![]() ![]() The five-megapixel front camera is passable. Slow-motion video in the Camera app is, of course, dope. ![]() The 5X camera might even outdo that of the Nexus 6, at least in the dark. The back camera on the 5X is better than the one on the Nexus 5, just as the 5’s back camera was an improvement on the 4’s. Or, no matter which app you were using before the screen went off, you can turn the camera back on by hitting the power button two times fast. First, if your phone screen goes off while the Camera app is open, you can open it right back up in a jiffy by holding down the fingerprint scanner. You can open up the camera quickly in two ways. Montgomery Street BART station, San Francisco. Do you know how easy it is to use Android Pay now? So easy. And because I’ve been trained to have my finger in the indentation on the back of the Moto X (2nd Gen) and more recently the Moto X Pure Edition, this actually feels natural and nice.įingerprint scanning on the 5X is fast, easy, fun - all good things that make feel like I am going to want it on every phone I buy from here on out. Well, the 5X and 6P are just different like that. You can register as many as five fingers.Ī few iPhone owners who played around with the 5X have asked me why the fingerprint sensor isn’t on the front. It’s the thin metal ring below the camera.Īnd it’s easy to set up - go to the security section of the Settings app and select Nexus Imprint, and then you hold six different parts of your fingertip over the scanner, so it can recognize the finger at different angles. My favorite thing about this phone is on the other side. And I could do without the front-facing pulse notification light. The audio coming out of the single front-facing speaker on the 5X did not seem to be as full and rich as it is on the Moto X Pure Edition, which has front-facing stereo speakers. If you tap keys fast enough while you’re sitting in a quiet place, it sounds like you’re playing some 1980s video game, like Frogger or Centipede. The vibration engine on this thing is strong. The FHD (1920 x 1080) LCD screen, with 445 pixels per inch, looks bright pretty much anytime you glance at it, even in broad daylight. To be fair, camera bumps have become seen on several smartphones in the past few years, so maybe I should try to get over this. There is no strangely satisfying spin like there is on the Moto X (2nd Gen).īut hey, at least the phone lies flat when the screen is facing down. That’s annoying when you hit a button with a bit of force and the phone gets a bit off-balance. As a result, if you push down on the edge of the phone with the screen facing up, the phone will tilt. The camera stands out from the rest of the back of the phone just enough - about a tenth of an inch - that it makes the phone taller toward the top. When you lay the phone down on a flat surface with the screen facing up, you may experience a sudden sense of disappointment. I welcome the move downward in the car, that means my headphone cable is less likely to get tangled, and when I’m walking, the cable no longer sticks up in the air like some sort of weird antenna. A conversion cable can solve these problems.) Also on the bottom of the 5X: the headphone jack. (Unfortunately the charging cable doesn’t work with my car charger, and my laptops can’t accept it, either. The 5X is rocking the USB Type-C jack on the bottom where the micro USB jack used to be. ![]() Image Credit: Devindra Hardawar/VentureBeat ![]()
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