History

The Nexus 6P is the first Nexus phone that Google has chosen to co-develop with a
Chinese company, Huawei. Images of the device first leaked in September 2015,
showing an aluminum design with a raised bar on the top of the device containing a
camera.[7]

After the Nexus 6P was formally unveiled on 29 September 2015 at a press event at
Left Space Studios in San Francisco[6] by Android Engineering VP Dave Burke,[8] It
was made available with the 32 GB model starting at a price of $499.[8]

Significant effort went into improving the design of the Nexus 6P compared to its
predecessor, with Google exercising a considerable amount of design influence.[9]
Google engineers mention that an effort was made to improve the ergonomics of one-
handed use of the phone by shrinking the screen to 5.7 inches, and a singular bump
on the Nexus 6 was changed to a horizontal strip in order to avoid the potential of
the phone spinning when lying on a flat surface.[9] There was push back on certain
design elements, notably the centering of the Single Reversible USB Type-C charging
port.[9] Huawei VP of R&D described the Nexus 6P as a dream project, despite the
challenges including the short development cycle, technological complexities in
introducing a phone with the LTE bands to target the global market, and the design
difficulties in an all-aluminum phone.[10]

In October 2016, Google removed the Nexus 6P from the online Google Store.[11]
Consequently, Google updated its support pages [12] indicating that:

Android version updates for the Nexus 6P are not guaranteed after September 2017 .
Security updates for the Nexus 6P are not guaranteed after September 2018.