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Nexus 6P review: The Huawei-built Nexus that ended the line on a high.

SpecEagle Editorial·Sep 2015·$499
Overall
48/100
Class rank
#90 of 100
Tier
Flagship
Buy?
Look elsewhere
The verdict, up front

The last Nexus — a fitting, if flawed, send-off.

The Huawei-built Nexus 6P closed the Nexus line with stereo speakers and a fine camera, undermined by the hot Snapdragon 810. A collector’s device today.

01Display

76/100

76/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2015.

TypeAMOLED, 60 Hz
Size5.7 inches
Resolution2,560 × 1,440 px (518 ppi)
ProtectionGorilla Glass 4

02Camera

56/100

56/100 is one of the weaker camera results among flagship phones of 2015 — 11 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.

Main12.3 MP, f/2.0, laser AF
Selfie8 MP, f/2.4
Video4K @ 30 fps
Features1.55µm large pixels

03Performance

40/100

40/100 is one of the weaker performance results among flagship phones of 2015 — 24 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.

ChipsetSnapdragon 810 (20 nm)
CPU8 cores
GPUAdreno 430
RAM3 GB
Storage32 GB / 64 GB / 128 GB

04Battery

58/100

58/100 is one of the weaker battery results among flagship phones of 2015 — 8 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.

Capacity3,450 mAh
Wired15 W USB-C
WirelessNo

05Build

70/100

70/100 trails the 72-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2015.

06Value

52/100

52/100 trails the 58-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2015.

What works
  • Front-firing stereo speakers and a fingerprint reader.
  • Sharp QHD AMOLED; clean stock Android.
  • Aluminium build with USB-C — early adopter.
  • Strong low-light camera for 2015.
What doesn't
  • Snapdragon 810 ran notoriously hot.
  • Some units suffered "bootloop" failures.
  • Software ended at Android 8.
  • Discontinued — the last Nexus phone.
Cross-shop it against
Galaxy Note 5
$699 · score 84/100

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 100-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .