patches as soon as possible, so not liking to bring the system to mind the least “brake” phone for the money, and the enthusiasts, on the contrary, gladly crossed the “hedgehog with a snake” and change the brains of their Nexus to the style of other manufacturers, squeeze all the juice out of the processor’s altered operation of the camera and generally having fun.
With the very first model of Nexus has always been a “b” in characteristics, but outdid the more expensive competitors due to the sharp Android and the very best price. However, a couple of years ago Google made party policy changes, and now major options Nexus in characteristics equal to the current flagships, but still working on the “empty Game”. It’s as if the “UAZ” to ennoble beige leather interior and pathetic wheels in the style of a sports negocios. In the dirt on this unit already climb do not want to, but can he become a “citizen-goer” — the big question. And now we’re at it.
Huawei Nexus 6P
Features
Huawei Nexus 6P
Operating system
Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Screen
5.7”, 2560×1440, AMOLED, 515 ppi
Processor
Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 MSM8994 2.0 GHz (8 cores, 4x Cortex-A53 + 4x Cortex-A57)
Graphics
Adreno 430
RAM
3 GB
Permanent memory
64 GB
Link
4G (LTE Cat.6), 3G, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, GLONASS, NFC
Camera
main: 12,3 MP, auto focus, video recording 3840×2160, front: 8 MP
Battery
3500 mAh, non-removable
Sizes
159,3×77,8×7,3 mm
Weight
178 g
The price at the time of publication
53 000 rubles
Where to buy
Design and management
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The smartphone is very fragile and, although we usually do not recommend putting covers, bumpers, safety glass and other contraceptives on a beautiful flagship model, in the case of Nexus 6P suggest that you stock up on something like that. Because fallen out of my jacket pocket onto the sidewalk flagship Google itself discourages the display, where comparable in price Meizu and Samsung cost with scratches and small cracks. A screen replacement will cost you almost 5X the price of Honor.
But enough about life, let’s talk about the design. New Nexus came out surprisingly not photogenic — the younger the model looks plastic budget “puffy”, but the older smartphone many Internet wags was called a child a telescope and a barcode scanner. All because a black segment on the rear panel with the camera and antennae slightly projecting.
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Live 6P Nexus looks better than the illustrations in the article, and looks like a hybrid Huawei Mate S with the HTC One M9. Between silver and charcoal black colors of the case we prefer the light version — it looks more expensive, less practical, and not so gloomy when viewed from the side.
Design Nexus 6P is not amazing, but the live smartphone prettier than the photo
The keys are located almost in the middle of the right side. Unusual, but to rise to them do not need
Fingerprint scanners in the new Nexus very good
One Nano-SIM and will be enough for you. And sorry
Handsome this smartphone we would not say, but here, as with Sylvester Stallone — you can be charismatic and without model looks. But this is our speculation, but on the international “beauty contest” of electronics iF Design Award the same Nexus 6P received the award for design and ease of use.
Nexus 6P in the silvery case looks much more presentable
The Google phone has pleased us a small thickness, high-quality metal body and excellent fingerprint reader. Not pleased with the height because of design tricks with the placement of the microphone and speakers, Nexus 6P height almost equal to its 6-inch predecessor, the Motorola production.
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The screen and sound
The display pleases hefty Huawei — brightness, contrast, color accuracy and coverage groothusen hero of our test is very good. The number of spurious tones in the image are minimal, viewing angles are very wide (although, if you rate them vertically, then in the limiting tilt the display slightly Selenite), color balance set correctly, accuracy is a luxury. Limiting the brightness level is high, although new Samsung models produce numbers abruptly.
Not like it can only repair cost traditionally jumping outside the sRGB color gamut and related to the phenomenon oversaturated colors of AMOLED-matrix.
Display characteristics Huawei Nexus 6P
The maximum brightness level
370 CD/m2
Contrast
∞
Color gamut (sRGB)
>100%
DeltaE
1,08
Gamma
2,3
Color temperature
6700K
Display — something average between the old and new “laptopname” Samsung. Stereo speakers is very good
Smartphone pleasantly surprised us with the quality of sound from the loudspeakers (they are located on both sides of the display). The sound is very loud, clear and voluminous — Nexus look small “Boombox” and it is able to compete on sound quality with the HTC flagships. For this he can even forgive prohibitively long body. In the headphones the audio section is typical for Snapdragon 810 — the sound is quite good, but “seasoning” the equalizer does not hurt.
The earpiece is of average volume and a little more mellow than I would like. The microphone quality is not worse than your iPhones.
Iron
Last year normal flagship processor bothered to release only Samsung, but all other market participants were forced to settle for a bad osmeterium Snapdragon 810 and its stripped-down six-core variation. I must say that Huawei tried not to take part in all this farce and produced smartphones are less powerful (especially in terms of performance) processors of its own production Kirin, but Google has thwarted and still demanded from contractors to install the Controls in the Qualcomm chips.
