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what's up guys lon here from Android authority and how does last year's big Motorola flagship fare against this year's big Motorola flagship well that's what we're about to find out what the Moto X pure edition versus the Nexus 6 it's no surprise that the Moto X pure edition and the Nexus 6 both share the same design language after all they are made by Motorola so you have the same metal frame that wraps around the sides these same curves along the corners and backside and identical placement for all the buttons ports and front-facing speakers of course you also have the signature Motorola dimple on the back for both devices with the Nexus 6 is dimple looking much like the one from the original Moto X while the pure edition is being housed inside a metallic strip along with the camera the Nexus 6 however is obviously much bigger phone due to not only the larger screen size but also the much beefier side bezels over the pure editions thinner and sleeker bezels now the one is exactly small by any stretch of the imagination but the pure edition is definitely the more manageable device out of the two and doesn't have that same unwieldy feel as the Nexus 6 when it comes to one-handed usability the biggest difference between these two in terms of design is the color options the Nexus 6 comes in blue and white and that's pretty much it the Moto X pure edition on the other hand has more color options material choices and accent colors then you can count on your fingers and toes this is all possible through Motorola's Moto maker and along with being able to pick your own colors and material choices you can also add engravings and greetings for even more personalization with the screens you're looking at a 6-inch display on the Nexus 6 and a slightly smaller 5.7 inch screen on the Moto X pure edition both share the same resolution at 2560 by 1440 but on the Nexus 6 you're dealing with an AMOLED display whereas on the Moto X Motorola decided to make the switch this year to a TFT LCD panel both displays are absolutely gorgeous in their own right especially with the quad HD resolution but if you're looking for those inky dark blacks and slightly more vibrant colors you're only going to get that with the Nexus 6 the pure Edition on the other hand has some pretty great looking colors as well but with an LCD panel features like motor display don't look quite as sleek anymore especially in darker environments we're seeing the entire backlight light-up becomes much more noticeable where the Nexus 6 has the biggest leg up is in screen real estate so if you want the biggest screen size possible then the Nexus 6 is the obvious choice but in terms of overall brightness and outdoor visibility the pure addition is the clear winner for the specs you're looking at Qualcomm made chipsets on both with a Snapdragon 805 Adreno 420 and three gigs of ram on the Nexus 6 whereas the Moto X pure edition is packin the newer Snapdragon 808 Adreno 418 and also three gigs of ram even though the Nexus 6 is running a much more dated processor at this point it still performs extremely well as the 805 is a more than capable processor and obviously running a pure stock version of Android always helps the same can be said about the Moto X pure edition it's extremely fast and fluid in day-to-day use and both devices play games and multitask without any problems and you'll be hard-pressed to notice any real differences between the two as far as benchmarks go and Geekbench you're looking at a single core score of ten seventy two and a multi-core score of thirty four twenty five on the Nexus 6 and on the Moto X you're looking at 12:57 for single core and 3572 for multi-core so the Moto X does edged out the Nexus 6 but it isn't by a whole lot so again as the benchmarks indicate you're not going to see or feel a huge difference in real-world use for storage you're looking at 32 or 64 gigs of internal storage on the Nexus 6 and like many other Nexus devices before there's no room for expandability and that used to be the case with the Moto X in the past but this year Motorola added a microSD card slot to help augment the 16 32 or 64 gigabyte options the nice thing about both the Nexus 6 and the Moto X though is that they're plug-and-play phones which means you can take them to any major carrier like t-mobile Sprint Verizon or AT&T plugging your SIM card and be up and running in no time where both of these devices are complete winners is in the speaker quality the Nexus 6 and Moto X both have front-facing speakers which is going to give you some very awesome audio quality when listening to music watching videos and playing games but I will say the Moto X's speakers sound just a tad louder with a little more low-end punch and you also have the option of tweaking the audio for both the external speakers and headphones on the Moto X which you don't get on the Nexus 6 now with the Nexus 6 being substantially larger than the moto wax you would think that the