We’re opening the Nexus 6 right now!
Hi guys.
Andru Edwards here, editor-in-chief of GearLive.com.
Welcome to another episode of Unboxing Live, the show that brings you vicarious thrills
through opening new gear.
The gear today is the Motorola/Google Nexus 6.
Motorola is no longer a part of Google, but the Nexus line has always been seen as being
Google’s line of smart phone, but they always partner up with someone else to do it.
In this case, it’s Motorola.
Anyhow, the Nexus 6.
Big deal in the smartphone world, especially if you like a clean install of Android.
This phone ships with Google’s latest operating system, 5.0 Lollipop.
Let's open it up and get right into it.
OK.
So the Google Motorola Nexus 6 ships with a snapdragon 805 2.7 gigahertz quad core processor.
Fast processor right there.
Let me just put this aside for a minute.
Because there’s some cool accessories in there.
So the first thing you’re going to see, aside from the phone, is the standard regulatory
information and some quick tips and all that.
There’s how to take the SIM card out of there.
This is the standard charge and sync cable.
USB to microUSB.
You find it on pretty much any Android or windows phone.
Pretty much any smart phone that isn’t an I-Phone ships with this cable.
But this right here, and most phones ship with a wall charger as well, this is a turbo
charger, this, when your phone is dead, you can plug it in using this, and plug it into
the wall, and it will get six hours of battery life from a 15 minute charge.
So the turbo charger, really cool.
Don’t know why I wanted to start off with that first, but I thought it was pretty amazing.
So there you have it.
That is the turbo charger, turbo power supply for the Nexus 6.
This is the Nexus 6 right here.
Let’s bring you in closer and take a look.
Alright, Nexus 6, let’s talk about this phone for a moment.
You’ve got a six inch, edge to edge, diagonal, 2560/1440 quad HD display.
It’s an AMOLED display, it has 493 pixels per inch.
That’s a beautiful, high density display.
Around back, you see we have the midnight blue color, I already got a little fingerprint
on there.
Midnight blue.
It also comes in cloud white . It’s really just dark blue and white, but they’ve got
to give them cute names to, I guess, set them apart from other smartphones.
Here you’ve got the volume rocker, on the right hand side along with the power button.
On top you’ve got the SIM tray and the headphone jack.
On the left, nothing but a smooth line.
There on the bottom, you’ve got the micro USB port where you’ll charge the phone.
On the front, right there, you see the camera.
That is a 2 mega pixel front camera, and it also supports multi person conference calls.
And then here on back, this is a very interesting camera, it’s got a dual LED ring, so the
outer ring is an LED and that’s your flash.
There’s two tf them.
That’s why it’s dual.
But this camera is a 13 megapixel camera, F2.0 aperture, and records video at up to
4K resolution at 30 frames per second.
Powerful camera right there, on the Nexus 6.
As you can see,by the way, that’s an AT&T model of the Nexus 6.
Thanks a lot to AT&T for sending this over for us to feature to our audience.
And of course, if you’re an AT&T customer, Nexus 6 is available directly from AT&T.
Now on the inside – we talked about charging the battery – on the inside it’s a 3,220
milliamp hour battery and it does support key wireless charging.
So, if you have a key compatible wireless charging system or mat, or anything, you can
just lay the Nexus 6 right on top of it, and it’ll start charging wirelessly.
And then pick it up when you’re done.
As far as wireless goes, we’ve got 80211AC, two different antennas on there to get you
that fast speed.
That’s the latest WiFi standard.
It also has Bluetooth 4.1, the latest Bluetooth Standard.
And NFC for Near field Communication types of applications.
It’s available in a 32 gigabyte or 64 gigabyte model.
It’s starts at $649.00 if you want the 32 gig model or if you want the 64 gig version,
it’s only $50 more.
Which is nice because usually, that jump from 32 to 64 usually costs you $100 in the smartphone
world.
So seeing it only $50 here is a welcome change.
So, once again, what you get in a box is the Nexus 6 itself.
You get the USB sync and charge cable.
That’s just a standard micro USB cable right there.
You get the turbo charger, the turbo power supply, that’ll give it six hours of battery
life in a matter of fifteen minutes.
Super cool.
And, of course, you’ve got the quick start guide, safety and warranty information.
But the star of the show is going to be the Nexus 6, what with its awesome six inch, quad
HD 493 pixels per inch display.
And the amazing camera that can record 4K at 30 frames per second.
That was your look at the Google Motorola Nexus 6.
Thanks a lot for watching guys, as always.
Stay tuned next time for more vicarious thrills right here at Unboxing Live.
Thanks for watching.
I’m Andru Edwards.