Here is my brutally honest assessment (love the phone)
Fit and finish isn't at the iPhone level, but it's very solid. I owned the 6 Plus for awhile. If this were released before Samsung put out gorgeous glass designs, and iPhone's thoughtful design with the 6, i'd be fawning all over it. As of now, the power button is a little easy to press (yeah, I agree with that one reviewer), it's a tad tall, headphone jack is at the top which is super uncomfortable with such a large display. The aluminum is nice, but not really anything mind blowing, and is a rather plain design. (that visor is very unique and cool though).
The screen itself has a slight orange tint that is very noticeable at the dimmest setting. The panel on the S6 has better whites. But this one isn't such a big deal. The panel on the 6P is very beautiful at almost all brightness settings.
Nexus Imprint is a boss though. Very high quality scanner.
The speakers on front are super clear and much, much better on anything iPhone and Samsung. The lower frequency sound struggles (a lighter, airy sound), and I suspect boomsound and motorola may be slightly better in that regard.
So build quality is incredibly well rounded, everything is really good, but not class leading. That's basically what you need to understand about the hardware. It gets you 90% of the way to every flagship's class leading build quality, but never exceeds them in any way. That goes from design, panel and hardware in general.
The software of course is incredibly class leading. This phone is absolute butter with Marshmallow. I'd get this in a heartbeat over the Pure. The $50 Google Play credit, $30 worth of Google Play Music and double the base storage put this over the edge in value as well as everything else mentioned.
Fit and finish isn't at the iPhone level, but it's very solid. I owned the 6 Plus for awhile. If this were released before Samsung put out gorgeous glass designs, and iPhone's thoughtful design with the 6, i'd be fawning all over it. As of now, the power button is a little easy to press (yeah, I agree with that one reviewer), it's a tad tall, headphone jack is at the top which is super uncomfortable with such a large display. The aluminum is nice, but not really anything mind blowing, and is a rather plain design. (that visor is very unique and cool though).
The screen itself has a slight orange tint that is very noticeable at the dimmest setting. The panel on the S6 has better whites. But this one isn't such a big deal. The panel on the 6P is very beautiful at almost all brightness settings.
Nexus Imprint is a boss though. Very high quality scanner.
The speakers on front are super clear and much, much better on anything iPhone and Samsung. The lower frequency sound struggles (a lighter, airy sound), and I suspect boomsound and motorola may be slightly better in that regard.
So build quality is incredibly well rounded, everything is really good, but not class leading. That's basically what you need to understand about the hardware. It gets you 90% of the way to every flagship's class leading build quality, but never exceeds them in any way. That goes from design, panel and hardware in general.
The software of course is incredibly class leading. This phone is absolute butter with Marshmallow. I'd get this in a heartbeat over the Pure. The $50 Google Play credit, $30 worth of Google Play Music and double the base storage put this over the edge in value as well as everything else mentioned.
I have an Xperia Z3 at present which has really bright whites 
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