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I do.)Д«oth of the new phones come with the latest version of data/charging connectors: USB-C. (You either like phablet-sized phones, or you donвЂ™t. The vibrant 5.7-inch screen is smaller than the nearly 6-inch screen on the Nexus 6, but plenty big for just about any phablet fan. A slightly protruding bar on the back holds the antennas and camera sensor. The 6P improves, as it should, on the previous Nexus 6 phablet - lighter, less bulky, with better hardware in almost every respect - and the 32-gigabyte model is $250 cheaper. IвЂ™ve spent more time with the 6P, which was built by Huawei (LG builds the 5X), so IвЂ™ll focus on it here. If I wanted a phone, not a phablet, IвЂ™d be looking hard at the sleek 5X, which has 5.2-inch screen and almost all of the internal hardware features of its bigger sibling. Google Nexus 6P| Photo Credit: Techstage, via Flickr | CC BY-ND 2.0As the latest Google flagship devices, the Nexus 5X and 6P are terrific - not perfect, but as good as anything IвЂ™ve seen.

(Note: This paragraph has been updated to reflect that the first Google phone, the G1, was not branded as a Nexus.)

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Over the years, Nexus has stood for excellent devices that showed off the best of the Android experience while giving a variety of manufacturing partners including Motorola, LG, and now Huawei an opportunity to show off their hardware prowess.

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The first Google phone, before the company started calling its phones Nexus, was the best of the early Android devices, though its manual keyboard turned out not to be what most phone buyers wanted once on-screen keyboards became good enough.

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TheyвЂ™ve been, for practical purposes, what tech folks call вЂњreference platformsвЂќ: hardware that sets a standard by showing other manufacturers what the creator of the software platform, Google in this case, considers best practices. Nexus phones and tablets (and its high-end Chromebook Pixel laptops) are more than flagships.

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(At the late-September event where Google announced the new Nexus phones, it also launched a new version of its Chromecast TV streaming add-on Chromecast Audio, which lets you play music from mobile devices on home speakers and an upcoming Android-based tablet/laptop called the Pixel C.) Please note that what follows isnвЂ™t a comprehensive review of the phones, but rather some initial impressions in the context of broader ecosystems, and how some of these features exert renewed pressure on OEMs to play nice with the platform, and consumers.

ItвЂ™s worth a closer look at the new phones to understand what they are, not just what they may represent. You will find this enthralling and creepy, in proportions that vary depending on how much you trust GoogleвЂ™s managers today and in the future. This much is entirely clear: No matter what other purposes they serve, all devices running GoogleвЂ™s version of Android - whether under the Nexus brand or not - will keep feeding data into the global brain that knows more and more about everything, including you and me, and is the companyвЂ™s beating heart. ItвЂ™s had to play a delicate balancing act here, modeling best practices without becoming too much of an overlord to its OEM partners, or building a competing product that too far outstripped them. While device makers and carriers claimed to care about their customersвЂ™ security, their actions, or rather inactions when it came to updating their devices, proved otherwise.ДЄlthough Android is freely customizable, and tinkered with constantly, Google has long offered its own flavor, marketed under the Nexus brand with devices developed closely with third party manufacturers. The ecosystem leapfrogged Apple in the sheer number of phones sold, but it also became a giant mess, and a grossly insecure one. Mobile device companies and their mobile telecom partners created countless customized flavors of Android, to differentiate their offerings and to cash in on the users. By making the operating system open and free, the OS spawned a vital counterweight to AppleвЂ™s iOS, which threatened to be a Microsoft-like monopoly in mobile computing. The Android ecosystem is in a crisis that Google helped create - and two new Google phones are poised to be part of the solution. GoogleвЂ™s Beautiful New Phones Deliver a Challenge to Android Ecosystem: Time to Clean Up This Act