The review is in!!!

[slave]

Of course, they don't recommend it. Like everyone else, it's not the Nexus 6P. It is too high compared to the 6P.

Well, the 6P and the rest of the phablets are just too big. For me, the size of this phone, plus the stock UI, plus the updates I can sideload as soon as they drop are worth more than any other phone.

Yes, the 6P is better. It's too big. Yes, the Moto's are better, they are tied to carriers. No way. Yes, the Galaxy is better, it's touchwhiz AND carrier tied.

The 5X has slow down and switching issues??? I can't tell, I have never seen this. My camera is pretty damn good. It's done everything I have ever done, and never let me down. The only thing I would have wanted, no one can provide, and that is the old school 3 day battery life of the analog Nokia days.

Have fun guys!

 

[Zendroid1]

Screw the negative reviews and their words of a more premium build in the 6P because it's not plastic. What constitutes premium is very subjective. I want and prefer plastic. My personal review says this phone is awesome and luckily my review is the only one that matters!

 

[limitbreak09]

I went to a car dealership looking for a regular compact size sedan.

But car sales man keep insisting that I should get a freaking truck!.

"Sir you should get this, its Towing capacity is 3,450 to 8,850 lbs, Horsepower: 315 to 490 HP, Fuel tank capacity: 26 to 32 gal, MPG: Up to 14 city, 20 highway. and its made of a special metal/ aluminum."

"Hey I dont care about " how good that truck" is I just need a compact size sedan thats it!"

 

[eaccentsac]

Agree with both comments above!!!

5X fits me and does what I need (and does it well). 6P is a behemoth, as is the Moto X Pure. I actually love everything about the Pure, but if it were in a smaller form factor I wouldn't even be in Nexus-land...well, I might still be just to avoid everyone else's icky bloatware!

Have been lugging around the Pure for a month and finally realized that the reason I can't get into it 100% is that it is waaaay too big. It's a great bedside reader but I have a tablet for that. It's also fine using it 2-handed while sitting at my desk, but phones are supposed to let you be mobile and I like to use my phone 1-handed. The 5X fits the bill perfectly!

I have no complaints about the 5X performance--it works juuuuuust fine!

 

[landale]

I currently have a 5X although my 6P will be coming on Thursday and I will decide over the weekend which to keep. My thoughts are pretty simple. Is the 6P the better phone of the two in regards to specs and build quality, of course. Is the 6P at only $70 more than the 32GB 5X a better value (US pricing), yeah probably so. Is the 5X still a great phone on its own, hell yes!

The sad thing here is that a lot of the negative press about the 5X is only in comparison to the 6P. Trust me if there was no 6P I have no doubt the 5X would be recommended. Sure they might complain about the 2GB of RAM or the plastic build but it's still a fantastic phone. However at the end of the day if you value one handed use over pure performance and a metal build there is no reason not to be very happy with the 5X. I know for me I have been very happy with mine for the past week however given I already struggle to use the 5X one handed with my small hands I figure I might as well at least take a look at the 6P to see if I am willing to give up what little one handed use I can get out of the 5X for the higher specs and build of the 6P.

I just wish many of these reviews would just acknowledge that not everyone wants a massive phone and while that group of people might be shrinking it still exists. To not recommend a phone because a completely different sized phone has better specs for not much more simply isn't good reviewing.

 

[trimfast]

I agree with everyone here in some form. I would like the phone review to be more about the phone review than a comparison. Every 5X review has been oh it has this, but the nexus 6p has this. It is really evident in the review here. Jerry seemed to review the 6p very well, I cant say the same for Russell.

 

[slave]

It was a garbage review. I wanted to hear about the merit of this device, and not about the merit of another device.

 

[ducatti20]

I think the 6P is a nicer phone if I wanted a phablet that costs more. Coming from an S4 and S5 this 5x is fantastic.... Super happy I went with it vs the 6 or 6p... I wanted to be on Project FI so options were limited anyways...

 

[DWolf1231]

I agree with everyone here in some form. I would like the phone review to be more about the phone review than a comparison. Every 5X review has been oh it has this, but the nexus 6p has this. It is really evident in the review here. Jerry seemed to review the 6p very well, I cant say the same for Russell.

