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Verizon’s Google Nexus 6 review: It takes two

If you’re not an ’80s child, you might not get my headline reference to Rob Base’s It Takes Two song. In this case, I’m referring to hands – it takes two hands to operate Verizon’s Google Nexus 6, which was a downside for me. I’m sure I’d get used to it eventually but I’m pretty happy being able to one-hand my iPhone 5s and snap a quick photo.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, I judge phones mostly by what they can do for me in the camera department. I also own a DSLR and several point-and-shoot cameras but I want to be able to rely on my phone for great photos, too, because I’m not always able to carry a dedicated camera. I want images I can share with friends and family on social media and use for work purposes, too, which means they need to be high enough quality to be printable at least as large as 4-inches by 6-inches.

I loved the vividness of the “pixel-rich, 6-inch Quad HD display” on the Nexus 6. The phone features a 13-megapixel camera with HDR+ and optical image stabilization as well as a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. There was something on the camera called photo sphere and to be honest I wasn’t able to figure it out but here’s a link to that tip and five other Nexus secret features you might not know about.

I used the camera while on a research trip in Rochester, New York, and the nearby Finger Lakes area, so I got lots of chances to shoot some beautiful outdoor subjects. I’ve included unedited samples of similar views taken with Nexus 6 and with my iPhone 5s.

Here are some samples.

Taken with Nexus 6
Taken with Nexus 6 (unedited)
Taken with iPhone 5s
Taken with iPhone 5s (unedited)
Taken with Nexus 6 (unedited)
Taken with Nexus 6 (unedited)
Taken with iPhone 5s (unedited)
Taken with iPhone 5s (unedited)
Taken with Nexus 6 (unedited)
Taken with Nexus 6 (unedited)
Taken with iPhone 5s (unedited)
Taken with iPhone 5s (unedited)
Taken with Nexus 6 (unedited)
Taken with Nexus 6 (unedited)
Taken with iPhone 5s (unedited)
Taken with iPhone 5s (unedited)

Interested in a more technical review of Verizon’s Nexus 6? Check out Aaron’s review.

Disclaimer: Verizon provided me a three-week loaner of this product for purposes of this review. Views of the product are my own. You can find more reviews of Verizon products and accessories on Instagram and Twitter by following the hashtag #vzreview.

Writer. Photographer. Lover of travel. Believer that all who wander are not lost. #Mizzou grad living in Wichita, Kansas.

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