Nexus phones have always represented Google’s super-focused vision of the future of Android, but for 2016 the attention to detail is getting down to individual pixels. That’s pixels, plural: two Nougat flagships, distinguished only by their size, the 5-inch Pixel and 5.5-inch Pixel XL. Each, for better and for worse, the purest embodiment of what Android is today and where it will go tomorrow.
Google and HTC’s design is oddly divisive for something so simple. Some I showed it to welcomed the clean lines and minimal ornamentation. Others, though, felt it fell somewhere between boring and just plain ugly; the shiny glass crop-top on the upper rear, presumably required for RF reasons, earned particular criticism.
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