The glass on the front symmetrically frames the 5.7-inch screen with dual speakers and a blessed lack of logos. The Nexus 6P feels solid, whole, and balanced. But it does have a benefit, I'm getting much better wireless performance on the 6P than I ever did with the Nexus 6.īut I quibble. It doesn't exactly match the color or texture of the aluminum, at least on the graphite model. More annoying is a plastic panel on the rear bottom of the phone - again for antennas. There is plastic here, too: subtle antenna lines on the sides and a tiny rail between the screen and the body. But call me a convert: big phones forever. I am sympathetic to people who don’t want a phone this large and think the 5X could be a viable option for them. It’s also more expensive and has more powerful specs than the Nexus 5X. Read next: Nexus 5X review and Android 6.0 Marshmallow review It's nice to finally be able to say that. This is a Nexus phone, and it's also a premium phone. It's the first Nexus device made by Chinese manufacturer Huawei, and Huawei came to win. The history of Nexus phones is a history of great, clean software paired to hardware that is usually flawed in some fundamental way: cheap plastic or a bad camera or missing some vital thing like LTE. But Nexus phones never really played at this level. Later, you would see Samsung and Sony's best in there (and maybe HTC, in a good year). For a long time, it included the iPhone and not a whole lot more. It’s a pretend category, maybe, but you know it when you see it. They get designated as 'flagships' with 'elegant' design that are 'top tier' thanks to some combination of their materials, craftsmanship, specs, and of course their (usually very high) price. It's as though everybody in the business of judging them got together in a secret cabal to come up with the most awkward language possible to describe the set of ineffable qualities that separates the very best phones from the rest. 'Premium' is a funny word when it comes to phones.

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