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the dawn of the pixel met the demise of the Nexus and I know that sounds a little bit dramatic but the death of the Nexus line left a little bit of a hole in my heart I'd loved that the Nexus line started as it was a bit of a curiosity from Google and involved into incredible devices year-over-year so I thought we could look back the history of Nexus devices from the very first to the very last the story of the Nexus began on January 5th 2010 when Google officially announced the Nexus One this was Google's chance to try things differently to try a phone on their own and throw us some side-eye at the folks at Cupertino they launched a new store to sell it with it was sold on subsidized and there's a lot of cool things that could do in fact if you want to know everything about the Nexus One we did a video revisiting the history of that device but the specs were this it had a 3.7 inch AMOLED display and at the time a pretty powerful 1 gigahertz Snapdragon processor it had a pretty decent 5 megapixel camera with autofocus LED flash had digital zoom remember it was built by HTC it had a really nice premium unibody feel as you'd expect from HTC so in December of 2010 Google decided to announce the Nexus S Google decided to switch away from HTC and partnered instead with Samsung for this device and it sort of continued Android and I guess Google's pushed towards larger displays so the unique feature of the Nexus S was a NFC with something that became a staple of Android phone that you could see the trends start to build tier of Nexus phones launching what's going to be flagship features of Android Nexus S had a lot going for it but do you think it didn't have going for it were battery life and reception but those decide it was still a pretty well received phone after the success of the Nexus S Google figure of ain't broke don't fix it and before they moved to another OAM they stuck with Samsung for the Galaxy Nexus keeping the trend of phones getting bigger the display got larger here was four point six five inches and pretty nice Samsung displays it was an AMOLED panel camera got better as well 5 megapixels it had autofocus limited shutter lag and a single LED flash it also brought things like DLNA bluetooth 3.0 and kept things we saw for the last gen like NFC LG's own Optimus G which the Nexus 4 was based off was having a lot of success so it seemed to be a good platform to base the Nexus 4 on and in fact it would proved to be one of the most successful Nexus devices to date and it had a really eye catching shimmering glass back design some people love it some people didn't like it I kind of dug Dawei it looked so fresh off the success at Nexus 4 LG got a chance yet again and on October 31st 2013 the world met the Nexus 5 Nexus 5 was an awesome combination of specs and features and had a four point nine five inch full HD 1080p display and it was really well received by a smartphone community and technolo included I've been hyping up a little bit that these Nexus phones kept getting bigger next up you know how big things really got as the Nexus torch went to Motorola for the not surprisingly named Nexus 6 generally and historically next devices have been focused on really good prices for a premium product Nexus 6 though came out at 649 bucks for a 32 gig model the phone looked like a Gigantor version of a Moto X but just had a Nexus logo on the back of it and areas where Nexus line had not always been that strong like camera for example just thing at a 13 megapixel main shooter on the back optical image stabilization so I mentioned that a lot of people you might be one of them still loved the Nexus 5 so it kind of got a revival and these next two Nexus phones record the last two Nexus phones never launched at the same time the Nexus 5x and the 6p so again the 5x the real successor 2013's Nexus 5 and it carried a lot of the aspects that everybody loved about the Nexus 5 other features that these two Nexus phones brought in the 5x in particular brought in fingerprint reading and USBC so what about that 6p I know a lot of you guys still love and are probably still in your pocket this is the Acme the pinnacle the top and the last of the Nexus line the device included an all aluminum base body that was thinner and liar the Nexus 6 before it had a rear fingerprint reader called Nexus imprint the phone felt premium in the hand it looks like a flagship they've performed like a flagship and it got supported by Google like a flagship it until the pixel phones came and the Nexus line got pushed aside before you guys get super nostalgic about the end the Nexus line of phones you might just want to perk yourself up a little bit and go check out the Discovery Go app maybe you want to watch like me Deadliest Catch dungeon Cove maybe you're more of a casino secrets or a cruise ship disaster type person whatever you want to watch you can do it with the Discovery Go app link to it's down below so this has been a history and look back the Nexus device it's not a sad history because it's over it's fun because we got to know them what was your favorite of all these phones how would you rank Nexus devices I love to hear your thoughts on it if they're comments down below thank you guys for watching give the video a thumbs up to let us know you liked it and of course subscribe for more videos like this until next time I'm John render from TechnoBuffalo