Huawei Nexus 6P Unlocked Smartphone, 64GB Silver (U.S. Warranty)

I'm a pretty tough critic of smartphones because I only upgrade about every 3-4 years, so I'm always looking for the mack-daddy of devices whenever I do decide to upgrade. And what led me to the Nexus 6P was that it was made by Huawei, a company that has been credited recently for mastering the eight-core processor setup and having the best radio receivers in the world (a radio on smartphones is what captures your signal for talk/text/data). I was a little hesitant since it's a pure Google phone without a secondary operating system, but I can tell you now that I'm absolutely thrilled with this phone in every possible way.Why? Let's start out with the screen quality. I have a mid-range 60' 1080p television in my bedroom and movies actually look better on my phone. Seriously...the colors are absolutely amazing and I find myself drawn to watching cartoon movie previews lately just to stare in awe. This phone also comes with a beefy battery for movie watchers like myself and the quick-charge function ensures that you can literally stream content 24/7.For example, I downloaded the latest Suits episode when the phone was at 22% power earlier tonight, then I checked email, played a few games and visited Amazon. Then I watched the entire 43 minute episode before I got down to 10%. Thirty minutes later (after charging the phone while idle) it was back to 87%. And that's with all the settings wide open...I haven't even turned on the battery efficiency mode yet.The camera is also spectacular and it has a lot of features I've never seen before on a smartphone. For example, it has something called bubble mode. You hold the camera steady, take a photo, and then it shows "bubbles" at all sides of the screen for you to take an additional photo at. So you can literally line up with unlimited bubbles up, down and to both sides to create a truly 3-D photo of an entire room, a beach panoramic or anything you can think of. It's literally changed the way I take pictures because the photo quality (in every mode) is awesome.Now let me tell you why you might not want this phone. Out of the box, it's straight Android Marshmallow, which means that you have to "build" your homepage with only a few enclosed widgets available. So you'll have to hit the Google Play store to get your Facebook feed, a cool looking weather widget (the enclosed one is very basic) and several other toys that you're used to on Galaxy or HTC....and a lot of folks won't like doing that. HOWEVER, know that without a secondary operating system like most other phones, this is literally the fastest device on the market right now and it will likely stay that way in the near future. However, you probably won't be able to replace everything your last phone had so don't expect it.....for example, I'm still searching for a solid main email program.That's why tech nerds like me love the Nexus line...we add only what we want and it keeps the phone blazing fast.Additionally, you may remember me talking about the radio receiver in the intro- my wife's Galaxy 6 gets about 18 MB download speeds on our network at home, and I'll be getting 28-32 sitting right beside her. Or when we're in the mall or a grocery store, she'll drop down to 2G or lose signal while I'm still at 2-3 bars of LTE. So if you get poor reception at home/work or on your commute, then you definitely want to consider a Huawei model before the prices inevitably go up.Overall, I absolutely love everything about this phone and I honestly think it's the best I've ever had by a wide margin. From the fingerprint scanner on the back (which is amazing in itself...all brands will copy this soon) to the great audio, video and photo quality, there's really nothing not to like. It's a steal at $500 as well...so don't hesitate grabbing one for yourself.Please mark this review as helpful if it answered some/all of your questions!