I rolled my eyes as soon as I saw that it was Russell. I've listened to their podcasts for a year now... I can't remember the last time Russell actually liked something without complaining about it in some way. He's great for finding problems on things.

He also is adamantly against having a fingerprint scanner on his phones for security reasons, so I'm not sure that he's the right person to be evaluating a phone that (along with the 6P) has probably the best fingerprint scanner on any smartphone as one of its primary features.

 

[DWolf1231]

It was a garbage review. I wanted to hear about the merit of this device, and not about the merit of another device.

Exactly. Plus I felt that it was colored by unrealized expectations for what they wanted a Nexus 5X to be. I posted a comment to that article along the same lines, but I honestly feel that if this was just a new LG phone that didn't have a Nexus brand, the review would essentially be :

"Very good mid-range phone that runs stock Android, has a high-end processor, an awesome fingerprint scanner, an excellent camera, and is incredibly thin/light, but for some reason lacks expandable storage and 2GB RAM might be an issue for you. It's not a must-buy but certainly a phone that fares well against other phones in that price range."

 

[humantic]

I love my 5X even after just a few days. I understand the negatives on the device but for the price this phone is great for me. Everyone says the 6P is only a bit more but after adding protect to that price I would have been at $624 after taxes ($95 more than my 5x). While that is still a great price it was more than I was willing to pay. I also was interested in buying a Oneplus 2 until they said there was no NFC and decided against it. In the end the price is still a large factor now that I have started buying contract free devices.

 

[Adranalyne]

While I generally just laugh at most reviews nowadays, I don't think it's entirely too fair to pin this one on Russell because Google gave him 2 smartphones to review and made it clear which one they felt was "superior". The trend for smartphones is "Go Big or Go Home" now and it shines through in every review---a larger device has more advantages than a smaller one because it has more room in which to work with. Look at the Note 5 and the S6, for instance. I've had both phones and feel the Note 5 is the better device even though the devices are very, very similar and made out of the same materials. If you gave me both of them at the same time and told me to review them, I'd still feel the same way.

What gets lost with the Nexus 5X is that it isn't -supposed- to be the better device on paper. It has a smaller battery, lower resolution screen, less storage, less RAM, and a slower CPU/GPU. What seems to be the problem this year is that no one reviewed this phone in a vacuum because they had both models in hand. If I used a 5X only (which is the case because I wasn't/still am not interested in the 6P), the positives of this device would be more prominent. It really isn't very complicated---you buy the 5X if you feel larger devices aren't comfortable/manageable in hand. If that's the case, you can't really do any better right now than the 5X. The screen is solid, the battery life is good-to-great depending on your usage, the camera is the same capable shooter in the 6P, the performance is fantastic for almost every use case, and the fingerprint sensor is excellent.

You buy the 6P if the larger size isn't an issue. It's really that simple.

 

[linuxmel]

Screw the negative reviews and their words of a more premium build in the 6P because it's not plastic. What constitutes premium is very subjective. I want and prefer plastic. My personal review says this phone is awesome and luckily my review is the only one that matters!

Very well said. I take most with a grain of salt ☺

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[linuxmel]

You guys ok with the 2g memory so far? My current Droid maxx has the same, and never had a problem.

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[slave]

You guys ok with the 2g memory so far? My current Droid maxx has the same, and never had a problem.

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I can't see these supposed issues with it. This is on par with my N6, which is my most premium phone so far.

Samsung Instinct --> Palm Pre --> Galaxy S Epic --> Galaxy S2 --> Galaxy S3 --> Nexus 5 --> Nexus 6 --> Nexus 5X

As is now, this is the fastest phone I have ever used. It performs as good or better than anything I have owned.

 

[Adranalyne]

You guys ok with the 2g memory so far? My current Droid maxx has the same, and never had a problem.

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There's times where if you're switching between apps, granted a lot of them are open at this point, it'll re-cache. If that doesn't bother you or you don't generally keep a lot of things open at once, the performance is great.