New from Google, Nexus Phablet 6 illustrates the change in the company’s approach to its line of Nexus. The device is much more expensive predecessors, but pleases the top-end specifications, comparable with other flagships. “To Lenta.ru” tested the Nexus 6, which is not yet on sale in Russia in order to understand whether justified claims Google’s “big leagues” of the smartphone market.
Google has provided “Lente.ru” to test the model Nexus 6 in a white body with 32 gigabytes of internal memory. Traditional engraving on the cover Nexus smartphone icon complements the company Motorola – this is the manufacturer in partnership with Google has released a new product at the end of last year.
The back cover is made of plastic. However, there is a little trick: when you take the smartphone in your hand, your fingers feel aluminum edges. This gives the Nexus 6 solidity, at least subjectively, when compared to its predecessor Nexus 5.
However, the replacement of the material has not solved the problem of soiled cap – fingerprints remain on the frosted plastic Nexus 5, and plastikovo- metal Nexus 6. The screen is also very dirty, especially when compared to the iPhone display 6 Plus, where Apple has used grease repellent coating.
6-inch diagonal screen really felt the competition – 5.7 inches for Samsung Galaxy Note, 5.5 inches of the iPhone 6 Plus. However, the difference in size with the same iPhone 6 Plus is noticeable only in the width: the Nexus 6 compared to Apple gadgets extra 5 millimeters. Long Nexus 6 only 1 millimeter and harder just 12 grams.
Nexus 6 (bottom) and Nexus 5, comparison of dimensions
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At the same time, the difference in width can be a significant factor – Nexus 6 big for women (and especially children’s) hands, limiting its audience. If you hold the smartphone in one hand and typing with the message or letter to reach all the characters on the keyboard – not an easy task even for iPhone 6 Plus.
In the case of Nexus sure most users will have to use both hands. In addition, there is no function in which the icons on the screen come down closer to the control thumb: this mode is provided in the same iPhone 6 Plus. Another disadvantage subjective show the location of the lock button and adjust the sound: when you hold the smartphone in his right hand and tried to reach the opposite edge of the screen, click on them inevitable.
Interface Google Android 5.0.1 (right) compared to iOS 8.0.2
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The reason is simple: in Google initially stressed that the Nexus 6 was created as a media device. That is why the company has saved on a physical home button, while spending on dual stereo speakers on the short side of the screen.
Finally, another design trick peculiar feature Nexus 6. The fact that the long side faces of the smartphone is very thin in some places – up to 3.8 millimeters. This creates a sense of a very thin smartphone when you hold it in your hands. However, the back panel Nexus 6 curved, whereby the maximum thickness of the device reaches a 10.1 millimeter (the iPhone 6 Plus constant shell thickness, 7.1 mm).
As a result, Google and Motorola managed to fit into the housing succinct Battery (3220 milliamp-hours compared with 2300 milliamp-hours a Nexus 5) and a camera with optical image stabilization, which sticks out from the body, as in the iPhone 6 Plus.
In general, design finds developers Nexus 6 can be called successful if it were not for one “but”: the Internet was reported that over time, the rear plastic cover moves away from the device and stuffing it becomes visible. During testing, however, this did not happen. In terms of ergonomics Phablet could also be back, but this is more related to the general unsuitability Phablet for women’s hands.
The functionality – that’s where Google and Motorola decided to show that smartphones Nexus line is no longer perceived as the average or “good and affordable.” Recruitment opportunities device competes with market leaders.
Let’s start with the screen. Large six-inch AMOLED-display in the Nexus 6 makes it comfortable to work with e-mail and read news stories, even in direct sunlight. Due to the brightness and comfortable viewing angle screen as lovers watch videos on your phone or play complex graphics of the game.
2560 1440 pixels high – level Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and flagship models from Lenovo and LG and better iPhone 6 Plus (1920 by 1080 pixels).
claims to category leader and the main 13-megapixel camera, equipped with a circular flash. A number of features – optical image stabilization, shooting photos in HDR + and video in 4K UHD – still rare and only available in several models, competitors (eg, HDR + only in the iPhone 6 Plus).
Claims to speed focusing and shooting arose. Among the standard mode, the camera offers shooting photos, videos, panoramas, spherical images and creative mode Lens Blur – Focusing on a single object, and objects around him blurred. To remove the video in 4K UHD, you must manually select this mode in the camera settings.
Express phototest main camera Nexus 6 under various conditions revealed that shooting in daylight as landscapes and objects smartphone comes easy – the pictures are clear, highly detailed and come better than on the iPhone 6 Plus. Same with macro and photos with artificial lighting. However, in low-light photos Nexus 6 is worse than the iPhone 6 Plus.
Pictures in natural lighting, Nexus 6
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megapixel front camera can not be called outstanding – with little or electric light is unpleasant changes color reproduction and clarity, not (unlike the flagship of Samsung) tools for instant image correction. Therefore fans Self Nexus 6 is unlikely to offer something new, but with video calls works pretty well.
The two front stereo speakers provide volume and playback purity sufficient for musical accompaniment friendly get-togethers. When playing sound at maximum volume extraneous noise or whistling is not found.
From the full media devices Nexus 6 distinguishes one: does not support the memory card. The smartphone is only available with 32 and 64 gigabytes of internal memory, and therefore store large amounts of media content (especially 4K video) can hardly. At the same time on a 32-gigabyte model for the user is available only 26 gigabytes of memory.
