Android > Apple

There will not be another Nexus phone until late 2016, the phones announced in Spring 2016 will obviously be at least £200 more than this and by the time they launch, you'll only be about 4 months away from the next set of Nexus phones.

So basically, you'll wait forever.

God i love this phone. Had it a week bought it outright. Lost it in IKEA! Had to buy it again. So my Nexus cost me £900. Worth every penny. Ps, On the first day of the second one it dropped from on top of a radiator and i cracked the glass panel. No sir i did not buy a third.

Yep, + Nexus phones on older hardware still smash brand new phones on the newer hardware due to the pure optimisation of the hardware and software. This is hands down the best device I've owned, it absolutely thrashes my S5 and Note 4 and pretty much outdoes the S6 edge I experimented with. Generally get a new phone every 3 months but haven't felt the need with this yet, absolutely superb device.

£1 cheaper than last time, so I guess I have to vote hot.

Website mobile phone section doesn't seem to work

Ah had to request desktop site in chrome and works now

is it a reliable company? also, is it locked or unlocked? thanks

Hot! PalPal

I have no doubt this is a good phone and a good price, but to me at this time of year there is kind of a black hole when you know that in late Feb all the new phones will be announced and you get the benefit of all the new technologies.
I also don't see that this is almost double the worth of the G4 bargain deal at Vodafone.

Yep, + Nexus phones on older hardware still smash brand new phones on the newer hardware due to the pure optimisation of the hardware and software. This is hands down the best device I've owned, it absolutely thrashes my S5 and Note 4 and pretty much outdoes the S6 edge I experimented with. Generally get a new phone every 3 months but haven't felt the need with this yet, absolutely superb device.

Next Samsumg/LG flashship will be end of Feb/beginning of March

Is this worth 175 more than the G4? I do want this phone more, but the G4 deal seems really good as well. Especially for the price. What do ye think?

Nexus phones:

Great for latest Android update, not great for hardware.

I have an S6 as I've said plenty of times, and it's a load of crap. Great hardware crippled by a useless OS. Really can't wait for Marshmallow, but will have to as there's no real alternative to the S6, it's about the best hardware on the market currently, there's nothing better, would just be moving sideways.

Android > Apple

This, but in an acceptable 5-5.2 inch package. Seriously, why are we going back to the brick sized phones of old!?

LOL

Good price for this phone. Nice display, good battery life, rapid charging, pure android, good low light camera, regular updates, USB type C, stereo speakers. Takes a bit of time getting use to the screen size but after using it for a few months now, I'm not sure if I would want to go back to a 5 inch screen.

God i love this phone. Had it a week bought it outright. Lost it in IKEA! Had to buy it again. So my Nexus cost me £900. Worth every penny. Ps, On the first day of the second one it dropped from on top of a radiator and i cracked the glass panel. No sir i did not buy a third.

​Interesting take on it, personally I do think like the stock Android feel I much prefer Nova and on any of the last year's flagship devices it seems very responsive. I got the G4 for the camera and I'm not disappointed. Doze has helped the battery no end and i'd argue the screen is as good as the 6P.
A guy at work only likes nexus phones so I guess thankfully there is a device for everyone ☺️

Very good price. I bought nexus 5x 2 weeks ago after my moto x play stoped work. Very fast phone with latest android and monthly security updates. I wanted 6p but 6 inch is too big for me.

I have this phone and its brilliant, however be aware its massive!

Much better smartphones out there compared with the 5X for the same price category. Wouldn't advise the 5X if you're after a smaller sized screen phone.

What would you advise then?

From other people's viewpoints, the Moto X Play has been branded as a much better alternative. More bang for your buck, they say.

Pretty sure that's what she said.....

Seriously tempted by this deal, but until my HTC one M7 is completely crippled I don't really need this. Voted hot though.

