Factory images of Android 6.0.1 update is available for smartphones Nexus 6P, 5X, 6, 5 and tablets Nexus 7 (2013). If you want to update the software on your own, keep in mind that all data on your smartphone will be deleted. Otherwise, you can wait until the update will come on air in the next few days.

Thus, the operating system Android caught up with the iPhone on the number of available Emojis. In addition, now the owners of Nexus-devices can use smiles tacos or a bottle of champagne.

Another surprising change is the location of the navigation pane for tablets: now home and back button located on the left side, while the right side is a button of running applications – reports Ars Technica. Perhaps, Google felt nostalgic as similar interface used in the version of Android 3.0 Honeycomb.

Another nice option is “until the next alarm” in the “Do Not Disturb”. At the same time, you can say that the device does not bother you to the new alarm time instead of the selected user.

As you remember, the new smartphone Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P were released with the operating system Android 6.0. An interesting feature of smartphones from Google is quick launch camera by double-pressing the power button. With the updated Android 6.0.1, all smartphones will get the opportunity. Unfortunately, in practice, this feature proved a bit ambiguous. Since the user must press the power button, the smartphone can either start the camera, as implied by developers, or turn off the mobile device. And, if you have enabled additional security LockScreen, the smartphone might just unlock when you had to go to the camera.

Another new version brings security update for December 2015, so that the smartphone will be protected from the most modern vulnerabilities Android.

Why it is important to update Android 6.0.1

Mode setting “Do Not Disturb”, new Emojis and quick access to the camera, of course, is a welcome addition. Google shows that the Nexus devices are the priority of mobile smartphones to the search giant. We still meditations, whether the new interface of the tablet is a positive change. Of course, now finger easy to reach the buttons, but it is necessary to retrain the muscle memory.

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Attention! The first step is to back up all data. Copy all the photos, videos, documents and other information you need in a safe place.

Manual update deletes all user data from the device, and if you’re an unlucky person, you can turn your Nexus in a brick. So think before you do anything.

Preparation of the mobile device to update

The first thing you need to do to enable debugging via USB. You must click on “Settings” and scroll to the bottom of the screen. There is a button “For developers”.

If there is no button, then go to “Settings”, and click on the “About phone”, and the last in the list is “Build Number”. Tap on it seven times.

After receiving reports about the status of the developer back to the “Settings” then “For Developers”, find the item “debugging USB” and turn it.

Download image

Manual installation of Android comes from the image. Find and download the required image can be on the relevant page Google Developers.

We install Android 6.0 Marshmallow on the Nexus 5, so download the image to the smartphone.

Downloading and installing the tool to download the image to your device

For installation the image to your phone you need to download the utility ADB Installer. You can download ADB Installer at XDA-Developers.  We confirm every request with «Y» and Enter.

Agree and install Google USB Driver.

Now, if you look in the drive C of your computer, you will find a new folder adb. It is everything you need to manually install the image of Android.

Preparing the image for the installation

We return to our image that is already downloaded and stored on disk as TGZ-archive. It is necessary to unpack with any suitable archiver. For example, 7-Zip.

TGZ-archive has a more one file format TAR. It is also necessary to unpack. As a result, you’ll have a folder here with such content.

And the final step is to move the extracted files to a folder adb that was created in one of the previous step.

Installation

Now you can install Android 6.0 Marshmallow on your device. Turn off your mobile phone and connect it to your computer. Now you need to get you started your device in the mode of fast boot.

Open the folder with image of Android 6.0 Marshmallow. There you will find file called flash-all.bat. Click on it to start the installation of Android 6.0 Marshmallow on your device.

Your device should reboot, and then you will have a new version of the operating system Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

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What to say about new Nexus Huawei?

Informants say that at the heart of the smartphone Nexus Huawei is a powerful 64-bit hardware platform Snapdragon 810 with 4-core high-performance Cortex-A57, 4-core energy-efficient Cortex-A53, GPU Adreno 430. The size of its memory up to 4 GB of built – 32 GB and a 5.7-inch capacitive touch screen device has a resolution of 1440h2560 pixels.

