LG G5 or Google Nexus 6P?

[Thodoris Geronimakis1]

Hello! I am looking to buy a new phone (currently own a samsung galaxy s5). I m looking for a phone that could last me for 2 years, maybe more. I m interested in a lag free phone with a nice display and camera. I m between the Lg G5 and the Nexus 6p. I think both of them are worthy upgrades from the S5 i own. What i mostly do on a phone is browsing the web, watching youtube and taking photos, so what i ask from a phone is a smooth experience, a good battery and a nice camera (at low light too). Which one would you suggest between those 2? I live in Greece and they have about the same price tag ( around 380 euros), i was thinking about Samsung Galaxy S7 but it's about 120 euros more. Anyways, sorry for the long post and i would love to hear your opinions .

 

[dpham00]

I might suggest the zte axon 7 as another alternative.

 

[MDMcAtee]

Hello! I am looking to buy a new phone (currently own a samsung galaxy s5). I m looking for a phone that could last me for 2 years, maybe more. I m interested in a lag free phone with a nice display and camera. I m between the Lg G5 and the Nexus 6p. I think both of them are worthy upgrades from the S5 i own. What i mostly do on a phone is browsing the web, watching youtube and taking photos, so what i ask from a phone is a smooth experience, a good battery and a nice camera (at low light too). Which one would you suggest between those 2? I live in Greece and they have about the same price tag ( around 380 euros), i was thinking about Samsung Galaxy S7 but it's about 120 euros more. Anyways, sorry for the long post and i would love to hear your opinions .

You want a nice display and a good camera and last 2 or more years.

I personally would get the Nexus 6p.

The display is gorgeous, it is easily updated to the latest version of Android and it's camera takes very good pictures. The build quality is better with the Nexus too.

I was never impressed with the g5 and I have owned both the g4 and the v10 prior to buying my 6p.

This phone has impressed me more than any LG g5, and the v10. It sounds better than any of these with it's front facing dual speakers , the display is certainly better than them being AMOLED.

The only 2 things that the g5 has over the 6p is a removable battery and SD card slot. That may make a difference to you since you can easily swap out the battery if it goes bad and you need to add more storage. Right now I am getting close to 2 days usage out of my 6p My Huawei Nexus 6P battery averages 1d 10h 38m (10h 58m 0s active usage) on a single charge. Check out GSam Battery Monitor: - https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...ps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm&token=cXBdszs5 #badassbattery

If you go for the 6p, get the largest amount of storage you can afford.. This way that won't be a issue or at least get a USB C micro SD card adapter to offload your pictures and movies.

Good luck

 

[Thodoris Geronimakis1]

Thank you both for your answers. I m leaning towards the 6p. My only dilemma is the newer hardware on the LG G5 as i am a bit worried of the heat issues with the SD 810.

 

[Tomster88]

Hello! I am looking to buy a new phone (currently own a samsung galaxy s5). I m looking for a phone that could last me for 2 years, maybe more. I m interested in a lag free phone with a nice display and camera. I m between the Lg G5 and the Nexus 6p. I think both of them are worthy upgrades from the S5 i own. What i mostly do on a phone is browsing the web, watching youtube and taking photos, so what i ask from a phone is a smooth experience, a good battery and a nice camera (at low light too). Which one would you suggest between those 2? I live in Greece and they have about the same price tag ( around 380 euros), i was thinking about Samsung Galaxy S7 but it's about 120 euros more. Anyways, sorry for the long post and i would love to hear your opinions .

I would definitely go with the 6p. It's very smooth user experience because there are no skins or bloatware on the phone. I think you'll be quite happy with it.

 

[pappy35]

Thank you both for your answers. I m leaning towards the 6p. My only dilemma is the newer hardware on the LG G5 as i am a bit worried of the heat issues with the SD 810.

