

And we have tested it rigorously for payments experience and it works great! And for peer-to-peer and reader mode too BTW,” wrote the team.Īnother user asked how does Google work with OEMs on the Nexus smartphones and the team said that everything from design to concept to specifications, is on a collaboration basis between the OEM and Google. “On Nexus 5X, the coil is wrapped around the back camera. On the decision to leave out wireless charging, the team said that they went for USB Type-C as it charges incredibly fast (1% to 100% in 97 minutes on Nexus 6P claims the team) and the reason they ditched wireless was that it would have made the phones thicker.Īnother user asked where the “NFC antenna is located in the 5X and 6P” in order to help with Android Pay and Nexus Imprint and the team responded that on 6P, the NFC coil is “just above the Nexus Imprint fps is exposed behind the camera coverglass (which is GG4 BTW).”

The Nexus team also confirmed that both Nexus 6P and 5X support USB 2.0 and not USB 3.0 as someone asked. On the display of the Nexus 6P, the team explains that they’ve used a Samsung WQHD AMOLED panel and that they spent a lot of “tuning the white-point and color gamut for these panels.” The internal storage in both phones is eMMC 5.0. LG Nexus 5X and Huawei Nexus 6P in this product launch photo from Google.


They’ve also confirmed that the Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X have an identical rear camera (12.3 mp with large 1.55um pixels and Laser Auto-focus). If your phone is ever lost or stolen you can easily find, lock, and erase your phone using Android Device Manager.” Fingerprint features never leave the device and are not shared with Google (so for example if you setup a new phone, you need to re-enroll your fingers). On privacy and security of these fingerprints, they wrote, “The Android 6.0 fingerprint APIs do not provide any access to the fingerprint material to apps.
