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hello everybody its crystal Ora and today we're taking a look at the LG g5 versus the Nexus 6p these days we're seeing lots of smart phone companies ditching plastic and moving to an all-metal design and this year LG has done exactly that with their all-metal LG g5 but the g5 and Nexus 6 piece for an all-metal design but even with the g5 being made from metal thanks to that extra layer of primer coating the phone feels a little plasticky and less premium than the build of the 6p there's also some questionable design features with the g5 like the curving of the top and bottom making the phone appear at spent and also the sudden breaks along the chamfered edges to make it look like the paint is chipping when putting these phones side by side the Nexus 6p certainly stands out in terms of design one of the biggest differences when it comes to design is the size of these two phones the Nexus 6p force of 5.7 inch display while the g5 is much smaller at 5.3 which makes a 6p a full 10 millimeters taller and about three millimeters wider so yeah the g5 is much easier to handle slip into a pocket and use one handed and another reason why the 6p is much taller than the g5 is the large bezels but there's a reason for these large bezels and that is the front-facing speakers there on the top and bottom of the display making for a great experience when watching videos the speakers are aimed right at you and you have this nice stereo effect on the g5 your speakers on the bottom of the phone where it can easily be covered up and you don't get this nice stereo effect but that being said the g5 gets just as loud as a 6p although the quality is not the greatest the back of these stones are quite similar now that LG has relocated the volume buttons while leaving the power button we have large black visors near the top with a fingerprint scanner below now unlike the 6p scanner the g5 fingerprint scanner doubles as a power button however the scanner works similarly to the six PS where even if the screen is off your fingerprint will still be red the g5 fingerprint scanner is actually than the six PS letting you reach the home screen around half a second faster every single time but due to this superfast scanner that's also a power button it can get frustrating because sometimes you want to check your lock screen to see your notifications and the scanner will read your fingerprints super fast taking you straight to the home screen a good workaround for this though is with the tap to wake and tap to turn off feature that cannot be found on the 6p some may think that the LG g5 isn't the prettiest of phones and even though the Nexus 6p is a little odd-looking itself with that large black visor it's still the better looking of the phones in my opinion however the strange design choices of the g5 become more forgivable once you remember that this is a modular phone even with the g5 having an all-metal design you can still take it apart in seconds to access things like the battery which is a first for a smartphone simply push the button on the bottom left and pull the battery out this allows for the swapping of batteries so when your g5 dies you can be back up and running within seconds on the Nexus 6p you'll have to be glued to a charger for a while this creative feature isn't just for battery swapping though it opens up a whole new line of accessories which LG calls friends including a camera module that has physical controls and dials for zoom and other features making it similar to a DSLR the modular capabilities of the LG g5 make it stand out from not only the Nexus 6p but really any phone on the market as of now although you'll have to ask yourself how often will you actually be using these accessories like I said the Nexus 6p is a much bigger phone mostly due to that large 5.7 inch display it's one of the best-looking displays on the market right now with this AMOLED technology and beautiful vibrant colors dark areas of images look very nice with the pixels turning off underneath creating true blacks which leads to apps that take advantage of this like night clocks or battery saving dark themes it's also a quad HD display which makes images in text very sharp and with a punch up in colors this definitely has the LG g5 display beat but that's not saying that the g5 display isn't great though it's also quad HD however it is smaller and it's not AMOLED instead is an LCD IPS panel due to the smaller screen size this quad HD resolution does give more pixels per inch but between the two phones you probably won't even notice the color temperature is much cooler on the g5 but when comparing photos the 6p definitely is the most preferable of course with the g5 being about six months younger than the 6p is going to have a much better spec sheet this is one of the fastest phones out right now on paper and even in real world performance we got the Snapdragon 820 versus your a10 Adreno 530 / Adreno 430 and four gigs of ram versus three gigs the g5 always opens apps faster than the Nexus 6p sometimes it's a split second difference or sometimes even a full second Geekbench give the g5 a nice rating of 5132 while the 6p only received four thousand two hundred and fourteen and two twos benchmark had an even bigger difference between the two with 125 thousand on the g5 and only $69 6p when loading graphic intensive games like asphalt 8 the g5 usually ends up loading the game a good 5 seconds before the 6p battery life on these phones is a much different story however with the Nexus 6 piece battery being much bigger at three thousand four hundred and fifty milliamp hours over the g5 s pretty tiny 2800 in the time I had with these phones using both pretty moderately the g5 would usually die before the end of the day with a few hours to go while the Nexus 6p usually had just enough juice to get me through the entire day I was looking at about three and a half hours of screen on time with the LG g5 and four to four hours and 15 minutes with the Nexus 6p but like I said before the g5 s battery is capable of being removed and swapped with another fully charged one which in some ways is better than the 6p we do have USB type-c charging ports on both phones which is great because that means you'll have fast charging on both fast data transfer speeds and also the nice reversible USB type-c cable unfortunately though this will be the only way to charge both of these phones as wireless charging is unavailable