On the back of Huawei Nexus is very good 20.7-megapixel sensor Sony IMX220, the smartphone provides a fingerprint reader, and it comes complete with a battery capacity of 3500 mAh, which has support for rapid charging Quick Charge 2.0.

Huawei places great hopes on cooperation with Google, hoping that Nexus smartphone will help the company to gain a foothold in developed markets, including the United States. On the other hand, it will not affect the company’s position in the domestic market, due to the specifics of China, where most of the prohibited services of Google. This means that if Huawei Nexus and will appear in China, it will be a completely different smartphone, like the original only gadget hardware stuffing.

Recall that the manufacturer will be the second smartphone Nexus Korean LG. And the gadget will be the most affordable product on the Snapdragon chipset 808 with 2-core Cortex-A57 and 4-core Cortex-A53. He will be able to offer users a 5.2-inch capacitive touch screen, 3D-camera and battery capacity of 2700 mAh.

It is expected that both the smartphone will debut on the market in October this year.

Source: iBtimes

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In 2012, Google bought Motorola Mobility. Event instilled a lot of hope, at least, users expect to quickly see the new “Nexus” issued by Motorola. Aspirations come true, only had to wait much longer than expected. At the time of the announcement of users waiting for another “surprise” – the new Nexus were not as available, what they are used to seeing, the price of new products has become comparable to the fact that the simple device of the same class by other manufacturers. It turns out that the Nexus and Nexus 6 9 remained exactly one feature that distinguishes them from the competition – a recent version of Android 5.0 Lollipop, which allows to feel the true Google Experience. In this review we will try to understand why Motorola Nexus 6 was so expensive and worth it for money.

Options

Motorola Nexus 6 comes in an unusually large cardboard box. It is decorated similarly to the tablet HTC Nexus 9 – on a white background embossed large figure 6. The rest of us to the kingdom of minimalism, underlined contents: USB-cable, charger Turbo Charger, clip and documentation.

Design and usability

Nexus 6 is similar to the latest smartphones Motorola and most of all – an increased Moto X of the second generation. To this can be treated differently, but in general it is rather good than bad. Nexus 6 was similar to the metal frame and arched branded with the logo of Motorola in a small depression.

On the screen you can see the lattice stereo speakers protruding above the surface of the glass plastic insert that allows quietly put down the smartphone screen. The display is shifted to a lower side, which seems reasonable given the fact that most of the time it displays the virtual key management system.

Almost in the middle of the right side wall is easy to find volume rocker and power button with a ribbed surface. The keys did not turn up high, so they seem comfortable for people with small hands and large. In this case, the power button always accurately determined due to the excellent tactile sensations.

Among other elements can be found on the body connectors Micro USB, 3,5 mm and NanoSIM card slot.

Among the available colors has a dark blue (as in the review) and white.

Selection of materials and build quality at a high level. The design is tough, all the details are well adjusted. Plastic back cover pleasant to the touch, but over time it remains small stains.

Since Motorola Nexus 6 turned out to be a six-inch Phablet, measures an impressive smartphone. It is slightly more than their counterparts, but the difference in the usability of these devices is minimal, they are very difficult to control with one hand. In the case of Nexus 6 I would like to see more than the narrow confines of the screen, this parameter smartphone does not look very modern, but thanks to the rounded cover it fits comfortably in your hand.

Display

Motorola Nexus 6 received AMOLED display diagonal of 5.96 inches with a resolution of 2560 by 1440 pixels (493 ppi). The choice of this type of matrix due to the presence in the smartphone features Ambient Display. If you raise the Nexus 6 from the table, lights dim white light, allowing time to learn and see missed notice. At the same time consumes little power, because they work only the active pixels of the screen.

