This has been a big week for Google and we have
just about all the information on the latest Nexus smartphone for you. Today,
we’re going to talk about the official price, the official specs and when we
can expect to pre-order and purchase the Google Nexus 6.
Nexus
6 Price
The night before Google announced the Nexus 6, we
saw an AT&T product page showing the name, ‘Google Nexus 6. This made a lot of us happy to know that AT&T
would be selling the smartphone directly. However, the big reveal here seemed
to be about the price. AT&T was using the LG Vista image and price as a
placeholder, so when readers saw the $49 on-contract price, it made a lot of
them happy. However, some of us were skeptical about the price. Turns
out we were right to be because the official price has now been released and it
is very unlikely the on-contract price will be $49.
Google and Motorola have announced the Google
Nexus 6 will cost $649 without a two-year contract. The 64GB model looks to be
priced at $699. It seems the days of moderately-priced Nexus devices could
be a thing of the past. At a $649 price tag, I’m thinking the two-year contract
price will be more like $199. We haven’t seen any details to confirm or deny
this, though – we just know the off-contract price so far. When we learn more
details about the price, we will be sure to let you know.
Nexus
6 Specs
Google’s Nexus 6 will come with a 5.96-inch
AMOLED display capable of a 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution. Inside, we can see it
will house the Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 SoC. This chip has a 2.7GHz quad-core
processor paired with the Adreno
420 GPU. The Nexus 6 has 3GB of RAM and will be available in
32GB and 64GB of internal storage. The back of the device looks to have the
same 13MP camera as the 2014 Moto X and will also have a 2MP front-facing
camera. It ships with Android
5.0 Lollipop and will be powered by an embedded 3,220mAh capacity battery.
The device has a little more going for it than
just these raw specs. The Nexus 6 is compatible and will ship with
Motorola’s Turbo Charger. Motorola and Google claims it will give you 6 hours
of use with only a 15-minute charge. The Nexus 6 is IPX7 water-resistant, so
you shouldn’t have any issues if you get the device wet or completely
submerge it for a short amount of time. We get two color options here: Midnight
Blue and Cloud White. It also comes with some of the Motorola features we see
in the Moto X. Do you think we’ll see a red Nexus 6 announced in a month or two
like we did with the Nexus 5?
Nexus
6 Release
This is where things start to get a little hazy.
If we look at the Nexus 6 page on the Google website, it only lists a
pre-order date. All it tells us is that pre-orders will begin toward the
end of October. Digging around, it seems The Verge is reporting October 29th
for the pre-order date. They continue by telling us it will be released in
November. After doing some more digging, it appears T-Mobile News is
reporting that T-Mobile will start selling the Nexus 6 on November 12th. We
should take both dates with a grain of salt, though. Since nothing has been
officially confirmed by Google, these dates could change at any moment.
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