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this year Google brought back the Nexus line with two iterations the Nexus 6p has p4 premium and then the exit Nexus 5x stands for what the hell does it stand for again well Google is apparently expecting the core experience in the Nexus 5x so we're going to go ahead and put these two devices head-to-head it's Josh the regard from Android authority what's going on everybody and this is the Nexus 6p versus the Nexus 5x as is always the case if you want to be more my new details including the spec sheets for both of these devices you can head over to the card that's appearing right now to go to Android or 30.com to read up on even more about these two devices the story in design should be fairly obvious as we're dealing with two different sized devices with the larger one being the Nexus 6p which does provides a little bit harder handling for one hand because of its 5.7 inch screen but thanks to flat sides it is pretty easy to grip nonetheless the Nexus 5x on the other hand has a plastic design that feels a little bit Hollow and is very reminiscent at the very least to the original Nexus 5 that everyone seemed to love so much including us here at Android authority really the story here is whether or not you want the premium materials the metal body along with that large black slab on the top of the back provide all of the premium materials and design aspects that you would want from a high-end device and it feels really awesome in the hand compared to the much lighter and actually somewhat hollow feeling plastic design of the 5x that's not to say that the 5x is really all that bad in its design however it just feels a little bit more let's say generic we don't think it's very much cheap at all because it brings the same typical design that the Nexus 5 had and that was one of our favorite design phones of the Nexus line in general we start to see more differences in the displays as the spec sheets start to rear their ugly heads here and show that one device is certainly much more premium than the other the Nexus 6p has a quad HD AMOLED display that as you can see in this shot right here is already providing some more saturated colors then the more washed out LCD that comes in at full HD resolution of the Nexus 5x now that's not to say that the display on the 5x is bad it's just that you really you see the differences when you pit these two displays against one another the Nexus 5x does have that little bit of washed out color on there across the entire board but to the AMOLED display with its deeper blacks is sort of getting the advantage here higher resolution is also nice on the 6p but it's not necessarily essential when it comes to the 5x because the 1080p display still provides a pretty good amount of sharpness and a lot of fun for all media and play the Nexus 6p simply is just the overachiever in this regard and with the larger display if you want more real estate you could definitely get it in a more premium device in performance the price you end up paying for either of these devices actually kind of reflects what you're getting underneath the surface the Nexus 6p provides the Snapdragon 810 along with three gigabytes of RAM which with the more demanding power users of Android this is the package that you're probably going to be going for but the Nexus 5x provides the essential Snapdragon 808 which is a pretty good performer in its own right so the more important piece of information is the two gigabytes of RAM that it comes with as well now it is possible to sort of overload the Nexus 5x a little bit more but we do still think that performance is kind of neck-and-neck here we do think that the Nexus 5x especially in loading up games and certain applications is a step or two behind as you can see here but really it's not so much back that we would pretty much take out the Nexus 5x as a contender not at all really we think that the Nexus 5x provides just the right amount of performance for the common daily user while the 6p simply just performs a little bit more above and beyond in hardware it's just as much about what these phones have in common as it is about what they don't after all you get the same Nexus imprint powered fingerprint reader on both of these phones and they both work really well setting up the fingerprint is really easy and then the motion is just as easy as when you're taking the phone out of a pocket or off the table you're just landing your index finger on to the sensor and the phone is awoken and unlocked in a very quick way sound is a bit different however as the Nexus 6p does have dual front-facing speakers here on the front while the Nexus 5x has literally half of that and that's true also for the quality it's just this one speaker down here on the bottom and while it is able to provide a little bit of body it just isn't as loud and does provide the same stereo quality that the Nexus 6p does in battery we're obviously working with two different sized batteries here as 3450 million powers is in the nexus 6p and 2,700 million powers is in the five x now the 6p does get at least two days worth of battery life especially if you take advantage of doze where you just leave the phone with none of the sensors being triggered and it puts all apps into a certain sleep mode and you only get notifications if they were prioritized you get the same in the 5x also and you will be able to eke out a little bit more battery from it but for the most part in the 5x you can pretty much expect to have to charge it every single night now what's really great is that with the USB type-c cords that come with these they do take advantage of a higher power current from the plug adapters that are included what sucks about that is that you're not going to be using Qualcomm quick charge anymore so if you bought into that particular standard unfortunately you won't be able to use it with these new Nexus devices that said however either of these devices will charge up to 0 to 100 in under 90 minutes which is really great it only takes about 10 to 30 minutes to get even just enough power to get past the next part of your day really so you should be able to plug this in in the middle of the day and when you