In terms of objective characteristics, except for very high resolution, we have a typical AMOLED-display. The minimum brightness of the screen is 20.4 cd / m2, and the maximum – 297 cd / m2. The accuracy of the factory calibration is average for the flagship level. Screen Motorola Nexus 6 differs slightly low color temperature that betrays the image a warm shade, low range and wide color gamut.

General color rendering has a small slope in a greenish tint. Along with the warm color rendition may not like it, especially if you are used to more “right” image that give good IPS-screens, the display but you get used to just one day, and the difference becomes noticeable.

Readability of the sun is at a normal level, the colors are duller, but the information remains readable. Oleophobic coating quality is average, glass collecting a certain number of prints. They are subtle, most expensive smartphone screens are coated with the same quality.

Hardware Platform

Heart Motorola Nexus 6 was the Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset 805, which includes 4 core Krait 450 operating at a frequency of 2.7 GHz and a GPU Adreno 420. The RAM is 3GB, compared to previous generations of devices series Nexus minimum amount of built-in storage increased to 32 GB, there is a version with 64 GB of internal memory, memory card slot traditionally not. Communication modules presented support all current mobile networks, dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac, Bluetooth 4.1 and NFC.

Among actually sell the Nexus 6 is one of the most productive. This is confirmed by the results of synthetic benchmarks and personal impressions. Everyone runs Android Lollipop 5.0.1. Get acquainted with the peculiarities of the latest version of Google’s mobile OS can be in a separate article.

Calls, multimedia

In terms of multimedia features Nexus 6 shows himself well. Music playback quality similar to other flagships, but the maximum volume average – simple “gag” smartphone swings without problems, but when you use headphones overhead, such as Creative Aurvana Live !, have to increase the volume to near maximum.

Standard video player supports a small number of codecs, so it will immediately install a third-party solution. Especially that Motorola Nexus 6 want to watch the video – this incline the big screen and the front stereo speakers. Recent allocated pleasant sound and excellent stock volume, they are better than the dynamics in the Moto G, Xperia Z3 and most other smartphones. On this parameter Nexus 6 managed as close to the smartphone HTC with their speakers BoomSound. Talk speaker has a good supply volume, to communicate comfortably in any conditions. The strength of the vibrator is slightly above average.

Operation time

In non-separable housing Nexus 6 installed battery capacity of 3220 mAh. Motorola is very easy to characterize the work of the smartphone – about 24 hours in a mixed mode of use. These data are confirmed in practice. With an average load Nexus 6 will work day and a half, showing 3-4 hours of screen. This is not the best result among modern Phablet, but champions are usually equipped with screens smaller resolution and a more capacious battery. In any case, “in front of” smartphone is not discharged, even with active use of it is easy to live up to the evening.

Thoughtful features include support for wireless charging standard, Qi, and more useful feature is the implementation of the standard Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0. Together with a complete charger Turbo Charger can fully charge a smartphone and a half hours. The first 80% charge Nexus 6 gaining an hour, on the charging rate is gradually reduced.

Camera

The smartphone has two cameras. The main camera has a resolution of 13 megapixel sensor, optical stabilization, the ability to shoot 4K-video and dual LED flash, inscribed in the transparent ring around the camera lens.

The front has a resolution of 2 megapixels can shoot FullHD video. To shoot using the Google camera has a minimum possible settings. As in the LG Nexus 5, there is a special shooting mode HDR +, enabled by default.

If we talk about the camera in terms of performance, then we would be the ultimate solution. Feels smartphone focuses and shoots at a normal rate, but switching between Normal mode and HDR + takes a few seconds that it was improper for the many smartphone at this level.

Quality photos during the day when natural light is good. When shooting indoors pictures are already a little worse, sometimes smartphone requires longer time for sharpening. Get a good card in the evening or at night is much more complicated.

The front facing camera in Motorola Nexus 6 is quite normal. Used is not the wide-angle lens, but at arm’s length in the frame without problems fit several people.

