**Hands-on with the Huawei Nexus 6P and Google Nexus 5X**

I had the opportunity to get hands on with both the Huawei Nexus 6P and Google Nexus 5X at an event recently. I was impressed with the quality of both phones, and I'm excited to share my thoughts on them.

One of the things that caught my attention was the display on both phones. The 6P has a 5.7-inch display, which is almost edge-to-edge, giving it a more compact feel than its 5.5-inch equivalent. In comparison, the iPhone 6S Plus had a similar-sized screen, but it looked slightly larger due to the phone's design. I was pleased to see that Google and Huawei have managed to pack in a bigger screen size without sacrificing build quality or making the phone too large.

The display on both phones looks great, with crisp colors and sharp text. The 1080p screen on the Nexus 5X is particularly noteworthy, as it's a significant improvement over the standard HD screens found on many other devices. The LG panel used in both phones does an excellent job of producing vibrant colors and a smooth viewing experience.

In terms of build quality, both phones feel solid and premium. The plastic backs are soft to the touch, but still offer a good level of durability. I was particularly pleased with the feel of the 6P's back, which has a slightly different texture than the Nexus 5X. It's clear that Google and Huawei have put a lot of thought into the design of these phones.

One feature that I was looking forward to seeing on both phones was wireless charging. Unfortunately, it seems that neither the 6P nor the 5X support this technology, at least not yet. However, the 6P does have USB-C fast charging, which is a welcome addition for those who want to quickly top up their battery.

Another feature that I was excited about was Marshmallow, Google's latest operating system. I had limited time with the phones, but it seems like Marshmallow is a significant improvement over KitKat. The Doze mode, in particular, looks like it will make a big difference for users who want to conserve battery life. It works by putting the phone into low power mode when you're not using apps or are sleeping, and it's impressive to see how quickly it can help extend battery life.

In terms of software features, both phones have some nice tweaks that set them apart from other devices. The 6P has a new color option called "Mint Cream," which is a subtle yet attractive addition to the phone's design. It's clear that Google and Huawei are putting a lot of thought into the user experience, and it shows in the attention to detail.

One area where I would have liked to see more development was in terms of RAM. The Nexus 5X comes with only 2GB of RAM, which is a bit disappointing given the phone's specs. However, I do think that 2GB is sufficient for most users, and it's clear that Google has prioritized other areas of the device.

The camera on both phones looks great, with the 12.3MP sensor on the Nexus 6P being particularly impressive. Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to test this out in person, but I'm excited to see what images it can produce.

In conclusion, both the Huawei Nexus 6P and Google Nexus 5X are solid devices that offer a range of features and improvements over their predecessors. While there are a few areas where they fall short, such as wireless charging and RAM, overall I think these phones are worth considering for users looking for a premium Android experience.

**Comparison to Other Options**

One thing to note is that the Nexus 5X has some notable differences from other devices in its class. For example, it comes with expandable storage, which is a significant advantage over many of its competitors. On the other hand, the Moto X also offers this feature, and it's worth considering for those who value flexibility in their device.

Ultimately, the choice between these two phones will depend on your individual needs and preferences. If you're looking for a bigger screen size without sacrificing build quality, the 6P may be the way to go. However, if you prefer a more compact design and are willing to sacrifice some features, the Nexus 5X is still a great option.

