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If you've been wanting a Nexus 6 but were put off by the $499 direct price, now'due south your hazard: Amazon has just dropped the price of the phone $150, to only $349 for 32GB and $399 for 64GB, putting information technology on an even keel with the $329 and $389 OnePlus ii (which is hard to become anyway). You tin go one from Amazon in either midnight blue or cloud white. The price cut is ahead of Google's widely expected announcement at the end of this calendar month for new Nexus phones.

The Nexus vi is a beautiful phone with fast performance, a gorgeous quad-Hard disk 493ppi display, an first-class 13-megapixel rear photographic camera, solid front end-facing stereo speakers, a big three,220mAh battery, and stock Android 5.1 Lollipop (which is always the biggest entreatment for me with Nexus phones). Underneath the hood is a quad-cadre Snapdragon 805 with an Adreno 420 GPU and 3GB RAM. And with a 6-inch panel, information technology'southward basically a stand-in for a tablet when you don't have ane around, while nonetheless being (just) small-scale enough to function as your main phone.

Meanwhile, as nosotros reported before in the week, information technology seems as if we may go two new Nexus phones at the end of the month instead of i. The rumored phones are a 5.ii-inch model from LG with a 1080p display, a hexa-core Snapdragon 808 processor, 3GB RAM, and a 2,700mAh battery. The larger handset is expected to be from Huawei and sport a 5.seven-inch quad HD display, which puts information technology slightly smaller than the existing Nexus 6, as well equally the notorious Snapdragon 810 — supposedly a finely tuned version (with help from Qualcomm) that lets information technology perform well without being subject to heat bug.

Both of the new phones should come with the long-awaited Android half dozen.0 Marshmallow, but an update for the Nexus half-dozen to that OS should also be imminent equally well. If yous buy a Nexus six now at Amazon's discounted price, you'll nevertheless become Android 6 at some betoken before long, but yous won't get the newer phone's USB-C ports, fingerprint reader, and (peradventure) improved cameras. If the rumors are correct, you lotwillget a larger brandish than both of the newer phones, which counts for something.

Note that the telephone still starts at $499 from Google's store; y'all'll need to buy information technology at Amazon to go the discount. It may still exist worth waiting until September 29th to see what Google has in store, but there's no guarantee this price cut from Amazon will final — or if the new phones will fifty-fifty be in stock and bachelor to purchase yet once Google announces them (though chances are they will be).