Results

Hero got a nice view Phablet. Traditionally, devices Motorola, he received high-quality housing, excellent stereo speakers. Belonging to the Nexus series has ensured the availability of maximum performance and the latest version of the operating system Android. Perhaps, for the fans of both US companies to create the best device was impossible.

On the other hand, Nexus 6, like all previous smartphone lineup is not without flaws, but now for them should be given the full price without any discounts. That price is the main drawback of this smartphone, because most competitors offer at least the same quality for a much more humane hryvnia cost.

Liked:

+ Body Materials

+ High resolution screen

+ Excellent performance, increased up to 32 GB of internal memory

+ Good stereo speakers

+ The latest version of the operating system

+ Fast Charge Battery

Did not like:

– A little specific color rendering screen

– Modest, for 6-inch Phablet time work

– Price

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Use a computer or laptop for writing e-mail messages, or more or less voluminous notes are not entirely objective. Much more convenient to work with the tablet, but many can not get used to the touch-sensitive surface, and often wrong, so they came up with Google Case Folio, which turned out quite good, but not without drawbacks.

The first thing worth noting is quite small size of the keyboard, for those who are used to typing on a full-size, this keyboard is inconvenient. You will often be wrong, do not fall into the right keys, but after a little pastime inconvenience passes and use it quite nice. Also worth noting is quite narrow gaps between the keys, this is done in order to maximize the usable area of ​​the keyboard. Note and quite convenient magnetic stand, which can be adjusted on your own.

Folio is a bit like the keyboard Microsoft Surface, and she have enough high quality and made ​​with dignity, so for it is certainly a plus. Connect the tablet to the keyboard is quite convenient, since everything happens through NFC: touched, united, ready – works perfectly. And the main problem for many would be no small size of the keyboard, not the quality of materials, not the convenience of the cover, the biggest problem – how to turn it off? Yes, this is the question most people ask themselves. No clues in the documentation and elsewhere was not, so guess how it turned off, is quite difficult.

Yes, the keyboard is turned off when disconnected from the cover plate, and when you close the cover, but not in all cases, sometimes there are moments when the keyboard is completely refuses to shut down. After much thought to our colleagues from androidpolice still managed to find out: it is necessary to press the keyboard button in the navigation bar, and she immediately turns off.

We liked Folio, and perhaps this is the best case for the Nexus 9, even with its rather high price, which is $ 130. Are you willing to pay 7,000 rubles for Case-keyboard? If yes, then it’s your choice.

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Unfortunately, many fans underestimate American technology flagship Moto X, assuming it to be a great smartphone with outstanding characteristics, and only a prototype Nexus 6. In general we can say that it is in the shadow of the latest iteration of the so-called Google Phone. And for good reason. New from Motorola has a 5.2-inch display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor with a clock frequency of 2.5 GHz and, most importantly, the 13-megapixel camera. That is its potential we now estimate.

The updated version of the flagship from Motorola was introduced in September this year. It seems that the company’s engineers have done a lot of conclusions, but because this time did not forget about the good stuffing. The smartphone has 2GB of RAM, GPU Adreno 330 and even stronger than glass Corning Gorilla Glass 3. It would seem that the device turned out incredible, but because it was urgent to look for going abroad friends. Or open a visa and plan a trip yourself.

Alas, in this huge ointment was not without a spoon of tar. In the role of the latter made the battery capacity of 2300mAh. Perhaps even souped users Android operating system will recognize that this is not enough.

Whatever it was, the rest of the smartphone is really good, and turn a blind eye would be wrong. Special mention deserves the 13-megapixel camera that can record video in 4K resolution. But to demonstrate its capabilities to potential customers, for example, to record what is happening on the street would be too easy is not it?

That’s why the company decided to attract marketer’s professional videographer, which is specialized in shooting with drones. For realization conceived he was given the drone, the new version of Moto X, and probably a good fee.

