Nexus 6P review: The Huawei-built Nexus that ended the line on a high.
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
76/10076/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2015.
02Camera
56/10056/100 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.
03Performance
40/10040/100 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.
04Battery
58/10058/100 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.
05Build
70/10070/100 trails the 72-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2015.
06Value
52/10052/100 trails the 58-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2015.
- 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.
- Snapdragon 810 ran notoriously hot.
- Some units suffered "bootloop" failures.
- Software ended at Android 8.
- Discontinued — the last Nexus phone.
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? .