Processor speed test (Geekbench 3)
810 Snapdragon without overheating and “empty” ringtones
The performance of the entire system (test Antutu Benchmark 5.7)
Gaming performance (the test 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited)
No sooner said than done. “Fire-breathing” processors arrived in the new Nexus is already in a later, less problematic audit, and cooling in the new models made in view of the shortcomings of the processor. Therefore, even in scenario “a cunt” with the constant restarting of the benchmarks, our hero loses in power is much less than platform Sony Xperia Z5 or the HTC smartphones. In the long load Exynos 7420 will still be the leader, but all the other competitors in the 2015 edition of our Nexus “disgrace”.
Playing potential Nexus 6P — one of the best (purely tablet Tegra X1 is not taken into account), and multitasking in it, you can expand as much as 3 GB of RAM. In “bare” Android is hoo what stock background for of of software.
The reception is 4G, wifi and satellite navigation smartphone all right, and a large metal case dissipates heat well and therefore never becomes really hot.
Software
As aptly noted at the time, the head of state — “nothing to say”. Yes, the latest Android, which is essentially a modified 5.0 Lollipop with a number of cosmetic changes and many “underhood” improvements in the name of saving battery power.
One of the nice new features in comparison with the fifth Game — for example, display the time and missed notifications on black and white background (AMOLED screen does not consume battery power when displaying black color) immediately after you take the smartphone in hand or get out of the pocket. And the opportunity to prevent individual programs to crawl the Internet (useful when roaming) or to send SMS.
Android interface Nexus Huawei 6.0 6P
The most economical and fastest version of Android, though unprepossessing in appearance
From unemployed in Russia’s payment system Google Pay and as non-working new features assistant Google Now, we neither cold nor hot, so after an old smartphone into your eyes will jump is that vertical scroll the list of applications and commonly used software (in the “start” menu on Windows) at the top of the display. A trifle, but nice.
Camera
“Only” 12 megapixels in the rear camera is not impressive, if you look at the list of features, but we are a rare case when instead of the number the manufacturer offers quality. If you are interested, the camera works with uncharacteristically large pixel size of 1.55 nm, thanks to which the picture is less noisy (not as rough-grained as is usually the case), and the camera itself is barbaric without blurring small details to mask its shortcomings.
Focus is very fast, and even at night focusing on objects quickly. Day camera sometimes misses the mark with the white balance, on the whole, not “pulls” the image is more colorful than the actually are (this is different from Nexus new Samsung and iPhone), but on cloudy days and at night our Huawei loses much less in quality than most competitors flagship.
Example photos taken with rear camera Huawei Nexus 6P
The camera interface is simple, even primitive, but all settings (including saving in RAW, adjusting the shutter speed, exposure and ISO) on the site. The HDR mode works fine in automatic mode the device produces a series of images and sculpts them “candy” is incredibly fast, and the shooting speed is such that it is clear, even when shooting on the go.
Rear camera is very smart and shoots well in cloudy weather
For shooting video the smartphone is also quite good (4K, Full HD and slow motion record in 720p at 240 frames per second exist), while digital image stabilization not optical able to see and smooth video our hero is inferior to the same LG G4/V10 or Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+.
Front camera not very long and painful so not suitable for shooting a collective selfie with the appropriate “sticks”, but with single portraits the sensor copes very well. This is one of the best front-facing cameras — cooler is only in specialized selfie-the backgrounds, but they already lame in terms of power.
Example photos taken with the front camera Huawei Nexus 6P
Autonomy
When Snapdragon 810 is not boiled on the little things and lives in harmony with the world, it is quite economical processor. Even more economical than a “stump” Snapdragon 808, forced to keep high frequencies at its two 57-x Cortexa in cases when our hero tries to load a cluster of four such nuclei.
Use (brightness 200 CD/m2)
The duration of the work
Video from a memory card
11 hours
Game
4 hours 45 minutes
Reading
11 hours and 15 minutes
Second plus in the Treasury of profitability — matrix AMOLED, which in itself eats less than IPS, and the black display does not consume energy at all. Finally, Android 6.0, which became smarter and learned to mow of memory hungry apps and unclaimed.
One of the hardiest of the flagship phablets
The duration of the mixed workload tests (PCMark, 200 CD/m2, min)
If you want comparisons to comparable (“loption”, from 5.5 inches and above) class — Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ and Note 5 in the same conditions will last for 15-20 minutes less in games, about an hour less for video playback and commercials on an hour and a half less than in read mode. LG V10 will last longer for an hour only to video playback, and in all other cases, runs out ahead. LG G4, ASUS ZenFone 2 and the Sony Xperia Z5 Premium in similar scenarios will demonstrate much worse autonomy.