See the results of this work can be long now, view video from a bird’s flight.

Remain indifferent to what they see is quite difficult: landscapes look really amazing. By the way, recently we have seen something similar on Samsung Galaxy Note 4. Which device to show their best side? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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Last year, Google, together with LG introduced to the public the next generation of Nexus-smartphone – Nexus 5. The smartphone has an excellent, and even now, a year later, it is still relevant and is comparable with the current wave of flagship devices. Let’s look at the entire period of the smartphone lineup of Google, which recently announced that it would stop its production.

In 2013, when he was presented Nexus 5, the market was in need of such devices. Then the reference considered Nexus 4, Galaxy S3, which beat all imaginable and unimaginable record sales, and HTC One X, which is also liked by many. Nexus 4 was the first smartphone that runs on the Android 4.2; it was completely redesigned interface that adheres to Google up to Android 4.4 KitKat. Nexus 4 then very popular among geeks, because it had considerable support firmware developers, and even now the smartphone is still relevant and recently officially received the update to Android 5.0, which is likely to be one of the last for him. There will certainly be more minor updates, but such large-scale, we hardly even see. In any case, third-party developers will not leave offended Nexus 4 for a very long time, so all owners of this device is not worth much to worry about support.

Nexus 5, as mentioned earlier, was a continuation of the line, in all respects, he was better than its predecessor, with the exception of cheaper housing materials, it should be noted that the back cover Nexus 4 is still one of the most original designs manufacturers. The device as whole characteristics was comparable to LG G2, but the most interesting issue was the price of the smartphone. At the start of the device cost about 20 thousand rubles, and then gradually began to drop the price – as is the case with all other devices – in the mid to late summer price on the Nexus 5 in retail stores dropped to 14 990 rubles, it was the least we recorded, it is, of course, the PCT-version, which in any case will always be more expensive than European counterparts. Due to the unstable behavior of the exchange rate, the price of all the techniques has increased markedly, especially touched mobile devices, today retailers offer Nexus 5 at a price of 16,990 rubles. We touched on the theme of the unit price is no accident. The thing is that after Google unveiled to the public Android 5.0, many users it came to mind, and they decided to update their devices, the only option is to just normal Nexus 5, as for the smooth operation of the system it is not inferior to 6 and Nexus Moto X 2014 is powerful enough stuffing even by today’s standards, because current flagship running on Snapdragon 801, not much faster, since 801 has quite a bit of an improved version of Snapdragon 800.

Nexus 5 is adequate diagonal display, it’s not 6 inches to use with one hand is not possible, and 5.2 inches Moto X, which is not bad, but in the current generation from Motorola failed to optimize the dimensions of the device – use it with one hand but on the brink of a foul. Among other things, Nexus 5 is not less interesting design in comparison with the current flagship, moreover, side frames device thinner than the Galaxy S5. FullHD-screen smart phone is good; Yeah, maybe it’s not as cool and technological, as in modern smartphones, but it is still an excellent, high-quality screen with a pixel density of 445 pixels per inch, which is important, since this year, most manufacturers decided to abandon the QHD-resolution diagonal and its flagships increased, hence the decrease in the density of pixels.

The sound of the speakers in the Nexus 5 raised questions among many journalists and ordinary users, it is not just average quality, and it is “so-so”. It is clear that Google is looking for a compromise – she wanted to get the highest quality at the lowest price, a kind of optimization problem posed in front of Google, it was done quite well. After all, what is important for the user? User impact is important, the quality of the screen, design, dimensions and materials – this is what catches to mind when you first use the smartphone, and the sound – it’s a very specific part. Of course, the sound quality speaks a lot about the quality of the smartphone itself, but if it is a flagship device and premium brands such as Vertu, but because Nexus 5 was not originally intended as a flagship smartphone, in fact – is a mid-priced smartphone category, but even compared to the “average”, we understand that, in most respects – is the flagship, but the flagship for the consumer.