"Heat Issues" are only something to be concerned about if it results in battery endurance deficits. This was an issue for me in MM only when taking a large number of photos due to the processing required for HDR. In Nougat this, for me, is no longer a problem. Though there appear to many reports of mysterious battery drain, mine has been outstanding. Combine that with the total lack of carrier bloatware, I'm in smartphone heaven. This phone absolutely KILLS my Note 5 in every way. Forget the G5, it's bloat, skin, iffy camera, high price, and hokey gimmicks. 6P is the way to go.

 

[Markxmlx]

The CPU on the Nexus 6P has a tendency to get pretty hot especially in southern climates. I was in the south of Italy during the first two weeks of August and my Nexus 6P once got so incredibly hot that I had to turn it off. Admittedly GPS was on and I had been playing a bit of Pokémon Go, but really not much at all. During that time the sun was setting and I was in the shade.

I've never had a phone get so hot on me before. Ever.

Knowing how hot Greece can get during this time of year I have to recommend the G5. It has more up to date hardware and won't get so bloody hot if you're out and about using it. Also, with weather like that the camera array on the G5 will undoubtedly shine.

 

[pappy35]

The CPU on the Nexus 6P has a tendency to get pretty hot especially in southern climates. I was in the south of Italy during the first two weeks of August and my Nexus 6P once got so incredibly hot that I had to turn it off. Admittedly GPS was on and I had been playing a bit of Pokémon Go, but really not much at all. During that time the sun was setting and I was in the shade.

I've never had a phone get so hot on me before. Ever.

Knowing how hot Greece can get during this time of year I have to recommend the G5. It has more up to date hardware and won't get so bloody hot if you're out and about using it. Also, with weather like that the camera array on the G5 will undoubtedly shine.

I was in Singapore and Taiwan two weeks ago BN (Before Nougat ) and had a few problems with overheating while on a night zoo tour taking lots of HDR+ pictures. I actually had it reboot on my a couple of times. All that went away with the Nougat update.

 

[Markxmlx]

I was in Singapore and Taiwan two weeks ago BN (Before Nougat ) and had a few problems with overheating while on a night zoo tour taking lots of HDR+ pictures. I actually had it reboot on my a couple of times. All that went away with the Nougat update.

I've been running Nougat since dev preview 3 so this experience I had was while using Nougat. I haven't been able to replicate the issue with the stable release because I have:

1. Not tried to.
2. No intention to risk turning my phone into an oven again.
3. Not been out in the sun much since coming back from that holiday I mentioned.

 

[anon(847090)]

Thank you both for your answers. I m leaning towards the 6p. My only dilemma is the newer hardware on the LG G5 as i am a bit worried of the heat issues with the SD 810.

or u could wait for the next nexus and it might come anytime now

 

[pappy35]

The heat issues are a thing of the past with Nougat and the G5 is a cludge (modularity done wrong). As an alternate I'd consider an unlocked Moto Z (Big, or whatever they call the bigger-battery'ed one) when they become available.

 

[pappy35]

or u could wait for the next nexus and it might come anytime now

Yes, or ^^^this^^^

 

[Thodoris Geronimakis1]

Yeah i could wait, but the price on the new phones will be sooo high .

 

[MDMcAtee]

Yeah i could wait, but the price on the new phones will be sooo high .

Yup the price will be higher than the 6p, and it's always a waiting game to see exactly what it's going to have and look like too.

I too could have waited for the Marlin/Sailfish to come out. I chose not to because I wanted the 6p.

Having the latest version doesn't appeal to me as much as it once did, and I don't like playing the wait and see and hope game for something that I need today.

There are quite a few good phones out today that will still be going strong in a couple of years, and I firmly believe that the 6p is right at the top of the heap.

When I look into my crystal ball for my own personal needs I don't see things changing to have to have the latest hardware. The beauty of buying the 6p now is the prices for the remaining stock of new units. You might be able to get a better price the closer to the release date by waiting a little bit longer, but I don't see the price sliding much more till then. Maybe $50-75, but then you run the risk of not finding what you want as well...

I'm okay paying a little more for mine last week and secure in my beliefs this phone will suffice for my needs for 1-2 years if I need/want to go that long.

