Note 4 vs Nexus 6 review Performance

The Nexus 6 and Galaxy Note 4 are both powered by a quad-core 2.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor.  However, the Nexus 6 scored higher than the Note 4 when benchmarked on Antutu - 48,198 compared with 44,825 - probably owing to the Nexus 6's vanilla Android 5.0 Lollipop software. These numbers don't often mean much, but we did find the Nexus 6 slightly smoother and nippier to use, again thanks to Lollipop. This could also be credited...

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Note 4 vs Nexus 6 review

Those in the market for a phablet are currently spoilt for choice, with smartphone screens continuing to grow bigger and bigger. However, the Nexus 6 and Galaxy Note 4 arguably stand out as the most notable contenders. Samsung's Galaxy Note range has long held a reputation for being among the biggest smartphones on the market, and often the go-to phablet for many, but Google's Nexus 6, with...

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iPhone 6 Plus vs Nexus 6 review Battery

Battery performance hampers most smartphones. Despite advances in other areas, most handsets still struggle to offer more than two days of moderate use from one charge. The iPhone 6 Plus and Nexus 6 don't radically change this, but they are both fairly impressive by today's standards. Our test involved burning the iPhone 6 Plus 2915mAh battery and Nexus 6 3220mAh battery by constantly looping a video file stored on the handsets....

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iPhone 6 Plus vs Nexus 6 review Performance

Performance Performance is a key factor on most buyers' minds when comparing smartphones. As a result, an important question is how the iPhone 6 Plus A8 chip with 64-bit architecture and M8 motion coprocessor compares with the Nexus 6 Qualcomm Snapdragon 805, 2.7GHz quad-core processor. To answer this we used the Geekbench and Sunspider benchmark tools. Geekbench tests integer, floating point...

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iPhone 6 Plus vs Nexus 6 review Operating system and software

Operating system and software The iPhone 6 Plus comes out of the box running iOS 8 but automatically updates to the latest iOS 8.1 version. Similarly, the Nexus 6 comes running Google's Android 5.0 operating system, but has an update to the latest 5.1 version available. In past reviews we've found iOS slightly more future proof than Android. This is largely down to Apple's closed management of the OS. Apple blocks developers making changes...

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Microsoft aims to keep the PC relevant with Windows 10

The official release of Windows 10 is still about six months away, as far as anyone can tell, but it's already shaping up to be one of the most significant events of 2015, at least as far as the IT industry calendar goes. There are many reasons why this is the case, not least because many industry experts had started openly to question whether Windows could still be relevant in the so-called 'post-PC' era, but also because of the wrong turn that Microsoft seemed to have taken right at the start of the process that led to Windows 8. ...

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iPhone 6 Plus vs Nexus 6 review

2014 was a big year for Apple and Google, as both firms released their first phablets, the iPhone 6 Plus and the Nexus 6. Even more importantly, unlike past years when Google shied away from directly competing with Apple in the top-end space, the firm chose to go head-to-head with its competitor and priced the Nexus 6 in the post-£500 bracket. The price led many potential phablet buyers to...

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