Yeah completely agree, I have a mate who thinks like that as well. However it's easy to forget that Nova is only a Launcher. In the case of Samsung devices, it's very much polishing a turd. It's an extremely well known fact that Samsung devices bog down after around a year and start crashing etc. My Note 4 even started doing it which annoyed me!

I have a Nexus 5 that I still use and while the hardware is now ancient, it still keeps pace and believe it or not, multitasks better than the supposedly 'massively superior' S6 Edge.

I'm also a major geek and love the Nexus development scene :wink:

How long will this deal be on for ? has am looking for a Sliver colour

Probably a daft question, but would I have the manufacturers warranty or refund/protection if I buy it from this website?

Root is useless it won't fix the OS. Lollipop is dire.

If it was 5" I would go for this deal but it's just too big of a phone for my liking. Had my Nexus 5 for over 2 years now, don't really see anything worthy of upgrading to.

:laughing:

If I buy nexus 6p in USA, will it work in uk? Anyone has any experience with buying nexus phone from usa? My sis is coming from us and I am thinking of buying from google play us store and she can bring it over for me.

right thats ordered couldn't decide on the colour but looking on other websites Graphite was the most popular voted plus its the best price around after looking around.

:wink:

A few people have commented how this is £175 more than G4. Hasn't the Vodafone deal expire and wasn't it store specific?

i would wait for the 820s

yeah ofc,

It should in theory, but best check the supported bands to make sure the major UK networks are covered.


Should re-check the specs then. The 6p camera rivals the likes of the s6 and the g4 which are considered the benchmark for great cameras on android. Also the battery life is far better on the nexus line, especially with the Marshmallow 'doze' mode to increase longevity. Samsung will drag their feet on the software update since it's only a couple of months till the s7 is announced.

Here's the spec comparison >

http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=7588&idPhone2=6849

The winner for me is the Nexus 6P battery life. The S6 has the fastest chipset and fastest storage easily, but crap software is crap software and ruins the phone. I'll wait and see if a Snapdragon 820 based Nexus will appear this year and change to that. The S6 will then just power my Gear VR.

Harsh words, it's not that bad. Samsung's added quite a lot of functionality you wouldn't see on other devices normally. I'd rather be in a position of having the functionality and not using it, than the other way around.

Now regarding the hardware though, I can say that it's akin to a polished turd, one with a very nice SAMOLED screen. Opting to not have the MicroSD card slot on a phone capable of recording 2160p videos = bonkers. Considering Samsung's advancements in SSD and other fields, you'd expect they got with a minimum of 64GB, but no.

Regarding this phone though, the Nexus 6P also fails because of its low storage capacity, and somewhat lackluster performance in the audio department. It looks like a flagship, feels like a flagship, until you stretch its capabilities, as you would do with a flagship, and then you hit the 32GB ceiling.

But that's just me.

The reason the S6 doesn't have a micro SD card slot is because Samsung wanted a uniform experience across the phone, adding the extremely slow SD card storage would not complement the UFS storage in the phone. Samsung has the fastest storage in any current phone, hopefully they'll let other manufacturers use it.

This is the best phone of all time.

​Marshmallow is pretty decent, I'm running it on my Moto G 4G which is ancient by smartphone standards. As long as you can unlock a bootloader (popular devices are usually covered) then a coffee, bit of reading and an evening of fiddling gets most phones working blazingly fast on a community-compiled ROM.

Found that last time I was in Currys, most phones weren't much quicker. Once you're rooted with Kernel Aduitor, RAM manager and Greenify set up nicely, things work pretty quickly on an older phone.

One of Marques Brownlee`s ALL TIME favourite phones...... EVER!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc5fFvp8le4

Directmobiles are terrible from my experience. I ordered the 6P on contract and I had my delivery delayed three separate times, all the time I called I kept getting told "it's coming tomorrow", after over a week of waiting it finally arrived.
I was also doing some research online and found other people had similar issues with this company.
Oh and their call centre is full of Indians...

I'd still say go for the deal, but be prepared for the delay in your order.

