Nexus 6P

Nexus 6P

Front and back view of Nexus 6P
Codename Angler
Developer Google, Huawei
Manufacturer Huawei
Series Google Nexus
Compatible networks
First released September 29, 2015 (2015-09-29)
Availability by country
Predecessor Nexus 6
Related Nexus 5X
Type Smartphone
Dimensions 159.3 mm (6.27 in) H
77.8 mm (3.06 in) W
7.3 mm (0.29 in) D
Weight 179 g (6.31 oz)
Operating system

Original: Android "Marshmallow" 6.0

Current: Android "Marshmallow" 6.0.1, released Dec 7, 2015
System on chip Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 v2.1
CPU 2.0 GHz octa core 64-bit ARMv8-A
GPU Adreno 430
Memory 3 GB of LPDDR4 RAM
Storage 32 GB, 64 GB, or 128 GB
Battery

3,450 mAh Li-Po (Non-removable)

89 min charge, 6h 24 min use[1]
Display 5.7 in (145 mm) diagonal WQHD AMOLED Cinematic Display with scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass 4
2560x1440 px (518 ppi)
16:9 aspect ratio
Fingerprint and smudge-resistant oleophobic coating
Rear camera 12.3 MP
Sony Exmor IMX377
1.55 µm pixel size
f/2.0 aperture
IR laser-assisted autofocus
4K (30 fps) video capture
Broad-spectrum CRI-90 dual flash
720p slow motion at 240 fps
Front camera 8 MP
Sony Exmor IMX179
1.4 µm pixel size
f/2.4 aperture
HD video (30 fps)
Sound Dual front-facing stereo speakers
3 microphones (2 front, 1 rear) with noise cancellation
3.5 mm audio jack
Connectivity
Other
  • RGB LED Notification Light
Website www.google.com/nexus/6p

Nexus 6P (codenamed Angler) is an Android smartphone manufactured by Huawei. It was co-developed with and marketed by Google Inc. as part of its Nexus line of flagship devices and unveiled on 29 September 2015 along with the Nexus 5X at the Google Nexus 2015 press event held in San Francisco.[3] It was made available for pre-order on the same day in United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, and Japan. This Nexus device was named "6P", with the "P" standing for premium, and is the first Nexus device with all-metal design.

It is a successor to the Nexus 6 featuring a number of major changes, including an all-aluminum based body that is thinner and lighter than the Nexus 6, a rear fingerprint reader called Nexus Imprint, a faster octa-core Snapdragon 810 v2.1 system-on-chip (SoC), an AMOLED display, better cameras, enhanced LTE connectivity, a reversible USB Type-C dock connector, and the removal of wireless charging.

The Nexus 6P along with the Nexus 5X serve as launch devices for Android 6.0 "Marshmallow", which introduces a refreshed interface, performance and battery life improvements, Google Now on Tap integration, a fine-grained permission model, fingerprint verification, and other new features.

History

The Nexus 6P is the first Nexus phone that Google has chosen to co-develop with a Chinese company, Huawei. Images of the device first leaked in September 2015, showing an aluminum design with a raised bar on the top of the device containing a camera.[4]

After the Nexus 6P was officially unveiled on 29 September 2015 at a press event at Left Space Studios in San Francisco[3] by Android Engineering VP Dave Burke,[5] It was made available with the 32 GB model starting at a price of $499.[5]

Significant effort went into improving the design of the Nexus 6P compared to its predecessor, with Google exercising a considerable amount of design influence.[6] Google engineers mention that an effort was made to improve the ergonomics of one-handed use of the phone by shrinking the screen to 5.7 inches, and a singular bump on the Nexus 6 was changed to a horizontal strip in order to avoid the potential of the phone spinning when lying on a flat surface.[6] There was push back on certain design elements, notably the centering of the Single Reversible USB Type-C charging port.[6] Huawei VP of R&D described the Nexus 6P as a dream project, despite the challenges including the short development cycle, technological complexities in introducing a phone with the LTE bands to target the global market, and the design difficulties in an all-aluminum phone.[7]

Features

Software

Further information: Android (operating system)

The phone arrives running Android OS version 6.0 "Marshmallow". Compared to Android OS 5.0, the most significant changes include a new permissions architecture that allows for fine-grained control of app permissions instead of bulk permission granting during app install, and Google Now on Tap, an ability to perform a Google search based on the information currently displayed by holding down on the home button.

Due to the popularity of fingerprint based authentication, there is now support for an official fingerprint API that allows users to unlock their phones and perform app purchases in Google Play. Android "Marshmallow" also allows website owners to set a preferred app to open their links in, and allows users greater control over this behavior. Sharing has been improved with a feature called "Direct Share", which allows information to be sent to a contact directly, rather than to a third party app first. On screen volume controls have also been simplified, with more extensive control exposed via a tap. Text selection has been redesigned to show a floating toolbar next to the highlighted text, replacing the actionbar which existed on the top of the screen in previous versions of Android.