**Final Thoughts**

I hope this helps you make up your mind about which phone to choose. Both the Huawei Nexus 6P and Google Nexus 5X are solid devices that offer a range of features and improvements over their predecessors. As always, I'm excited to see how these phones will perform in real-world use cases, and I look forward to continuing to test them out in the coming weeks.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here and i am just back from the google event we took the wraps off their latest phones the really not very surprising 5x and 6p since those suckers have been leaked and rumored for many many many moons i've been getting a ton of questions about things from build quality to camera to fingerprint sensor started to make a video giving my thoughts and impressions uh on both devices let's jump right in let's start with the big daddy the 6p so here are my general thoughts and again i only had a few minutes to play with it we'll give more thoughts and impressions when i actually get them in our offices to test uh first all three colors look awesome if i was ordering one myself i would just close my eyes and just like pick one in order they all look great no color i don't think look better or worse other than the other they all looked and felt awesome thinking of how they felt the metal body feels really good i had kind of an htc esque feel to it it was incredibly thin but just waited enough uh surprisingly even with that camera hump it didn't feel very top heavy either some of the complaint that i've got with devices uh in the leaks of the 6p it looked like that camera hump was huge and in the pictures the device looked very ugly in person though it's a totally different story the slope of the camera is very gradual it's not like an angle where it's a big right angle with a giant hump it's gradually hardly even notice it and i was actually really surprised i was not a fan of how i thought it was going to look from the league sing in person was totally different you can appreciate how thin and tiny it is while still having a giant battery and a qhd screen it was all very impressive and speaking of the screen it looked really good i've tested a few huawei phones but the major manufacturers have tested their phones the least since really just for players in the us market over the past few years so i don't know what to expect with their screens it looked really nice i played video i browse websites the whites looked really white the colors looked true and things looked very very bright i'm the kind of guy usually to turn my brightness up almost all the way i did it on the 6p i had to turn down a little bit because it was almost too bright uh the fingerprint sensor on the back i don't know how big a fan of i am i tried it and i used it and it worked really well it worked as fast as google was advertising they're calling it a nexus input but fingerprint sensor um so it worked very well i'm just not sure how i feel about the placement on the back for a few reasons first cases i know that google's selling some cases up on the google store but how is that going to work the case is going to have you know obviously the case it has a thickness in it you have to push down almost through that case to get your finger on it so that is to be determined but it did work well and it worked very fast as fast as the new touch id on the 6s and 6s plus in case you're wondering what you want to measure measure from i do think the fingerprint sensors on the current crop of samsung devices so uh the note 5 and the s6 edge plus are very fast as well uh these new ones though were were definitely faster one thing i couldn't test while i was there uh was the camera so i couldn't get the pictures off the phone onto a computer it's only had just a few minutes there um so i don't know the answer to that yet i got a ton of questions about camera a 12.3 megapixel sensor certainly high enough in the megapixel department people were disappointed about no ois but google was really hot to trot about the size of those pixels like gigantic pixels that supposedly alleviate the need for ois but we'll see when we get it in the offices i think pricing is really good like they're going up to 128. the display looks almost edge-to-edge you're getting a 5.7 inch display and it looks like a 5.5 inch package so yeah that was really nice they showed a diagram next to an iphone 6s plus and you can certainly see the difference so you're getting a bigger screen size and it looked really nice for me if i was gonna order one i'd go 6p and i was pretty sure i was going to do a 5x when i went into the event so that's off to huawei and google for creating a really nice phone one last bit that i want to mention about the 6p has been some rumors no wireless charging no wireless charging as of now you can't do wireless charging through metal at least on a consumer release technology does supposedly exist but it's not on a consumer phone yet so that's not there a usbc is nice it does have usbc fast charging a lot of people were asking about that so fast charging is there i know if it's qualcomm standard or something new because it is running the a10 but it's there um and no wireless charging on the 5x front i was a big fan of the original nexus 5 like pretty much everybody was the 1080p screen looks really good in person it looks really good in person it didn't look qhd it's sort of a sharpness crisp but it looked as good as some of the best 1080p screens that are out there