On October 16, Google released the new flagship phone Nexus 6 of the "pro son" series online, and we saw a lot of highlights in it. For example, it is the first Nexus manufactured by Motorola, and the first Nexus series phone that uses a 1440P screen and a metal middle frame. Let's immediately experience the "six princes" from MOTO:
The packaging style of Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 Very similar, of course, the size is much smaller, and the box has a dark line of "6". We got the American version of Nexus 6. It's not easy to cross the sea. The sticker on the package is defective. Please forgive me
The style of the back is the same as that of the Nexus 9, which directly shows the shape of the Nexus 6 (PS: the same sentence, it is not easy to travel across the sea, please forgive the flaws in the sticker on the package...).
Open the package, the Nexus 6 is in front of you, there is a protective film on the top of the screen, and there is a white edge at the lower left corner for users to tear.
Compared with the Nexus 5 of the previous generation, the Nexus 6 has a much larger screen, reaching 6 inches. Compared with other flagship phones, it is also absolutely a behemoth. The screen resolution also reached the highest level of mobile phones, 2560 * 1440. The screen panel is Super AMOLED, and the screen sub pixels are arranged by Pentile. In addition, the top of the front of the Nexus 6 is wider than the bottom. Users with obsessive-compulsive disorder may not accept it.
The width of the top earpiece is large. In fact, when the mobile phone is put out, it also acts as another speaker of the mobile phone to achieve the effect of surround sound. The left side of the earpiece is the light sensor and distance sensor, and the right side of the earpiece is the front camera with 2 million pixels.
The Nexus 6 is designed with the virtual key used by the Nexus series. There is only one speaker below, which is symmetrical with the earpiece.
The back cover of the Nexus 6 is very similar to MOTO X (2014), but the Motorola logo will look more natural. There is a symbolic Nexus logo below, showing its "son" identity.
There is a silver Nexus logo on the back. The material on the back is easy to get fingerprints and is not easy to clean.
The Nexus 6 camera also has a hardware upgrade. It uses a 13 million pixel rear camera. The sensor is Sony's "Hot Fried Chicken" IMX214, with a lens aperture of F2.0 and OIS optical anti shake. There is a transparent plastic ring around the camera, and there are two left and right LED fill lights hidden below.
The effect of Led fill light on.
The Motorola logo with a concave back can stabilize the mobile phone when it is held in one hand.
The Nexus 6 has also introduced the popular metal middle frame design, with a 3.5mm headphone interface in the middle and a SIM card slot on the top. On the top, you can also see the common antenna partition strip on the metal middle frame mobile phone.
An "o" card pin is included. The Nexus 6 supports Nano SIM cards.
The metal part of the streamlined design on the top is quite special.
At the bottom is a micro USB interface, which supports fast charging.
The metal middle frame on the left side of the fuselage.
There are power button and volume button on the right side of the fuselage.
The power key is placed above the volume key, and the surface of the key is of different designs. The power key is equipped with anti slip stripes, enabling users to better distinguish the two keys.
Although the back cover of the Nexus 6 has a certain radian, and its sleek body adds a lot of points to its feel, the 6-inch large screen still inevitably makes it difficult to hold the Nexus 6 in one hand. The 186g weight also seems to fall slightly, and the thickness of the body also exceeds 1cm. In the era of large screen mobile phones, the Nexus 6 is definitely a giant.
Although the Nexus 6 machine is full of texture due to the addition of metal materials, the gap between the back cover and the metal middle frame is a great eyesore.
There are even such spoofs (Galaxy Note 4: I finally found a partner!):
Although the 2K level Super AMOLED is also used, the color performance of the Nexus 6 is far inferior to that of the Galaxy Note 4, and the system does not adjust the display mode by default. Maybe we need to rely on third-party ROMs to remedy this.
The screen brightness of the Nexus 6 is also very low, with a maximum of only about 260 cd/㎡. Samsung's Super AMOLED can reach a maximum of 350 cd/㎡ in manual mode, and even more than 400 cd/㎡ in automatic mode under strong light.
The second layer of packaging is related instructions and accessories.
The accessories of the Nexus 6 are simple, with only one power adapter and data cable.
The power adapter is special. It supports three charging specifications, namely 5V 1.6A, 9V 1.6A and 12V 1.2A. This proves that it supports Qualcomm's fast charging technology. The power adapter is made in China.
