LONDON: Nexus 6’s QHD AMOLED display is a thing of beauty. It’s bright, colourful and boasts void-like blacks. Detail is off the charts and everything just seems to POP off the display, but that’s not surprising with a pixel density of 493ppi.
Full HD i.e. 1080p is perfectly adequate on a mobile device for playing games, watching movies and browsing the web. But more than that 1080p is A LOT more power-efficient, which means better battery life. And what’s the chief complaint levelled at smartphones these days? It’s definitely NOT that their displays’ aren’t high resolution enough.
Seriously, every QHD Smartphone fans have tested this year has gobbled up juice like an alcoholic in a distillery. But when you figure that QHD panels have a lot more pixels to power than their 1080p brethren, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out why EVERY single QHD phone to date has been a phablet they need MASSIVE batteries (the Nexus 6’s 3200mAh cell is no exception) just to bring battery performance back in-line with nominal, everyday standards.
Nexus 6 Review: Specs, Hardware & Storage
The Nexus 6 is pretty ferocious on the outside but it’s also something of a beast on the inside too, with 3GB of RAM and Qualcomm’s latest and greatest 2.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 805 CPU powering everything along. Users also get the latest version of Android out the box, which is Android Lollipop, and all the benefits that come with it Material Design, Project Volta, ART and, bizarrely, a new Messages app. This is about as good as it gets in today’s market, so if users are in the game for THE BEST handset currently available with respect to specs and hardware then the Nexus 6 will not disappoint.
Performance is excellent pretty much across the board. But that’s to be expected this thing is packing some serious heat. Android Lollipop runs like a charm and, despite a couple of random reboots, it is experienced next to no issues with the software. And that’s no mean feat when users consider the sheer volume of changes implemented inside Lollipop. Take Apple’s iOS 8, for instance, a far more conservative update, which was plagued by bugs, faults and issues from day one, forcing the company to issue emergency updates months ahead of schedule.
Users can get a full break down of Google’s new software inside our Android Lollipop Review.
Navigating around the UX or browsing through WebPages and applications is smoother than ever before Android has never felt so refined and polished. Benchmarks paint a similar picture too, with the Nexus 6 matching the Galaxy Note 4 blow for blow in almost every scenario. Ditto for gaming, multitasking and pretty much anything else you can think of. The Nexus 6 is a powerhouse of a device that’s been set-up for every conceivable usage scenario possible, from watching ultra-HD video to accessing super-fast LTE-A mobile data; the Nexus 6 has you covered.
Nexus 6 Review: Camera
Nexus handsets aren’t known for their imaging prowess, but that was always something most people didn’t mind because of the super-affordable price tags attached to them. The Nexus 6 attempts to buck this trend, however, with the inclusion of a 13MP camera with OIS and dual-LED flash, a vastly improved setup to what was found inside last year’s Nexus.
Nexus 6’s camera is a lot better than the Nexus 4’s and Nexus 5’s respective setups but this wasn’t hard. Images captured using the rear sensor in decent light are above average.
