Google finally unveiled at its press event yesterday its latest Nexus phones along side with an Android tablet.
The high-end Huawei Nexus 6P is the first metal unibody among the Nexus line-up, color options will be available in plain Aluminum, Graphite, Frost and Gold colors, Android Police reported.
However, the latter will be exclusive in Japan. It sports a smaller screen size of 5.7inch than of Motorola's Nexus 6. It has an AMOLED with QHD resolution (1,440 x 2,560px) and measures 159.4 x 77.8 x 7.3mm.
Under the hood, is the updated version of the Snapdragon 810 chipset coupled with a 3GB of RAM. There are three storage options of 128GB, 64GB and 32GB, GSM Arena added.
Camera-wise, it has a new 12.3MP sensor, "which boasts large 1.55µm pixels and a relatively wide F/2.0 aperture. This is in addition to the dual-LED flash for promising low-light performance. It records 2160p, naturally. The selfie camera is no slouch either 8MP sensor with 1.4µm pixels and F/2.4 aperture," GSMa Arena wrote.
The Nexus 6P 32GB will cost $500, 64GB for $550 and for the 128GB $650 which are now available in different regions.
On the other hand, the smaller LG Nexus 5X pulls off a 5.2-inch resolution with 1080p display coated with a Gorilla Glass 3. It is powered by a inferior chipset of Snapdragon 808 hexa-core CPU, 2GB of RAM and an Adreno 418 GPU and has only two storage variants of 16GB and 32GB.
"At the back, the 5X sports a 12.3MP camera sensor with a f/2.0 aperture and 1.55 micron pixel size. Sadly, it lacks OIS but is nevertheless capable of shooting 2160p video. LG has thrown in its IR laser-assisted autofocus and a broad-spectrum dual flash setup," GSM Arena wrote in a separate report.
Pre-order of the LG Nexus 5X has started in the US, UK, South Korea, Japan and Ireland starting at $379.99 for the 16GB variant.
