- Hi, it's Parris from Epic Review Guys
and I'm here to follow up on my new cell phone.
It's a Nexus 6P.
For the most part, I'm really enjoying this phone.
One of the big issues I was concerned about
has turned out to not be a problem at all,
but the other issue is much worse.
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I've been using the Nexus 6P
as my daily phone now for over a week.
I was using a ZTE ZMax before this.
Still in perfectly good shape,
and you noticed it has not folded in half.
But then again, unlike that guy in the other video,
I haven't tried to fold it in half.
Yes, I did see that video of the man with the Nexus 6P
who took it and with his bare hands,
though I head he is a body builder,
he did fold it in half.
And yes, that does weigh on my mind
when I have it in my front pocket and I get into the car
and I'm thinkin',
"Exactly how much bending force can this phone withstand?"
But it's still perfectly straight.
It hasn't folded at all.
I've had it in my front pocket.
It's been sat on somewhat, left on the sofa and so forth.
So I think it's a little tougher than you would think,
despite the fact that there's a video out on YouTube
of a man folding this phone in half with his hands.
Though it's still in the back of my mind,
I think I do baby this phone
a little more than I did my ZTE ZMax,
which I used for about a year,
and other than a few scratches stayed in really good shape.
In my unboxing and setup video for the Nexus 6P
I did promise I would show
some of how well it works with graphics,
both in playing video, in games,
as well as the sound quality.
So let me do that first.
Here is that original video that I talked about.
I have the volume about 75% here.
I saw the Nexus 6P
and I returned to my first love.
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Now I had decided not to spend this much money
on a phone again,
I pushed the volume all the way to maximum
and I've turned the brightness up on the screen
all the way as well.
Let's see if it's gonna live up to it's price.
The ZTE ZMax $252.
Hill Climb Racing at maximum volume
and maximum brightness on the screen.
(rock music and game sound effects)
The screen on the phone has been very bright, very sharp,
easy to look at.
I've noticed it does the scaling a little differently
than my older phone, and so some of the apps that I have
it doesn't make the font any larger,
but because the screen is so sharp
I haven't had that hard of a time reading it
even when it keeps it really tiny.
The sound on speakerphone has been loud enough.
I've had a speakerphone call while in the car
drivin' on the highway, and I was able to hear the person.
They were able to hear me.
I was not holding the phone.
It was sitting down in the cup holder in the minivan,
so no issues with that volume.
And then using it as a regular phone
with the internal earpiece and microphone,
people have told me I sound fine
talking to them on the phone.
Now I've never cared for adaptive brightness
on the phones before.
It always makes it too dark for me,
so I usually turn it off.
But what I've noticed, and I think this is new in Android 6
is the adaptive brightness here,
when you turn it on it adapts the brightness
based on where you have the brightness slider.
So you can actually slide it
to more or less,
and it will adapt within a range around that.
So I'm actually using this again now,
and I think this is gonna help some with the battery issues
that I will get to shortly.
One of the reasons I wanted a new phone
and I wanted something beyond Android 4.4
is so I could set up additional user profiles on the phone
for the different Twitter and Instagram and YouTube channels
that we have.
And so I have set up a second user profile on this
and it did use some more memory.
I set up several apps with it,
but nothing like the experience I had on the ZenFone 2,
the ASUS phone that I tried out for this
and it just didn't work.
I ended up just using it not even intensively
and I was getting memory warnings
that I was running low on active memory.
This has three gigabytes of memory,
and with both profiles having switch back and forth
in Instagram and Twitter, between them,
I'm only using about one and a half gigabytes.
So still quite a bit of memory showing it's free.
The camera on the Nexus 6P is good.
The pictures are very sharp.
I have a few focus issues that have come up.
I used to have them all the time with this
where when you get within a certain close range,
you keep tappin' on the screen and it will not focus,
and you wait and after a while it just decides to focus.
So it's obviously capable of it,
but it's hard to make it focus at five, six inches away,
but I have a few objects here I will take some pictures of
with this at maximum resolution,
and I will record them with the 4K video
that this phone is capable of,
and I will insert that into the video right here.
This is the rear-facing camera recording in 4K.
Not quite as high resolution 4K as my camera
over there by the window,
but it seems to do a pretty good job.
It doesn't have the optical image stabilization,
but the electronic one seems to do okay.
It also has a feature where you can record
at 240 frames per second.
And I think that would probably give you
some really interesting slow motion.
And we'll try that in a future video.
Now about the two concerns I brought up
in my original video.
One was heat.
It turns out that there's a spot
right above the fingerprint sensor here that gets warm.
Now with charging it does have this fast charge,
quick charge technology that will let you bump up
the battery charge by about 25%,
which is 20 minutes of charging.
So it's pretty good and handy.
Then it does tend to warm up on the back a little bit.
But again, you're not gonna be doing that for hours on end.
The other time it gets warm
is when you're installing things.
It seems to be when the memory and CPU are in use
somewhere around here it gets warm.
Again, as I mentioned before, I hold it like this,
my finger is pretty much right on the edge
of that warm spot.
I'm not that often installing things
or using it so intensively,
so I haven't found that to be a problem.
When I've played games like Hill Climb Racing,
usually holding the phone like this so I don't have my hand
on that spot that gets warm anyway.
So the heat issue, which I was worried about,
turned out really to not be much of an issue.
However, the battery life issue,
which I was kind of worried about,
turns out I should have been a little more worried about.
Now this is strange, because this phone
has an enormous battery
in terms of how much power it stores.
3,450 milliampere hours I think.
That is a big battery for a phone.
And that's a little more power than my ZTE ZMax had.
And this phone,
for the better part of the year that I used it,
it would run two full days on a charge.
And that's using pretty much the same apps that I have here.
Now, this phone is so much faster than my old phone,
and that may be part of it.
I really don't know what to attribute it to,
but I've had a couple days
that I've nearly ran out of charge on this
when it started out in the morning at 100%.
The saving grace with the Nexus 6P is that fast charge
that lets you plug it in for 20 minutes
and bump up the battery life 25%.
So if you do that once during the day
then it's really not cutting it so close.
There will be updates for the Nexus 6P
in terms of the firmware.
There will be updates in Android.
Maybe they'll manage the battery life a little better.
It's just it has such a big battery,
where is all that power going?
I can't quite figure that out.
But the quick charge, fast charge
will get you through the day
so long as you can plug it in at least once during the day
for about 20 minutes.
I recorded that video with this phone.
Some with the front-facing camera,
some with the rear-facing camera.
The rear-facing camera footage is in 4K.
Some of the footage in that
is also the DashCam Pro footage.
I think you'll know which one that is when you see it.
I'll put a link to that video down below here
and also where the little "i' pops up
in case you'd like to see some more
of what the camera can do from this phone.
Nexus 6P, pretty good phone.
Couple flaws or things they still have to work out on it.
If you have specific questions about the Nexus 6P
you can ask in the description box down below this video.
I'll try to answer those
if it's something I have experience with
and can give you my firsthand impression about that.
$500 phone, still have nightmares about that guy
foldin' it in half with his hands.
We'll see what happens over time regarding that.
I'll be back with more videos soon.
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