Our first Nexus 5X camera samples

A great camera on a Nexus? Prove it.

We've had a great year for cameras in Android phones, but a Nexus phone with a great camera is basically unheard of. It's the one major weakness every Nexus phone has had, and this year Google promised a truly stellar mobile photography experience with its new phones. We've all heard this song before though, so it was hard to get excited until we had the Nexus 5X in hand to see what it was really capable of.

After a few days of snapping photos and video, we've got some samples to show for you to judge. All of the photos here are available in their full size form at the bottom of the article.

Full auto on a tripod

The first few samples are what you can expect in perfect conditions. The tripod keeps shaky hands out of the equation, and full auto is what Google thinks the camera should be doing in order to take a photo. No tap to focus or anything. This is all about what Google's new camera app can do on its own.