The larger Nexus 6 uses polycarbonate plastic with metal sides. The body of the phone is made of anodized aluminum, giving the 6P a cutting-edge look and sturdy frame. Where the 6P really shines, however, is its casing. More importantly, while the two phones are the same height, the 6P is slimmer, which should make it more comfortable to hold. The 6P shrinks things down a bit with a 5.7 inch screen. Google raised some eyebrows when it first announced the Nexus 6 would have a 6-inch screen, which is fairly large for a phone designed to fit in your pocket.
It will be interesting to see them go head-to-head in the benchmarks, but we expect the Nexus 6P to edge it on performance.
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Both phones also boast 3GB of RAM, support almost the same connectivity options, and run Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The Nexus 6P’s eight-cores should allow it to run multiple applications more smoothly than the Nexus 6. However, more cores means the CPU can better perform multi-threading, the ability to divide the calculations for an application across multiple cores. On the one hand, a higher clock speed means the CPU can process calculations faster. The Nexus 6 has a quad-core processor, but one that runs at 2.7GHz. The 6P uses the newer Snapdragon 810, an eight-core processor that runs at a clock speed of 2GHz. GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, ambient light sensor, barometer Nexus Imprint, GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, ambient light sensor, barometer