Android "Marshmallow" includes a battery life enchaining feature called "Doze Mode" that suspends network access, disables sync and scheduled jobs for suspended apps during periods when the phone is inactive.

Hardware

The Nexus 6P features an octa-core Snapdragon 810 v2.1 system-on-chip (SoC) with four ARM Cortex-A57 cores at 1.95 GHz and four ARM Cortex-A53 cores at 1.55 GHz in a big.LITTLE architecture. The SoC includes an Adreno 430 GPU including support up to OpenGL ES 3.1.

The Nexus 6P has 3 GB of LPDDR4 RAM, which has lower energy consumption compared to the LPDDR3 utilized in the Nexus 6. Available storage sizes include options of 32, 64, or 128 GB of internal storage.[8] The storage used is Samsung manufactured eMMC 5.0 multi-level cell NAND flash fabricated at 10 nm.[9][10]

Similar to the previous Nexus 6, the Nexus 6P also uses an AMOLED display manufactured by Samsung. The screen has a WQHD (2560 by 1440 pixels) resolution at 518 ppi. It has a reduced size of 5.7 inches which contributes to improved accessibility.[11] The AMOLED screen used is the same generation but lower binned compared to those used in the Samsung Note 5, the latest available as of the time of release.[6] Benchmarks conducted by AnandTech indicates that this results in a screen power efficiency that is in-between that of the Note 5 and Note 4.[12] It was found that the phone contains a sRGB mode in "Developer Options" that increased color accuracy by lowering saturation.

The battery has a 3450 mAh capacity and uses a USB Type-C connector for charging. [13]

The Nexus 6P has a rear facing Sony Exmor IMX377 sensor with f/2.0 aperture, that can take 12.3-megapixel (4032 by 3024 pixels) photos. The sensor has a large pixel size of 1.55 micron which assist photography in low light conditions. It is capable of recording video at 4K resolution, as well as slow-motion 720p video capture at 240 fps.[14] The front facing camera has a Sony Exmor IMX179 8.08 megapixel sensor with a f/2.4 aperture lens. The IMX179 was previously used in the rear camera of the Nexus 5 [15]

The back of the phone includes a round fingerprint recognition sensor branded Nexus Imprint below the camera. It is based on the low power FPC1025[16] sensor developed by Fingerprint Cards AB that can read dry or wet fingerprints in 360-degrees, with a resolution of 508 dots per inch.[17]

Sensor wise, a TMD27723 digital ambient light and proximity sensor from ams is present on the front of the device.[18] Internally, there exists a Bosch Sensortec BMI160 inertial measurement unit containing an accelerometer and gyroscope, a Bosch BMM150 geomagnetic sensor, and a Bosch BMP280 barometric pressure sensor.[18]

In order to save power, Google has introduced what it calls an 'Android Sensor Hub'. It is a low-power secondary processor and its purpose is to monitor the device's movement by connecting directly to the accelerometer, gyroscope, fingerprint reader, and camera's sensors. This chip runs advanced activity-recognition algorithms that allows it to interpret activities and gestures independently of the main processor. The main CPU needs to only be engaged when something happens that requires more attention. The Sensor Hub recognizes when the device has been picked up and will automatically display notifications in a low-power white-on-black text until the screen has been properly activated. Additionally, the Sensor Hub stack also supports hardware sensor batching, a feature introduced in KitKat that permits sensors for a short period of time to delay handing off non-critical data to the operating system – as opposed to sending a constant stream of data to the CPU that results in the use of more power. Sensor batching has been used in step counters and therefore does not require the main processor to constantly remain awake as each step is measured.[19][20]

Design

The phone is the first in the Nexus lineup with an "all-metal body" (still contains some plastic parts).[21] Color choices include aluminium, graphite, frost, and gold (available in Japan,[22][23] India [24] and the US[25]).

It is 159.3 millimetres (6.27 in) high, 77.8 millimetres (3.06 in) wide, and 7.3 millimetres (0.29 in) deep, compared to the Nexus 6, which is 159.3 millimetres (6.27 in) high, 82.9 millimetres (3.27 in) wide, and 10.1 millimetres (0.40 in) deep; making the Nexus 6P both thinner and less wide than the Nexus 6. Weight wise, it is 6 grams lighter (178g compared to 184g) than the Nexus 6.