in both like all LG G phones you're going to have access to a micro SD card slot something that you don't have with the 6p so you'll be good with getting a cheaper model of the g5 with low storage space and buy cheap microSD cards for storing pictures songs and movie whereas with the 6p you'll have to spend some extra money for that larger size model although both phones are running Android marshmallow 6.0.1 their experiences are totally different the 6p is running 100% stock Android which is created and designed by Google this is a experienced Google intended Android to be following material design guidelines and with the features they believe are worth having and because of this whenever Google releases a new version of Android or even a small update the 6p will be able to install that update immediately the day it comes out LG g5 owners will have to wait a while until their phones receive this update because this version of Android marshmallow has been heavily skinned with lots of features added it behaves totally different so it will take some more time for LG to update their skin but that's not saying that LG's version of Android is worse than Google's stock version it really all comes down to preference and this year LG skin is actually much more toned down and less cluttered overall the softer experience definitely feels much more complete with the 6p which is going back to what I was saying with Google's attention to detail the g5 icons may look a little old-fashioned to some and the folder opening animation comes from the middle of the screen instead of where the actual folder is located the settings menu makes it harder to find things with this four sections and yeah you don't have an app drawer by default but you can get it back with an updated version of the home launcher sure these are just little things and aren't going to be a deal-breaker for most but the Nexus 6p is main selling point is a stock Android experience and it definitely is superior here last year in our best of Android camera comparison all of us voted and named the Nexus 6p the best phone when it comes to picture quality but this year there may be a new winner LG is always experimenting with their cameras and this year is no different with the g5 sporting three cameras one selfie camera and two front-facing cameras with one of them being a wide-angle lens okay so first you'll notice that the LG g5 s main camera is not as wide angled as the six PS if you take a look at the right side of the photos you'll notice the stop sign and tree next to it where both are gone on the g5 but of course that's why we have the other camera with a wide-angle lens which creates an amazing photo but let's go back and examine these shots now with HDR off the LG g5 is always going to take the better photo it's a much more natural shot with better dynamic range the 6p has a lot more contrast and its colors are not as nice but once you crank on HDR or HDR plus as it's called in the 6p both photos become beautiful HDR is a lot more subtle on the g5 where the difference on the 6p is night and day those colors just come to life and the blue of the sky really comes through more so than the g5 but still we have a much more contrast the image with a six-speed with the g5 you can actually make out the details within the shadows where the 6p just crushes them colors are a lot deeper on the 6p while the g5 s are more bright and realistic exposure seems to be better with the g5 as well lots of time when HDR is on both cameras there's also much more detail when zooming in with the g5 thanks to this extra megapixels but it's certainly up to preference the wide-angle camera although with this noticeable downgrading quality creates stunning images the LG g5 also has a full manual mode something that the 6p does not have but even without its manual controls the g5 can get a lot closer to subjects in the 6p overall the g5 is just a much more fun camera to use however once we get into lordly areas it loses some of its fun with HDR off the g5 is a clear winner with the spider image with much better colors and less noise but when we turn HDR on both phones the g5 creates the same image while the 6p boosts up his brightness really saturates colors and gets rid of all that noise sure the g5 can still create a sharper image and you could probably end up editing it to make it better than the 6p but right out of the camera the Nexus 6p has a g5 beat in this area the selfie camera is another area where the 6p beats the g5 especially when HDR is on each the g5 struggles with dynamic range with the front-facing camera while the 6p is perfect but once we get to video the LG g5 comes back as the winner the g5 has optical image stabilization unlike the 6p to create crazy smooth playback colors are also a lot better and the overall image is brighter the 6p seems to crush the blacks way too much the g5 does hunt around a lot for focus though and just prone to this weird glitch if you look closely you'll see the I hunt for focus every second or so but not all g5s have this problem and it only shows up sometimes you can also record with the wide-angle lens which is pretty cool so what's the better smartphone this has really been a back-and-forth type of comparison the LG g5 will slaughter the Nexus 6p in one area will help being destroyed by it in another but a lot of the downsides to the g5 are forgivable sure it's not the best looking phone but that's because it's modular and the battery is below average but it's removable in some areas the LG g5 is amazing and a leader among other phones in the market but in other areas it underperforms whereas the 6p in almost every area is just pretty good anything you throw out the 6p it'll handle really well it's a very well thought out phone with no huge downsides but no huge upsides either there's really no clear winner because it comes down to preference what is a user going to use a phone for it all comes down to picking and choosing what features will actually be used although a big selling point of the Nexus 6p is this low price of only around 400 to 450 dollars whereas the LG g5 starts at around 650 to 700 dollars so what do you guys think we're very interested to hear from you so please in the comments below let us know which of these two phones you prefer also if you haven't already check out this review of the LG g5 that's playing and head on over to android authority comm for the 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