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Galaxy S6 vs Nexus 6!

2015-04-18
well that's up everyone John rende you're from TechnoBuffalo here there are ton of ridiculously awesome Android phones out there right now it's hard to pick which one is best for you without you want to go in s6 HTC One m9 you want to go the Nexus route they're just a ton of options so I thought I would take the last two phones that I've use as my daily driver the Nexus 6 and the galaxy s6 and the galaxy s6 edge they're essentially the same phone's not going to talk about the edge features on either so you could assume that this is a versus battle essentially both these devices versus the Nexus 6 they really bring some unique things to the table that no one has done before but they're also very different devices I'm going to end this with one that I would pick if I had to pick one phone for the next 12 to 18 months and hopefully it'll help you decide which phone is going to be right for you officially I've liked really large screen phones always I was very excited about the Nexus 6 then I got a chance to see the screens on the galaxy s6 galaxy s6 edge and I became very impressed for part of the video that I'm just going to call it the galaxy s6 and the zoom I'm talking about both because I'm just gonna start garbling my words if I'm like s6 s6 edge Nexus 6 2 minus 6 is it's going to get started so these are phones version formulas you're looking at this screen almost exclusively so let's talk about that screen a same resolution on both phones you've got a 2560 by 1440 it's 5.1 inches on the s6 and it's much larger on the Nexus 6 at five point nine six inches obvious differences in PPI and screen sizes at 676 versus 493 all those specs don't really mean that much they're really high resolution phones what matters though is how you use them I've had a really big issues with screens outdoors I'm outdoors a lot I'm taking my son to the park I've checked my phone and I can't usually see this I kind of bring this all the way up actually pretty good outdoor visibility on the galaxy s6 line of phones they believe outdoors really well I haven't be able to say that with many phones also had really good viewing angles once I got outdoors Nexus 6 that even the brightness all the way up this toy different story I couldn't see it as well outside out either squint sort of do a little hand over the screen thing that we've all kind of done I despite the same resolution images look just sharper on Samsung's offering Texas a little bit Crips Chris Berg colors a little bit brighter some people can say they looked a little oversaturated it's mostly due to touch which put a launcher on there you're not going to see it things can't let give it a little bit washed out on the nexus 6 it's not that it's a bad screen Nexus 6 actually a pretty good screen it's just not the best one out there when you compare it to I consider now the flagship of screens on the Samsung Galaxy s6 line of phones this one becomes a no-brainer I have screens important to outdoor visibility is important to you Samsung is going to take this one obviously performance is a big issue now in the reviews of both phones I ran through quadrants and into two tests though this is about this is about actual usage the s6 has just an insane processor next no7 it's got two quad-core process for octa-core just gargantuan witness whereas Nexus 6 has I guess a more pedestrian a quad-core Snapdragon 805 the bottom line both are ridiculously fast yeah the test score is going to be faster on the Nexus 6 but I have had zero performance issues on either phones both are fast both open apps quickly both scroll there's no lag on either devices the processor that's what your difference here at least not yet in either of these phones so if you're worried about how it's going to perform versus the octa-core I wouldn't worry about that one at all I have no preference even either one next let's talk about that camera on the back 16 megapixel on samsung and 13 on the Motorola built Nexus 6 obviously megapixels don't tell whole story I'm gonna really matter if we kind of zoom in quite a bit I will say I haven't been the biggest fan of Motorola's cameras recently in general dating all the way back to the Moto X things did get better if they haven't gotten great this is kind of same story the screen it's an average camera onto the Nexus 6 decent pictures not great not the best in low-light the ring flash looks cool doesn't really add all that much it can be a lot of noise and pictures it's usable certainly if you want to take figures upload them to Facebook or Instagram takes great 4k video but it's not the best camera out there now the Samsung camera is not the best camera out there either but it's definitely better than we're seeing right now the Nexus 6 even with the software updates that have come it's great in low-light 4k video looks awesome pictures came out really sharp even when zoomed in this is how I determine which one I would pick by both of these on a table and I'm going out for the night I want to take pictures and I wanted to pick one phone 10 at 10 times I'm picking up the galaxy s6 alright next let's talk about Android experience next device you can get the latest offered from Google and that is currently sitting at 5.1 on the sexy in xe6 all of these Samsung devices it's 5.0 point 2 with Samsung's TouchWiz on top and listen I've been really hard on TouchWiz in the past look really hard on it it's much better here it's much more usable you have to go through just a billion setups you don't have to go through a ton of tutorials the bleeps and bloops are all gone the cartoonish colors are still there in fact after I did my review and even towards the tail end of that I put Nova Launcher on here and got rid of almost all of the touch with stuff but something that is good I think the quick launchers are really nice it's a lot a big fan of how the settings layout is but I can live with it it's a much more usable experience and we've seen in the past it's also 40% lighter having said that though I still preferred the look of sake Android in fact I use Nova Launcher because I want this to look more stock Android so this is again a personal preference but for me based on just experience when Android is going to be like really like when the Nexus has to offer so when it comes to Android experience Nexus 6 all day alright so what about something to random things and there obviously are a ton of other things we could cover but I wanted to sort of talk about the most salient ones least to me so battery I've got a twenty five hundred million power battery on the galaxy s6 50 milliamp hours bigger just for a fun fact on the edge and it's 3220 on the Nexus 6 battery life on the Samsung phones is not awesome you can charge it wirelessly in quick charge I get all that actually quick charge on both of them it's not in your charger not going to get long lasting battery life so be aware of that now battery is not super stellar either on the Nexus 6 but is definitely better so if you have to go for a whole day on an external battery charger with you can't plug in then I go Nexus 6 if you have the ability to serve charge during the day you can plug it in and connectional charger with you then sake to make that much of a difference neither has expandable storage neither has removable memory so that's kind of cheers well but it comes down to which one I would pick in fact which one I did pick I love the Nexus 6 is one of my favorite phones that I've checked out but I get the privilege of checking out every phone and things tend to get better throughout the year so you get to be released that's kind of the case with the same thing devices and this is really when the first times actually remember saying I prefer a smaller screen phone over the bigger one I love giant screen sizes in fact I'm super excited partly like you are for what the note 5 is going to be or than the note 5 edge or they decide to call it but if I had to pick one of these phones to use the next 12 to 18 months I'd pick the a Galaxy s6 in fact I pick the galaxy s6 edge because I love the way that looks want to see your versus battle between the two of these we did will link that down below as well you can see the difference that would pick the Samsung devices over the larger screen Nexus 6 and not say that six is a bad phone it's still a great phone gotta pick one up yet the option to buy it unlock use it on pretty much any carrier AT&T t-mobile Verizon it's going to work right out of the box for you but when it comes to way the screen looks when it comes to the features and I hate to say it but I still kind of like TouchWiz I would go for the galaxy s6 what do you guys think you agree disagree if you disagreed tell me why don't you yell at me or call me names or call each other names in the comments give a valid reason why you disagree love to hear it and I'll respond to comments you can sort of have a discussion about it the video a thumbs up we always appreciate it until next time I'm John ranging from TechnoBuffalo to big subscribe button for the latest greatest tech news I will talk to you dear friend in the next video
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