I am a long time Android user and definitely consider myself a techie. I am an electrical engineer by profession and a consumer technology buff. That being said, I own a lot of technology, be it cell phones, Tvs, routers, video games, NAS, you name it.. It's probably in my house. I really enjoy new tech and reading about new tech. One thing I don't really enjoy, however, is writing reviews. But on this purchase I feel compelled to give a consumer warning to possible customers of this phone.First things first, this phone in its perfect form is incredible. Even 8 months after launch its still going strong and competitive with the newer releases of 2016. I personally have the galaxy s7 edge and the HTC 10, both of which are excellent android phones. For some reason, however, I find myself reaching for the Nexus 6p to recurve my sim card for the day! It's butterry smooth, even though it sports last year's plagued 810 snapdragon SoC, and the monthly updates are awesome. It has great battery life and the media viewing experience is second to none. The big 5.7 inch amoled display coupled with the dual front firing speakers are a pure joy to consume media on! 64gb worth of storage is the sweet spot for me right now, both in price and capacity for moderate-heavy use (no SD card expansion here). Connection to my network (Tmobile and sprint) is excellent here in Portland and wifi performance is equally stellar. And wow did I mention the build! It's Google first nexus with a machined aluminum body and it's a pleasure to hold in the hand. I especially look ve the cold metal feel when u reach for it in the morning to start my day.Sadly though, like I said before I am not a person who write reviews often and alas, a review is not the point of this post. The main reason I'm posting this short essay is because of a compelling urge to WARN possible consumers about a particular build quality issue with this phone and my experience dealing with Amazon to remedy the problem.Here's the issue: the beautiful Amoled screen on this particular phone (Graphite 64gb) has a defect that seems to be quite frequently appearing. The display has uneven color temperature throughout, some worse than others, and is extremely hard to "unsee" once noticed. It's very noticeable on lighter backgrounds, I.e. When you're using email, browsing websites, sms messaging.. The list goes on. What do I mean by "uneven color temperature"? You see blotches of pink on one side of the display, green on another. The white can be two completely different colors from top to bottom or left to right. It's very unappealing to the eye and from my generous research into the problem from various Nexus forums it's quite a well documented issue with the 6p's big amoled display (or at least was at launch).My first Nexus I recieved from Amazon had this issue extremely badly. I noticed the uneven temperature color's telltale pinks before I had even gotten thru the setup process on the phone. I was understandably upset, and promptly requested a replacement, literally half an hour after receiving the device. Amazons automated return system immediately generated a replacement order and it was shipped out the same day. Yay amazon! Little did I know this would only be the start of my woes. Once I had recieved my 1st replacement, I quickly turned on the device and instantly started inspecting the screen trying to find the same flaw (or lack thereof). Thankfully this display looked considerably better, though not perfect. It was acceptable I would say and I was happy. After a few days of enjoying the phone, it's started having an issue where it would just randomly reboot on me. I was dismayed at my luck and tried refreshing Google latest software image to remedy the problem, but this did not fix the rebooting issue. Even after many device factory resets it still wouldn't stop. So reluctantly I again requested a replacement. This time I was starting to doubt the manufacturing quality of the Nexii, but I loved how the phone felt and operated so I knew i wanted to get a 'working' device. Anyway, the 2nd replacement came quickly, and again within seconds of turning it on I saw the dreaded pink hue. I was really bummed out at this. I went online to research how many people had this much trouble! I even saw a few other reviewers deep in the 400+ reviews of this device here on amazon had similar problems and I found quite a few with the exact same pink problem. At this point i felt pretty down on my luck, but again I dutifully went to amazon to request a replacement thru there automated system.This is where things went from bad to worse.This time a replacement was not granted. It just said "Return requested. Your replacement is being handled by customer service department". I figured they'd would take care of me and send me a replacement. But this was not what happened. Actually nothing happened. A few days past and I decided to take it upon myself to talk directly to a customer service representative. The first person I talked to, forgive me for forgetting his name (it was Indian and hard to recall now), told me he was sorry. He said that this problem had been investigated and they had determined that there was a problem with their stock of nexus 6ps. I told him I would just like a replacement, I've taken my chances before I'll do it again. He tried to process the replacement request, but it wouldn't go through (how this happened I do not know). He tried again, saying my address was "deactivated" and that he again couldn't issue a replacement. Frustratingly he couldn't give me a reason why my address had suddenly been deactivated, and curiously it's only deactivated for this device. I've ordered other things since with no issue. At this point I was getting upset. He told me he had a plan. He would refund the full purchase price of the phone(originally funded from my checking card) to a gift card, at which point I could then repurchase the device with the gift card balance. This way I could effectively order a replacement purchase myself and then send the defective phone back. By taking this route I wouldn't have to wait the week or so it would take to wait for them to receive my return, then issue the refund, have the refund clear, then reorder the device. I had a problem with this grand scheme of his, the price of the phone has since increased by 50$ for each model. I told him this, and he said he would simply transfer me to the "Price adjusting department" and I could go about getting the price reduced 50$ to the original buy price. I thanked him profusely at this point, happy I was getting g taken care of. He processed the refund-in-advance and sure enough the 500$+ were there for the spending on a amazon digital gift card in my account. With this transaction conformed, he sent me onto my second contact, the price adjuster, who would price match the phone back to original sale price for me. If this sounds backwards and overly complicated, that's because IT IS!I was quickly handed off to the "price adjustment department", where the associate said he would look over the previous chat and help me. After a few minutes, the associate spit out a pre-scripted answer that was along the lines of "We try hard to ensure competitive prices at Amazon, however we only price match televisions".I couldn't believe what I had just read.. Here I am, over an hour talking to another associate in their retail department, and low and behold amazon doesn't price match anything but TVs!? What the heck? How did the first associate not know this was the policy!!?So in my complete disbelief of the situation, I did a double take of the pre-scripted rejection of my price match request, and asked him a again. I explained my horrible situation and quest to get a working device replacement and the issue with the sale price/refund/hell I've been through so far. He quickly responded with THE SAME PRE-SCRIPTED rejection line! Absolutely no way was I going to be getting a price match.I was furious at this point. And I threw in the towel. I told him I needed my money to be taken of the new gift card and to be refunded to the original form of payment. He obliged. I exited the chat. Packed up my beloved, if not perfect, nexus. And off I went to the UPS store to bid farewell to a horrendous experience with shopping here at Amazon.com.Currently, Im waiting for a newly ordered nexus 6p to arrive from Google. Hopefully this time I'll get a non-reactive device. If it wasn't such a wonderful phone at a great price, I would never have went this far. But that's the price I pay for my love of technology.Amazon really dropped the ball tech support wise. Im very disappointed and will not be ordering large ticket electronics from here again. On another note, when I looked into how come my address had been deactivated for this product, they gave me the excuse that the whole stock of Graphite Nexus 6p 64gb devices had been identified as having a problem and therefore couldn't be ordered from Amazon.com anymore. So buy this model with a caution. Even though I was told you cannot order it anymore, sure enough it's still available to order. Amazon playing Russian Roulette with hard earned dollars of their customers.I however, am doing playing that game. It's Google turn to make what amazon couldn't make right (and for 50$+ more for my troubles).