Battery – as well as sound – one of the main problems of the smartphone: many users device in active use to work half a day, and when the screen is constantly working device must use only 3:00, and it’s on Android version 4.4. At the request of Google, devices running on Lollipop should live considerably longer for that special thank you «Project Volta», which can optimize system performance and power hungry applications. Indeed, Nexus 5 at Lollipop began to work much longer – Google squeeze all the juice out of the battery, though still not very impressive performance – all depends on the technical part, 2300mAh – a little.

As for the camera, the Nexus 5 at the time when it became available on the market, showed a very average results. Then developers with access to the update to correct the situation, and now the camera device should become an example of how to optimize the soft side and work on the part of the software, rather than on how to buy the latest invention by Sony in this area. We cannot say that the Nexus 5 makes perfect pictures, you cannot compare them with images of a higher class smartphone, and Nexus 5 takes in its price segment as it should remove the reference smartphone.

In general, the Nexus 5 is one of the most important devices in the market. Perhaps it will soon no longer be possible to meet the stores, so if you want to buy it, then now is the time to do it.

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Every year, consumers spend large amounts of money to upgrade their gadgets, mostly concerning geeks and gamers, who value the highest performance of the device. In the Play Store every day there is a lot of quality games from different manufacturers, which should yield Half-Life 2, Portal, gaming company Rockstar, whose brainchild of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is not so long ago came to Android. Moreover, it is not necessary to discuss and quality of such releases, as San Andrea’s version for Android has been ported to next-generation consoles – Xbox One, Playstation 4 and had significant visual advantage over the original version. Now the computer game development can be observed a stagnation: there is no game, causing “wow effect”, so during this time in Android-smartphone has a chance to catch up a little gaming industry giants, and they have it pretty well so far. But what most deeply best Android-powered devices – disclose all potential game Android?

Best Android-powered devices – NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet

“Green” company is an authoritative person in game, it’s all respect for the progressive development of their own technologies, it would be nice to see in the future, advanced physics engine PhysX games for Android-devices. The first and rather featureless step the company has made a long time ago, with the release of the first version of the processor Tegra, but with the advent of Tegra 2 joined the company in the production of smartphones: Tegra 2 processor was the first company that supports smartphones and tablets not only, moreover, Tegra 2 was the the first dual-core processor for general use. The next generation of processors, Tegra 3, made a good impression on the audience, however, experience has shown that these processors are very fond of the battery and get very warm even in dealing with primitive tasks.

Then came the turn 4 and Tegra Tegra K1. Each new series of processors is getting better and better, and K1 is no exception, in fact, K1 is by far the most efficient processors on the market Android, and SHIELD Tablet is the first device running on a given processor. It should be noted, some users complain about the heat and not a very good relationship with the charge the battery, but it’s probably “sore” all Tegra-smartphones.

SHIELD Tablet, everything else, one of the first games was supported by Valve, he has an extensive integration with the streaming service NVIDIA, the plate installed proprietary applications company, including his own shop, where all the games are optimized for Tegra-processors. Moving on to the next device, it is worth recalling the characteristics of SHIELD. It has 2 GB of RAM, an 8-inch screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1200; processor Tegra K1 with a frequency of 2.2 GHz. SHIELD Tablet runs on stock Android and recently received the Android 5.0 Lollipop.

Best Android-powered devices – Xiaomi Mi Pad

Mi Pad – this is the first experience in the manufacture of tablets Xiaomi. Usually feelings market manufacturers produce low cost device at a low price, in order to analyze the response of consumers, but Xiaomi not the company that will deal with a similar, if release – that produce a quality product at a top price of the budgetary system. Such a policy will lead to great success Xiaomi not only in the Chinese market, but also in Europe and in Russia, including, of course, if the company will enter our market. Mi Pad is equipped with the same processor as the NVIDIA SHIELD – Nvidia K1, RAM 2 GB; the screen size is 7.9 inches, and resolution as much as 2048 x 1536. Also Mi Pad is equipped with a proprietary shell Miui V6, which was flat in the design and became largely similar to the “apple” of the system. Due to a rather demanding shell and higher resolution screen tablet less Hustler in games than its competitor – SHIELD Tablet. If you like the design features of the company, including those relating to the shell itself, the Mi Pad will suit you more, plus everything – it is much cheaper SHIELD Tablet.

