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November 09, 2015

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While the Nexus 6P - made by Huawei and the sister phone to the 5X - boasts a lush metal frame, LG's 2015 Nexus is an all-plastic affair. The front of the phone is black and largely featureless save for the front-facing camera, two grilles (one for the earpiece, one for the speaker) and an LED notification light (hidden in the bottom grille and curiously turned-off by default), while the back, non-removeable panel comes in either "Carbon" (black), "Quartz" (white) or "Ice" (light green). On the rear you'll find the camera, LED flash, fingerprint scanner and that oh-so-familiar Nexus logo. The power and volume buttons are on the right-hand side of the device, while on the bottom there's a USB Type C port and the 3.5mm headphone socket. The left-hand side houses the Nano SIM tray. The fact that the Nexus 5X is fashioned from plastic isn't an issue in itself, it's just that more Android users than ever before have become accustomed to metal phones, and this makes LG's handset feel a little cheap in comparison. Of course, plastic does have its benefits - the Nexus 5X can take a bump or two and it's very lightweight for its size. In terms of pure design it's understated but appealing; while it won't turn heads like the flagship handsets of rival firms, you'd have to be incredibly mean-spirited to call it ugly - functional is a more accurate description.

The USB Type C port is going to be quite a talking point - you'll be seeing more phones with
this connector in the future as the industry is adopting it as standard, putting the Micro USB port put to pasture. The benefits are worth the painful upgrade process; not only does the connector work both ways round (like Apple's Lightning connector), but it also delivers faster data transfer and quicker charging. The bad news is that you'll need to invest in additional cables in the short-term, as none of your existing leads will work. Also, unless your laptop already has a USB Type C port on it, you won't be able to link up your phone unless you buy an adapter, which in turn means you won't benefit from the increased transfer speed. Give it a few years and USB Type C will be as ubiquitous as Micro USB is now, but for the time being, you'll have to remember to carry the charger and cable around with you when you're travelling - you can't rely on using someone else's cable any more.

The IPS LCD screen is slightly larger than the one on the original Nexus 5, measuring 5.2 inches from corner to corner over the 4.95 inch panel on the earlier model. In terms of quality, it's very similar to the previous model - it even boasts the same resolution of 1080 x 1920, which is, in our opinion, the most pixels you really need on a device of this size. Anything above that is practically unnoticeable and simply gives the processor more work to do. Clarity and sharpness are excellent, but colours do look a little washed out compared to the punchiness of the AMOLED screens seen on other Android smartphones. It's covered by Corning's Gorilla Glass 3 with a special Oleophobic coating to reduce the impact of fingermarks.

A FEW DAYS after I started wearing the Time Round, Pebbleâ€™s ultra-thin new smartwatch, I shut off notifications. This was partly practicalâ€”I get too many notifications, and the iPhone offers no filtering control over themâ€”but also a thought experiment. Right now most people see a smartwatch as nothing more than a notification machine, a slightly faster way to see what that buzz in my pocket was all about. What if we took that away? What else could it be?

Under that lens, the $249 Time Round comes into clearer focus. So does Pebble in general. Itâ€™s not trying to make a shrunken computer for browsing Instagram or editing documents. It is, simply, trying to design a high-tech answer to the question we implicitly ask every time we look at our watch: Whatâ€™s going on? Minus the constant dinging and buzzing, I started to figure out what a smartwatch might actually add to my life. (Then I turned notifications back on, because Iâ€™m evidently a masochist.)

Really, the new watch has but one unique characteristic: It actually looks like a watch. I know!

Pebble clearly designed the Time Round (ugh, that name) in opposition to the blocky rectangles that sit on the wrists of hyper-connected nerds everywhere. Itâ€™s round, in case you didnâ€™t figure that out yet, which is up to you to care about or not but either way it feels far better on my wrist. It weighs less than an ounce, and is only 7.5mm thickâ€”the Apple Watch is about 50 percent larger in both dimensions, and feels like a lot more when you have it on your wrist all day. I hardly notice the Round on my wrist at all; itâ€™s one of the first smartwatches Iâ€™ve comfortably worn 24 hours a day.

These are the same problems the other Pebble Time models have. And weâ€™re still waiting on the developer community to build the feature-adding "Smart Straps,â€ smart-home control, and a million cool apps Pebble keeps promising. Pebble still sucks with an iPhone, because you canâ€™t control which notifications you see and you canâ€™t do anything with them. Pebbleâ€™s working on that, but for now, if you use an iPhone, thereâ€™s no smartwatch worth buying other than the Apple Watch. (That sucks.) If youâ€™re on Android, you get much finer control and many more useful features.

The Nexus 5X uses the same "Ambient Display" feature which made its debut on the Nexus 6, which, when enabled, allows notifications to flash up on the screen in black and white even when the device is idle. It's a neat touch but the fact that the phone doesn't have an AMOLED screen means that the entire display lights up (black pixels on AMOLEDs are effectively turned off and do not emit any light). As a result, it's a little more distracting than it was on the Nexus 6 (especially when you're in a dark room), and you might want to turn it off if you're keen to preserve your battery.

Nexus 5X Review: Hardware Specifications
Next year will see the introduction of the Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 chipset and the processing power standard will once again increase. However, Google and LG clearly aren't playing that game with the mid-range Nexus 5X - it comes equipped with the less potent but still dependable Qualcomm Snapdragon 808, a revision of the 810 chipset which fell foul of much-publicised overheating issues a short time ago.

It contains a 64-bit hexa-core processor with each core clocked at 1.8 MHz, while an Adreno 418 handles the graphics processing. There's 2GB of RAM on-board, which will come as something of a disappointment to those of you who keenly follow technical developments in the Android arena. Most leading handsets in 2015 came with 3GB, and some even packed 4GB - a ludicrous amount for a phone to ship with. Still, more RAM means smoother performance and we noticed more times than we'd like that the Nexus 5X seemed to hang or
struggle with certain tasks. That's hardly a shock when you consider that it has the same amount of RAM that the original Nexus 5 had two years ago; an additional 1GB would have surely resulted in better performance overall. That's not to say that the 5X is sluggish - in fact, when navigating around the UI it feels smoother than the more powerful Galaxy S6 - but there's clearly a bottleneck when lots of processes are occurring at once.

Benchmark tests confirm that while the Nexus 5X is no slouch in processing terms, it not quite at the cutting edge of the Android sector. Antutu benchmark returns a score of 52475, which places the phone behind the likes of the HTC One M9, Galaxy S6 and Xperia Z4, but ahead of the LG G4, Nexus 6, Moto X Style and Note 4. Geekbench is slightly less kind, and the phone's score of 3538 puts it head of aging handsets like the Galaxy S5 and (unsurprisingly) the original Nexus 5, but behind pretty much every leading handset from 2015. Again, it's worth stressing that this isn't a top-tier flagship and costs around half as much as some of the leading Android handsets out there.

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