Nexus 6 review: The Motorola-built 2014 phablet — stock Android at 5.96 inches.
The phablet that launched Lollipop.
Nexus 6 was Google's Motorola-built 2014 flagship — the launch device for Android 5.0 Lollipop and Material Design. Its 5.96-inch screen was divisive then but normal now. A milestone in the Nexus program before the Pixel era.
01Display
78/100At 78/100 this is one of the strongest display showings among legacy phones of 2014 — 10 points above the cohort average.
02Camera
60/10060/100 — right at the average for legacy phones of 2014.
03Performance
62/10062/100 puts it above the 56-point average for legacy phones of 2014.
04Battery
64/10064/100 — right at the average for legacy phones of 2014.
05Build
76/10076/100 trails the 79-point cohort average for legacy phones of 2014.
06Value
58/10058/100 puts it above the 56-point average for legacy phones of 2014.
- Launch device for Android 5.0 Lollipop + Material Design.
- Dual front-firing stereo speakers.
- Qi wireless + Turbo Charge.
- Pure stock Android with fast updates for the era.
- Discontinued — stopped at Android 7.1.1.
- 5.96" was polarisingly large in 2014.
- 3,220 mAh modest for the screen size.
- 184 g heavy.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 6-phone cohort of legacy devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .