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it's big it's powerful and it's the first smartphone to natively lunch with Android 5.0 lollipop hello everybody I'm Lynn la for Cena and today we're going to check out google's highly anticipated flagship of the year the nexus 6 try saying that three times fast with this new iteration google takes a huge leap and equips its device with a five point nine six inch display similar to the samsung galaxy note 4 it has a 1440p quad HD resolution but it has a lower pixel density at 493 ppi even so the AMOLED screen is bright immersive and ultra sharp but given the displays bigger size that means the rest of the phone is big too powering the handset is a top-of-the-line quad core 2.7 gigahertz Snapdragon 805 processor from Qualcomm the processor includes the Adreno 420 GPU and together they power everything from daily productivity tasks to graphics intensive games with ease there's also a non-removable three point 22 ampere hour battery like its predecessors the Nexus 6 has wireless charging capabilities but it can also now quick charge with a specialized turbo charger from Qualcomm the battery has an estimated seven hours of internet usage time on LTE and you could talk continuously for up to 24 hours for your photography needs the handset sports a 13 megapixel camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing shooter like past Nexus phones Google keeps the camera interface pretty simple you can shoot panoramas and photo spheres as well as record Ultra HD 4k video there's no native gallery app anymore so images are all saved automatically to Google's photo app as with each new Nexus handset google officially launches its updated mobile OS dubbed Android 5.0 lollipop the OS features a brand new interface called material design animated colorful and at times even playful material can be seen in almost every aspect of the phone gmail and the calendar app underwent some of the more dramatic changes with a ladder receiving a nice parallax scrolling and whimsical images the most obvious characteristic of material this motif of cards which we've seen before in Google now overview which was previously known as recent apps integrates these cards giving users more context to their open apps in addition if you're doing more than one task in a nap overview would designate individual tabs for each task for example in Gmail it'll show you your inbox as well as a separate tab for a draft of an email you may be writing other lollipop goodies include notifications on the lockscreen guest mode and screen pinning which both give others limited access to your phone and the ability to launch do not disturb settings via the volume rocker there are tons more features inside android 5.1 pop so be sure to check out other cnet videos for the full breakdown in the US the Nexus 6 is available on all four major US carriers as well as US cellular it's also sold through the Google Play Store starting at six hundred and forty-nine dollars for the 32 gig model and six hundred and ninety-nine dollars for the 64 gig keeping in mind that the device does not have expandable memory google has reported that the handset will be available in 28 other countries in the next following weeks with LTE variants coming in countries both inside and outside the Americas again I'm Lynn and you've been taking a look at the google nexus 6 you