battery capacity would be quite a bit bigger but the Nexus 6 is 30 to 20 milliamp hour battery is only marginally bigger than the 3000 milliamp ire cell on the Moto X but in my experience both phones are perfectly capable of getting through at least a full day which is all you can really expect from most modern-day smartphones both devices support Motorola turbo charging so when you do need to charge them they're super easy and quick to fill up or top off and in the case of the Nexus 6 you also have the added advantage of wireless charging something that Motorola for some odd reason keeps omitting from the Moto X Motorola's biggest weakness with their smartphones historically has always been the camera and coincidentally that's always been a weakness for Nexus devices in the past but the Nexus 6 broke that mold and so did the Moto X pure edition with some very drastic improvements to both the front and rear cameras and they even went as far as adding a front-facing flash for this dimly lit selfie shots with the Moto X pure edition you have a 21 megapixel sensor with face detection autofocus and a dual tone LED flash while on the Nexus 6 you're looking at a 13 megapixel sensor with an LED ring flash and optical image stabilization as far as megapixels go obviously there's more room for zooming and cropping on the Moto X but as we all know by now megapixels aren't everything when it comes to overall image quality and if you're just sharing these images to social media you're not going to notice too much of difference both cameras are capable of taking some great-looking images with tack sharp focus but most people will probably find the Moto X's images to be much more appealing to the eye due to the higher contrast and slightly more saturated colors whereas with the Nexus 6 you're getting a much flatter and more natural looking image both perform decently in low-light and although the Nexus 6 tends to hunt for focus quite a bit the resulting images are typically much cleaner brighter and with better white balance over the Moto X both cameras are also capable of recording video in 4k but again the Nexus 6 has the same focus hunting problems when recording video and for some reason the footage isn't quite as smooth or stable as the Moto X even though it has optical image stabilization the real advantage of owning a Nexus has always lied in the software obviously because the updates come directly from Google so not only do you get updates quickly but the experience is that spear as you can get it with the next six plenty of users are probably getting their marshmallow updates right now which brings a lot of nice improvements like now on tap and dose or better battery life but as of the filming of this video the Nexus 6 that you're seeing here is still on 5.1.1 but you should be receiving the update shortly the Moto X on the other hand historically hasn't been all that far behind in terms of speedy updates and in some cases actually receive certain updates before other Nexus devices the Moto X is probably the closest thing you can get to a Nexus in terms of updates and an overall clean software experience without actually being a nexus and in some ways Motorola's enhancements to stock Android make the experience better than what you would get on a nexus just to name a few being able to call upon the Moto X at any time with moto voice twisting your wrist to open up the camera with moto actions or just simply waking up the display by waving your hand over the phone to see your notifications may sound trivial or gimmick at first but once you get used to some of these features it makes it difficult to switch to another phone that doesn't have them when the Nexus 6 first became available for purchase it was one of the most expensive Nexus devices we've ever seen coming in at a starting price of 650 bucks but now the Nexus 6 can be had for prices that Nexus owners are used to with $350 for the 32 gigabyte model and $400 for the 64 gigs the Moto X pure edition is also quite the bargain especially for our phone that's only roughly a month old at this point starting at $400 you can get yourself a 16 gigabyte Moto X with a standard colored back and pricing goes up from there depending on storage and material choices if you want the pearce Android experience possible fast updates and a large canvas to play on then go with the Nexus 6 but if you rather have more color and material choices buy a moto maker a close to stock Android experience with some useful Motorola enhancements and microSD card expansion then the Moto X is the obvious choice both of these phones are extremely affordable high-end smartphones and ultimately what it's going to come down to is what you're looking for in a smartphone but either way you decide to go you're going to come out a winner as always thank you guys so much for watching this video if you did enjoy please give a thumbs up down below and also subscribe to the channel which is also down 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