Nexus 6 vs iPhone 6: Design
iPhone 6: Curved aluminium, gold or light/dark silver, 6.8mm thick, 129gNexus 6: Aluminium frame, polycarbonate body, 10.06mm thick, 184g
These two flagship phones couldn't look or feel much more different. The Nexus 6 has taken on an aluminium rim that at a stretch could call to mind previous iPhones, but this one's rounded and the rear of the device is plastic.
The iPhone 6, meanwhile, has stepped away from the iPhone 4 metal rim design template in favour of a flowing, curved all-metal back.
Nexus 6 vs iPhone 6: Screen
iPhone 6: 4.7-inch 1334 x 750, Retina HD LCDNexus 6: 5.9-inch 2560 x 1440, QHD AMOLED
It's not just the Nexus 6's expansive, contoured body that dwarfs the iPhone 6 - check out that screen.
At 5.9-inches, it tops the iPhone 6's big brother the iPhone 6 Plus by almost half an inch. It's bigger than the iPhone 6 display itself by 1.2 inches.
If that feels like a bit of a mis-match to you, wait until you see the difference in resolution. The Nexus 6's 2560 x 1440 QHD resolution provides several times the sheer number of pixels of the 1334 x 750 iPhone 6
Nexus 6 vs iPhone 6: Performance
iPhone 6: 1.4GHz Apple A8 64-bit dual-core processor with M8 co-processor, 1GB RAMNexus 6: 2.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 805 processor, 3GB of RAM
Here's another area in which the Nexus 6 appears to wrestle the iPhone 6 to the floor with the sheer size of its specs, but again things aren't quite that simple.
Apple's A8 processor is clocked much lower and has half the number of cores of the Nexus 6's Snapdragon 805, but it benefits from a 64-bit architecture, a dedicated M8 coprocessor for motion sensing, and a killer GPU that tops most other chips (including the Snapdragon 805's Adreno 420) for graphical performance.
Nexus 6 vs iPhone 6: Software
iPhone 6: iOS 8Nexus 6: Android 5.0 Lollipop
This one's tough to judge at this preliminary stage, because the Nexus 6 will be the first device (alongside the Nexus 9) to ship with Android 5.0 Lollipop. What we do know is that the next version of Android takes a bold new design direction, called Material.
This layered look promises to be quite the departure from the ultra-functional Android that we've all grown to know and love, with blocks of colour and groovy effects like real time shadows applied to the UI.
Nexus 6 vs iPhone 6: Storage
iPhone 6: 16GB, 64GB, 128GB; no microSD slotNexus 6: 32GB, 64GB; no microSD slot
Neither phone comes with expandable storage, but they take quite different approaches (surprise surprise) to the fixed options.
The iPhone 6 probably wins out here for offering more options, and because one of those three options is a whopping 128GB model.