Competitors
Huawei Nexus 6P
Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
Apple iPhone 6s Plus
Operating system
Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Android 6.0 Marshmallow
iOS 9.2
Screen
5.7”, 2560×1440, AMOLED, 515 ppi
The 5.7”, 2560×1440 Super AMOLED, 515 ppi
A 5.5”, 1920×1080, IPS 401 ppi
Processor
Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 MSM8994 2.0 GHz (8 cores, 4x Cortex-A53 + 4x Cortex-A57)
Samsung Exynos 7420 2.1 GHz (8 cores, 4x Cortex-A53 + 4x Cortex-A57)
Apple A9 1.8 GHz (2 cores, Twister)
Graphics
Adreno 430
The Mali-T760 MP8
PowerVR GT7600 MP6
Operational memory
3 GB
4 GB
2 GB
Permanent memory
64 GB
32 GB
16 GB
Link
4G (LTE Cat.6), 3G, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, GLONASS, NFC
4G (LTE Cat.9), 3G, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, GLONASS, NFC
4G (LTE Cat.6), 3G, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, GLONASS, NFC
Camera
main: 12,3 MP, auto focus, video recording 3840×2160, front: 8 MP
16 MP main with autofocus, 3840×2160 video, front — 5 MP
primary: 12 MP, autofocus, video 3840×2160, front: 5 MP
Battery
3500 mAh, non-removable
non-removable, 3000 mAh
non-removable 2750 mAh
Sizes
159,3×77,8×7,3 mm
154,4×75,8×6.9 mm
158,3×77,9×7,3 mm
Weight
178 g
153 g
192 g
The price at the time of publication
53 000 rubles
50 000 rubles
62 000 rubles
Where to buy:
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Call vertelki:Apple iPhone 6s Plus 16Gb3inline
Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
Samsung doesn’t like to be modest when it comes to flagship phones, so in the Korean lopetiene a lot of everything: a powerful processor, very bright (but still curved, just for fun) display, glass-metal of sheer luxury, fancy camera, slim body and stuffed with soft firmware — all in anecdote with the phrase “and now we with all this beauty will try to take off!”.
S6 edge+ gives better quality sound in the headphones, slightly better video standard (1080p, 4K) modes due to the optical stabilization, and the display in it is able to surprise a higher brightness.
But autonomy in this model is worse than the Nexus, gaming performance, and with the change of generations of programmers Samsung in his usual manner to write firmware for old smartphones left heel, so even with a more powerful processor to run and to slow down due to poor optimization of Android S6 edge+ start earlier. The example of the Galaxy SII and Galaxy Nexus proof.
Call vertelki:Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+3inline
Apple iPhone 6s Plus
Yes, this place could be LG V10 (although it is weaker in almost every way, except rear camera) or Sony Xperia Z5 Premium (specific, expensive model with several shortcomings), but we all understand that Trinitarian Google-Apple-Samsung will still prevail in the choice of premium smartphone.
iPhone still obscenely roads, and over 55 thousand today you can only purchase 6 Plus with 64 GB of memory. But it will only heretics who don’t know anything about the good life, and moral obsolescence of gadgets. In times of crisis people prefer to buy “low-cost” iPhones with 16 GB of memory.
Yeah, ridiculous amount of storage, but otherwise, gentlemen — we are still the newest model of iPhone. With 3D Touch, his friendly operating system and the details that involve all who are tired of the benchmarks, firmware and “speed up the game for free, your fleshpleera out of date” every workday. The front facing camera in it, of course, so-so, but for the autonomy and speed when you deliberately “losing” the features of the iPhone competes on a par with the best smartphones of 2015. For and love in people.
Call vertelki:Apple iPhone 6s Plus3inline
Conclusions
And buy do you, dear readers, KIA for the price of a Mercedes? But if it was brought to mind by the engineers from Bentley? So the pricing of the Nexus will cause the same confusion for two years in a row.
Time is certainly not standing still — Huawei long ago turned from the Creator of the technology class “Chinese, but it seems to work” in the third largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. I mean, I only Samsung and Apple. Besides, raising the price tag today much all brands — ASUS, for example, also stopped to do charity work and released “full” model for 50 thousand rubles.
So whether or not Nexus 6P their money? It appears that Yes. Good screen, sound, camera, autonomy, fingerprint reader, and power, all good — what more do you want? Need, of course, confidence in the quality and reputation is akin to “Apple is not engaged in consumer goods”. On the image already working (Honor isolate the budget from the parent brand), but as happened in every way. We can’t call Nexus 6P is definitely a bargain, and the characteristics he did not make a breakthrough even at the time of debut. But if after testing it turns out the smartphone is not immediately to blame him serious drawback — it is a sure sign that the model deserves our recommendation. What company Huawei we and congratulations.
Huawei Nexus 6P
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
- Bright and clear display
- The newest, fastest and “unspoiled” Android
- High-quality stereo speakers
- Fast fingerprint scanner
- Good autonomy
- The average quality of the speaker
- There is no optical stabilization in the rear camera
- Not supported wireless charging
- The high price