right now so don't worry you know how the screen's gonna look lg does a really nice job the phones felt really nice they'll feel very familiar if you use the original nexus 5. it feels almost like that there's a bit more of a soft touch texture to the plastic backs as opposed to the smoothness he had on the original nexus 5 but that's the only real difference i like the batteries a little bit bigger i think that should certainly help marshmallows doze mode is certainly going to help improve battery life usb-c is nice it's a fast charging i could not get confirmation on wireless charging though but i'm led to believe it is not there so again uh bear that in mind uh 12.3 megapixel sensor unfortunately i couldn't test on the nexus 5. um i saw the colors i was not a fan of that mint cream color uh in person it's a new color for a phone but if i was gonna order one i would probably not look at uh at that one so anyway bear that in mind as you guys decide which phone you want to get i did not get much time though to test marshmallow unfortunately safer just seeing what the easter egg was but it was there it looked good it looked quick i'm excited for doze which actually was sort of almost shut down sort of go into low power mode when you're not using apps when you're sleeping or phone is just sort of sitting idle you should get a big improved battery life one other software tweak that i saw on the 6p also that i couldn't confirm on the 5x it almost has motorola's ambient display so if you wave your hand over or shake the phone it will sort of give you notifications and time and stuff on it so that was kind of a cool addition that google and huawei added there assignment those are my thoughts on the phones they're really nice improvements easier to hold than the curt nexus 6 if you want a bigger phone on the 6p side the 5x if you like the nexus 5 you know exactly you're going to get same fingerprint sensor it worked fast as well just like the 6p and it's a little bit newer version of the nexus 5. i wish there was more than two gigs of ram and their two gigs is plenty for right now if you can use the phone for two years uh you know i think that's two gigs is going to be the lowest that's acceptable so i'd like to had at least three and like you've also had four gigs uh in the 6p but did not happen and i hope this will help you guys decide what not you want to upgrade or not upgrade there's a lot of other options out there especially for those price points i know people are looking at the moto x and cross shopping that with the 6p you do get expandable storage with the moto x so bear that in mind and decide what's most important for you guys anyway thank you for watching hope you enjoyed if you want to see our hands on with both the phones i will link to them i will put annotations up so you guys can click right over to them anyway next time john ranger from technobuffalo see you guys in the next one byewhat's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here and i am just back from the google event we took the wraps off their latest phones the really not very surprising 5x and 6p since those suckers have been leaked and rumored for many many many moons i've been getting a ton of questions about things from build quality to camera to fingerprint sensor started to make a video giving my thoughts and impressions uh on both devices let's jump right in let's start with the big daddy the 6p so here are my general thoughts and again i only had a few minutes to play with it we'll give more thoughts and impressions when i actually get them in our offices to test uh first all three colors look awesome if i was ordering one myself i would just close my eyes and just like pick one in order they all look great no color i don't think look better or worse other than the other they all looked and felt awesome thinking of how they felt the metal body feels really good i had kind of an htc esque feel to it it was incredibly thin but just waited enough uh surprisingly even with that camera hump it didn't feel very top heavy either some of the complaint that i've got with devices uh in the leaks of the 6p it looked like that camera hump was huge and in the pictures the device looked very ugly in person though it's a totally different story the slope of the camera is very gradual it's not like an angle where it's a big right angle with a giant hump it's gradually hardly even notice it and i was actually really surprised i was not a fan of how i thought it was going to look from the league sing in person was totally different you can appreciate how thin and tiny it is while still having a giant battery and a qhd screen it was all very impressive and speaking of the screen it looked really good i've tested a few huawei phones but the major manufacturers have tested their phones the least since really just for players in the us market over the past few years so i don't know what to expect with their screens it looked really nice i played video i browse websites the whites looked really white the colors looked true and things looked very very bright i'm the kind of guy usually to turn my brightness up almost all the way i did it on the 6p i had to turn down a little bit because it was almost too bright uh the fingerprint sensor on the back i don't know how big a fan of i am i tried it and i used it and it worked really well it worked as fast as google was advertising they're calling it a nexus input but fingerprint sensor um so it worked very well