The screen is protected by a panel of Gorilla Glass 4, while the back and sides are aeronautical-grade anodized aluminum.[26] There is a rear bump that spans the width of the phone that houses the camera sensor, LED flash, laser auto focus, NFC coil, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular antennas.[27] Internally this bump was called a "visor".[28]

Network compatibility

Model FCC id Carriers/Regions GSM bands CDMA bands UMTS bands (3G) TD-SCDMA LTE bands CA DL bands
H1511[29] QISH1511[30] North America Quad 0 / 1 / 10 1 / 2 / 4 / 5 / 8 N/A 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 7 / 12 / 13 / 17 / 25 / 26 / 29 / 30 / 41 B2-B2, B2-B4, B2-B5, B2-B12, B2-B13, B2-B17, B2-B29, B4-B4, B4-B5, B4-B13, B4-B17, B4-B29, B41-B41
H1512[31] QISH1512 Rest of world Quad 0 / 1 1 / 2 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 8 / 9 / 19 34 / 39 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 17 / 19 / 20 / 28 / 38 / 39 / 40 / 41 B1-B5, B1-B8, B1-B19, B3-B3, B3-B5, B3-B7, B3-B8, B3-B19, B3-B20, B3-B28, B5-B7, B7-B7, B7-B20, B7-B28, B39-B39, B40-B40, B41-B41

Reception

Critical reception

The Nexus 6P received generally positive reviews. Ars Technica termed the Nexus 5X and the Nexus 6P "the true flagships of the Android ecosystem" and noted the "few to no compromises". Ars Technica also suggested the 6P had much better hardware than the 5X for a reasonable premium, saying "Compare the 32GB 6P against the $429 32GB 5X, and there's only a $70 difference for the aluminum body, larger screen, faster processor, extra speaker, bigger battery, and extra RAM". [32] The Verge considers the Nexus 6P as "the best" Android phone with "beautiful hardware and a camera that can finally compete".[33] Anandtech praised the camera as a "high-end performer", but was critical of the price outside North America and Europe.[34] Wired called the Nexus 6P "the best hardware Google (and its partner Huawei) can make, and the best software, all in a single slick package", applauded the "ridiculously fast" fingerprint recognition, the "ultra-fast charging", and called it the "best smartphone camera".[11]

iFixit gave the phone a 2 out of 10 in terms of repairability, praising the solid construction which improved durability, but mentions that it is "very difficult" to open the device without damaging the glass camera cover due to the unibody design, and panned the difficulty in replacing the screen and the adhesive holding the rear cover panels and battery in place.[9]

Known issues

The lack of expansion joints in the rear glass that covers the visor, makes it susceptible to crack on its own if there is a sudden temperature change, like entering a warm room from cold outside.[35][36][37] It’s possible that this issue may be affecting just a particular batch of handsets and thus only a portion of consumers.[38]

Some users have reported Bluetooth issues, manifesting in the form of stuttering music when playing to Bluetooth speakers. Google said it is already working on them.[39]

There have been reports of microphone issues that result in weak and spotty voice quality. Google is investigating the issue.[40]

Connectivity issues were reported after the launch in Australia by users of the Telstra 4GX (LTE Band 28) network. Issues included occasional drops out from the 4G/4GX network,[41] such as when switching from Wifi to 4G/4GX.[42]

The device chassis is susceptible to bending under pressure. It bends with less force than the iPhone 6 Plus.[43][44][45]

The phone sometimes switches to landscape mode without a clear reason, and it does not go back to portrait.[46]

When receiving a call in a three-way call, the user cannot send messages.[46]


See also

References

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  16. ↑ "Fingerprints-FPC’s OneTouch® FPC1025 fingerprint sensor in Google’s Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P smartphones". www.fingerprints.com. Fingerprint Cards AB. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
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  20. ↑ "The New Android Sensor Hub Will Significantly Improve Idle Battery Life While Doing More With Sensor Data". Android Police. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  21. ↑ All-metal Nexus 6P flagship phone showcases Android 6.0 Marshmallow on huge 5.7-inch screen, CNet, September 29, 2015
  22. ↑ Nexus 5X VS Nexus 6P: All The Differences To Help You Decide Which One To Pick, AndroidPolice, September 29, 2015
  23. ↑ "The Special Edition Gold Nexus 6P Is Confirmed To Be A Japan Exclusive". Android Police. Retrieved 2015-10-04.
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  25. ↑ Google And Huawei Bring Gold-Colored Nexus 6P To US
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  29. ↑ Huawei Nexus 6P A1 TD-LTE 64GB H1511 (Huawei Angler) Specs
  30. ↑ Google Nexus 6P full specs
  31. ↑ Huawei Nexus 6P A2 TD-LTE 32GB H1512 (Huawei Angler) Specs
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  40. ↑ "Many Nexus 6P Owners Are Reporting Microphone Problems, May Be Related To Noise Cancellation; Google Is Investigating". Android Police.
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  45. ↑ "Nexus 6P Bendgate Not Over Yet: New Bend Test Shows Freshly Unboxed Nexus 6P Easily Breaks In Half". Tech Times.
  46. 1 2 Google Nexus 6P Complaints Get Louder As Problems Persist: Screen Detaching From Frame, Buggy Marshmallow Update And More : PERSONAL TECH : Tech Times

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