Google
has teamed up with some of the top smartphone makers to create
the best line of Android phones you’ve likely never heard of for the
past five years. Each year’s new Nexus used smartly designed hardware to
showcase the features of the latest version of Android. The phones show
how good Google’s mobile OS can be when not hampered by carrier
bloatware and a manufacturer’s complicated interfaces.
The new
Nexus 6, which Google produced with Motorola, is in nearly every way a
better device than its predecessors. The build, display, battery life
and camera have all improved. But its most notable feature will be a
dealbreaker for some: It is one massive phablet.
The Nexus 6 is Google’s biggest step toward finally bringing Nexus to
the masses. The Nexus 6, which goes on sale this week, will be the
first Nexus sold by the four largest U.S. carriers:
AT&T
,
Sprint
,
T-Mobile
and
Verizon
.
That’s in contrast to previous Nexus devices, which were sold
through, at most, two carriers at a time as well as Google Play and
Amazon, with next to no marketing.
Still, the push to become more
of a household name may not matter. The Nexus 6 is so big, I wouldn’t
advise people buy it unless they’ve held it in one hand and tried
carrying it in a pants pocket. Compared with the
massive-in-its-own-right iPhone 6 Plus, the Nexus 6 is taller, thicker
and heavier. Unless your name is Shaquille O’Neal, you probably won’t be
able to palm it.
After jumping from the iPhone 6 Plus to the 6-inch Nexus 6, that half-inch difference in screen size was huge.
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