Best Android-powered devices – Nexus 9

Not long ago, Google together with HTC introduced the world to its new tablet Nexus 9 who received Nexus-like design. Many say that the device has a myriad of advantages, but it is not ideal. CPU temperature, problems with the assembly, gluttony – is raising questions among users. Yes, the problem with the assembly resolved, however, by the old parties still need to get rid of, and there is no guarantee that you will fall Nexus 9 is the new parties.

With regards to performance – everything is quite as expected: the processor, you guessed it, the same Nvidia Tegra K1, which became the cause of all the minuses – except build quality – and at the same time the advantages of the device. Nexus 9 – very bright, the interface works perfectly smoothly. Other characteristics of the tablet are identical Mi Pad, except for the frequency of the processor, which is 100 MHz more. In this case, the device behaves worse games Mi Pad, oddly enough, but overall the results are almost identical and the difference is not so significant. However, too high a price, which is, and so, according to some rumors, would be even higher, will not make the tablet popular in Russia and abroad, because the “nexus” has always been famous for the low price. Now the price is all top-end devices, but people on a subconscious level happened that Nexus – it’s cheap, and buying cheap is expensive for the consumer will not.

Best Android-powered devices – Nexus 6

In this list yet found a place … smartphone with a diagonal of 6 inches. It turns out quite interesting: if before the Nexus 7 was considered a full-fledged tablet, but now it can be classified as “Phablet” and previous 7 inches plates shifted in a big way, and now we are more likely to occur 8-9 inches diagonal. The device has a 5.96-inch AMOLED-display with a resolution of 1440 x 2560, the processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 with a frequency of 2.7 GHz and 3 GB of RAM.

Best Android-powered devices – Nexus 7 (2013)

The reason for the inclusion of the tablet and then you will come to the aid of the Nexus 7 2013, which has support for Android 5.0, which is a plus. The processor is a simplified version of Snapdragon 600 RAM in the device as much as 2 gigabytes, screen resolution of 1920 x 1200. Not bad for best Android-powered devices, right?

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Google has a line of Nexus, while Apple – iPhone. Meanwhile, Microsoft offers a lot of phones that very few people about something they say. But this is not to say that Windows Phone should be in the wrong direction. Microsoft just needs some significant flagship smartphone, which would embody the best possible mobile platform software giant. Or the software giant would be better to just go to Android?

Such an opinion voiced on the resource PCWorld Mark Hechmen. And it is based on a report analyst Jan Dawson Jackdaw Research, which recommends Microsoft and continue to maintain the distinctive features of Windows Phone from Apple iOS, the leader in the premium segment, and Android, the absolute leader among mobile platforms.

Microsoft is not enough bright flagship phones with a memorable name and some distinctive features, which are deprived of even the best Soup based on other platforms.

Windows Phone, which is hardly the best mobile OS for gamers, trying to bite off a share of the market in which the leader Android, offering quality equipment and affordable prices. But users do not have to stop what their attention. Dawson therefore recommends the development of a significant flagship phone, and Mark Hechmen also agrees with this view.

According to Dawson, Lumia lineup for this role is not suitable. Too late, and has already formed a nasty little chain. Have little platform users, which means that developers refrain from creating applications for it. In turn, the lack of interest in applications reduces the operating system users who are already sizing it.