I wrote this review when I first got the phone and it is still performing very well, but I can say that the wifi capability may not be as good as I hoped, not sure if this is normal on phones because I don't remember (I used to use the computer instead of a phone) but I definitely feel that over time the wifi capability has decreased (it lags sometimes and it is not the internet service as I have other devices that work without any problems). It is good to reboot the phone from time to time because it also tends to get a bit slow, I do it maybe once every 2 weeks.Also the battery does last a day but now I have to charge it the following morning or at night, it is draining a bit faster than before. It still takes great pics but sometimes I have to wait a few seconds before I can take the next shot and it wasn't like that at the beginning, and also tends to lose focus when taking a video (not all the time, but it didn't happen before)I won't take stars away because it is a great phone and I still recommend it but I may change it once the new nokia with android comes out.*********The phone is amazing, takes great pictures, resolution is great, the audio and speakers are amazing as well, it's really fast and the battery lasts over a day! unless I use it a lot for gaming or YouTube it lasts a day but if I don't, I can wait until mid day the following day and then I charge it, it has a do not disturb feature so I don't have to leave it without audio for the night, I just turn on the feature and choose which time I want it to turn off so I can get my notifications again...I just love it! I'm extremely happy with this phone, would definitely recommend it!

Great phone, I had the same phone and the battery went on me I ordered a new battery changed it and the phone works great again...however I like the phone so much I wanted another for back up and this phone is so flawless I decided to use this one and keep the old one with replaced battery for a back up

This looked like it had everything I was looking for in my next phone upgrade and I had just passed my Nexus 7 over to my wife when here on stopped working. I had an order in with my (former) cell provider but it got delayed and I was then told the manufacturer was no longer producing them. I wasn't keen on paying all the extra $ for a Pixel Plus, as was suggested so I visited Amazon. I moved from an iPhone 5S and this just blows it way, and it also covers my needs for a small tablet. I'm very pleased that I went with this.since I already had a Nexus 7 for a few years and I have an Android streaming box setup was quite a breeze, it updated to Android Nougat 7.0 and the available features and the apps have taken this well beyond what I had for my iPhone.I also installed Action Launcher to give it a bit of that Pixel look and feel.

Despite the lack of expandable storage, this is my favourite mobile ever. large enough for both movies and kindle reading.

The best phone I had in 20 years. I had Blackberry, Apple, Nokia, Samsung and now this. This is an amazing phone, very fast processing the applications, apps a lot as is android. I really don't see any problem with it, if this phone would have a MicroSD slot would be the best phone out there. Highly recommended to all.

Awesome phone !!