do so you'll never want for power with either of these phones and in camera we have the same package for both of these which once again is a great thing about these two new Nexus devices is that they both provide very good experiences and it provide a lot of the same features now in the cameras we have a twelve point three megapixel camera that is backed by laser autofocus and a dual LED flash for both of the phones and when you get into the applications they also provide the same experience a little bit bare-bones let's put it so you get a good auto mode that allows you HD are plus on auto if you so wish to put so and from there you also get UHD 4k video recording but what we had a lot of fun with here was the slow-motion recording that does 120 frames or 240 frames per second that is recorded at 720p resolution but aside from all of these extra modes including lens blur panorama and photosphere you don't get a whole lot of manual control over your shots and videos that said however the quality of these cameras is honestly much better than any other Nexus device and it actually is kind of up there has a good a companion to have onto the daily they may not be the absolute best cameras that are out there but they certainly made us pretty happy in our usage of them thus far the details are all captured quite well and the colors have that little bit of saturation that should be able to please anyone looking for punchy or photos low-light capabilities are also quite good on here but you're not really expecting too much from super low-light situations but we will say that these cameras happen to do a little bit better than some of the other flagship phones that only provide you a big ball of fuzz when you try to get a low-light shot honestly the biggest story here is that finally Google got the cameras on the Nexus line right and in these two phones if you really want the pure Android experience you're also going to get a pretty good camera and you're not really going to have to want for any other phones if this is the one that you want and finally in software as these are Nexus devices you're going to get the updates and the software at the latest and greatest on that is Android marshmallow version 6.0 now there are a few key additions to what is already a pretty familiar Android experience here in stock Android of course the app drawer has been updated to a vertical squirrel but also has a line at the top for your most use applications doze is what we already took a bit of a look at in the battery section and as long as you keep the phone from really moving you just let it sit still for a little while you should be able to get a great standby mode and standby time that keeps the battery from draining too quickly after that you also have app permissions which are all available in the settings but when you install new applications and they access a key part of the phone for the first time then the app permissions will ask you if you really wanted to access that part of your phone and finally there's Google now on tap now this is not a replacement for Google now as Google now still part of the home screens but it is an ability for you to be able to search anything on the screen currently in a very quick way as long as the text is plainly there in its entirety and it's not part of an image then when you hit Google now on tap by holding the home button it should be able to pull a number of the items that are on the screen currently and it does work pretty well when it does come in handy it's kind of a sublime experience when you are looking at let's say a text message and you want to be able to search something on there like an address it does pull it down and when it does it feels really awesome to do so in the end however the reason why you're even getting these two devices is because of those updates and with marshmallow we have a great start to what might be a nice update cycle for these two Nexus devices for 2015 so we've explored these two devices and as we have been finding out in each section the premium moniker is definitely true for the Nexus 6p while the essential 5x is providing still a good experience without really going too far and beyond and it reflects this in the price four hundred and ninety nine dollars is what you're going to be paying for the Nexus 6p while the Nexus 5x will start at three hundred and seventy nine dollars but as is our recommendation for the 5x you might want to shell out just a little bit more money to make sure you get the 32 gigabyte version if this is the phone that you want and so there you have it for the Nexus 6p and the Nexus 5x we're looking at two different ways of looking at the Nexus line this year which is awesome because normally we only get one but this year we have a little bit of choice with the Nexus 6p you get the absolute best at Google and in this case Huawei are providing for the Android ecosystem in a great body that has a lot of power underneath and honestly it is one of those phones that when you pick it up it invokes a bit of emotion the Nexus 5x doesn't necessarily have that same level of emotion unless you are a fan of the original Nexus 5 and if you are this phone just might be the one that you want to get because it brings back all those lovely memories of the Nexus 5 no the body is not premium it actually has a bit of a hollow fuel because of the plastic but it still provides many of the same features especially the camera and the Android marshmallow underneath that's just maybe one or two small steps behind because of the slower performance package on here but still the 5x is essential whereas the P into the Nexus 6p might provide premium and those are really the differences between these two devices and you couldn't go wrong with either of this year's great Google Nexus iterations keep it tuned to Android authority our full reviews for both of these devices are coming very soon but stay tuned for Lon's the Nexus 5x review and then of course the 6p is being reviewed by me then you can stick around and you can watch the content from all my other colleagues in Android and then you can stick around for even more and head on over to Android or decom because we are your source for all things Android