As the latest work of "My Son", Nexus 6 is dutifully using the latest Android 5.0 system. I believe that users who have experienced native Android 5.0 will be familiar with its style.
The system lock screen interface displays the contents of the notice bar in addition to the common dialing and photographing shortcuts.
The style of the drop-down bar is more flat and concise, combining shortcut switches and system notifications.
The system dial interface is mainly white.
In the system information interface, you can see that the color of the notice bar is close to that of the lower part, but there is still a certain color difference.
The system edits the SMS interface, with purple as the notification bar.
System clock interface.
The system setting interface is mainly white with green flat icons.
Nexus 6 adopts Android 5.0 official version system, with kernel version 3.10.40.
Lollipop eggs for Android 5.0.
Statistics of system power.
Screenshot when installing third-party applications.
Nexus 6 uses Qualcomm's most high-end Snapdragon 805 2.7GHz processor, Android 420 600MHz graphics processor, and GPU driver V95, which is also the highest mobile phone we have ever seen.
The GCC version of the Linux compiler is also relatively new, 4.8 (4.9 for Nexus 9).
We used Anthare to test the Nexus 6. The score was very high, close to the 50000 mark, much better than other mobile phones using Snapdragon 805, which changed the impression of poor performance of Nexus series in the past.
Although the screen resolution is up to 2560 * 1440, the Nexus 6 still gets more than 17000 3D drawing scores thanks to the excellent performance of Adreno 420, which is quite powerful.
Pi test, only 24 seconds to complete the test, played very well.
In the GFXBench 3.0 graphics performance test, the Manhattan scene is close to 19 frames, and the Tyrannosaurus Rex scene is about 39 frames, which also conforms to the performance of Brother Bruce Lee 805.
We know that Nexus series mobile phones always have excellent performance in terms of smoothness. Android 5.0 has used the ART mode to completely replace the Dalvik mode. How about the smoothness of Nexus 6? We use GPU rendering analysis in the system to detect the number of frames. It can be seen that the Nexus 6 shows excellent smoothness in the sliding of the system UI, and the yellow line is far lower than the green 60 frame reference line.
However, in the face of some domestic applications like "cancer", even the Nexus 6 still can't handle it. The picture shows the number of frames when using Sina Weibo. It can be seen that yellow also exceeds the green line for several moments.
The rear camera of Nexus 6 is 13 million pixels. How about its photo taking performance with OIS optical anti shake? Let's take a look at the sample.
Scenario 1:
Nexus 6 sample (click to view the large picture).
The Nexus 6 opens the HDR+proof, and you can see that the overall brightness of the picture has been greatly improved, and the picture details are also better.
Sample of iPhone 6 Plus (click to view a larger picture).
Scenario 2:
Nexus 6 sample (click to view the large picture).
Sample of iPhone 6 Plus (click to view a larger picture).
Scenario 3:
Nexus 6 sample (click to view the large picture).
Sample of iPhone 6 Plus (click to view a larger picture).
Scenario 4:
Nexus 6 sample (click to view the large picture).
Sample of iPhone 6 Plus (click to view a larger picture).
From the above scenes, we can see that the 13 million pixel Nexus 6 does not take much advantage of the iPhone 6 Plus in terms of picture details when the light is sufficient, and it shows the problem of insufficient exposure in Scene 1. However, we can remedy this problem by turning on HDR. In the night scene sample, the gap between the two is very large. Nexus 6 raised the ISO to more than 1000 to obtain a higher shutter speed, but in return, it is full screen noise. The iPhone 6 Plus works by keeping the ISO as low as possible and keeping the shutter 1/4 second. However, with the help of optical anti shake, the problem of "pasting" is avoided. The overall picture is much cleaner and the anti glare is better.
The Nexus 6 front 2 megapixel camera only supports 1080P level photography. What's the concept? We can't even do the point-to-point display on the screen... We don't need more requirements for the self portrait effect, so you will understand when you look at the sample
The American version Nexus 6 can normally use the cards of the three major domestic operators, but the mobile card can only use the EDGE network. The telecom card can be used for 3G, but cannot be used for 4G. It is not ruled out that it can be used normally through subsequent cracking.
For more tests of Nexus 6, please pay attention to our next more detailed evaluation.