On the flip side of this, a couple of months isn't that long to wait and see what the new ones offer and how they preform before deciding. You might find a great deal on a new one or even a better deal on a 6p then...

As too your other choice.. I would pass on it..

 

[123nat]

my LG g4 died (bootloop) and i was between lg g5 and nexus 6p. Decided on nexus 6P and ordered it today..... lets hope it will be a great phone

 

[chezm]

After my less than stellar experience with a G3 and G4, I was way too skeptical about G5 and went with Nexus 6P...best decision I made in June.

 

[Morty2264]

Hello! Though I own an LG product (a G3), I would go for the 6P if I was in your position. Here are my reasonings:

- Nexus has a reputation of putting out quality products. Even if the 6P is somewhat "dated" now, Nexus still provides an experience that will make the phone last for you
--> one reason for that being that Nexus is the first to get software updates and so you'll never be left in the dark

- Nexus is stock Android and so you'll get the best of what Google has to offer with no bloatware

- the 6P has a sleek camera experience and though the G5 takes good photos, the 6P, IMO, would most likely give you a better bang for your buck in this department

- the 6P's screen/display is such that if you do Web browsing/media viewing, you will have a much better experience

- since it has been out for a while, the 6P will be at a good price now; and this will be even truer when its Nexus successors are released

The final choice is yours - choose what makes you happy and what would best fit your needs! Let us know what you've chosen!

 

[bjrosen]

The launch of the Pixels is about a month away, I'd wait to see what they are like. The 6P is going to get one more OS update, to O, they new phones will get two, O and P, so if you want ot keep the phone for two years you would be better off with the next generation phones which will be out in Oct.

 

[Markxmlx]

Hello! Though I own an LG product (a G3), I would go for the 6P if I was in your position. Here are my reasonings:

- Nexus has a reputation of putting out quality products. Even if the 6P is somewhat "dated" now, Nexus still provides an experience that will make the phone last for you
--> one reason for that being that Nexus is the first to get software updates and so you'll never be left in the dark

- Nexus is stock Android and so you'll get the best of what Google has to offer with no bloatware

- the 6P has a sleek camera experience and though the G5 takes good photos, the 6P, IMO, would most likely give you a better bang for your buck in this department

- the 6P's screen/display is such that if you do Web browsing/media viewing, you will have a much better experience

- since it has been out for a while, the 6P will be at a good price now; and this will be even truer when its Nexus successors are released

I guess you didn't actually read the post since the OP stated that he is able to get both at the same price.

You also write as if the 6Ps screen is better for reasons that are not at all clear. Sure, it's bigger but not by much and that comes at the cost of it being not very easy to hold (I know because I own one). Then you can get into the AMOLED vs IPS debate and each have benefits and drawbacks. IPS doesn't suffer from atrocious colour shifting if you view it from a different angle while AMOLED displays can save power if you use black backgrounds or themes since it is not illuminating any pixels. The list goes on.

Also, what's a "sleek camera"? You completely ignore the fact that the G5 has this extra wide angle lens camera which, depending on the person using it can be a lot of fun as well as having manual controls natively rather than the uber simplistic Google Camera app.

That's not to say that the 6P takes worse images - it probably takes better ones most of the time if you use HDR+ but it's slow to process, takes longer to load up and it would be better if the sensor just had better dynamic range in the first place. You can't burst photo with HDR+, you can't take HDR+ video. It's not entirely practical even if the results are very good.

On top of that, there are things you mentioned that make me question if you are even able to recommend anything:

1. Google is the company that distributes Nexus devices, not "Nexus". Nexus is not a company.

2. The fact that there are so many devices not on the latest version of Android means that "the best of what Google has to offer" is available on pretty much every device running Lollipop and up. So with a 2016 flagship you're not left in the dark. Heck, even iPhones are great Google phones.

I have a 6P and I like it a lot but you're very clearly biased and are recommending something very blindly. That's not very helpful.