Nexus 6P 5 Years Later - Daily Driver for 5 years and still is!

This is the nexus 6p and I’ve been using this  phone for five years it’s my daily driver I  haven’t switched over to another phone that’s  right guys I’ve been using the nexus 6p for five years and for a tech enthusiast that’s a heck  of a long time I’m here to let you know about  the good stuff and the bad stuff of the nexus 6p  and why I’m still using it five years later if  you’re still rocking a nexus 6b just like me smash  that like button and or if you’re here out of pure nostalgia and you really love the nexus 6p smash  that like button and leave some comments below  I thought it’d be cool to show you guys how beat  up my screen protector was I haven’t changed my  screen protector for the five years that I’ve  had it now and I haven’t changed my case either.

I’m using a spigen case the speaking case did  a really great job with protecting my phone  from all the drops that it’s taken for the past  five years and trust me guys I’ve dropped it  quite a few times and from some high places to so  thanks vegan for really protecting my phone also  the screen protector did an amazing job it’s  got tons of scratches on it but when I remove  the screen protector as you guys are going to see  in a second there’s not one scratch on my phone so her I am removing my screen protector after  five years it totally was not what I was expecting  I was expecting my phone to be clear once I took  off the plastic screen protector and it looked  pretty rough cleaning out the residue from the  screen protector took a little bit of elbow grease.   

But it was nice and shiny in the end without  any scratch marks on my actual screen the screen  protector did a really good job let’s talk about  the specs the display has a 5.7 inch screen with  a 2560 by 1440 amoled display featuring gorilla  glass 4 and it has a screen to body ratio of 71.4  processor has a QUALCOMM snapdragon 810 and the  gpu is the andrino 430. the ram is three gigabytes  and the storage starts off at 32 gigabytes all  the way to 128 gigabytes the rear camera is 12.3  megapixels and it has an aperture of 2.0 and the  rear camera shoots 4k video and also has 240 fps  slow motion the front camera has 8 megapixels  and the aperture is 2.4 and finally the battery  which featured a 3450 mah which was one of the  bigger batteries for its time the last android  update that the nexus 6p received was the android  oreo 8.1 and that’s the OS that I’m running today.  

The 5.7 inch amoled display on the nexus 6p  is actually a really great display it has a 2k  resolution and its crisp its clear there’s only  two small issues that I really have with the nexus  6p display in direct sunlight I think the display  doesn’t go bright enough and the second thing is I  think the nexus 6p really shows its age with this  screen to body ratio although I actually really  like it I don’t think it looks terrible but you  can see that it shows its age over here because  with the newer phones like let’s just say the  pixel 4 you have a higher screen to body ratio so  the crazy part is that the nexus 6p still performs  really well in everyday use today. 

So here’s what  everyday usage looks like to me I make phone calls  I send messages I make video calls I play some  games I watch Netflix I browse the web and I take  lots of pictures and videos now overall things are  pretty snappy I don’t really have issues while  switching from one app to another obviously  the newer phones are gonna be a lot quicker and  snappier than the nexus 6p I’m definitely missing  out on the os updates but it’s not enough for me  to make the switch over to a newer phone the only  time I see performance issues is when I have quite  a few apps open and running them at the same time.

That’s when I start to feel the stuttering and  the lag my phone is having a hard time processing  everything so it’s a very rare case that I ever  feel any kind of performance issues with the phone  overall I’m really amazed at the experience that  I’m getting five years later I think the processor  still really holds up well I don’t play a lot  of games on my mobile but the ones that I do run  fine and stutter free the games that I’m playing  right now are sky force asphalt 9 and mario kart  the nexus 6b has two front-facing speakers which  actually sound really great the phone also has  a usb c which I think really future-proofed this  phone the fingerprint scanner is one of the best.

  

That I’ve used and of course it has a headphone  jack which I absolutely love but man have times  changed I took a few shots with the nexus 6p just  to show you guys what the pictures are like coming  out of the rear camera I also took some shots  to compare a regular picture and hdr picture  but overall the camera is really snappy still  here are some shots I took with the nexus 6p rear  camera I think it still takes amazing pictures  even though this phone is 5 years old before we  jump into more pictures with the nexus 6p rear  camera i just want to show you a couple pictures  I took with the front facing camera and to be  honest i never really had any great luck with  getting good shots out of the front facing camera  and this has been for the past five years. 

I think  the front facing camera just really lacked big  time so if you’re really into selfies this camera  won’t do it for you now let’s get back into the  rear camera which I think the shots are amazing  I should mention that none of these  pictures have been edited in any way  except for the videos you’re about to see  I added some post-production stabilization  and all these images and videos that are coming up  have all been taken with the nexus 6p camera app which is the stock app that comes with the phone  what do you guys think about the picture so far  leave some comments below. 

So here’s where  the rear camera really doesn’t do a good job  it’s with any low light or nighttime shots I found  that the images or videos actually come out really  grainy I find that the camera needs a lot of light  in general so as long as you have a lot of light  your pictures are gonna turn out great but I know  that technology has changed quite a bit in the  past five years and the low light shots that you  get with today’s cameras are really amazing so  this is definitely something I’m missing out on  and really wish that this camera could take better  nighttime shots but again it’s a five-year-old  camera and a lot has changed since then  here’s some 4k footage that I took with the camera  and to be honest I think it really looks amazing. 

I think the camera really struggles with video  stabilization compared to the other cameras that  we have out today it really doesn’t do a good job  and there’s no match for any of the phones that’s  out today I really like the pictures and the  videos that it takes of course I know that there  are better cameras out there and that’s actually  something that makes me want to make the leap into  the next phone but overall I think that this  camera is still pretty amazing smash that like  button if you guys are really loving the videos  and the pictures that I’ve taken with the nexus 6p  by the way did I mention that this whole  video start to finish was shot with a nexus 6p  actually borrowed my friends nexus 6p that was  just laying around so if you have this phone just  laying around in a drawer. 

Somewhere there may be  some use for it yet not bad for a five year phone  right what do you guys think leave some comments  below the biggest problem that I’m having with  the nexus 6p is that the battery does not last  I mean it is a five-year-old phone I get about  one hour of screen time and five hours of standby  time but really that’s not ideal for everyday use  seeing that shutdown screen time and time  again gets really frustrating I plan on buying  a new battery for the nexus 6p off amazon it’s  about $20 I’m not really having any real issues  with performance I think I can actually extend  the life of this phone a little bit more and I  plan on finishing off the year with this phone  I plan on picking up something new next year so.