i'm just not sure how i feel about the placement on the back for a few reasons first cases i know that google's selling some cases up on the google store but how is that going to work the case is going to have you know obviously the case it has a thickness in it you have to push down almost through that case to get your finger on it so that is to be determined but it did work well and it worked very fast as fast as the new touch id on the 6s and 6s plus in case you're wondering what you want to measure measure from i do think the fingerprint sensors on the current crop of samsung devices so uh the note 5 and the s6 edge plus are very fast as well uh these new ones though were were definitely faster one thing i couldn't test while i was there uh was the camera so i couldn't get the pictures off the phone onto a computer it's only had just a few minutes there um so i don't know the answer to that yet i got a ton of questions about camera a 12.3 megapixel sensor certainly high enough in the megapixel department people were disappointed about no ois but google was really hot to trot about the size of those pixels like gigantic pixels that supposedly alleviate the need for ois but we'll see when we get it in the offices i think pricing is really good like they're going up to 128. the display looks almost edge-to-edge you're getting a 5.7 inch display and it looks like a 5.5 inch package so yeah that was really nice they showed a diagram next to an iphone 6s plus and you can certainly see the difference so you're getting a bigger screen size and it looked really nice for me if i was gonna order one i'd go 6p and i was pretty sure i was going to do a 5x when i went into the event so that's off to huawei and google for creating a really nice phone one last bit that i want to mention about the 6p has been some rumors no wireless charging no wireless charging as of now you can't do wireless charging through metal at least on a consumer release technology does supposedly exist but it's not on a consumer phone yet so that's not there a usbc is nice it does have usbc fast charging a lot of people were asking about that so fast charging is there i know if it's qualcomm standard or something new because it is running the a10 but it's there um and no wireless charging on the 5x front i was a big fan of the original nexus 5 like pretty much everybody was the 1080p screen looks really good in person it looks really good in person it didn't look qhd it's sort of a sharpness crisp but it looked as good as some of the best 1080p screens that are out there right now so don't worry you know how the screen's gonna look lg does a really nice job the phones felt really nice they'll feel very familiar if you use the original nexus 5. it feels almost like that there's a bit more of a soft touch texture to the plastic backs as opposed to the smoothness he had on the original nexus 5 but that's the only real difference i like the batteries a little bit bigger i think that should certainly help marshmallows doze mode is certainly going to help improve battery life usb-c is nice it's a fast charging i could not get confirmation on wireless charging though but i'm led to believe it is not there so again uh bear that in mind uh 12.3 megapixel sensor unfortunately i couldn't test on the nexus 5. um i saw the colors i was not a fan of that mint cream color uh in person it's a new color for a phone but if i was gonna order one i would probably not look at uh at that one so anyway bear that in mind as you guys decide which phone you want to get i did not get much time though to test marshmallow unfortunately safer just seeing what the easter egg was but it was there it looked good it looked quick i'm excited for doze which actually was sort of almost shut down sort of go into low power mode when you're not using apps when you're sleeping or phone is just sort of sitting idle you should get a big improved battery life one other software tweak that i saw on the 6p also that i couldn't confirm on the 5x it almost has motorola's ambient display so if you wave your hand over or shake the phone it will sort of give you notifications and time and stuff on it so that was kind of a cool addition that google and huawei added there assignment those are my thoughts on the phones they're really nice improvements easier to hold than the curt nexus 6 if you want a bigger phone on the 6p side the 5x if you like the nexus 5 you know exactly you're going to get same fingerprint sensor it worked fast as well just like the 6p and it's a little bit newer version of the nexus 5. i wish there was more than two gigs of ram and their two gigs is plenty for right now if you can use the phone for two years uh you know i think that's two gigs is going to be the lowest that's acceptable so i'd like to had at least three and like you've also had four gigs uh in the 6p but did not happen and i hope this will help you guys decide what not you want to upgrade or not upgrade there's a lot of other options out there especially for those price points i know people are looking at the moto x and cross shopping that with the 6p you do get expandable storage with the moto x so bear that in mind and decide what's most important for you guys anyway thank you for watching hope you enjoyed if you want to see our hands on with both the phones i will link to them i will put annotations up so you guys can click right over to them anyway next time john ranger from technobuffalo see you guys in the next one bye\n"