On paper, the G4 is a much better value. On Android M though, unlocking the phone is a pain unless you have a fingerprint scanner. Swipe up the notification screen, then have to input pin/pattern. Way too much work for me.

Have to agree. Its only half decent on the later 5.1.1.

I bought a Nexus 5 in the USA 2 years ago and it did work but only on 3G. If you look at the LTE bands on the US 6P and the bands that your carrier supports you will probably find that around half are supported. You will never really know until you get it here and put in your sim card.

Great price for this phone. HOT!

Clearly when many people can't afford Apple devices.

Customer service is great if you can ever get through to them. I am not exaggerating when i say i called 15 times over three days at various times only to get a voicemail, to leave a message and to get no call back. Had to resort to contacting them on Facebook for someone to eventually call me back!

The ">" symbol means greater than...

Android is greater than apple...

Thanks for sharing your experience

out of stock according to the email I just got stock coming back in over the next two days, I've got a horrible feeling that I'm not gonna get this deal and gonna have to spend three days chasing a refund :disappointed:

Agreed.

I hate it. Ruined my Note 3. (Mainly the mess they made of Bluetooth)

I'm going for a 6p soon I think. But it'll need to be the 64gb. 32gb isn't enough for me. Removing the SD slot is annoying. But not as annoying as waiting for months for Samsung to wreck the latest version of Android before finally pushing it to your phone. Love the s-pen, but finally sick of slow updates ....

I'll be keeping my S6 just to power my Gear VR then I'll look at something to beat the S6 hardware this year. Loathed to go S7, there should be more choice this year as last year was crippled by the Snapdragon 810, only Samsung could offer a faster alternative in their Exynos chipset. If there's a Snapdragon 820 chipset S7 then it's a no brainer for me, I'll get the S7 as it will take as many updates as devs can do for it, as you don't have to wait for a Samsung ROM to come out in order for a custom ROM to be created. Exynos is a closed door, only Samsung can create the ROMs then ROM devs can make a custom ROM variant of the Samsung ROM.

Perhaps any android phone..and by a hair in random read. It is hammered by the iPhone 6S in sequential read and write and even beaten by the 6. That's NVMe storage for you. Not fanboying it up, infact I prefer android. Just stating the facts.

Not so bothered about power now. They've reached a point where you don't need to update every 2 months because your current phone is now a slug.

Like I say, for what I use it for, my Note 3 still has ample power. But it doesn't get updates. I know any new phone I get will be more powerful so I won't need to upgrade for years once I get the next one. So I want updates. So I'm going google. The ones running manufacturer skinned android will always be hobbled this way. (Unless you root and install custom but I really can't be bothered with all the hassle any more)

Won't need it for VR. Got an Oculus on pre-order ... :smile:

Yes I've seen that article before. At first I thought the 6S was the fastest however the S6 storage is faster than the 6S, sequential read/write are not as important as 4K random write on solid state storage.The S6 wins on random read/write. Either way both the storage of the S6 and 6S are fast. It's the IOP performance where there's a big discrepancy between micro SD and the internal NAND, which is why I think manufacturers should be upping the internal storage significantly instead of trying to bodge a micro SD controller with a UFS or NVMe controller, which is going to happen on the S7.

Says it's locked to EE!

Just contract options available now, no longer available on SIM free. Deal expired.

Waiting for the 64gb 6p price to come down....

Incredible deal

Ok, this still applicable?

Anyone purchased from the site? I really want a 6P!

I ordered from them yesterday afternoon and it arrived today. Very impressed with the phone.

I ordered this via the Money Supermarket comparison site on Wednesday. Follow this link and select the 'Sim Free' tab. Despite, the Direct Mobiles site stating 'out of stock', the phone was automatically added to my basket. Just received the phone via Parcel Force. One happy bunny!

So did it came unlocked or locked to some network?

Locked to ee bummer. Is there an unlock available?