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than they actually are size difference aside many of the cosmetic cues are identical from the aluminum mid plate to the curved chassis from the camera's ring flash to the front facing speakers right down to the signature motorola finger dimple around back and yes in the hand these do feel similar again with the exception of the Nexus massive footprint but those similarities are only skin deep that skin is the first major difference here using Motorola's Moto maker suite the Moto X is available in 520 different color combinations in everything from plastic to wood to 2 types of leather the customization extends to personalized branding on the back and special greetings up front if you want them and it all comes together to make the Moto X feel well personal by contrast the Nexus 6 is available in just two shades of somewhat slippery matte plastic even some parts of the hardware that seem identical aren't and here's where the Nexus 6 makes up some ground the Nexus enjoys dual front firing speakers instead of just a single one and it's camera bares optical image stabilization where the x's does not the Nexus 6 includes a bundled turbocharger in the box and Qi wireless charging support while the X always requires wires and if you want a turbo charge it you need to shell out 35 extra clams and aside from the obvious differences in display size and density the Nexus 6 also brings a nice touch with its panel the ability to go super dim for nighttime readers movie theater textures or the super energy frugal it carries the penalty of a pink tint at that setting at least on some units and you can accomplish a similar result with an app like screen dimmer on the Moto X but it's nice to have this out of the box on the Nexus 5 of course part of the Nexus promise is faster Android updates than any other smartphone so you can count that as a point for the larger phone to Motorola is pretty quick to push updates to its X line but as you can see here we're still waiting for the official upgrade to the latest version on two separate Moto X units so the Nexus continues to win here which is as it should be still even without Android lollipop the Moto X user experience just feels more complete and at the risk of repeating ourselves more personal - you don't realize how often you use the Moto X's wave function to wake up the display until you don't have it anymore on the Nexus 6 you don't realize how handy it is to launch the camera with a flick of the wrist until you can't and you have to rely on a finicky touch target instead and you don't fully appreciate the little things like asking your phone what's up with a custom program to trigger phrase or getting your texts read aloud to you while you're driving until you can't anymore while owning a Nexus device still feels like being part of a somewhat exclusive club owning a moto X feels like being a member of a more fun Club and that's a feeling Motorola bolsters with seasonally appropriate boot animations and spotlight stories that land like little surprise gifts on the Moto X every few months let's talk optics though they offer identical resolution the Sony camera sensors in use here are not the same the Nexus 6 packs the newer sensor with a wider aperture and OIS and it's powered by the Google camera viewfinder instead of the Motorola written version on the Moto X neither is our favorite software for shooting but the Nexus is probably the easier one to adapt to and the Nexus camera is also the one we prefer overall even in the balanced lighting of the great outdoors the difference here is obvious the Nexus 6 color reproduction is consistently good whereas almost all of the Moto X results feature a greenish yellow hue that's not attractive the Moto X is also quicker to lose focus and more likely to produce noisy photos especially in low-light in both standard and HDR shooting modes the Nexus 6 does much better when the lights go down and the phasers come out strangely things seem to flip around with the flash enabled the Moto X reproducing colors accurately while the Nexus shows a kind of salmon tint but that's not enough to dam the Nexus given its excellent performance elsewhere including on the front-facing camera the Nexus 6 superiority is further demonstrated in video mode it's authentic colors make for a less exciting video but the amount of yellow and the Moto X output just makes it appear almost clownish the Nexus auto-exposure also adapts more quickly to changing brightness and the optical stabilization helps smooth the shot some as well more Nexus 6 video and photo samples coming in our full review later this week the Nexus 6 also brings practical superiority over the X in a few ways if first of all two speakers up front are certainly better than one and also a bigger newer phone means bigger storage newer specs and a bigger battery with neither of these offering microSD expansion you'll want all the storage you can get and the Nexus 6 goes up to 64 gigs while the Moto X maxes out at 32 but in specs it's a mixed bag with a Snapdragon 805 versus an 801 and three gigs of ram versus the two you might think the Nexus 6 better at some high demand games and you might think it's snappy or on the whole than the Moto X but by and large you'd be wrong running Android KitKat the Moto X is smoother on a day-to-day basis than our Nexus 6 is on lollipop that said the Nexus suspects do make it more future-proof we have yet to experience a lollipop on the Moto X and we expect quick updates from Google to fix some of the performance issues we're seeing in any case so we should see performance parity but these phones very soon what we probably won't see his endurance parity and this will be our final point so we'll make it quick on average we've managed to get about an hour to an hour and a half more screen on time from the Nexus 6 than from the Moto X to be clear we're not ecstatic about the figures on either phone each of these should be capable of much better endurance the Nexus especially but this is a comparison not a review and the Nexus 6 does better than the X in this regard so the Nexus 6 brings on the major points a better camera better endurance better speakers and a bigger higher res display and further it carries the cachet of the Nexus name with all the quick updates that name implies for the kind of hard core Android devote a the Nexus family has always served it's likely the better choice and it's unquestionably the more powerful device overall if that's what matters most to you get the Nexus 6 but the Nexus is also a hundred and fifty dollars more expensive than the Moto X a phone that brings much more customized ability in hardware and many more thoughtful conveniences in software convenience as you can't find on the Nexus the Moto X is also more comfortably sized for one-handed use and yet it still packs a display that's plenty large for most folks and of these two it's the device we'd recommend for most folks for a well rounded Android experience one more time everyone our full review of the Moto X is available at pocket now in the link in the description below and our review of the Nexus 6 will be live at the same place as of December 3rd if you enjoyed this comparison please give us a thumbs up and subscribe so you don't miss future videos till next time this has been michael fisher with PocketNow asking you to tell me which one you would choose down in the comments thanks for watching we'll see you next time you