The manufacturer claims that the device is resistant to water penetration, but full of waterproof and dustproof, which is appealing the same Sony, not speech goes. The smartphone supports contactless payment (NFC), 4G / LTE network and standard Bluetooth 4.1 LE.
The test model Nexus 6 runs on Android 5.0.1 Lollipop. Do not forget that the line of Nexus, Google has positioned as a reference Android-smartphone, which are available for all of the latest versions and features of the mobile platform.
On this basis, it was possible to estimate the Nexus 6 experience with Android, as close as possible to the vision of Google. New “material design” is really more minimalistic and somewhat resembles a cartoon. Round Icons instead of square, less translucent elements, the design of the main control buttons make a good impression.
It is important that the Android Nexus 6 works without any glitches or freezes. The device responds quickly to all commands from the lock screen to easily switch to calls, or chamber, as well as to respond to the warning.
Google Voice Assistant is run by a team of OK Google with the active screen. By default it is set to English, and to enter commands in another language, you must manually set the language.
The platform lets you know when the battery charge reaches below 15 percent and offers enable conserve battery power – is important for inexperienced users, do not know how to extend the life of the smartphone. If you pull down the screen once, the platform will display recent alerts and re-pulling open the control center.
Finally, if the user wants to share their smartphone, the possibility of multiple accounts. A Nexus 6 can protect password, pin code or a certain gesture.
By The Hardware not reproach – Nexus 6 is equipped with a powerful quad-core processor Qualcomm SnapDragon 805 with a frequency of 2.7 gigahertz, comparable to the Galaxy Note 4.
The benchmark Antutu Benchmark for Android-devices in which the Nexus 6, scored 52034 points, showed his superiority and over Meizu MX4, which was considered the performance of the smartphone and the Galaxy Note 4 above (both got a little less than 50 thousand points ). At the same time he was ahead by 50 per cent in this test Nexus 5.
In the test 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited (gaming performance) indicators Nexus 6 a third better than the iPhone 6 Plus, and 73 percent – than predecessor Nexus 5.
Test GFXBench, designed to assess the quality of graphics and visualization, showed that the chip in the Nexus 6 is inferior to the same iPhone 6 speed display images (22 frames per second for ordinary images 31 frames per second for Full HD).
Given the positioning of media devices like smartphone manufacturer was required to achieve a better display graphics. In fairness add that in games “console” quality (for example, used Asphalt 8) and watching the video in 1080p apparent hangs, or crashes zaderzhkek have been reported.
Finally, the browser-based test SunSpider, assessing performance processor when using the Internet, has identified gaps Nexus 6 is approximately twice from the same iPhone 6 Plus: first carried out assignments on average for 811 milliseconds, the second – for 396 milliseconds. The indicator improved by about a third compared with the Nexus 5 (1210 milliseconds) and is comparable with the flagship Sony Xperia Z3 (800 milliseconds).
Perhaps the results of the last two tests due to the fact that the system has to display Nexus 6 image resolution compared to the iPhone 6 Plus. But given that the smartphone from Google is working on one of the most powerful processors on the market, the results could be better.
Nexus 6, unpacking
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If the Nexus 5 disappoint fans line short period of battery life, the Nexus 6 does not disappoint. Smartphone fully charged in about 1.5 hours from the charger included. For comparison – in the course of our test iPhone 6 Plus being charged twice as long. As promised the developers, 15 minutes smartphone is charging 20 per cent, which is enough for about 5 hours.
Once fully charged, the user can count on the day of active work with your smartphone (Internet browsing connectivity and 4G Wi- Fi, photography, video, online video playback, navigation), or two days, with limited use (up to 6 hours of activity). An hour of playing videos on YouTube format FullHD at maximum brightness and sound of the battery is dead at 15 percent.
The product has a function of saving battery power, extend the “life” smartphone for about an hour. As with other devices on the Android Lollipop, the user can see how much time is left before the device needs charging and connecting to the network – how much time remains before a full battery. Nexus 6 also supports wireless charging Qi Wireless.
Finally, the main question: is the Google Nexus 6 all this to qualify for the “big league smartphone”, and accordingly, and the “flagship” price tag? If the previous model Nexus were relatively affordable, the starting price of Nexus 6 650 dollars in the United States only $ 100 base price inferior to iPhone 6 Plus.
In Russia, official sales Nexus 6 has not yet begun. Given the current exchange rate fluctuations and the fact that the manufacturer would not want to sell the smartphone cheaper than in the US, we can expect that the starting price of Nexus 6 in Russia will be at least 45 thousand rubles. Previous smartphone Nexus 5 at startup in Russia in 2013 was worth about 20 thousand rubles.
But Google Nexus 6 definitely have to compete with other flagships – development with advanced sensors from Samsung, protected smartphones from Sony, novelties from Lenovo and LG, and, of course, with the Apple iPhone.
Nice to Phablet design, good hardware stuffing, the most recent Android, good opportunities charging and energy-saving features unbanal camera – that’s fine. However, there is no unique chips and dearness able to scare off buyers who are accustomed to a different pricing policy line Nexus.
Google has proven to be among the Nexus may be worthy leaders of the market. Nevertheless, dumping them should not wait.
Design and Ergonomics: 85 points
Functionality: 80 points
Performance: 80 points
Battery life: 90 points
Overall score: 85 points
Price: $ 650 (in the US 22.01.2015).
Evaluation of from 0 to 49 points is equivalent to “unsatisfactory»
50-69 points is equivalent to the assessment “satisfactory»
70-79 – «good»
80-89 – «very good»
90-100 – «excellent»
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