In the fourth quarter of 2013. Windows Phone had a 3.4 percent market share. And it was the peak moment, because since then the market share of the mobile platform software giant apparently decreased. A similar conclusion can be drawn from the fact that the one-year supply remained at last year’s level – 34 million devices. But the aggregate supply of “smart” phones are in the growth stage.

Cheap Phones

Cheapest Windows Phone (500 series) make, according AdDuplex, approximately 40% of phones Lumia network Walmart. Over the past 24 months Lumia 520, according Counterpoint Research, remained the most popular device based on Windows Phone, almost twice as much as the next following popular model, Lumia 625. This is not surprising, since unlocked Lumia 520 costs only $ 80. This allows the Microsoft operating system for its simplicity and cheapness displace Android. But repression is almost imperceptible.

Among the cheap phones Windows Phone platform was able to find my place, because on its base features, though very cheap, but reasonable quality alternative to Android-devices. This, of course, talking about the budget segment.

In turn, Android also leaves his attention cheap smartphone market. In Moto G and Moto E, for example, the low price combined with high quality hardware.

Applications for Windows Phone are substantially less than for iOS and Android. And of those that have, a significant part is the version created originally for other platforms, with reduced functionality.

The popularity of Windows Phone could improve smartphone with unprecedented opportunities

Those have Android, but not in Windows Phone?

Currently soared rumors about Lumia with a 50-megapixel camera. These rumors cause skepticism, but they represent the very essence of user expectations from Microsoft – the software giant’s time to give something to people admiration.

Is the company introduced something innovative? Alas, no! But something of its platform now boasts. Appendix Lumia Selfie not impressive, connoisseurs can find photos, for which he was criticized. But the fact remains that such application is not on any other mobile platform. This feature of Windows Phone.

Users love the big names. But the most important thing is that when its name is pronounced, it was clear what was going on. How would those who neither belonged to the Nexus, but it is necessary to say a word, as there remains no doubt that this is one of the representatives of the line flagship Google. And Lumia are different, too different.

Will the emergence of a powerful Microsoft promoting its flagship operating system? How, in your opinion, should be a smartphone based on Windows Phone in order to even the most dedicated Android users began to look closely to it? Whether enough would be a 50-megapixel camera for all the attention has shifted from Android to Windows Phone?

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The sixth iteration of the original lineup of smartphones Nexus – pinnacle of engineering, and to challenge this statement makes no sense. As evidence serve a huge 5.96-inch display with a resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels, an incredibly powerful Snapdragon processor clocked at 805 2.7GHz, decent battery and other interesting innovations . Despite a decent list of advantages, their number could be large. In particular, it is now known about one unexpected features of Nexus 6 from which refused at the last moment. What are we talking about? Let’s find out.

Features of Nexus 6

Of course, the answer to disclose at the outset would just not interested, and therefore try to guess it stands on its own. We say that the similarities between the Samsung Galaxy S5, a larger version of HTC One Max and iPhone 5s (with experience in the use can be found here)? Most likely, the high-tech experts will immediately recognize that this combination is chosen not by chance. And it’s not the high price tags, and in the presence of a fingerprint scanner.

What do you mean he’s probably, you ask? It turns out that the creators of the original Nexus 6 planned to equip the most modern “google phone” fingerprint scanner. Learned this first programmer Ron Amadeo, who was researching the Android Open Source Project firmware for the sixth generation of the notorious smartphone.

Ron found dated later than August a record that reads «Shamu: remove fingerprint support». Obviously, even the most rabid haters English guessed that meant. At the end of last summer, it was decided to abandon the introduction of a fingerprint reader in the Nexus 6.

According to our colleagues from phonearena, the most likely option was to use the scanners Validity Sensors, the principle of which, by the way, is somewhat different from the same smartphones. To unlock the device, you must not put a finger, and spend them on the sensor.

It looks like the seventh version of the features of Nexus 6 exactly will get a fingerprint scanner. Will you for this innovation? And do this technology useful? Share your thoughts in the comments below this article.

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