The Nexus 6P is available to pre-order from Google Store as well as from the official USA website of Huawei, which is manufacturing the new Nexus smartphone for the first time, though the Chinese handset maker has clarified that it will be able to begin shipping the handset only by late November. It was because of all this glue and the unibody design that iFixit ranked the Nexus 6P a 2 out of 10 in repairability.
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A new video casts doubt on the durability of Google’s shiny flagship handset, the Nexus 6P, and even elicits a comparison to Jar Jar Binks from the video’s creator. And unfortunately, one of the most common repairs, a cracked or broken display, is extremely challenging work to replace with this one.
The delay is not that long and Phandroid said it is nice for Google to give a courtesy refund for the Nexus 6P delay shipment.
Overall, the team said it’s “very difficult” – but not impossible – to open the phone without damaging the glass camera cover, so you probably don’t want to try this at home. HTC’s One M9, like the One M8, was equally hard to tear apart while the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge’s glass body and buried battery landed it with a score of three.
The “bend test” has been a thing ever since Apple redesigned the iPhone in 2014.
The phone is a bit pricey at £579 (AU$ 1247.81) for 128 GB, but despite this, the Nexus phablet is arguably the best Android smartphone, if its repairability factor isn’t an issue for you. It also found that the main camera is soldered in to place.
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“I am being completely serious when I say my little sister could have bent this phone in half”, he says. Most of Huawei’s fingerprint sensors-like on the Ascend Mate 7 and Mate S-have square fingerprint readers, so this was most likely a way to reuse the same components while keeping the design motif consistent with the Nexus 5X.
