{"id":103,"date":"2015-09-29T23:02:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T22:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/?p=103"},"modified":"2015-10-12T08:28:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T07:28:11","slug":"new-google-nexus-phones-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/09\/29\/new-google-nexus-phones-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"New Google Nexus Phones &#8211; Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I got it wrong. \u00a0In my <a href=\"http:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/09\/27\/will-the-new-google-nexus-6p-sport-tango-tech\/\">last post<\/a>, I discussed an exciting future of depth sensing, environment learning devices, but it was not to be!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all doom and gloom though &#8211; Google have yet again introduced some exciting innovation into two leading edge new phones &#8211; the Nexus <a href=\"https:\/\/store.google.com\/product\/nexus_5x\">5X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/store.google.com\/product\/nexus_6p\">6P<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_104\" style=\"width: 906px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/nexus-new-range.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104\" class=\"wp-image-104 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/nexus-new-range.png\" alt=\"nexus-new-range\" width=\"896\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/nexus-new-range.png 896w, https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/nexus-new-range-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Google Store (https:\/\/store.google.com\/category\/phones)<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>My Favourite of the Two &#8211; The 5X<\/h2>\n<p>In terms of how the 5X stacks up against its nearest competitors, Mashable has done <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/09\/29\/google-nexus-5x-comparison\/#FsGwNtKLgiqb\">a great job of comparing<\/a> it\u00a0against the iPhone 6S, Samsung Galaxy S6\/S6 Edge, and others. \u00a0Key points that stand out are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Largest Screen size at 5.2 inches (6P is a 5.7-inch WQHD display)<\/li>\n<li>Beats or equals all but one phone for resolution (1,920 x 1,080)<\/li>\n<li>Lightest of those compared<\/li>\n<li>4K recording<\/li>\n<li>Fingerprint sensor &#8211; for that all important Android Pay<\/li>\n<li>USB Type-C charging port<\/li>\n<li>Always on voice detection, even when the screen is off<\/li>\n<li>A new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/09\/29\/google-android-sensor-hub\/\">Android Sensor Hub<\/a> &#8211; this excites me a lot!<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and of course Android 6.0 Marshmallow (Now on Tap, new permissions model, shortcuts prediction engine, and a lot more)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be writing a more detailed post soon on how the sensor hub, combined with Marshmallow opens up some interesting opportunities. \u00a0In the meantime, if you have an urgent desire to pre-order the devices in the UK, here&#8217;s the pricing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nexus 5X &#8211; starts at \u00a3339. \u00a0Pre-order at the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.google.com\/product\/nexus_5x\">Google Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nexus 6P &#8211; starts at \u00a3449. Pre-order at the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.google.com\/product\/nexus_6p\">Google Store<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I got it wrong. \u00a0In my last post, I discussed an exciting future of depth sensing, environment learning devices, but it was not to be! It&#8217;s not all doom and gloom though &#8211; Google have yet again introduced&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/09\/29\/new-google-nexus-phones-highlights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidjohntaylor.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}