The Huawei Nexus 6P is Google's flagship Android phablet with a 5.7-inch display and it is reasonably priced to be considered one of the best currently on the market.
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The P in the name stands for Premium, thanks to its all-metal unibody design. Although relatively flat around the back with barely tapered edges, the Nexus 6P feels comfortable in one hand, yet it still takes two hands to operate it properly due to its screen size. Its dimensions are 159.4 x 77.8 x 7.3mm and it weighs in at 178g, so nothing that can't be in your hand all day long, but of course this is far from lightness of old phones.
The Nexus 6P's 5.7-inch display features quad HD resolution. Its AMOLED technology goes hand to hand with other high-spec devices and if you add to that a 2,560x ,440 resolution with a dense 518 pixels per inch, and, you'll get brighter and more colorful picture than many other can show you. Brightness is higher when "adaptive brightness" is turned off, and color accuracy is very good and you'll make a lot of good-looking photos with 6P.
The Nexus 6P features the Adaptive Display functionality: When you pick the phone or a notification arrives, the phone flashes a grayscale notification lockscreen. On the other side, on the back of its aluminum body, there is Imprint Sensor, a biometric fingerprint sensor well-known from number of other devices. Its position is where Google thinks you finger should be but - as can be the case with Goole's ideas - it depends on your hand is it good position for you or you must stretch your finger to reach the sensor.
The Nexus 6P uses USB-C for charging and data transfer, which means your micro USB cables you already have are worth nothing. Under the hood there's Qualcomm's 64-bit, octa-core processor with 2.0GHz quad-core and a slower and more energy efficient, 1.55GHz quad-core one. There's Sensor Hub, a dedicated motion chip that takes car about all sensors on the phone. The Adreno 430 GPU is taking care of graphics and 3GB of memory is quite enough these days. If you're thinking to buy a phone you won't throw away in two months, try 6P. ■
